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n. [ Ar. al-qirmiz kermes. See Kermes. ] (Old Pharmacy) A compound cordial, in the form of a confection, deriving its name from the kermes insect, its principal ingredient. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. See Alms. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Same as Ambs-ace. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. (Eccl.) Amice, a hood or cape. See 2d Amice. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to Anam, to southeastern Asia. --
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‖n. pl. (Zool.) A division of birds including the geese, ducks, and closely allied forms. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ Gr. &unr_;, from &unr_; to count off or over. ] (Rhet.) Enumeration of parts or particulars. [ 1913 Webster ]
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a. Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants. --
To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. bimestris; bis twice + mensis month. ] Continuing two months. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
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‖n. pl. [ F. bout end + rimé rhymed. ] Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to Burmah, or its inhabitants. --
n. a language spoken in Northern Burma and Yunnan.
n. an order of birds including the goatsuckers (
n. an order of ratite birds comprising the cassowaries and emus.
n. large diverse order of aquatic birds found along seacoasts and inland waters; shorebirds and coastal diving birds; most feed on animal life.
n. See Kermes. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a form of synesthesia in which nonvisual stimulation results in the experience of color sensations.
n. an order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet, including the herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; and ibises.
a. [ Pref. circum- + esophagal. ] (Anat.) Surrounding the esophagus; -- in (Zool.) said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Anat.) Circumesophagal. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Geol.) A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian. [ 1913 Webster ]
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‖n. [ L., a companion. ] (Mus.) The answer to the theme (
n. [ L. comissatio, comessatio. ] A reveling; a rioting. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ F. comestible, fr. L. comesus, comestus, p. p. of comedere to eat; com- + edere to eat. ] Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent. [ 1913 Webster ]
Some herbs are most comestible. Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Something suitable to be eaten; -- commonly in the plural. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.) an order of birds including the rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee-eaters; todies.
n. an order of fishes including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as
v. t. To relieve from mesmeric influence. See Mesmerize. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. demeine, demain, rule, demesne, OF. demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine, power, F. domaine domain, fr. L. dominium property, right of ownership, fr. dominus master, proprietor, owner. See Dame, and cf. Demain, Domain, Danger, Dungeon. ] (Law) A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.
Ancient demesne. (Eng. Law)
a. Of or pertaining to a demesne; of the nature of a demesne. [ 1913 Webster ]
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a. [ Dermestes + -oid. ] (Zool.) Pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes. [ 1913 Webster ]
The carpet beetle, called the buffalo moth, is a dermestoid beetle. Pop. Sci. Monthly. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. detumescere to cease swelling; de + tumescere, tumere, to swell. ] Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen. [ R. ] Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A day of judgment. See Doomsday. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Domesday Book,
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a. [ L. domesticus, fr. domus use: cf. F. domestique. See 1st Dome. ]
His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
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The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic. V. Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Domestic. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Our private and domestical matter. Sir. P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A family; a household. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs. [ 1913 Webster ]