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{ } n. [ OF. arblastere, OF. arbalestier. See Arbalest. ] A crossbowman. [ Obs. ] Speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who arrests. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Scots Law) The person at whose suit an arrestment is made. [ Also written arrestor. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. One who attests. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Beg + -ster. ] A beggar. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a davenport with upright armrests. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a fitted overcoat with a velvet collar. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See -lite. ] A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Chide + -ster. ] A female scold. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. cholestérique. ] Pertaining to cholesterin, or obtained from it; as, cholesteric acid. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; bile + &unr_; stiff fat: F. cholestérine. See Stearin. ] (Chem.) A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who detests. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who digests. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other substances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To fester. [ Obs. ] “Enfestered sores.” Davies (Holy Roode). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A word invented by L. Gmelin, a German chemist. ] (Chem.) An ethereal salt, or compound ether, consisting of an organic radical united with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic or inorganic; thus the natural fats are esters of glycerin and the fatty acids, oleic, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Festered p. pr. & vb. n. Festering. ] [ OE. festern, fr. fester, n.; or fr. OF. festrir, fr. festre, n. See Fester, n. ] 1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wounds immedicable
Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to fester or rankle. [ 1913 Webster ]

For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate,
And festered ranking malice in my breast. Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. festre, L. fistula a sort of ulcer. Cf. Fistula. ] 1. A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A festering or rankling. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fester of the chain their necks. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A festering. [ R. ] Chalmers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. forestier, LL. forestarius. ] 1. One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An inhabitant of a forest. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A forest tree. [ R. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (A. octomaculata), which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fruiteress. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Game + -ster. ] 1. A merry, frolicsome person. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games. [ 1913 Webster ]

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A prostitute; a strumpet. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A harvesting ant. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. hesternus; akin to heri yesterday. ] Pertaining to yesterday. [ Obs. ] See Yester, a. Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships. By some it is defined as “dancing (on the wave)”; by others as “opposing, ” “warlike.” T. R. Lounsbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Pester. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, infests. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Gestour. ] 1. A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool. [ 1913 Webster ]

This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk. [ 1913 Webster ]

He ambled up and down
With shallow jesters. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Pg., prob. fr. Fr. l'est the east. ] (Meteor.) A dry sirocco in the Madeira Islands. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

prop. n. A breed of short-haired black-and-tan terrier developed in Manchester England.
Syn. -- black-and-tan terrier. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Mister, a trade. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Of or pertaining to the Midwest region of the U. S., generally including Ohio; Indiana; Illinois; Iowa; Missouri; Kansas; Nebraska; and sometimes Michigan; Wisconsin; Minnesota; as, a midwestern city; midwestern accent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who molests. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A storm or gale from the northwest; a strong northwest wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Toward the northwest, or from the northwest. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or being in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Orchestra. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To pester exceedingly or excessively. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pestered p. pr. & vb. n. Pestering. ] [ Abbrev. fr. impester, fr. OF. empaistrier, empestrer, to entangle the feet or legs, to embarrass, F. empêtrer; pref. em-, en- (L. in in) + LL. pastorium, pastoria, a fetter by which horses are prevented from wandering in the pastures, fr. L. pastorius belonging to a herdsman or shepherd, pastor a herdsman. See In, and Pasture, Pastor. ] 1. To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are pestered with mice and rats. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

A multitude of scribblers daily pester the world. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To crowd together in an annoying way; to overcrowd; to infest. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

All rivers and pools . . . pestered full with fishes. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; as, the exasperation of a pestered animal.
Syn. -- annoyed, harassed, harried. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who pesters or harasses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of pestering, or the state of being pestered; vexation; worry. “The trouble and pesterment of children.” B. Franklin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inclined to pester. Also, vexatious; encumbering; burdensome. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., n., n., n., n. Same as Preoral, Prepubis, Prescapula, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, from &unr_; to kindle or burn, and &unr_; to blow up, swell out by blowing. ] 1. A meteor or exhalation formerly supposed to be thrown from the clouds with such violence that by collision it is set on fire. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. One of the veins of the neck when swollen with anger or other excitement. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. prestre. See Priest. ] A priest or presbyter; as, Prester John. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. ] (Anat.) The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium. -- Pre*ster"nal a. [1913 Webster]

n. Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in contempt. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who protests; one who utters a solemn declaration. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) One who protests a bill of exchange, or note. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who seeks; a seeker. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]