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n. 1. 1 any of several varieties of cultivated sour cherry trees of the species Prunus cerasus bearing fruit with colorless juice, e.g. Prunus cerasus caproniana. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. a pale red sour cherry with colorless or nearly colorless juice. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. appelé, p. p. of appeler, fr. L. appellare. ] (Law) (a) The defendant in an appeal; -- opposed to appellant. (b) The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. Ital acquerello, fr. acqua water, L. aqua. ] A design or painting in thin transparent water colors; also, the mode of painting in such colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., or /mhw>. [ Ar. aryil, ayyil, stag. ] (Zool.) (a) A variety of the gazelle (Antilope dorcas, or Gazella, dorcas), found in Arabia and adjacent countries. (b) A squirrel-like Australian marsupial, a species of Petaurus. (c) A beautiful Brazilian toucan Ramphastos ariel). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. It. bagatella; cf. Prov. It. bagata trifle, OF. bague, Pr. bagua, bundle. See Bag, n. ] 1. A trifle; a thing of no importance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rich trifles, serious bagatelles. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. 1. Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. put in or stored in a barrel; ; as, barreled beer; -- opposite of unbarreled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. tapered toward both ends; -- of an arrow. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ or }, a. Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. belle, fem. of bel, beau, beautiful, fine. See Beau. ] A young lady of superior beauty and attractions; a handsome lady, or one who attracts notice in society; a fair lady. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Hung with a bell or bells. [ 1913 Webster ]

A porcelainlike kind of decorative pottery with a high gloss, which is sometimes iridescent. A very fine kind is made at Belleek in Ireland. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One versed in belles-lettres. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Paleon.) A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ F. ] Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres. “An unlearned, belletristic trifler.” M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. 1. Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Min.) Replaced by two planes inclining equally upon the adjacent planes, as an edge; having its edges replaced by sloping planes, as a cube or other solid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sells books. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without pity. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G. ] (Mus.) The private orchestra or band of a prince or of a church. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. capelet. ] (Far.) A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying down. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing a cell or cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cella cell + porus, Gr. &unr_;, passage. ] (Zool.) A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Chancery. ] Chancellorship. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. to perform a chandelle, as of an airplane. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Aeronautics) an abrupt climbing turn made by an airplane, in which the plane's momentum is used to achieve a higher than normal rate of climb, without stalling the aircraft. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Bot.) A name for several species of mushroom, of which one (Cantharellus cibrius) is edible, the others reputed poisonous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud.
Syn. -- swindler, chiseler, gouger, sharper, sharpie, sharpy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. [ Poetic. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a squash plant having a dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow.
Syn. -- Italian vegetable marrow. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a squash resembling zucchini. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who compels or constrains. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. convellens, p. pr. of convellere. See Convulse. ] Tending to tear or pull up. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The ends of the fragment . . . will not yield to the convellent force. Todd & Bowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., dim. of corde cord. ] A twisted cord; a tassel. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A machine that separates the kernels of corn from the cob. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OF. crenel, F. cr&unr_;neau, LL. crenellus, kernellus, dim. (prob.) fr. L. crena notch. See Crenny. ] 1. An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Same as Crenature. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. (Bot.) Same as Crenate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. crécelle rattle. ] (Eccl.) A wooden rattle sometimes used as a substitute for a bell, in the Roman Catholic church, during the latter part of Holy Week, or the last week of Lent. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖, n. See Damsel. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European from Asian Turkey.
Syn. -- Hellespont. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and French to open a passage for aid to Russia; defeated by the Turks.
Syn. -- Dardanelles campaign. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ F. See Damsel. ] 1. A young lady; a damsel; a lady's maid. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The Numidian crane (Anthropoides virgo); -- so called on account of the grace and symmetry of its form and movements. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A beautiful, small dragon fly of the genus Agrion. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Bookbinding) An ornamental tooling like lace. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Hanging in loose disorder; disarranged; in disarray; not made neat; -- used especially of hair or clothing; as, disheveled hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the hair in loose disorder. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dancing maidens are disheveled Mænads. J. A. Symonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. divellens, p. pr. ] Drawing asunder. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sells distilled liquors by the dram or glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller. “Dwellers at Jerusalem.” Acts i. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Hellebore. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Helleborin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Zoöl.) The red gurnard or cuckoo fish. [ Prov. Eng. ]

adv. & conj. See Else. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]