n. [ L. abecedarius. A word from the first four letters of the alphabet. ]
Abecedarian psalms,
hymns
a. Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ NL. See Cnida. ] (Zool.) A comprehensive group equivalent to the true Cœlenterata,
n. [ Gr.
n. Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Bold; fearless; adventurous;
n. [ F. ]
‖n.;
a. See Calendarial. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to stone; inscribed on stone;
a. [ L. lapidarius, fr. lapis, -idis, stone. ] Consisting of stones. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Pg. mandarim, from Malay mantrī minister of state, prop. a Hind. word, fr. Skr. mantrin a counselor, manira a counsel, man to think. ]
Mandarin language,
Mandarin yellow (Chem.),
n. The collective body of officials or persons of rank in China. S. W. Williams. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A showy crested Asiatic duck (Aix galericulata, formerly Dendronessa galericulata), often domesticated, and regarded by the Chinese as an emblem of conjugal affection. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]
a. Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Dyeing) The process of giving an orange color to goods formed of animal tissue, as silk or wool, not by coloring matter, but by producing a certain change in the fiber by the action of dilute nitric acid. Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A government by mandarins (senses 1 or 2); character or spirit of the mandarins{ 2 }. F. Lieder. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
‖n. pl. [ NL. See Monad. ] (Zool.) The Infusoria. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Chem.) A brown, amorphous, bitter substance having a strong emetic action, extracted from the root of the mudar. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Same as Panderism. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To pander. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. pedarius, fr. pedarius belonging to the foot, fr. pes, pedis, foot. ] (Rom. Antiq.) One of a class eligible to the office of senator, but not yet chosen, who could sit and speak in the senate, but could not vote; -- so called because he might indicate his opinion by walking over to the side of the party he favored when a vote was taken. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. Pindaricus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; (L. Pindarus) Pindar: cf. F. pindarique. ] Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of Pindar;
a. Pindaric. [ 1913 Webster ]
Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Imitation of Pindar. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who imitates Pindar. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv.
God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers. 1 Cor. xii. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being secondary. [ 1913 Webster ]
Full of a girl's sweet sense of secondariness to the object of her love. Mrs. Oliphant. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. solidarité, fr. solide. See Solid. ] An entire union or consolidation of interests and responsibilities; fellowship; community. [ 1913 Webster ]
Solidarity [ a word which we owe to the French Communists ], signifies a fellowship in gain and loss, in honor and dishonor, in victory and defeat, a being, so to speak, all in the same boat. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]
The solidarity . . . of Breton and Welsh poetry. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ L., a handkerchief. ] (Eccl.) The handkerchief upon which the Savior is said to have impressed his own portrait miraculously, when wiping his face with it, as he passed to the crucifixion. [ 1913 Webster ]