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{ } n. [ OF. arbaleste, LL. arbalista, for L. arcuballista; arcus bow + ballista a military engine. See Ballista. ] (Antiq.) A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [ Written also arbalet and arblast. ] Fosbroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OF. arblastere, OF. arbalestier. See Arbalest. ] A crossbowman. [ Obs. ] Speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The handle of a beetle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bile + stone. ] A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Blessed. “This patriarch blest.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

White these blest sounds my ravished ear assail. Trumbull. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. candel-sticca; candel candle + sticca stick. ] An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mus.) a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ OF. celestial, celestied, fr. L. caelestic, fr. caelum heaved. See Cell. ] 1. Belonging to the aërial regions, or visible heavens. “The twelve celestial signs.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine. “Celestial spirits.” “Celestial light, ” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Chinese, or Celestial, Empire, of the Chinese people. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Celestial city, heaven; the heavenly Jerusalem. Bunyan. --
Celestial empire, China; -- so called from the Chinese words, tien chan, Heavenly Dynasty, as being the kingdom ruled over by the dynasty appointed by heaven. S. W. Williams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An inhabitant of heaven. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A native of China; a Chinaman; a Chinese. [ Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To make celestial. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a celestial manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. caelestis heavenly + -fly. ] To make like heaven. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Eccl. Hist.) A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. [ LL. caelestinus bine. ] (Min.) Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. cholestérique. ] Pertaining to cholesterin, or obtained from it; as, cholesteric acid. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; bile + &unr_; stiff fat: F. cholestérine. See Stearin. ] (Chem.) A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Colstaff. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cobblestone. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aëtites. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the catgut strings of a fiddle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Girdle + stead place. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. That part of the body where the girdle is worn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The lap. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There fell a flower into her girdlestead. Swinburne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To listen. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See List to choose. ] Lust; desire; pleasure. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Last; least. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

conj. [ OE. leste, fr. AS. ð&ymacr_; l&aemacr_;s ðē the less that, where ð&ymacr_; is the instrumental case of the definite article, and ðē is an indeclinable relative particle, that, who, which. See The, Less, a. ] 1. For fear that; that . . . not; in order that . . . not. [ 1913 Webster ]

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Prov. xx. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. 1 Cor. x. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That (without the negative particle); -- after certain expressions denoting fear or apprehension. [ 1913 Webster ]

I feared
Lest I might anger thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Pg., prob. fr. Fr. l'est the east. ] (Meteor.) A dry sirocco in the Madeira Islands. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. [ superl. of little. ] having or being distinguished by diminutive size.
Syn. -- least, smallest. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ G. mandelstein almond stone. ] (Min.) Amygdaloid. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. mikro`s small + &unr_; a robber. ] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of small Triassic mammals, the oldest yet found in European strata. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An event or accomplishment marking a significant advance in an endeavor; a notable achievment; as, putting a man in orbit was a major milestone on the way to the moon.
Syn. -- milepost. [ PJC ]

n. Molestation. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Molested; p. pr. & vb. n. Molesting. ] [ F. molester, L. molestare, fr. molestus troublesome, fr. moles a heavy mass, load, burden. See 3d Mole. ] To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex. [ 1913 Webster ]

They have molested the church with needless opposition. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To trouble; disturb; incommode; inconvenience; annoy; vex; tease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. molestation. ] The act of molesting, or the state of being molested; disturbance; annoyance. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. sexually abused.
Syn. -- assaulted, raped, fondled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who molests. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Troublesome; vexatious. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ L. molestia. ] Molestation. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to Palestine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. L. Palestræ E. Palestras [ NL., fr. L. palaestra, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to wrestle. ] [ Written also palæstra. ] (Antiq.) (a) A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general. (b) A wrestling; the exercise of wrestling. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. palaestricus, Gr. &unr_;. ] Of or pertaining to the palestra, or to wrestling. [ 1913 Webster ]

A pebble; also, pebbles collectively. “Chains of pebblestone.” Marlowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Polaris, or the north star. See North star, under North. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A guide or director. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The ringed dotterel, or ring plover. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Rubble, 1 and 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. scelestus, from scelus wickedness. ] Evil; wicked; atrocious. [ Obs. ] “Scelestic villainies.” Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]