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prop. n. [ Ar. al-debarān, fr. dabar to follow; so called because this star follows upon the Pleiades. ] (Astron.) A red star of the first magnitude, situated in the eye of Taurus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now when Aldebaran was mounted high
Above the shiny Cassiopeia's chair. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Amaranth, 1. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. amarantus, Gr. &unr_;, unfading, amaranth; 'a priv. + &unr_; to quench, cause to wither, fr. a root meaning to die, akin to E. mortal; -- so called because its flowers do not soon wither: cf. F. amarante. The spelling with th seems to be due to confusion with Gr. &unr_; flower. ] 1. An imaginary flower supposed never to fade. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A color inclining to purple. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs.
Syn. -- family Amaranthaceae, amaranth family [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to amaranth. “Amaranthine bowers.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. [ 1913 Webster ]

They only amaranthine flower on earth
Is virtue. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of a purplish color. Buchanan. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. Same as Amaranth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. apparence, L. apparentia, fr. apparere. See Appear. ] 1. The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an appearance in the sky. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Personal presence; exhibition of the person; look; aspect; mien. [ 1913 Webster ]

And now am come to see . . .
It thy appearance answer loud report. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. pl. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him. [ 1913 Webster ]

There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire. Num. ix. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

For man looketh on the outward appearance. 1 Sam. xvi. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

Judge not according to the appearance. John. vii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character; as, a person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator. [ 1913 Webster ]

Will he now retire,
After appearance, and again prolong
Our expectation? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Probability; likelihood. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There is that which hath no appearance. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Law) The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction. Burrill. Bouvier. Daniell. [ 1913 Webster ]

To put in an appearance, to be present; to appear in person. --
To save appearances, to preserve a fair outward show. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Coming; arrival; presence; semblance; pretense; air; look; manner; mien; figure; aspect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of common garden spiders.
Syn. -- genus Aranea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an order of arthropods constituting the spiders.
Syn. -- order Araneae, Araneida, order Araneida. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. [ from the order Araneida. ] relating to or resembling a spider.
Syn. -- araneidan. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Araneina or spiders. -- n. One of the Araneina; a spider. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. [ L. aranea spider + -form. ] (Zool.) Having the form of a spider. Kirby. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. aranea spider. ] (Zool.) The order of Arachnida that includes the spiders. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ They have mandibles, modified as poison fangs, leglike palpi, simple eyes, abdomen without segments, and spinnerets for spinning a web. They breathe by pulmonary sacs and tracheæ in the abdomen. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖‖ } n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) See Araneina. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. araneosus. ] Of the aspect of a spider's web; arachnoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. araneosus, fr. aranea spider, spider's web. ] Cobweblike; extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb; as, the araneous membrane of the eye. See Arachnoid. Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Arangoes [ The native name. ] A bead of rough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade. McCulloch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The terrestrial Siberian squirrel (Eutamius sibiricus).
Syn. -- baronduki, barunduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the South American caracara.
Syn. -- Polyborus plancus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a South American palm (Copernicia australis or Copernicia alba) yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax.
Syn. -- caranday, caranda palm, wax palm. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of or pertaining to the Carangidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. any fish of the family Carangidae, including the cavallas, jacks, pompanos and scads. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes allied to the mackerels, with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas; it includes the caranx, American bluefish, and the pilot fish.
Syn. -- family Carangidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Caranx + -oid. ] (Zool.) Belonging to the Carangidæ, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels, and including the caranx, American bluefish, and the pilot fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Zool.) A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including the yellow or golden mackerel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ The native East Indian name. ] 1. A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails or by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure boats remarkable for speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A kind of fire raft or torpedo bat. [ 1913 Webster ]

The incendiary rafts prepared by Sir Sidney Smith for destroying the French flotilla at Boulogne, 1804, were called catamarans. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A quarrelsome woman; a scold. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every ship was subject to seizure for want of stamped clearances. Durke [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Clear or net profit. Trollope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mach.) The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwheel tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clearance space (Steam engine), the space inclosed in one end of the cylinder, between the valve or valves and the piston, at the beginning of a stroke; waste room. It includes the space caused by the piston's clearance and the space in ports, passageways, etc. Its volume is often expressed as a certain proportion of the volume swept by the piston in a single stroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. déclarant, p. pr. of déclarer. ] (Law) One who declares. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. exhilarans. -antis, p. pr. See Exhilarate. ] Exciting joy, mirth, or pleasure. -- n. That which exhilarates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Farrand, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. farandole, Pr. farandoulo. ] A rapid dance in six-eight time in which a large number join hands and dance in various figures, sometimes moving from room to room. It originated in Provence.

