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n. A practitioner who tries to prevent or cure baldness. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. a genus of arctic foxes.
Syn. -- genus Alopex. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OF. antelop, F. antilope, from Gr. 'anqo`lops, -lopos, Eustathius, “Hexaëm., ” p. 36, the origin of which is unknown. ] (Zool.) One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia. [ 1913 Webster ]

The antelope and wolf both fierce and fell. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The common or bezoar antelope of India is Antilope bezoartica. The chamois of the Alps, the gazelle, the addax, and the eland are other species. See Gazelle. The pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra Americana) is found in the Rocky Mountains. See Pronghorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + slope. ] Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping. “Set them not upright, but aslope.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) See Oryx. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops. [ 1913 Webster ]

With that red, gaunt, and colloped neck astrain. R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ NL., from Gr. ky`klos circle + paidei`a the bringing up of a child, education, erudition, fr. paidey`ein to bring up a child. See Cycle, and cf. Encyclopedia, Pedagogue. ] 1. The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A work containing, in alphabetical order, information in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics; an encyclopedia. See Encyclopedia. [ PJC ]

a. [ L. Cyclopeus, Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, fr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; Cyclops: cf. F. cyclopeen. ] Pertaining to the Cyclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopean architecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to the circle of the sciences, or to a cyclopedia; of the nature of a cyclopedia; hence, of great range, extent, or amount; as, a man of cyclopedic knowledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A maker of, or writer for, a cyclopedia. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful; as, the developed qualities of the Hellenic outlook; the state's well-developed industries. Oppositre of undeveloped. [ Narrower terms: formulated; mature ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads; -- of real estate. new houses are springing up on the developed tract of land near the river
Syn. -- improved. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, develops. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Photog.) A chemical bath or reagent used in developing photographs. By the action of the developer, the latent image on a photographic plate or film, not perceptible to the eye after exposure in the camera, is developed and becomes visible. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. (Dyeing) A reagent used to produce an ingrain color by its action upon some substance on the fiber. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. a corporation or individual who finances or organizes a real estate development{ 5 }. [ PJC ]

n. a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.
Syn. -- stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand, dock worker, lumper. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a downward slope.
Syn. -- descent, declivity, fall, decline. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Eloped p. pr. & vb. n. Eloping. ] [ D. ontloopen to run away; pref. ont- (akin to G. ent-, AS. and-, cf. E. answer) + loopen to run; akin to E. leap. See Leap, v. t. ] To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart. [ 1913 Webster ]

Great numbers of them [ the women ] have eloped from their allegiance. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who elopes. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, for &unr_; &unr_;, instruction in the circle of arts and sciences: cf. F. encyclopédie. See Cyclopedia, and Encyclical. ] [ Formerly written encyclopædy and encyclopedy. ] The full circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Encyclopedic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Embracing the whole circle of learning, or a wide range of subjects.

{ } a. [ Cf. F. encyclopédique. ] Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; broad in scope or content; embracing a wide range of subjects; as, a person having encyclopedic knowledge of a subject. [ Also spelled encyclopaedic. ] [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The art of writing or compiling encyclopedias; also, possession of the whole range of knowledge; encyclopedic learning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. encyclopédiste. ] The compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation; also, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Encyclopedists, the writers of the great French encyclopedia which appeared in 1751-1772. The editors were Diderot and D'Alembert. Among the contributors were Voltaire and Rousseau. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. enveloppe. ] 1. That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; -- called also coma. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Fort.) A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it. Wilhelm. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Geom.) A curve or surface which is tangent to each member of a system of curves or surfaces, the form and position of the members of the system being allowed to vary according to some continuous law. Thus, any curve is the envelope of its tangents.

