a. Continuing; lasting. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Permanently. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A foreboding. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
p. a. Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. “This according voice of national wisdom.” Burke. “Mind and soul according well.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ According to has been called a prepositional phrase, but strictly speaking, according is a participle in the sense of agreeing, acceding, and to alone is the preposition. [ 1913 Webster ]
According as,
Is all things well,
According as I gave directions? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The land which the Lord will give you according as he hath promised. Ex. xii. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Accordingly; correspondingly. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv.
Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Med.) A white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic.
n.
n. The time just after dinner. “An after-dinner's sleep.” Shak. [ Obs. ] --
n. [ From
a. (Bibliog.) An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of
n. [ LL. almandina, alamandina, for L. alabandina a precious stone, named after
n. See Almandine [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to height;
a. Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. amande almond. See Almond. ]
n. [ Cf. F. amidine, fr. amido&unr_; starch, fr. L. amylum, Gr. &unr_; fine meal, neut. of &unr_; not ground at the mill, -- hence, of the finest meal;
a. Andean;
a. Suitable; fit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. arundinaceus, fr. arundo reed. ] Of or pertaining to a reed; resembling the reed or cane. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. arundineus, fr. arundo reed. ] Abounding with reeds; reedy. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Rising; moving upward;
Ascending latitude (Astron.),
Ascending line (Geneol.),
Ascending node
Ascending series. (Math.)
Ascending signs,
a. Of a nature to astound; astonishing; amazing;
a. Relating to attitude. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who attitudinizes; a posture maker. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A practicing of attitudes; posture making. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To assume affected attitudes; to strike an attitude; to pose. [ 1913 Webster ]
Maria, who is the most picturesque figure, was put to attitudinize at the harp. Hannah More. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who practices attitudes. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n. (Computers) The execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system.
a. Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. [ 1913 Webster ]
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty. [ 1913 Webster ]
Our backslidings are many. Jer. xiv. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ F., fr. badiner to joke, OF. to trifle, be silly, fr. badin silly. ] Playful raillery; banter. “He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage.” Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A strip or stripe of a contrasting color or material.
A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Obscenity; lewdness. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n. [ AS. bedding, beding. See Bed. ]
a. Obliged; beholden. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father. Robynson (More's Utopia). [ 1913 Webster ]
So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of seeing; sight; also, that which is beheld. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n., The state of being obliged or beholden. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks. --
n.
n. Residence; habitation. Rowe. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. bilis bile + viridis green. Cf. Verdure. ] (Physiol.) A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. That binds; obligatory. [ 1913 Webster ]
Binding beam (Arch.),
Binding joist (Arch.),