a. Capable of being allotted. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One to whom anything is allotted; one to whom an allotment is made. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who allots. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Allotment. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
a. (Painting) Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation. Ruskin. [ 1913 Webster ]
A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from a freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. def>drunk{ 1 }. [ colloq. ] [ PJC ]
To assume the calotte,
n. [ F. ] A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked. [ 1913 Webster ]
Charlotte Russe
‖Charlotte à la russe
a. Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul. “The clotted glebe.” J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]
When lust . . .
Lets in defilement to the inward parts,
The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. [ From Clot. ] To concrete into lumps; to clot. [ Obs. ] “Clottered blood.” Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ From Clot, n. ] Full of clots, or clods. “Clotty matter.” Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One joined in a plot. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. pl. a type of women's trousers with wide legs cut loose and full so as to resemble a skirt.
n. [ Gr. &unr_; speaking two languages;
a. (Anat.) Pertaining to, or connected with, the epiglottis. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Anat.) Same as Epiglottic. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;;
p. p.
a. [ Gr. &unr_; tongue + E. epiglottic. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to both tongue and epiglottis;
a. Of or pertaining to, or produced by, the glottis; glottic. [ 1913 Webster ]
Glottal catch,
n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, from &unr_;, &unr_;, the tongue. See Gloss an explanatory remark. ] (Anat.) The opening from the pharynx into the larynx or into the trachea. See Larynx. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to glottology. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A linguist; a philologist. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, the tongue + -logy. ] The science of tongues or languages; comparative philology; glossology. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
☞ The laws of the United States and of most of the States make private lotteries illegal, except in certain circumstances for charitable institutions; however, many of the states now conduct lotteries tehmselves as a revenue source. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]
n. [ F. loto or It. lotto, prop., a lot; of German origin. See Lot. ] A game of chance, played with cards or tickets, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. In some systems, lesser prizes are awarded for having some but not all of the numbers selected, such as four or five numbers in a six-number drawing. A variety of
n. One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ See Polyglot. ] Speaking many languages; polyglot. [ R. ] “The polyglottous tribes of America.” Max Müller. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool) Proglottis. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n.;
‖n. [ F., without breeches. ]
a. Pertaining to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. sans-culottisme. ] Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having a slot. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act or process of making slots, or mortises. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Anat.) Situated under the epiglottis. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Anat.) Situated below the glottis; -- applied to that part of the cavity of the larynx below the true vocal cords. [ 1913 Webster ]