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n. 1. a European shad, (Alosa alosa).
Syn. -- allice shad, allis shad, allice [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. allisio, fr. allidere, to strike or dash against; ad + laedere to dash against. ] The act of dashing against, or striking upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The boisterous allision of the sea. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of chiefly Old World herbs.
Syn. -- genus Anagallis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n.; pl. Ballistæ [ L. ballista, balista, fr. Gr. ba`llein to throw. ] An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ballista. Cf. Balister. ] A crossbow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to ballistics{ 2 }, or to a projectile in a gravitational field. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. frenzied; very angry; -- used mostly in the phrase
go ballistic. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ]

Ballistic pendulum, an instrument consisting of a mass of wood or other material suspended as a pendulum, for measuring the force and velocity of projectiles by means of the arc through which their impact impels it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rocket-propelled missile of long range which is guided only during the powered portion of its flight, which usually takes only a small part of the total flight time; -- contrasted with guided missile. Ballistic missiles are sometimes referred to by their range, such as an
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) or an
intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM). [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. balistique. See Ballista. ] The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The science treating the motion of projectiles in flight, especially when they are in free fall within the earth's gravitational field. [ PJC ]

3. The study of the characteristics of a cartridge fired from a firearm, and of the processes occurring during the discharge of a firearm. [ PJC ]

4. The division within a police department which studies the characteristics of cartridges fired from a firearm; the ballistics department. The characteristics of the weapons and bullets fired may be used as evidence in criminal investigations. [ PJC ]

n. [ See Ballista. ] (Chem.) A smokeless powder containing equal parts of soluble nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. bimétalisme. ] The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The words bimétallisme and monométallisme are due to M. Cernuschi [ 1869 ]. Littré. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An advocate of bimetallism. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to bimetallism.
Syn. -- bimetallic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genus of lizards including the the zebra-tailed lizard.
Syn. -- genus Callisaurus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. callere to be insensible + E. section. ] Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection. B. G. Wilder.

n. a genus of plants having only one species, an erect Asiatic herb with large flowers.
Syn. -- genus Callistephus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ a., n. } See Calisthenic, Calisthenics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. chaly, challis, a stuff made of goat's hair. ] A soft and delicate woolen, or woolen and silk, fabric, for ladies' dresses. [ Written also chally. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a tall tufted perennial tropical American grass (Paspalum dilatatum) naturalized as pasture and forage grass in the southern U.S.
Syn. -- paspalum, Paspalum dilatatum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pertaining to electro-ballistics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art or science of measuring the force or velocity of projectiles by means of electricity. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; day + ka`llos beauty. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A worker in metals, or one skilled in metals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Mono- + metal. ] The legalized use of one metal only, as gold, or silver, in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of money values. See Bimetallism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who believes in monometallism as opposed to bimetallism, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. Bernard Pallissy, the great French potter, was born in Agen, in 1509, and wandered as a glass and portrait painter until he married and settled in Saintes in 1538. While working here as a surveyor his attention was attracted by an enameled cup, and he determined to discover the process and after 16 years of continuous labor and experiment in which he used all his resources and burned the tables and floors for fuel, he succeeded, and though imprisoned in 1562 as a Huguenot he was released by royal edict and appointed "inventor of figulines" to the king. He removed to Paris in 1564, and through the aid of Catherine de Medici was saved from the massacre of St. Bartholomew. From 1575 to 1584 he gave a course of lectures on physics and natural history, demonstrating the origin of springs, the formation of fossil shell, and the best method of purifying water. In 1585, however, he was again arrested as a Huguenot and imprisoned in the Bastille, where he died in 1589. See H. Morley's Palissy the Potter. Student's Cyclopedia, 1897. [ PJC ]

n. The worship of the generative principle in nature, symbolized by the phallus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. Same as Tallith. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]