n. Ability of body or mind; force; vigor. [ Obs. or R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or condition of being accommodable. [ R. ] Todd. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Chem.) A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous. “With anxious, acidulent face.” Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Affability. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Agility; nimbleness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
That author . . . has an agreeableness that charms us. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
The agreeableness of virtuous actions to human nature. Pearce. [ 1913 Webster ]
The agreeableness between man and the other parts of the universe. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]
See under Lace. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. [ Pref. a- + length. ] At full length; lengthwise. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. [ All + anerly singly, fr. ane one. ] Solely; only. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Chem.) A gaseous hydrocarbon,
n. The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
n. The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being amiable; amiability. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being amicable; amicability. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Chem.) One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons,
n. Anility. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen. --
n. The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Associability. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Mining) A small dam to prevent free passage of water in an adit or level. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being attainable; attainability. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. attollens, p. pr. of attollere; ad + tollere to lift. ] Lifting up; raising;
n. The quality of being audible. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n. [ OF. benevolence, L. benevolentia. See Benevolent. ]
The wakeful benevolence of the gospel. Chalmers. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. benevolens, -entis; bene well (adv. of bonus good) + volens, p. pr. of volo I will, I wish. See Bounty, and Voluntary. ] Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable. --
n. a span of 2000 years.
adj. of or pertaining to the bimillennium. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n.
A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 by 56. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Chem.) The quality of being bivalent. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. bis twice + valens, p. pr. See Valence. ] (Chem.) Equivalent in combining or displacing power to two atoms of hydrogen; dyad. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]
This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]
Though sometimes you do blench from this to that. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Ye should have somewhat blenched him therewith, yet he might and would of likelihood have gone further. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]
He now blenched what before he affirmed. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A looking aside or askance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
These blenches gave my heart another youth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. & t. [ See 1st Blanch. ] To grow or make pale. Barbour. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
. (Law) See Blanch holding. [ 1913 Webster ]