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v. t. [ L. assibilatus, p. p. of assibilare to hiss out; ad + sibilare to hiss. ] To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant. J. Peile. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to -shun, duke to ditch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person much given to melancholy; a hypochondriac. I. Disraeli. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ LL. atrabilarius, fr. L. atra bilis black bile: cf. F. atrabilaire, fr. atrabile. ] Affected with melancholy; atrabilious. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Linguistics) produced using both lips; -- said of a consonant. As, bilabial fricatives. See labial, adj. and bilabial, n. [ PJC ]

n. (Linguistics) a consonant that is articulated using both lips, as p or b or w. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + labiate. ] (Bot.) Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + laciniate. ] Doubly fringed. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. A two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the bay of Manila. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Pref. bi- + lamellate. ] (Bot.) Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Pref. bi- + laminar, laminate. ] Formed of, or having, two laminæ, or thin plates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A byland. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. bijlander; bij by + land land, country. ] (Naut.) A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why choose we, then, like bilanders to creep
Along the coast, and land in view to keep? Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + lateral: cf. F. bilatéral. ] 1. Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where there is a similarity of parts on the right and left sides of the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being bilateral. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ LL. bombilare, for L. bombitare. See Bomb, n. ] To hum; to buzz. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A humming sound; a booming. [ 1913 Webster ]

To . . . silence the bombilation of guns. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shouting together for joy; rejoicing together. [ R. ] Neale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. enubilatus, p. p. of enubilare to enubilate; e out + nubila clouds, fr. nubilis cloudy, nubes cloud. ] To clear from mist, clouds, or obscurity. [ R. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to clothing; wearing clothes. Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a feeling of extreme joy; jubilation.
Syn. -- exultation, jubilancy, jubilation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a feeling of extreme joy; jubilance; jubilation.
Syn. -- exultation, jubilance, jubilation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. jubilans, -antis, p. pr. of jubilare to shout for joy: cf. F. jubilant. See Jubilate. ] Uttering songs of triumph; shouting with joy; triumphant; exulting. “The jubilant age.” Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

While the bright pomp ascended jubilant. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a jubilant manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. jubilaire. ] Pertaining to, or having the character of, a jubilee. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., imperat. of jubilare to shout for joy. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The third Sunday after Easter; -- so called because the introit is the 66th Psalm, which, in the Latin version, begins with the words, “Jubilate Deo.” [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A name of the 100th Psalm; -- so called from its opening word in the Latin version. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. jubilatus, p. p. of jubilare. ] To exult; to rejoice. [ R. ] De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. jubilatio: cf. F. jubilation. ] A triumphant shouting; rejoicing; exultation. “Jubilations and hallelujahs.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Mirabilaries One who, or a work which, narrates wonderful things; one who writes of wonders. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. nubilatus, p. p. of nubilare to cloud, fr. nubes cloud. ] To cloud. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. obnubilatus, p. p. of obnubilare to obscure. See Ob-, and Nubilate. ] To cloud; to obscure. [ Obs. ] Burton. -- Ob*nu"bi*la"tion n. [ Obs. ] Beddoes. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Milton would not have avoided them for their sibilancy, he who wrote . . . verses that hiss like Medusa's head in wrath. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sibilans, -antis, p. pr. of sibilare to hiss: cf. F. sibilant. ] Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds. -- n. A sibiliant letter. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sibilatio. ] Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss. [ 1913 Webster ]

He, with a long, low sibilation, stared. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Hissing; sibilant. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Strobilae [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; anything twisted, a pine cone. ] (Zool.) (a) A form of the larva of certain Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyrae, or young medusae. (b) A mature tapeworm. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Strobila. ] (Bot.) (a) Of or pertaining to a strobile or cone. (b) Producing strobiles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian. [ 1913 Webster ]