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‖n. [ Sp., contr. of agua ardiente burning water (L. aqua water + ardens burning). ] 1. A inferior brandy of Spain and Portugal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A strong alcoholic drink, especially pulque. [ Mexico and Spanish America. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖pr>(&unr_;), n. [ Sp. alguacil, fr. Ar. alwazīr the vizier. Cf. Vizier. ] An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a sign language, used in the United States mostly by the deaf or for communication with the deaf, in which gestures made with the hands symbolize words, alphabetical letters, or ideas, permitting rapid communication in the absence of speech.
Syn. -- Ameslan. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) A South American monkey, the ursine howler (Mycetes ursinus). See Howler, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being argued; admitting of debate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Computers) an artificial computer language with mnemonic codes representing the basic machine-language instructions of a computer, which can be interpreted by an assembler to produce a computer program in machine language. Also informally referred to as assembler. Writing a program in assembly language is very much simpler than writing the machine instructions in binary code, and the use of such a language greatly increases the efficiency of the process of writing computer programs. See also programming language, FORTRAN, BASIC. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. pertaining to a method of teaching language that focuses on listening and speaking. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. avant before + E. guard, F. avant-garde. See Avaunt. ] 1. The van or advanced body of an army. See Vanguard. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Same as avant-garde, n.. [ PJC ]

The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ F., fr. Per. bād-āward, or bād-āwardag, prop., a kind of white thorn or thistle. ] A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosæ). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. bégard, béguard; cf. G. beghard, LL. Beghardus, Begihardus, Begardus. Prob. from the root of beguine + -ard or -hard. See Beguine. ] (Eccl. Hist.) One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bilinguis; bis twice + lingua tongue, language. ] Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary. -- Bi*lin"gual*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. Quality of being bilingual. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bilingualism of King's English. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Bilingual. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Blackguarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Blackguarding. ] To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Black + guard. ] 1. The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the “black guard”; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping pans. Webster (1612). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man whose manners and sentiments are decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The conduct or language of a blackguard; ruffianism. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A guard or group of guards to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Retinue; attendance; following. Bp. Porteus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The guard or defense of a castle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (O. Eng. Law) A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-ward. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A joint guardian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having, or pertaining to, the same language. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. contiguatus. ] Contiguous; touching. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Fort.) A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a person who stands at a street crossing to assist children to cross the street safely; -- usually used near schools during the times that children are entering or leaving the school. Crossing guards may be employed by a municipality as auxiliary police officers, or may be unpaid volunteers. Some wear uniforms, others do not. They are commonly older citizens who are retired or not employed full-time at other tasks. At some schools, older students from the school are trained to perform the function of crossing guards. [ PJC ]

a. [ L. dens tooth + E. lingual. ] Produced by applying the tongue to the teeth or to the gums; or representing a sound so formed. -- n. A dentilingual sound or letter. [ 1913 Webster ]

The letters of this fourth, dentilingual or linguidental, class, viz., d, t, s, z, l, r. Am. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dentilingual. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. elinguare. ] To deprive of the tongue. [ Obs. ] Davies (Holy Roode). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. elinguatio. See Elinguid. ] (O. Eng. Law) Punishment by cutting out the tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To surround as with a guard. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. esgart regard, F. égard. See Guard. ] Guard. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl.

a. [ L. fissus (p. p. of findere to split) + E. lingual. ] (Zool.) Having the tongue forked. [ 1913 Webster ]

pl. Infantry soldiers belonging to select regiments called the Guards. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Cf. Sp. guácharo sickly, dropsical, guacharaca a sort of bird. ] (Zool.) A nocturnal bird of South America and Trinidad (Steatornis Caripensis, or S. steatornis); -- called also oilbird. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It resembles the goatsuckers and nighthawks, but feeds on fruits, and nests in caverns. A pure oil, used in place of butter, is extracted from the young by the natives. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Guachos /plu> [ Spanish American. ] 1. One of the mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian) inhabitants of the pampas of South America; a mestizo. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An Indian who serves as a messenger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. ] (Bot.) (a) A plant (Aristolochia anguicida) of Carthagena, used as an antidote to serpent bites. Lindley. (b) The Mikania Guaco, of Brazil, used for the same purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a mountainous island; the largest of the Solomon Islands in the independent state that is a member of the British Commonwealth. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A battle in World War II in the Pacific (1942-1943), in which American forces invaded the island of Guadalcanal, then occupied by Japanese forces; the island was recaptured by American forces after heavy fighting.
Syn. -- battle of Guadalcanal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ See Guaiacum. ] Pertaining to, or resembling, guaiacum. -- n. Guaiacum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Guaiacum + -ol. ] (Chem.) A colorless liquid, C7H8O2, with a peculiar odor. It is the methyl ether of pyrocatechin, and is obtained by distilling guaiacum from wood-tar creosote, and in other ways. It has been used in the past for treating pulmonary tuberculosis. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ NL., fr. Sp. guayaco, from native name in Haiti. ] 1. (Bot.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum officinale or lignum-vitæ, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It is much used in medicine. [ Written also guaiac. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. a great waterfall on the Brazil-Paraguay border.
Syn. -- Sete Quedas, Guaira Falls. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A tropical tree of Central America and the West Indies and Puerto Rico (Inga laurina) having spikes of white flowers; it is used as shade for coffee plantations.
Syn. -- Inga laurina. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. ((Zool.) Any one of many species of large gallinaceous birds of Central and South America, belonging to Penelope, Pipile, Ortalis, and allied genera. Several of the species are often domesticated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Iguana. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Guanacos [ Sp. guanaco, Peruv. huanacu. Cf. Huanaco. ] (Zool.) A South American mammal (Auchenia huanaco), allied to the llama, but of larger size and more graceful form, inhabiting the southern Andes and Patagonia. It is supposed by some to be the llama in a wild state. [ Written also huanaco. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol. Chem.) A strongly alkaline base, NH2.CNH.NH2, formed by the oxidation of guanin, and also obtained combined with methyl in the decomposition of creatin. Boiled with dilute sulphuric acid, it yields urea and ammonia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Guano + -ferous. ] Yielding guano. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]