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[ Named from Thomas Addison, M. D., of London, who first described it. ] (Med.) A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, hypotension, and loss of weight; it is due to insufficient secretion of adrenocortical hormones. Untreated disease is usually fatal. Called also chronic adrenocortical insufficiency [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

v. t. [ Cf. OF. amesurer, LL. admensurare. See Measure. ] 1. To measure. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) Formerly, the adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who admeasures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Ambergris. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being appeased or pacified; placable. -- Ap*peas"a*ble*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Appealed p. pr. & vb. n. Appeasing. ] [ OE. apesen, apaisen, OF. apaisier, apaissier, F. apaiser, fr. a (L. ad) + OF. pais peace, F. paix, fr. L. pax, pacis. See Peace. ] To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred); as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To pacify; quiet; conciliate; propitiate; assuage; compose; calm; allay; hush; soothe; tranquilize. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who appeases; a pacifier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to appease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. arch- + treasurer. ] A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. wearing no covering for the breasts or featuring such nudity. bare-breasted beauties parading along the beach"
Syn. -- braless, topless. [WordNet 1.5]

[ Named for Dr. Basedow, a German physician. ] (Med.) A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart; -- called also exophthalmic goiter. Flint. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (British) an annual dinner party given by an employer for the employees. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. best, beste, OF. beste, F. bête, fr. L. bestia. ] 1. Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden. [ 1913 Webster ]

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast. Prov. xii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. any animal other than a human; -- opposed to man. [ 1913 Webster ]

'Tain't a fit night out for man nor beast.
W. C. Fields. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A game at cards similar to loo. [ Obs. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beast royal, the lion. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Beast, Brute. When we use these words in a figurative sense, as applicable to human beings, we think of beasts as mere animals governed by animal appetite; and of brutes as being destitute of reason or moral feeling, and governed by unrestrained passion. Hence we speak of beastly appetites; beastly indulgences, etc.; and of brutal manners; brutal inhumanity; brutal ferocity. So, also, we say of a drunkard, that he first made himself a beast, and then treated his family like a brute. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State or nature of a beast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Biestings. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Beastly + -head state. ] Beastliness. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a beast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being beastly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beastly divinities and droves of gods. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The beastly vice of drinking to excess. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Abominable; as, beastly weather. [ Colloq. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Bestial; brutish; irrational; sensual; degrading. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) the popular name for a form of the chronic lung disease pneumoconiosis which is observed among coal miners, and is caused by the inhalation of coal dust. It is thus named because of the black appearance of the lungs (pneumomelanosis) of those affected with the disease. See also the related condition anthracosis. [ PJC. ]

n. (Zool.) A small European bird; the blue-throated warbler. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. boreas, Gr. &unr_;. ] The north wind; -- usually a personification. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a difficult problem.
Syn. -- riddle, conundrum, enigma. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. brest, breost, As. breóst; akin to Icel. brjōst, Sw. bröst, Dan. bryst, Goth. brusts, OS. briost, D. borst, G. brust. ] 1. The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat. [ 1913 Webster ]

My brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother. Cant. viii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mountains on whose barren breast
The laboring clouds do often rest. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mining) (a) The face of a coal working. (b) The front of a furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

He has a loyal breast. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Breast drill, a portable drilling machine, provided with a breastplate, for forcing the drill against the work. --
Breast pang. See Angina pectoris, under Angina. --
To make a clean breast, to disclose the secrets which weigh upon one; to make full confession. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Breasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Breasting. ] To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves. [ 1913 Webster ]

The court breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer. Wirt. [ 1913 Webster ]

To breast up a hedge, to cut the face of it on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Arch.) A torus. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mach.) The front transverse beam of a locomotive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The bone of the breast; the sternum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a breast; -- used in composition with qualifying words, in either a literal or a metaphorical sense; as, a single-breasted coat. [ 1913 Webster ]

The close minister is buttoned up, and the brave officer open-breasted, on these occasions. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A large rope to fasten the midship part of a ship to a wharf, or to another vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. High as the breast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mach.) The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A knot of ribbons worn on the breast. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pin worn on the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before his old rusty breastplate could be scoured, and his cracked headpiece mended. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A strap that runs across a horse's breast. Ash. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Jewish Antiq.) A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Breastband. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows. [ Written also brestsummer and bressummer. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Fort.) A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From Dr. Bright of London, who first described it. ] (Med.) An affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory in character, and distinguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the urine. Several varieties of Bright's disease are now recognized, differing in the part of the kidney involved, and in the intensity and course of the morbid process. [ 1913 Webster ]