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n. See Longshoreman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a. See Anchoret, Anchoretic. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross. [ Sometimes spelt ancred. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female anchoret. [ 1913 Webster ]

And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. Gr. &unr_;. ] Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Hermitlike. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice or mode of life of an anchoret. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>, n. [ F. anachorète, L. anachoreta, fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to go back, retire; &unr_; + &unr_; to give place, retire, &unr_; place; perh. akin to Skr. hā to leave. Cf. Anchor a hermit. ] One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse. [ Written by some authors anachoret. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man + fe`rein to bear. ] 1. (Bot.) A support or column on which stamens are raised. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The part which in some Siphonophora bears the male gonophores. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a gametophore bearing antheridia as in certain mosses and liverworts. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; bearing flowers; 'a`nqos flower + &unr_; bearing, fe`rein to bear. ] (Bot.) The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + shore. ] On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here shall I die ashore. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I must fetch his necessaries ashore. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female author. Glover. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word is not very much used, author being commonly applied to a female writer as well as to a male. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To corrupt with regard to chastity; to make a whore of. J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pronounce or characterize as a whore. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. bi`os life + fo`ros bearing, fr. fe`rein to bear. ] (Biol.) One of the smaller vital units of a cell, the bearer of vitality and heredity. See Pangen, in Supplement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. blasto`s sprout + &unr_; to bear. ] (Biol.) That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. karpo`s fruit + fe`rein to bear. ] (Bot.) A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; cloak + fe`rein to bear. ] (Zool.) A small South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus, and Chlamyphorus retusus) allied to the armadillo. It is covered with a leathery shell or coat of mail, like a cloak, attached along the spine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ The same word as char work done by the day. ] A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Chored p. pr. & vb. n. Choring. ] To do chores. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A choir or chorus. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; dance. ] (Med.) St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. chorée. ] See Choreus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖/mhw>, n. [ L. choreus, Gr. &unr_;, prop. an adj. meaning belonging to a chorus; cf. F. chorée. ] (Anc. Pros.) (a) a trochee. (b) A tribrach. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Pertaining to choregraphy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; dance + -graphy. ] 1. The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes; -- also called choreography. Craig. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; dance + -graphy. ] 1. The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes; -- also called choregraphy. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. the art of composing dances for individuals or groups, including the planning of the movements and steps; also, the planning of movements and steps for figure skaters, performed on ice. [ PJC ]

3. the planning and coordination of activities for an event, especially one to be held in public. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

a. Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his charge or authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Chorepiscopi [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; chw^ros, chw`ra, place, country + &unr_; bishop. Cf. Bishop. ] (Eccl.) A “country” or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, color + fe`rein to bear. ] 1. (Zool.) A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; color + fe`rein to bear. ] (Chem.) Any chemical group or residue (as NO2; N2; or O2) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ko`lla glue + fe`rein to bear. ] (Zool.) (a) A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola. (b) An adhesive marginal organ of the Lucernariae. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a specialized fungal hypha (a branch of the fungal mycelium) that produces conidia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Ctenophora. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to carry through, to throw off by perspiration; dia` through + &unr_; to carry. ] (Med.) Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration.

n. (Med.) A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Diaphoretics differ from sudorifics; the former only increase the insensible perspiration, the latter excite the sensible discharge called sweat. Parr. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. diaphoreticus, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. diaphorétique. See Diaphoresis. ] Having the power to increase perspiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Ecthorea [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; to leap out; ek out + &unr_;, &unr_;, to leap, dart. ] (Zoöl.) The slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See Nettling cell. [ Written also ecthoræum. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Chem.) the motion of charged molecules or particles in a liquid medium under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge move toward the cathode and negative to the anode. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- cataphoresis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Chem., Biochem.) the application of the principle of electrophoresis to separate molecules, used as an analytical or preparative technique; as, separation by electrophoresis; gel electrophoresis. [ PJC ]

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Gel electrophoresis is a technique in which the molecules to be separated are moved through a gelatinous medium under the influence of an electric field. At the completion of a period of electrophoresis, the gel, unlike a liquid solution, may be manipulated as a single object, permitting the substances contained within to be detected or visualized by a variety of methods, and their relative mobilities determined. It is therefore a popular analytic tool in biochemistry, and has many variants. Popular substances used to create the gel are starch, polyacrylamide, and agarose. Since a polyacrylamide gel can be created with different concentrations and different degrees of cross-linking, the pore size of the gel can be controlled to provide special properties appropriate to separation of specific molecules, as for example optimizaion for separation within a particular molecular weight range. in SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, SDS (sodium dodecyl sulfate, a detergent) is included; it binds to and denatures protein molecules, allowing them to be separated on the basis of their molecular weight alone. It is thus used as one method of determining the molecular weights of isolated protein chains. [ PJC ]

adj. of or pertaining to electrophoresis; electrophoretic mobility; accomplished using electrophoresis; as, electrophoretic separation; electrophoretic analysis.
Syn. -- cataphoretic. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. the part of the seashore between the high-water and and low-water marks. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Biol.) A modified branch bearing gametangia as in the thalloid liverworts. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; offspring, seed + fe`rein to bear. ] 1. (Zool.) A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A lengthened receptacle, bearing the stamens and carpels in a conspicuous manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. gynaikei^on the women's apartments + fe`rein to bear. ] (Zool.) A ventral canal or groove, in which the males of some diœcious trematodes carry the female. See Illust. of Hæmatozoa. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. gynh` woman, female + fe`rein to bear, produce: cf. F. gynophore. ] 1. (Bot.) The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower. Lindley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of the branches bearing the female gonophores, in certain Siphonophora. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Hoar. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]