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n. [ L. arcus (E. arc) + -graph. ] An instrument for drawing a circular arc without the use of a central point; a cyclograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. barcone, fr. barca a bark. ] A vessel for freight; -- used in the Mediterranean. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Char, v. t., to burn or to reduce to coal, and Coal. ] 1. Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fine Arts) Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Animal charcoal, a fine charcoal prepared by calcining bones in a closed vessel; -- used as a filtering agent in sugar refining, and as an absorbent and disinfectant. --
Charcoal blacks, the black pigment, consisting of burnt ivory, bone, cock, peach stones, and other substances. --
Charcoal drawing (Fine Arts), a drawing made with charcoal. See Charcoal, 2. Until within a few years this material has been used almost exclusively for preliminary outline, etc., but at present many finished drawings are made with it. --
Charcoal point, a carbon pencil prepared for use in an electric light apparatus. --
Mineral charcoal, a term applied to silky fibrous layers of charcoal, interlaminated in beds of ordinary bituminous coal; -- known to miners as mother of coal. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. very dark gray.
Syn. -- charcoal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. claire colle clear glue; clair clear (f. claire) + colle glue, Gr. &unr_;. ] A priming of size mixed with whiting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clearcoled p. pr. & vb. n. Clearcoling ] To coat or paint with clearcole. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To deprive of narcotine; as, to denarcotize opium. -- De*nar`co*ti*za"tion n. [1913 Webster]

n. (Bot.) A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] 1. A boy; a young unmarried man. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A serving boy or man; a waiter; -- used in direct address; as, garcon, please bring a glass of water -- in Eng. chiefly applied to French waiters. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

‖n. [ G. Marcobrunner. ] A celebrated Rhine wine. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. [ After Guglielmo Marconi (b. 1874), Italian inventor. ] Designating, or pert. to, Marconi's system of wireless telegraphy; as, Marconi aerial, coherer, station, system, etc. [ archaic ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Marconi + -gram. ] same as radiogram; a wireless message. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Marconi + -graph. ] The apparatus used in Marconi wireless telegraphy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Naut.) A rig of triangular sails for a yacht.
Syn. -- Bermuda rig, Bermudan rig, Bermudian rig. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>prop. n. (Wireless Teleg.) The law that the maximum good signaling distance varies directly as the square of the height of the transmitting antenna. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The theory or practice of Marconi's wireless telegraph system. [ archaic ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Elec.) A system or wireless telegraphy developed by G. Marconi, an Italian physicist, in which Hertzian waves are used in transmission and a coherer is used as the receiving instrument. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. An Asiatic wild sheep (Ovis poli) with exceptionally large horns; sometimes considered a variety of the argali: Ovis ammon poli. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ L., fr. marcere to wither. ] A wasting away of flesh; decay. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a Gnostic sect of the second century, so called from Marcus, an Egyptian, who was reputed to be a margician. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. na`rkwsis. See Narcotic. ] (Med.) Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. narcotique, Gr. narkwtiko`s, fr. narkoy^n to benumb, na`rkh numbness, torpor. ] (Med.) Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Nar*cot"ic*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. (Med.) A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nercotykes and opye (opium) of Thebes. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Narcotic. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Nar*cot"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Cf. F. narcotine. Cf. Cotarnine. ] (Chem.) An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance, tasteless and less poisonous than morphine; -- called also narcotia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to narcotine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. narcotisme. ] Narcosis; the state of being narcotized. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Narcotized p. pr. & vb. n. Narcotizing ] To imbue with, or subject to the influence of, a narcotic; to put into a state of narcosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. under the influence of narcotics.
Syn. -- doped, drugged. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. Inducing stupor or narcosis.
Syn. -- narcotic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n.; pl. Osteosarcomata [ NL. See Osteo-, and sarcoma. ] (Med.) A tumor having the structure of a sarcoma in which there is a deposit of bone; sarcoma connected with bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

A combining form from Gr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh; as, sarcophagous, flesh-eating; sarcology. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Sarcobases [ NL., fr. Gr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh + &unr_; base. ] (Bot.) A fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells, which contain but few seeds and cohere about a common style, as in the mallows. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sarco- + -blast. ] (Zool.) A minute yellowish body present in the interior of certain rhizopods. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sarco- + Gr. &unr_; fruit: cf. F. sarcocarpe. ] (Bot.) The fleshy part of a stone fruit, situated between the skin, or epicarp, and the stone, or endocarp, as in a peach. See Illust. of Endocarp. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term has also been used to denote any fruit which is fleshy throughout. M. T. Masters. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh + &unr_; tumor: cf. F. sarcocèle. ] (Med.) Any solid tumor of the testicle. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. sarcocolla, from Gr. &unr_;; sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh + &unr_; glue: cf. F. sarcocolle. ] A gum resin obtained from certain shrubs of Africa (Penaea), -- formerly thought to cause healing of wounds and ulcers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; fleshy; sa`rx, flesh + e'i^dos form. Cf. Sarcoid. ] (Biol.) A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL. sarcoderma. See Sarco-, and Derm. ] (Bot.) (a) A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments. (b) A sarcocarp. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to sarcode. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. See Sarcode. ] (Biol.) Resembling flesh, or muscle; composed of sarcode. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Sarco- + lactic. ] (Physiol. Chem.) Relating to muscle and milk; as, sarcolactic acid. See Lactic acid, under Lactic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., from Gr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh + &unr_; rind, skin. ] (Anat.) The very thin transparent and apparently homogeneous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh. ] (Min.) Flesh-colored. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to sarcology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sarco- + -logy: cf. F. sarcologie. ] That part of anatomy which treats of the soft parts. It includes myology, angiology, neurology, and splanchnology. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Sarcomata E. sarcomas [ NL., from Gr. &unr_;, from sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh. ] (Med.) A tumor of fleshy consistence; -- formerly applied to many varieties of tumor, now restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to sarcoma; resembling sarcoma. [ 1913 Webster ]