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n. [ L. aedilis, fr. aedes temple, public building. Cf. Edify. ] A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of an ædile. T. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Asphodel. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. ante- + diluvial. ] Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. -- n. One who lived before the Deluge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a family comrising the pill bugs.
Syn. -- family Armadillidiidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 the type genus of the Armadillidiidae.
Syn. -- genus Armadillidium. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Armadillos [ Sp. armadillo, dim. of armado armed, p. p. of armar to arm. So called from being armed with a bony shell. ] (Zool.) (a) Any edentate animal if the family Dasypidæ, peculiar to America. The body and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony plates. The armadillos burrow in the earth, seldom going abroad except at night. When attacked, they curl up into a ball, presenting the armor on all sides. Their flesh is good food. There are several species, one of which (the peba) is found as far north as Texas. See Peba, Poyou, Tatouay. (b) A genus of small isopod Crustacea that can roll themselves into a ball. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. audire to hear. ] (Psychol.) One whose thoughts take the form of mental sounds or of internal discourse rather than of visual or motor images. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adv. Obscenely; lewdly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. blandiloquentia; blandus mild + loqui to speak. ] Mild, flattering speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Fair-spoken; flattering. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a bloody manner; cruelly; with a disposition to shed blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having no body. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without material form; incorporeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Phantoms bodiless and vain. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Corporeality. Minsheu. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the bodily part of us. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind. “Bodily defects.” L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Real; actual; put in execution. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Be brought to bodily act. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bodily fear, apprehension of physical injury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Corporal. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Col. ii. 9 [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In respect to, or so as to affect, the entire body or mass; entirely; all at once; completely; as, to carry away bodily. “Leapt bodily below.” Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ar. qā&dsdot_;ī judge + al'sker the army, Per. leshker. ] A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. from Cadillac, a French town. ] A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking. Johnson.

2. [ From Cadillac, the high-end expensive line of automobiles made by General Motors, often thought of as the best American-made automobile. ] The best; -- metaphorical, from the automobile. Often used in the phrase “the Cadillac of . . . ” [ PJC ]

n. [ Sp. cedilla, cf. F. cédille; dim. of zeta, the Gr. name of the letter z, because this letter was formerly written after the c, to give it the sound of s. ] A mark placed under the letter c [ thus, ç ], to show that it is to be sounded like s, as in façade. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. L. codicula a little tail, dim. of cauda tail. ] (Com.) The coarse tow of flax and hemp. McElrath. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. codile. ] A term at omber, signifying that the game is won. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a handsome shrub (Hamelia patens) with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; it grows from Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil.
Syn. -- scarlet bush, scarlet hamelia, Hamelia patens, Hamelia erecta. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Sp., fr. OSp. cordilla, cordiella, dim. of cuerda a rope, string. See Cord. ] (Geol.) A mountain ridge or chain. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Cordillera is sometimes applied, in geology, to the system of mountain chains near the border of a continent; thus, the western cordillera of North America in the United States includes the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, Coast and Cascade ranges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. crocodilus, Gr. kroko`deilos: cf. F. crocodile. Cf. Cookatrice. ] 1. (Zool.) A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (Crocodilus vulgaris, or Crocodilus Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (Crocodilus Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Logic) A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile. [ 1913 Webster ]

Crocodile bird (Zool.), an African plover (Pluvianus ægypticus) which alights upon the crocodile and devours its insect parasites, even entering its open mouth (according to reliable writers) in pursuit of files, etc.; -- called also Nile bird. It is the trochilos of ancient writers. --
Crocodile tears, false or affected tears; hypocritical sorrow; -- derived from the fiction of old travelers, that crocodiles shed tears over their prey. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. crocodilus crocodile. ] (Zool.) An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile. -- n. One of the Crocodilia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Logic) A caption or sophistical mode of arguing. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A liqueur, or cordial, flavored with the peel from the sour orange, and sometimes with cinnamon and mace; -- first made at the island of Curaçcao in the Netherlands Antilles near Venezuela. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ OE. affodylle, prop., the asphodel, fr. LL. affodillus (cf. D. affodille or OF. asphodile, aphodille, F. asphodèle), L. asphodelus, fr. Gr. 'asfo`delos. The initial d in English is not satisfactorily explained. See Asphodel. ] (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Asphodelus. (b) A plant of the genus Narcissus (Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus). It has a bulbous root and beautiful flowers, usually of a yellow hue. Called also daffodilly, daffadilly, daffadowndilly, daffydowndilly, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

With damask roses and daffadillies set. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Strow me the ground with daffadowndillies,
And cowslips, and kingcups, and loved lilies. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

A college gown
That clad her like an April daffodilly. Tennyson [ 1913 Webster ]

And chance-sown daffodil. Whittier. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dilacerated p. pr. & vb. n. Dilacerating ] [ L. dilaceratus, p. p. of dilacerare to tear apart; di- = dis- + lacerare to tear. ] To rend asunder; to tear to pieces. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dilaceratio: cf. F. dilacération. ] The act of rending asunder. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. dilaniatus, p. p. of dilaniare to dilacerate; di- = dis- + laniare to tear to pieces. ] To rend in pieces; to tear. [ R. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rending or tearing in pieces; dilaceration. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dilapidated p. pr. & vb. n. Dilapidating ] [ L. dilapidare to scatter like stones; di- = dis- + lapidare to throw stones, fr. lapis a stone. See Lapidary. ] 1. To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the bishop, parson, or vicar, etc., dilapidates the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the patrimony. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To impair by waste and abuse; to squander. [ 1913 Webster ]

The patrimony of the bishopric of Oxon was much dilapidated. Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect. [ 1913 Webster ]

A deserted and dilapidated buildings. Cooper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dilapidatio: cf. F. dilapidation. ] 1. The act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tell the people that are relived by the dilapidation of their public estate. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention. [ 1913 Webster ]

The business of dilapidations came on between our bishop and the Archibishop of York. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) The pulling down of a building, or suffering it to fall or be in a state of decay. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dilapidateur. ] One who causes dilapidation. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dilatabilité. ] The quality of being dilatable, or admitting expansion; -- opposed to contractibility. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. dilatable. ] Capable of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. dilatacioun, F. dilatation, L. dilatatio, fr. dilatare. See Dilate, and cf. 2d Dilation. ] 1. Prolixity; diffuse discourse. [ Obs. ] “What needeth greater dilatation?” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on al&unr_; sides; the state of being dilated; dilation. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Anat.) A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. Cf. L. dilatator a propagator. ] (Anat.) A muscle which dilates any part; a dilator. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dilated p. pr. & vb. n. Dilating ] [ L. dilatare; either fr. di- = dis- + latus wide, not the same word as latus, used as p. p. of ferre to bear (see Latitude); or fr. dilatus, used as p. p. of differre to separate (see Delay, Tolerate, Differ, and cf. Dilatory): cf. F. dilater. ] 1. To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Do me the favor to dilate at full
What hath befallen of them and thee till now. Shak.

Syn. -- To expand; swell; distend; enlarge; spread out; amplify; expatiate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions. [ 1913 Webster ]

His heart dilates and glories in his strength. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; -- with on or upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

But still on their ancient joys dilate. Crabbe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Extensive; expanded. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Expanded; enlarged. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) Having the margin wide and spreading. [ 1913 Webster ]