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n. A weeding machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who adjudicates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to an advocate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative. Morell. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By way of application. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the property of applying; applicative; practical. -- n. That which applies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Praying or wishing good. [ Obs. ]“Apprecatory benedictions.” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An instrument for pruning trees, having two blades, or a blade and a hook, fixed on a long rod and operated by a string or wire; a tree pruner. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; down + &unr_; serving to purge. See Cathartic. ] (Med.) A remedy that purges by alvine discharges. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Catonionus. ] Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the stern old Roman, Cato the Censor; severe; inflexible. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;. See Catopter. ] Of or pertaining to catoptrics; produced by reflection. [ 1913 Webster ]

Catoptric light, a light in which the rays are concentrated by reflectors into a beam visible at a distance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. catoptrique. See Catropric. ] (Physics) That part of optics which explains the properties and phenomena of reflected light, and particularly that which is reflected from mirrors or polished bodies; -- formerly called anacamptics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; mirror + -mancy. See Catopter. ] (Antiq.) A species of divination, which was performed by letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_; mirror, fr. &unr_; visible. ] A reflecting optical glass or instrument; a mirror. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Catopter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Chylifactive. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. “A classificatory system.” Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who communicates. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. communicatorius. ] Imparting knowledge or information. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canonical and communicatory letters. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., a treasurer. ] One who confiscates. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Effecting confiscation; characterized by confiscations. “Confiscatory and exterminatory periods.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, decane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L.: cf. F. dédicateur. ] One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dedicatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. dédicatoire. ] Constituting or serving as a dedication; complimental. “An epistle dedicatory.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Dedication. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A defaulter or embezzler. [ Modern ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which cleanses or purifies; esp., an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and sirups. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who deprecates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. deprecatorius. ] 1. Tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic. [ 1913 Webster ]

Humble and deprecatory letters. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Serving to deprecate; expressing a low opinion of.
Syn. -- belittling, disparaging, depreciative, deprecatory, depreciatory, derogatory, detractive, detracting, slighting, pejorative, denigratory. [ PJC ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, desiccates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) A short glass jar fitted with an air-tight cover, and containing some desiccating agent, as sulphuric acid, phosphorus pentoxide, or calcium chloride, above which is supported on a perforated platform the material to be dried, or preserved from moisture. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. A machine or apparatus for drying fruit, milk, etc., usually by the aid of heat; an evaporator. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Desiccative. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who domesticates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. or Sp. ducaton, fr. ducat. ] A silver coin of several countries of Europe, and of different values. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to edification. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who educates; a teacher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who equivocates. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here's an equivocator that could swear in both the scales against either scale, yet could not equivocate to heaven. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.

n. [ L. ] One who calls forth. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ Cf. LL. excommunicator. ] One who excommunicates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to fish out; searching out [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Explicative. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An apparatus for drying substances or preserving them from moisture; a desiccator; also, less frequently, an agent employed to absorb moisture, as calcium chloride, or concentrated sulphuric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who fabricates; one who constructs or makes. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fabricator of the works of Ossian. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. falsificateur. ] A falsifier. Bp. Morton. [ 1913 Webster ]