a. Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. --
a. [ L. Aesopius, from Gr. &unr_;, fr. the famous Greek fabulist
a. [ Gr. &unr_; sensation + &unr_; a way; cf. F. esthésodique. ] (Physiol.) Conveying sensory or afferent impulses; -- said of nerves. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
An awesome glance up at the auld castle. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being awesome. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. bisogne. ] A worthless fellow; a bezonian. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. besme, besum, AS. besma; akin to D. bezem, OHG pesamo, G. besen; of uncertain origin. ] A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom; anything which sweeps away or destroys. [ Archaic or Fig. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
I will sweep it with the besom of destruction. Isa. xiv. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]
The housemaid with her besom. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Rolls back all Greece, and besoms wide the plain. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who uses a besom. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To assort or be congruous with; to fit, or become. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Such men as may besort your age. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Befitting associates or attendants. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
With such accommodation and besort
As levels with her breeding. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Fools besotted with their crimes. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. “Besotted devotion.” Sir W. Scott. --
adv. In a besotting manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
p. p. of Beseech. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Cheery; gay; merry. [ 1913 Webster ]
The blithesome sounds of wassail gay. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n.
adj. awkward to move or use especially because of shape;
a. [ Pref. circum- + esophagal. ] (Anat.) Surrounding the esophagus; -- in (Zool.) said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Anat.) Circumesophagal. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a quiet song that lulls a child to sleep.
n. [ From Creosote. ] (Chem.) Any one of three metameric substances,
n. (Chem.) Same as Isorcin. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖a. [ L. desolatus, p. p. of desolare to leave alone, forsake; de- + solare to make lonely, solus alone. See Sole, a. ]
I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. Jer. ix. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]
And the silvery marish flowers that throng
The desolate creeks and pools among. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Have mercy upon, for I am desolate. Ps. xxv. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]
Voice of the poor and desolate. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]
I were right now of tales desolate. Chaucer.
v. t.
Constructed in the very heart of a desolating war. Sparks. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. reduced to a barren and lifeless state.
adv. In a desolate manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being desolate. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste. Mede. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. désolation, L. desolatio. ]
Unto the end of the war desolations are determined. Dan. ix. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]
You would have sold your king to slaughter, . . .
And his whole kingdom into desolation. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
How is Babylon become a desolation! Jer. l. 23.
n. [ L. ] Same as Desolater. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. desolatorius. ] Causing desolation. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To clear from sophism or error. [ R. ] Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ F. pref. des- from + E. oxalic. ] (Chem.) Made or derived from oxalic acid;
n. same as deoxyribonucleic acid. [ PJC ]
a. Doleful; dismal; gloomy; sorrowful. --
n. [ Dorsum + meson. ] (Anat.) See Meson. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ F. ] (Arch.) A low story between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story; mezzanine. Parker. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Gr. &unr_; within + &unr_; way. ] (Physiol.) Conveying impressions from the surface of the body to the spinal cord; -- said of certain nerves. Opposed to
a. (Anat.) Esophageal. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the esophagus.
a. (Anat.) Esophageal. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr.
n. [ NL., fr. Gr.
a. [ Gr.
Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]