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n. 1. a genus of Australian elapid snakes.
Syn. -- genus Acanthophis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Acolythist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An acolyte. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. affranchir; &unr_; (L. ad) + franc free. See Franchise and Frank. ] To make free; to enfranchise. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. affranchissement. ] The act of making free; enfranchisement. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who practices allopathy; one who professes allopathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } (Min.) A variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Amorphous. ] A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc. There are stony substances which, when fused, may cool as glass or as stone; the glass state is spoken of as a state of amorphism. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; on both ends + &unr_; to go. ] 1. A fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A genus of harmless lizards, serpentlike in form, without legs, and with both ends so much alike that they appear to have a head at each, and ability to move either way. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Gordius aquaticus, or hairworm, has been called an amphisbaena; but it belongs among the worms. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ NL., fr. L. amphisbaena + -oid. ] (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the lizards of the genus Amphisbæna. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. pl. [ Gr. &unr_; throwing a shadow both ways; 'amfi` + &unr_; shadow. ] The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'amfi` + &unr_; mouth. ] (Zool.) Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; + &unr_; pillar, support. ] (Anat.) Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; again + morfh` form. ] 1. A distorted image. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) A gradual progression from one type to another, generally ascending. Huxley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. anarchisme. ] The doctrine or practice of anarchists. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. anarchiste. ] An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'an priv. + "isto`s web, tissue: cf. F. anhiste.] (Biol.) Without definite structure; as, an anhistous membrane. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Pref. anti- + Gr. &unr_; government. ] Opposition to government in general. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who opposes all government. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Opposed to all human government. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; of human form; 'a`nqrwpos man + morfh` form. ] 1. The representation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The ascription of human characteristics to things not human. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who attributes the human form or other human attributes to the Deity or to anything not human. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a`nqrwpos man + &unr_; suffering, affection, passion, &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer. ] The ascription of human feelings or passions to God, or to a polytheistic deity. [ 1913 Webster ]

In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An enemy to monarchial government. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has an antipathy. [ R. ] “Antipathist of light.” Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Relieving or curing phthisis, or consumption. -- n. A medicine for phthisis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. apathiste. ] One who is destitute of feeling. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Apathetic; une motional. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Aphides [ NL. ] (Zool.) A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidæ, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Besides the true males and females, there is a race of wingless asexual individuals which have the power of producing living young in rapid succession, and these in turn may produce others of the same kind for several generations, before sexual individuals appear. They suck the sap of plants by means of a tubular proboscis, and owing to the wonderful rapidity of their reproduction become very destructive to vegetation. Many of the Aphidæ excrete honeydew from two tubes near the end of the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) The larva of the lacewinged flies (Chrysopa), which feeds voraciously upon aphids. The name is also applied to the larvæ of the ladybugs (Coccinella). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. pref. &unr_; + &unr_;, &unr_;, a kind of squid. ] (Zool.) A genus of gigantic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who writes his own life; an autobiographer. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Automorphic characterization. H. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ ‖ } n. [ Pers. bakhshīsh, fr. bakhshīdan to give. ] In Egypt and the Turkish empire, a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter); a gratuity; a “tip”.
Syn. -- gratuity, tip, baksheesh, bakshish, bakshis. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter). Same as Backsheesh.
Syn. -- gratuity, tip, baksheesh, bakshish, backsheesh. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ ‖ } n. Same as Backsheesh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter). Same as Backsheesh.
Syn. -- gratuity, tip, baksheesh, bakshis, backsheesh. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ , n. Same as Bheesty. [ India ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_; book + &unr_; a burial. ] One who hides away books, as in a tomb. [ R. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

See under Thistle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a Buddhist, worthy of nirvana, who postpones it to help others.
Syn. -- Bodhisattva. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ ‖ ‖, n. [ Skr. bōdhisattva (perh. through Pali bōdhisattō); fr. bōdhi knowledge, enlightenment + sattva being, essence. ] (Buddhism) One who has reached the highest degree of saintship, so that in his next incarnation he will be a Buddha, or savior of the world. -- Bo"dhi*sat`ship, n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. Same as Buddhism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Buddhist. [ 1913 Webster ]

. See under Whisky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an expression that is limited to English as spoken by Englishmen (especially as contrasted with American English).
Syn. -- Anglicism, Briticism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a custom that is peculiar to England or its citizens.
Syn. -- Anglicism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindu sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, “the awakened or enlightened, ” in the sixth century b. c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvâna) as the greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470, 000, 000. [ 1913 Webster ]