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{ n. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_; to gape. ] (Bot.) A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. [ Written also akene and achænium. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. pref. &unr_; + &unr_; the brain. ] (Zool.) The division that includes man alone. R. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. arch- + enemy. ] A principal enemy. Specifically, Satan, the grand adversary of mankind. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Biol.) Relating to the archenteron; as, archenteric invagination. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ Pref. arch- + Gr. &unr_; intestine. ] (Biol.) The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a lichen in which the fungus component is an ascomycete. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; the neck. ] (Zool.) The part of the neck nearest the back. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a lichen in which the fungus component is a basidiomycete. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ AS. b&unr_;cen. ] Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech. “Plain beechen vessels.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to birch. [ 1913 Webster ]

He passed where Newark's stately tower
Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. -schaften /plu>. [ G. ] In Germany, any of various associations of university students formed (the original one at Jena in 1815) to support liberal ideas, or the organization formed by the affiliation of the local bodies. The organization was suppressed by the government in 1819, but was secretly revived, and is now openly maintained as a social organization, the restrictive laws having been repealed prior to 1849. -- Bur"schen*schaft`ler Bur"schen*schaf`ter n. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a wild goose having white adult plumage.
Syn. -- subgenus Chen. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. small silvery marine food fish (Genyonemus lineatus) found off California.
Syn. -- white croaker, kingfish, Genyonemus lineatus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Chinese. ] A chinese reed instrument, with tubes, blown by the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., prop., a caterpillar. ] Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimming of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of Chenille rugs. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; the wild goose + morfh` form. ] (Zool.) An order of birds, including the swans, ducks, geese, flamingoes and screamers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an order which corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae.
Syn. -- Caryophyllales, order Caryophyllales, order Chenopodiales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genus of plants comprising the goosefoots and including the pigweed.
Syn. -- genus Chenopodium. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family of fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships.
Syn. -- family Echeneididae, family Echeneidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the type genus of the Echeneididae; they are typical remoras.
Syn. -- genus Echeneis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement.
Syn. -- crudeness, crudity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ G. ] A small silver coin and money of account of Germany, worth about two cents. It was discontinued in the new monetary system of the empire and not subsequeently used. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

{ ‖‖ } n. [ G. ] (Zool.) A large salmon (Salmo hucho or Salvelinus hucho) inhabiting the Danube; -- called also huso, and bull trout. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A mountain in India and Nepal, 28, 146 feet high. [ proper name ]
Syn. -- Kanchanjanga, Kinchinjunga. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. kichen, kichene, kuchene, AS. cycene, L. coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. Cuisine. ] 1. A room equipped for cooking food; the room of a house, restaurant, or other building appropriated to cookery. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fat kitchen makes a lean will. Franklin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The staff that works in a kitchen. [ PJC ]

Kitchen garden. See under Garden. --
Kitchen lee, dirty soapsuds. [ Obs. ] “A brazen tub of kitchen lee.” Ford. --
Kitchen stuff, fat collected from pots and pans. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kitchen servant; a cook. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Kitchen + -ette. ] A room combining a very small kitchen and a pantry, with the kitchen conveniences compactly arranged, sometimes so that they fold up out of sight and allow the kitchen to be made a part of the adjoining room by opening folding doors. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A woman employed in the kitchen. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. pl. [ Dan. kjök-kenmöddings kitchen leavings; cf. Scot. midden a dunghill. ] Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The body of servants employed in the kitchen; the staff of a kitchen. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Implements for use in a kitchen, or for cooking, such as pots, pans, ladles, measuring cups, etc. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to the larch. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. leichh`n. ] 1. (Bot.) One of a class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called Lichenes), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of scaly, expanded, frond-like forms, but sometimes erect or pendulous and variously branched. They derive their nourishment from the air, and generate by means of spores. The species are very widely distributed, and form irregular spots or patches, usually of a greenish or yellowish color, upon rocks, trees, and various bodies, to which they adhere with great tenacity. They are often improperly called rock moss or tree moss. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A favorite modern theory of lichens (called after its inventor the Schwendener hypothesis), is that they are not autonomous plants, but that they consist of ascigerous fungi, parasitic on algæ. Each lichen is composed of white filaments and green, or greenish, rounded cells, and it is argued that the two are of different nature, the one living at the expense of the other. See Hyphæ, and Gonidia. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A name given to several varieties of skin disease, esp. to one characterized by the eruption of small, conical or flat, reddish pimples, which, if unchecked, tend to spread and produce great and even fatal exhaustion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to, or covered with, lichens. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, lichens. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lichenic acid. (a) An organic acid, C14H24O3, obtained from Iceland moss. (b) An old name of fumaric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the form of a lichen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A substance isomeric with starch, extracted from several species of moss and lichen, esp. from Iceland moss. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. lichénographique. ] Of or pertaining to lichenography. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who describes lichens; one versed in lichenography. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Lichen + -graphy: cf. F. lichénographie. ] A description of lichens; the science which illustrates the natural history of lichens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in lichenology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Lichen + -logy. ] The science which treats of lichens. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, lichens; abounding in lichens; covered with lichens. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Any of several Old World semicrustaceous or shrubby lecanoras that roll up and are blown about over African and Arabian deserts and used as food by people and animals; same as manna{ 2 }. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ AS. mynecen, fr. munec monk. See Monk. ] A nun. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Russ., fr. opolchit' to make an army, polk army. Cf. Folk. ] (Russia) See Army organization, above. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ NL. See Penta-, and Achenium. ] (Bot.) A dry fruit composed of five carpels, which are covered by an epigynous calyx and separate at maturity. [ 1913 Webster ]