adv. Angrily. [ Obs. or Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. G. erzkämmerer. See Arch-, pref. ] A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Temperately. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a decisive battle during the Napoleonic campaigns (1805); the French under Napoleon defeated the Russian and Austrian armies of Czar Alexander I and Emperor Francis II.
n. [ Perh. for Balderlocks, fr. Balder the Scandinavian deity. ] (Bot.) A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called
prop. n. (Geography) The capital
n. [ The capital of Germany ]
Berlin black,
Berlin blue,
Berlin green,
Berlin iron,
Berlin shop,
Berlin work,
n. [ G. ] (Zool.) A roachlike European fish (Rhodima amarus). [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a bitter manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. similar to a bladder.
a. Bungling; awkward. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Mean; servile. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state or quality of being brotherly. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate;
adv. Like a brother; affectionately; kindly. “I speak but brotherly of him.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Butchery quality. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. “The victim of a butcherly murder.” D. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]
What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,
This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ It. ] The papal chamberlain; the cardinal who presides over the pope's household. He has at times possessed great power.
adv. In a supercilious, disdainful, or haughty manner; arrogantly. Junius. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OF. chamberlain, chambrelencF. chambellon, OHG. chamerling, chamarlinc, G. kämmerling, kammer chamber (fr. L. camera) + -ling. See Chamber, and -ling. ]
The lord chamberlain of England,
n. Office of a chamberlain. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Like a chandler; in a petty way. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Without joy, gladness, or comfort.
--
My cheerful day is turned to cheerless night. Spenser.
a. Gay; cheerful. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Cheerily. [ Archaic ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See -lite. ] A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of
v. i. To make as pliable as kid leather. [ Obs. ] Br. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The frill to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed out resembled the small entrails. See Chitterlings. [ Obs. ] Gascoigne. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. pl. [ Cf. AS. cwiþ womb, Icel. kvið, Goth. qiþus, belly, womb, stomach, G. kutteln chitterlings. ] (Cookery) The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a clever manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
Never was man so clever absurd. C. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ From Clout, n. ] Clumsy; awkward. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a highway interchange between two roads in which the connecting road pattern resembles a four-leaf clover, and which allows moving from one road to another without left-hand turns. One road passes over the other, and the exit from one highway and entrance into the second highway proceeds from the right-hand lane in all directions. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]
n. (Building)
n. [ F. couvre-lit; couvrir to cover + lit bed, fr. L. lectus bed. See Cover. ] The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. [ 1913 Webster ]
Lay her in lilies and in violets . . .
And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A coverlet. [ 1913 Webster ]
All the coverlid was cloth of gold. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Free from danger. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A dwarf; a dandiprat. [ r. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Becoming a daughter; filial. [ 1913 Webster ]
Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him. Cavendish. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Deer + - let. ] (Zool.) A chevrotain. See Kanchil, and Napu. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Actively; quickly; nimbly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Swim with your bodies,
And carry it sweetly and deliverly. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no dinner;
a. Of or pertaining to dinner. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
The dinnerly officer. Copley. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Disastrously. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being disorderly. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
adv. In a disorderly manner; without law or order; irregularly; confusedly. [ 1913 Webster ]
Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly. 2 Thess. iii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]
Savages fighting disorderly with stones. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]