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n. [ F., a seesaw. ] In mechanics, an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bascule bridge, a counterpoise or balanced drawbridge, which is opened by sinking the counterpoise and thus lifting the footway into the air. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels; as, cardiovascular conditioning. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Syria. Population (2000) = 1, 549, 932. [ PJC ]

Damascus blade, a sword or scimiter, made chiefly at Damascus, having a variegated appearance of watering, and proverbial for excellence. --
Damascus iron, or
Damascus twist, metal formed of thin bars or wires of iron and steel elaborately twisted and welded together; used for making gun barrels, etc., of high quality, in which the surface, when polished and acted upon by acid, has a damask appearance. --
Damascus steel. See Damask steel, under Damask, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

. See Damask steel, under Damask. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. the act or process of demasculinizing; the removal of the testicles of a male animal.
Syn. -- emasculation, castration. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

v. t. to remove the testicles of a male animal.
Syn. -- emasculate, castrate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Emasculated p. pr. & vb. n. Emasculating ] [ L. emasculare; e + masculus male, masculine. See Male masculine. ] 1. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Luxury had not emasculated their minds. V. Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak. “Emasculate slave.” Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having the testicles removed; -- of a male animal.
Syn. -- cut, gelded, sexless. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. deprived of virility, vigor, or manly character. [ PJC ]

n. 1. The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigor or strength; unmanly weakness. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. Serving or tending to emasculate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) (a) Outside the vessels; -- said of the substance of all the tissues. (b) Destitute of vessels; non-vascular. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fibra a fiber + E. vascular. ] (Bot.) Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gastro- + -vascular. ] (Zool.) Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of cœlenterates. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. masculus male, masculine. ] To make strong. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. masculinus, fr. masculus male, manly, dim. of mas a male: cf. F. masculin. See Male masculine. ] 1. Of the male sex; not female. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy masculine children, that is to say, thy sons. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the qualities of a man; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; virile; not feminine or effeminate; strong; robust. [ 1913 Webster ]

That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males. [ R. ] “A masculine church.” Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Gram.) Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender. -- Mas"cu*line*ly, adv. -- Mas"cu*line*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being masculine; masculineness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Destitute of vessels; extravascular. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Around the blood vessels; as, perivascular lymphatics. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + masculate. ] To emasculate. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

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a. [ L. vasculum a small vessel, dim. of vas vessel: cf. F. vasculaire. See Vase, and cf. Vessel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Biol.) (a) Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap. (b) Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc. (c) Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the phaenogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vascular plants (Bot.), plants composed in part of vascular tissue, as all flowering plants and the higher cryptogamous plants, or those of the class Pteridophyta. Cf. Cellular plants, under Cellular. --
Vascular system (Bot.), the body of associated ducts and woody fiber; the fibrovascular part of plants. --
Vascular tissue (Bot.), vegetable tissue composed partly of ducts, or sap tubes. --
Water vascular system (Zool.), a system of vessels in annelids, nemerteans, and many other invertebrates, containing a circulating fluid analogous to blood, but not of the same composition. In annelids the fluid which they contain is usually red, but in some it is green, in others yellow, or whitish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Vascularities (Biol.) The quality or state of being vascular. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol.) The process of becoming vascular, or the condition of being vascular; as, the vascularization of cartilege. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) One of the substances of which vegetable tissue is composed, differing from cellulose in respect to its solubility in certain media. [ 1913 Webster ]