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adj. 1. 1 displaying characteristics of a previous cultural era or of a previous ancestral form; displaying atavism
Syn. -- atavic, throwback(prenominal) [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. avis. See Advice. ] Advice; opinion; deliberation. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. aviser. See Advise, v. t. ] 1. To look at; to view; to think of. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To advise; to counsel. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To avise one's self, to consider with one's self, to reflect, to deliberate. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now therefore, if thou wilt enriched be,
Avise thee well, and change thy willful mood. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To consider; to reflect. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Watchful; circumspect. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

With sharp, aviseful eye. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Advisedly. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Advisement; observation; deliberation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Vision. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. ] 1. Information; advice. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An advice boat, or dispatch boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Claves E. Clavises [ L. ] A key; a glossary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. conclaviste, It. conclavista. ] One of the two ecclesiastics allowed to attend a cardinal in the conclave. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To transport with delight; to enrapture; to fascinate. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to throw into ecstasy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy; rapture. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Heavy; dull. [ Prov. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Like or characteristic of a knave{ 3 }; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick. “Knavish politicians.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Mischievous; roguish; waggish; rascally. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cupid is knavish lad,
Thus to make poor females mad. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a knavish manner; dishonestly; fraudulently. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Mischievously; waggishly; roguishly. “Knavishly witty.” Gayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being knavish; knavery; dishonesty. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Akin to E. lave to lade out; cf. AS. gelafian to refresh, G. laben. ] 1. Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let her have needful, but not lavish, means. Shak.

Syn. -- Profuse; prodigal; wasteful; extravagant; exuberant; immoderate. See Profuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Lavished p. pr. & vb. n. Lavishing. ] To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who lavishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a lavish manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of lavishing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being lavish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small genus of shrubs of Central and South America: wax mallows.
Syn. -- genus Malvaviscus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. mauvis, Arm. milvid, milfid, milc'hhouid, Corn. melhuez. ] (Zool.) The European throstle or song thrush (Turdus musicus). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Lavish to excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ . See Panslavic, Panslavism, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A scheme or desire to unite all the Slavic races into one confederacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who favors Panslavism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. pavaix, F. pavois; cf. It. pavese, LL. pavense; perh. named from Pavia in Italy. ] (Mil. Antiq.) A large heavy oblong shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes also screened an archer with it. It was originally carried but sometimes set up in permanent position [ Written also pavis, pavais, pavese, and pavesse. ] Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Mil. Antiq.) A soldier who carried a pavise. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Poledavy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ravished p. pr. & vb. n. Ravishing. ] [ OE. ravissen, F. ravir, fr. L. rapere to snatch or tear away, to ravish. See Rapacious, Rapid, and -ish. ] 1. To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force. [ 1913 Webster ]

These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin
Will quicken, and accuse thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

This hand shall ravish thy pretended right. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy. “Ravished . . . for the joy.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast ravished my heart. Cant. iv. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To transport; entrance; enrapture; delight; violate; deflower; force. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who ravishes (in any sense). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rapturous; transporting. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a ravishing manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ravissement. See Ravish. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, of a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being ravished; rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

In whose sight all things joy, with ravishment
Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of ravishing a woman; rape. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. ] (Her.) In a half-raised position, as if about to spring on prey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Slavism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great. -- Slav"ish*ly, adv. -- Slav"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The common feeling and interest of the Slavonic race. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Supervision. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A supervisor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]