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‖/mhw>, a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to akinesia. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

‖n. [ NL.; auto- + Gr. &unr_; motion. ] (Physiol.) Spontaneous or voluntary movement; movement due to an internal cause. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Greatness in bulk; size. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being chalky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being corky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Crankness. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being dusky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an abnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The state of being flaky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state or dividing in a forklike manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State or quality of being frisky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of being husky. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Roughness of sound; harshness; hoarseness; as, huskiness of voice. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. "ype`r over + &unr_; motion.] (Med.) Abnormally increased muscular movement; spasm. [1913 Webster]

n. [ From Inky. ] The state or quality of being inky; blackness. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. ka`ryon a nut, kernel + kinei^n to move. ] 1. (Biol.) The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The changes that occur in the nucleus of a cell, especially movements of the chromosomes, in the process of cell division. [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. (&unr_;) motion (fr. kinei^n to move) + (&unr_;) pertaining to medicine, fr. (&unr_;) a physician. ] (Med.) A mode of treating disease by appropriate muscular movements; -- also termed kinesitherapy, kinesipathy, lingism, and the movement cure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; motion + pa`qos suffering. ] (Med.) See Kinesiatrics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; motion + &unr_; to heal. ] (Med.) See Kinesiatrics. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; motion + &unr_; way: cf. F. kinésodigue. ] (Physiol.) Conveying motion; as, kinesodic substance; -- applied esp. to the spinal cord, because it is capable of conveying doth voluntary and reflex motor impulses, without itself being affected by motor impulses applied to it directly. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, a. Of, pertaining to, or involving, kinaesthesia. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

See kinaesthesia, kinaesthesis, and kinaesthetic. [ PJC ]

n. The ability to feel movements of the limbs and body.
Syn. -- kinesthesis, kinaesthesis, kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, muscle sense, sense of movement. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The condition or quality or being lanky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being leaky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state or quality of being lucky; as, the luckiness of a man or of an event. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Good fortune; favorable issue or event. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State or quality of being milky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being mucky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being murky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being musky; the scent of musk. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle.
Syn. -- Pekingese, Peke. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality or state of being plucky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being pocky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being quaky; liability to quake. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Rocky. ] The state or quality of being rocky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being shaky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality or state of being silky or silken; softness and smoothness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: Effeminacy; weakness. [ R. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being smoky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being sneaky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being sticky; as, the stickiness of glue or paste. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For sulkenness, fr. AS. solcen slothful, remiss, in āsolcen, besolcen, properly p. p. of sealcan in āsealcan to be weak or slothful; of uncertain origin. ] The quality or state of being sulky; sullenness; moroseness; as, sulkiness of disposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the ability to move objects by means of thought alone, without physical means; -- an ability claimed by certain persons, such as mediums. the existence of this ability is disbelieved by most scientists.
Syn. -- psychokinesis [ PJC ]

n. The quality of being tricky. [ 1913 Webster ]