n. [ From
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. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; terrible + &unr_; fish. ] (Paleon.) A genus of large extinct Devonian ganoid fishes. In some parts of Ohio remains of the Dinichthys are abundant, indicating animals twenty feet in length. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. & a. from Dine, a. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Used either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, dining hall or dining-hall, dining room, dining table, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A natural family of birds including the swallows and martins.
‖n. [ F., fem. of jardinier gardener. See Garden. ]
n. [ See Libidinous. ] One given to lewdness. [ 1913 Webster ]
peop. n. A genus of tropical Old World ornamental evergreen shrubs having fleshy leaves and large panicles of white pink flowers.
a. Of or pertaining to Odin. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Worship of Odin; broadly, the Teutonic heathenism. --
Odinism was valor; Christianism was humility, a nobler kind of valor. Carlyle. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
v. i. To utter platitudes or truisms. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. Sardinianus. ] Of or pertaining to the island, kingdom, or people of Sardinia. --
‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a kind of wasp. ] (Zool.) A group of Hymneoptera comprising the sawflies. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Min.) A mineral occurring in yellowish, brownish, and ruby-red hexagonal crystals. It consists of lead vanadate with a small proportion of lead chloride. [ 1913 Webster ]