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n. 1. a game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team only 2 hits.
Syn. -- two-hitter [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team only 3 hits.
Syn. -- three-hitter [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team 4 hits.
Syn. -- four-hitter [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team 5 hits.
Syn. -- five-hitter [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; barley meal + -mancy: cf. F. alphitomancie. ] Divination by means of barley meal. Knowles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. amphitheatralis: cf. F. amphithéâtral. ] Amphitheatrical; resembling an amphitheater. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. amphitheatrum, fr. Gr. &unr_;; 'amfi` + &unr_; theater: cf. F. amphithéâtre. See Theater. ] 1. An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Romans first constructed amphitheaters for combats of gladiators and wild beasts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. amphitheatricus. ] Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the form or manner of an amphitheater. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'amfi` + trocho`s a wheel. ] (Zool.) A kind of annelid larva having both a dorsal and a ventral circle of special cilia. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. 'amfi` + tre`pein to turn. ] (Bot.) Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'an priv. + 'orqo`s straight ('orqh` sc. gwni`a right angle); not in a right angle. ] A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity. Taylor. Specifically, one of a sect of ancient heretics who believed that God has a human form, etc. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Biol.) Pertaining to anthropomorphism, or anthropomorphitism. Kitto. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Anthropomorphism. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who ascribes human feelings to deity. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Med.) Good against mephitic or deleterious gases. -- n. A remedy against mephitic gases. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Good against the rickets. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. To or towards any place. [ Archaic ] De Foe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. architectus, architecton, Gr. &unr_; chief artificer, master builder; pref. 'archi- (E. archi-) + &unr_; workman, akin to &unr_; art, skill, &unr_; to produce: cf. F. architecte, It. architetto. See Technical. ] 1. A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A contriver, designer, or maker. [ 1913 Webster ]

The architects of their own happiness. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A French woman is a perfect architect in dress. Coldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Used in building; proper for building. Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. architectonique. ] 1. The science of architecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of arranging knowledge into a system. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. architectonicus, Gr. &unr_;. See Architect. ] 1. Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive. “Architectonic wisdom.” Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Relating to the systemizing of knowledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The science of architecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An architect. [ Obs. ] North. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female architect. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the art of building; conformed to the rules of architecture. -- Ar`chi*tec"tur*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. architectura, fr. architectus: cf. F. architecture. See Architect. ] 1. The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many other architectures besides Gothic. Ruskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship. [ 1913 Webster ]

The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Military architecture, the art of fortifications. --
Naval architecture, the art of building ships. [ 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. [ F. architrave, fr. It. architrave; pref. archi- + trave beam, L. trabs. ] (Arch.) (a) The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column. (b) The group of moldings, or other architectural member, above and on both sides of a door or other opening, especially if square in form. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with an architrave. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. On this side of. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Two miles behither Clifden. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of sulphurous acid in which the base replaces but half the hydrogen of the acid; an acid sulphite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. print or writing, especially the result of the printing process.
Syn. -- print. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. (Photography, Imaging; Printing) depicted only in black and white colors, or in shades of gray; also called monochromatic and monochrome; -- of images. Opposite of color or in color, and contrasting with polychrome technicolor three-color; as, a black-and-white TV; black-and-white film; the movie “Schindler's List” was shot in black and white.
Syn. -- black and white, monochromatic, monochrome. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bronchus + -itis. ] (Med.) Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From George J. Brush, an American mineralogist. ] (Min.) A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a ludicrously false statement. [ vulgar ]
Syn. -- bull, Irish bull, horseshit, shit, crap, crapola, bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, tommyrot, balderdash, hogwash, dogshit. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. to talk through one's hat. [ vulgar ]
Syn. -- waffle, bull, fake. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A genus of birds including the spruce grouse Canachites canadensis.
Syn. -- genus Canachites. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. chalcanthum a solution of blue vitriol, Gr. &unr_;. ] (Min.) Native blue vitriol. See Blue vitriol, under Blue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear. [ slang ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. To shoot out; to sprout. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have known barley chit in seven hours after it had been thrown forth. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3d pers. sing. of Chide. Chideth. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. AS. cīð shoot, sprig, from the same root as cīnan to yawn. See Chink a cleft. ] 1. The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

A little chit of a woman. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An excrescence on the body, as a wart. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A small tool used in cleaving laths. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Chat, by way of reduplication. ] Familiar or trifling talk; prattle. [ 1913 Webster ]