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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Angered p. pr. & vb. n. Angering. ] [ Cf. Icel. angra. ] 1. To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . angereth malign ulcers. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Taxes and impositions . . . which rather angered than grieved the people. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Angrily. [ Obs. or Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who arranges. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an automatic device on a record player that causes new records to be played without manual intervention.
Syn. -- record changer, changer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. See Blancmange. ] A sort of fricassee with white sauce, variously made of capon, fish, etc. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Boulanger, a French mineralogist. ] (Min.) A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who changes or alters the form of anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who deals in or changes money. John ii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One apt to change; an inconstant person. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. an electronic device which changes one replaceable medium for another, such as a record changer, which can store several records and move each one automatically to the playing table; or a CD changer, whch can store multiple compact disks and move each one to the reading slot, in a sequence determined by the user. [ PJC ]

n. A conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate; as, he dropped a clanger. [ British ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a contest whose outcome is uncertain up to the very end. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. an episode of a drama that ends in suspense. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. danger, daunger, power, arrogance, refusal, difficulty, fr. OF. dagier, dongier (with same meaning), F. danger danger, fr. an assumed LL. dominiarium power, authority, from L. dominium power, property. See Dungeon, Domain, Dame. ] 1. Authority; jurisdiction; control. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In dangerhad he . . . the young girls. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty. [ Obs. ] See In one's danger, below. [ 1913 Webster ]

You stand within his danger, do you not? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Covetousness of gains hath brought [ them ] in dangerof this statute. Robynson (More's Utopia). [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Difficulty; sparingness. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Coyness; disdainful behavior. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

In one's danger, in one's power; liable to a penalty to be inflicted by him. [ Obs. ] This sense is retained in the proverb, “Out of debt out of danger.” [ 1913 Webster ] Those rich man in whose debt and danger they be not. Robynson (More's Utopia). --
To do danger, to cause danger. [ Obs. ] Shak.

Syn. -- Peril; hazard; risk; jeopardy. -- Danger, Peril, Hazard, Risk, Jeopardy. Danger is the generic term, and implies some contingent evil in prospect. Peril is instant or impending danger; as, in peril of one's life. Hazard arises from something fortuitous or beyond our control; as, the hazard of the seas. Risk is doubtful or uncertain danger, often incurred voluntarily; as, to risk an engagement. Jeopardy is extreme danger. Danger of a contagious disease; the perils of shipwreck; the hazards of speculation; the risk of daring enterprises; a life brought into jeopardy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To endanger. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of danger; dangerous. [ Obs. ] -- Dan"ger*ful*ly, adv. [Obs.] Udall. [1913 Webster]

a. Free from danger. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE., haughty, difficult, dangerous, fr. OF. dangereus, F. dangereux. See Danger. ] 1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us;
The ways are dangerous. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury. [ 1913 Webster ]

If they incline to think you dangerous
To less than gods. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. [ Colloq. ] Forby. Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Hard to suit; difficult to please. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

My wages ben full strait, and eke full small;
My lord to me is hard and dangerous. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Reserved; not affable. [ Obs. ] “Of his speech dangerous.” Chaucer.

-- Dan"ger*ous*ly, adv. -- Dan"ger*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who deranges. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G. ] A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ G. doppelgänger; doppel double + gänger walker. ] An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger.

Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Endangered p. pr. & vb. n. Endangering. ] 1. To put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the other difficulties of his reign only exercised without endangering him. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To incur the hazard of; to risk. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He that turneth the humors back . . . endangereth malign ulcers. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Being in a condition or situation where life or serious harm is possible; in danger; at risk. [ PJC ]

2. Small in numbers, with significant possibility of extinction; -- of species. [ PJC ]

n. sing. & pl. A species of plant or animal that has declined in numbers to a point where further irreversible decline and extinction{ 3 } has a significant chance. Lists of endangered species are maintained by government agencies, and in many cases the killing of such species or destruction of their habitat is prohibited by law. In the U. S. in recent years, development of certain tracts of land has been prohibited due to the likelihood that it will cause a reduction in the numbers of an endangered species. In some cases environmental organizations have initiated litigation to cause the courts to rule that a certain development plan is illegal due to a threat to an endangered species. Laws protecting endangered species have become in some cases a contentious political issue. [ PJC ]

n. Hazard; peril. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who estranges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who exchanges; one who practices exchange. Matt. xxv. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prop., a goer before cf. G. voregänger. See Fore, and Gang. ] (Naut.) A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer line may be attached. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who oversees a gang of workmen. [ R. ] Mayhew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A farm steward. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member of a grange. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called from the Rev. James Granger, whose “Biographical History of England” (1769) was a favorite book for illustration in this manner. ] The practice of illustrating a particular book by engravings collected from other books. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who collects illustrations from various books for the decoration of one book. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To collect (illustrations from books) for decoration of other books. G. A. Sala. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or }. (Finance) Certain railroads whose traffic largely consists in carrying the produce of farmers or grangers; -- specifically applied to the Chicago & Alton; Chicago, Burlington & Quincey; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; and Chicago & Northwestern, railroads. [ U. S., obsolescent ]. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

or . Stocks or shares of the granger railroads. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That by which a thing is suspended. Especially: (a) A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended. (b) (Mach.) A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust. of Countershaft. (c) A bridle iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A steep, wooded declivity. [ Eng. ] Gilbert White. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Hangers-on One who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service; a dependent; one who adheres to others' society longer than he is wanted. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. mangeoire, fr. manger to eat, fr. L. manducare, fr. mandere to chew. Cf. Mandible, Manducate. ] 1. A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat. [ 1913 Webster ]

And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. Luke 2: 7 [ PJC ]

2. (Naut.) The fore part of the deck, having a bulkhead athwart ships high enough to prevent water which enters the hawse holes from running over it. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., touch me not. ] 1. (Bot.) (a) Any plant of a genus of herbs (Impatiens) having capsules which, if touched when ripe, discharge their seeds. -- See Impatiens. (b) The squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A name formerly applied to several varieties of ulcerous cutaneous diseases, but now restricted to Lupus exedens, an ulcerative affection of the nose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hanger-on. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) An American ranunculaceous plant (Hidrastis Canadensis), having a yellow tuberous root; -- also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. orangerie, fr. orange. See Orange. ] A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw> n. One whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. phalanger. See Phalanx. ] (Zool.) Any marsupial belonging to Phalangista, Cuscus, Petaurus, and other genera of the family Phalangistidæ. They are arboreal, and the species of Petaurus are furnished with lateral parachutes. See Flying phalanger, under Flying. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve. [ Obs. ] “The tamis ranger.” Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A dog that beats the ground in search of game. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short muskets, who range over the country, and often fight on foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc. [ Eng. ] Rangers in U.S. national parks and national monuments perform a similar function. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. The office of the keeper of a forest or park. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Slang + whang to beat. ] One who uses abusive slang; a ranting partisan. [ Colloq. or Humorous ] W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. estrangier, F. étranger. See Strange. ] 1. One who is strange, foreign, or unknown. Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

(a) One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am a most poor woman and a stranger,
Born out of your dominions. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear,
And strangers to the sun yet ripen here. Granville. [ 1913 Webster ]

My child is yet a stranger in the world. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was no stranger to the original. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor. [ 1913 Webster ]

To honor and receive
Our heavenly stranger. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To estrange; to alienate. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Bot.) A kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is said to have been produced in America from the mandarin. [ Written also tangierine. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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