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{ , n. } [ Appendix + Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; excision. ] (Surg.) Excision of the vermiform appendix. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To infect with jaundice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Bodick. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ This is properly the plural of body, Oe. bodise a pair of bodies, equiv. to a bodice. Cf. Corset, and see Body. ] 1. A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her bodice half way she unlaced. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wearing a bodice. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.), a small mothlike species of trichopterous insect, whose larva is the caddice; it has two pairs of hairy membranous wings and aquatic larvae. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ Prov. E. caddy, cadew; cf. G. köder bait. ] (Zool.) The larva of a caddice fly. These larvæ generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. couardise, fr. couard. See Coward. ] Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cowardice of doing wrong. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Moderation was despised as cowardice. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. of Die. Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

dice coal, a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. diced p. pr. & vb. n. dicing. ] To play games with dice. [ 1913 Webster ]

I . . . diced not above seven times a week. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Diced p. pr. & vb. n. Dicing. ] 1. (Cooking) To cut into small cubes; as, to slice and dice carrots. [ PJC ]

2. To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A box from which dice are thrown in gaming. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖Prop. n. [ NL., fr. Gr. di- = di`s- twice + ke`ntron spur. ] (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (Dicentra spectabilis). [ Corruptly written dielytra. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. dike`falos; di- = di`s- twice + kefalh` head. ] Having two heads on one body; double-headed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A player at dice; a dice player; a gamester. [ 1913 Webster ]

As false as dicers' oaths. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free from prejudice. [ Obs. ] W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. indice indication, index. See Index. ] Index; indication. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Index. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. jaunis, F. jaunisse, fr. jaune yellow, orig. jalne, fr. L. galbinus yellowish, fr. galbus yellow. ] (Med.) A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine, whiteness of the feces, constipation, uneasiness in the region of the stomach, loss of appetite, and general languor and lassitude. It is caused usually by obstruction of the biliary passages and consequent damming up, in the liver, of the bile, which is then absorbed into the blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blue jaundice. See Cyanopathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice. [ 1913 Webster ]

The envy of wealth jaundiced his soul. Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Affected with jaundice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jaundiced eyes seem to see all objects yellow. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Prejudiced; envious; as, a jaundiced judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Laodicea, a city in Phrygia Major; like the Christians of Laodicea; lukewarm in religion. Rev. iii. 14-16. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. maledicentia. See Maledicent. ] Evil speaking. [ Obs. ] Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. maledicens, p. pr. of maledicere to speak ill; male ill + dicere to say, speak. See Malice, and Diction. ] Speaking reproachfully; slanderous. [ Obs. ] Sir E. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. Of or relating to the Medici, a noted Italian family; as, the Medicean Venus. [ 1913 Webster ]

Medicean planets (Astron.), a name given by Galileo to the satellites of Jupiter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. pédicelle. See Pedicle. ] 1. (Bot.) (a) A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower. (b) A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algæ, or a sporangium in ferns. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Anat.) (a) The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra. (b) An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pedicellate. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Pedicellariæ [ NL. See Pedicel. ] (Zool.) A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ NL. See Pedicel. ] (Zool.) A genus of Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Pentice. ] A sloping roof; a lean-to; a penthouse. [ Obs. ] Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. podex, podicis, anus + pes foot. ] (Zool.) See Grebe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. préjudice, L. praejudicium; prae before + judicium judgment. See Prejudicate, Judicial. ] 1. Foresight. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Naught might hinder his quick prejudize. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An opinion or judgment formed without due examination; prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though often misled by prejudice and passion, he was emphatically an honest man. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

England and France might, through their amity,
Breed him some prejudice. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Prejudgment; prepossession; bias; harm; hurt; damage; detriment; mischief; disadvantage. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Prejudiced p. pr. & vb. n. Prejudicing ] [ Cf. F. préjudicier. See Prejudice, n. ] 1. To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Suffer not any beloved study to prejudice your mind so far as to despise all other learning. I. Watts [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause. [ 1913 Webster ]

Seek how may prejudice the foe. Shak [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of radix. ] (Bot.) A small branch of a root; a rootlet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. spadix, -icis, a date-brown or nut-brown color. See Spadix. ] 1. Of a bright clear brown or chestnut color. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Bearing flowers on a spadix; of the nature of a spadix. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. ] Before the judge, or court; not yet decided; under judicial consideration. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not prejudiced; free from undue bias or prepossession; not preoccupied by opinion; impartial; as, an unprejudiced mind; an unprejudiced judge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not warped or biased by prejudice; as, an unprejudiced judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Un*prej"u*diced*ness, n. V. Knox. [1913 Webster]