n. [ F., from Pg. bailadeira a female dancer, bailar to dance. ] A female dancer in the East Indies.
n. [ It., fr. bello, bel, beautiful + vedere to see. ] (Arch.) A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Greatly perplexed;
n. The state of being bewildered; bewilderment. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. having unusually large shoulders.
n. One who is apt to blunder. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n.;
adj. having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term;
n. One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region. [ 1913 Webster ]
Borderers of the Caspian. Dyer. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. abounding in large rocks or stones;
adj. same as big-shouldered.
n. One who embroiders. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. She who chides. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who considers; a man of reflection; a thinker. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖ [ It., of belief or trust. ] (Mercantile Law) An agreement by which an agent or factor, in consideration of an additional premium or commission (called a del credere commission), engages, when he sells goods on credit, to insure, warrant, or guarantee to his principal the solvency of the purchaser, the engagement of the factor being to pay the debt himself if it is not punctually discharged by the buyer when it becomes due. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ AS. derian to hurt. ] To hurt; to harm; to injure. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Harm. [ Obs. ] Robert of Brunne.
n. [ Sp. derecho straight. ] A straight wind without apparent cyclonic tendency, usually accompanied with rain and often destructive, common in the prairie regions of the United States. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
a. [ L. derelictus, p. p. of derelinquere to forsake wholly, to abandon; de- + relinquere to leave. See Relinquish. ]
The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
They easily prevailed, so as to seize upon the vacant, unoccupied, and derelict minds of his [ Chatham's ] friends; and instantly they turned the vessel wholly out of the course of his policy. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
A government which is either unable or unwilling to redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest duties. J. Buchanan. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Law)
n. [ L. derelictio. ]
Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other powers. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
A total dereliction of military duties. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To make irreligious; to turn from religion. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
He would dereligionize men beyond all others. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Darling. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Darling. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Biochem.) the process of testing samples of mixtures which are active in a screening process, so as to recognize and eliminate from consideration those active substances already studied; -- a stage subsequent to the preliminary screening in the process of discovery of new pharmacologically active substances in mixtures of natural products; -- also called
a.
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a. Shattered; infirm. “A laurel grew, doddered with age.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. decorated with embroidery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n. One who embroiders. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a woman who embroiders; a woman embroiderer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
a. Burnt to cinders. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who fodders cattle. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Affected with glanders;
n. A female guide. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who, or that which, hinders. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Between or among constellations or stars; interstellar. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One in charge of the larder. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who follows the business of laundering. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who maunders. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. killed unlawfully;
n.
n. A woman who commits murder. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖ [ L., I do not wish to contend. ] (Law) A plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, which, without admitting guilt, subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of guilty. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
n.
n. [ Sp. pedrero, fr. OSp. pedra, Sp. piedra, a stone, L. petra, fr. Gr.