4. A set of limits for the performance capabilities of some type of machine, originally used to refer to aircraft; -- it is often described graphically as a two-dimensional graph of a function showing the maximum of one performance variable as a function of another. Now it is also used metaphorically to refer to capabilities of any system in general, including human organizations, esp. in the phrase push the envelope. It is used to refer to the maximum performance available at the current state of the technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in general, not a specific machine. [ PJC ]

push the envelope to increase the capability of some type of machine or system; -- usually by technological development. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. enclosed or surrounded completely; as, the fog-enveloped city. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. See Escaloped. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Cut or marked in the form of an escalop; scalloped. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) Covered with a pattern resembling a series of escalop shells, each of which issues from between two others. Its appearance is that of a surface covered with scales. [ 1913 Webster ]

Escaloped oysters (Cookery). See under Scalloped. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, gallops. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber. Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Galloper gun, a light gun, supported on a galloper, -- formerly attached to British infantry regiments. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Gantlet. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Aeronautics) 1. the proper path for an airplane approaching a landing strip; also called glide path. [ PJC ]

2. The path indicated by a radio beacon as the proper path for an airplane to use in approaching a landing strip. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. very complex or intricate; -- used especially of technology.
Syn. -- advanced. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. having most of its industrial production in the most modern state; -- used of countries and societies. Contrasted with undeveloped or developing.
Syn. -- industrialized, advanced, industrial. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Interloped p. pr. & vb. n. Interloping. ] [ See Interloper. ] To run between parties and intercept without right the advantage that one should gain from the other; to traffic without a proper license; to intrude; to forestall others; to intermeddle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. inter- + D. looper a runner, fr. loopen to run; akin to E. leap. See Leap, and cf. Elope. ] One who interlopes; one who unlawfully intrudes upon a property, a station, or an office; one who interferes wrongfully or officiously. [ 1913 Webster ]

The untrained man, . . . the interloper as to the professions. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kloph` theft + E. mania. ] See Kleptomania. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Landlouper. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Leap. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And, laughing, lope into a tree. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Loped p. pr. & vb. n. Loping. ] [ See Leap. ] 1. To leap; to dance. [ Prov. Eng. ] “He that lopes on the ropes.” Middleton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To move with a leaping or bounding stride, as a horse. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To run with an easy, bounding stride; -- of people. [ PJC ]

n. 1. A leap; a long step. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The mustang goes rollicking ahead, with the eternal lope, . . . a mixture of two or three gaits, as easy as the motions of a cradle. T. B. Thorpe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having ears which droop or hang down; as, a lop-eared hound. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Leaper; ropedancer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, lopes; esp., a horse that lopes. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Rope Making) A swivel at one end of a ropewalk, used in laying the strands. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A Western Mediterranean annual (Malope trifida) having deep purple-red flowers subtended by three large cordate bracts.
Syn. -- Malope trifida. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An excursion. [ Obs. ] Florio. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ From. L. Penelope, the wife of Ulysses, the hero of the Odyssey, Gr. Phnelo`ph. ] (Zool.) A genus of curassows, including the guans. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Probably a corruption fr. G. vielliebchen, LG. vielliebken, or D. veelliebken, a philopena, literally, much loved; but influenced by Gr. fi`los a friend, and L. poena penalty, from an idea that the gift was a penalty of friendship or love. ] A present or gift which is made as a forfeit in a social game that is played in various ways; also, the game itself. [ Written also fillipeen and phillippine. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ One of the ways may be stated as follows: A person finding a nut with two kernels eats one, and gives the other to a person of the opposite sex, and then whichever says philopena first at the next meeting wins the present. The name is also applied to the kernels eaten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who cleans pots; a scullion. [ Slang, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Furnished with a scallop; made or done with or in a scallop. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the edge or border cut or marked with segments of circles. See Scallop, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Cookery) Baked in a scallop; cooked with crumbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scalloped oysters (Cookery), opened oysters baked in a deep dish with alternate layers of bread or cracker crumbs, seasoned with pepper, nutmeg, and butter. This was at first done in scallop shells. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who fishes for scallops. [ 1913 Webster ]