I have pictured them dancing a sort of farandole. W. D. Howells. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ See Farrand. ] Orderly; comely; respectable. [ Obs. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience. [ 1913 Webster ]

He soon shall find
Forbearance no acquittance ere day end. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering. [ 1913 Webster ]

Have a continent forbearance, till the speed of his rage goes slower. Shak.

Syn. -- Abstinence; refraining; lenity; mildness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Forbearing. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. garance madder, LL. garantia. ] (Chem.) An extract of madder by sulphuric acid. It consists essentially of alizarin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the inventor, John C. Garand. ] A semiautomatic rifle, also called the M-1, used by soldiers of the U. S. army in World War II and Korea. It was the standard weapon issued to infantrymen.
Syn. -- Garand rifle, M-1, M-1 rifle. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖n. [ Pg. ] (Med.) A preparation from the seeds of Paullinia sorbilis, a woody climber of Brazil, used in making an astringent drink, and also in the cure of headache. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An alkaloid extracted from guarana. Same as Caffeine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Guarantees [ For guaranty, prob. influenced by words like assignee, lessee, etc. See Guaranty, and cf. Warrantee. ] 1. In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person, who is, in the first instance, liable to such payment or performance; an engagement which secures or insures another against a contingency; a warranty; a security. Same as Guaranty. [ 1913 Webster ]

His interest seemed to be a guarantee for his zeal. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who binds himself to see an undertaking of another performed; a guarantor. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Guarantor is the correct form in this sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) The person to whom a guaranty is made; -- the correlative of guarantor.

Syn. -- Guarantee, Warranty. A guarantee is an engagement that a certain act will be done or not done in future. A warranty is an engagement as to the qualities or title of a thing at the time of the engagement. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. guaranteed p, pr. & vb. n. Guaranteeing. ] [ From Guarantee, n. ] In law and common usage: to undertake or engage for the payment of (a debt) or the performance of (a duty) by another person; to undertake to secure (a possession, right, claim, etc.) to another against a specified contingency, or in all events; to give a guarantee concerning; to engage, assure, or secure as a thing that may be depended on; to warrant; as, to guarantee the execution of a treaty. [ 1913 Webster ]

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government. Constitution of the U. S. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. secured by written agreement.
Syn. -- bonded, secured, warranted. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. certified. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Guaranty, and cf. Warrantor. ] (Law) (a) One who makes or gives a guaranty; a warrantor; a surety. (b) One who engages to secure another in any right or possession. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Guaranies [ OF. guarantie, garantie, F. garantie, OF. guarantir, garantir, to warrant, to guaranty, E. garantir, fr. OF. guarant, garant, a warranter, F. garant; of German origin, and from the same word as warranty. See Warrant, and cf. Warranty, Guarantee. ] In law and common usage: An undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, of another, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform; a guarantee; a warranty; a security. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Guarantied p. pr. & vb. n. Guarantying. ] [ From Guaranty, n. ] In law and common usage: To undertake or engage that another person shall perform (what he has stipulated); to undertake to be answerable for (the debt or default of another); to engage to answer for the performance of (some promise or duty by another) in case of a failure by the latter to perform; to undertake to secure (something) to another, as in the case of a contingency. See Guarantee, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Guaranty agrees in form with warranty. Both guaranty and guarantee are well authorized by legal writers in the United States. The prevailing spelling, at least for the verb, is guarantee. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. harangue: cf. Sp. arenga, It. aringa; lit., a speech before a multitude or on the hustings, It. aringo arena, hustings, pulpit; all fr. OHG. hring ring, anything round, ring of people, G. ring. See Ring. ] A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address to a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed,
Assemble, and harangues are heard. Milton.

Syn. -- Harangue, Speech, Oration. Speech is generic; an oration is an elaborate and rhetorical speech; an harangue is a vehement appeal to the passions, or a noisy, disputatious address. A general makes an harangue to his troops on the eve of a battle; a demagogue harangues the populace on the subject of their wrongs. [ 1913 Webster ]