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n. a form of synesthesia in which nonvisual stimulation results in the experience of color sensations. [ Also spelled chromaesthesia. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(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 ]

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. [ NL., from Gr. dermhsth`s; de`rma skin + root of &unr_; to eat. ] (Zool.) A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvæ of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is Dermestes lardarius, known as the bacon beetle. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

a. [ L. domesticus, fr. domus use: cf. F. domestique. See 1st Dome. ] 1. Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. [ 1913 Webster ]

His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant. [ 1913 Webster ]

The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic. V. Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Com.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. [ U. S. ] [ 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 ]

a. Forming part of the same family. [ Obs. ] Sir E. Dering. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Domesticated; p. pr. & vb. n. Domesticating. ] [ LL. domesticatus, p. p. of domesticare to reside in, to tame. See Domestic, a. ] 1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. tame, tamed; -- of animals. Opposite of wild.
Syn. -- domestic. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. accustomed to home life; as, some men think it unmanly to be domesticated; others find gratification in it. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. acclimated to a new environment; -- of plants or animals.
Syn. -- naturalized, nonnative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. domestication. ] The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who domesticates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. domesticitas: cf. F. domesticité. ] The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Game + -ster. ] 1. A merry, frolicsome person. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games. [ 1913 Webster ]

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A prostitute; a strumpet. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. hāmsteall. ] Place of a home; homestead. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. hāmstede. ] 1. The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The home or seat of a family; place of origin. [ 1913 Webster ]

We can trace them back to a homestead on the Rivers Volga and Ural. W. Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family. [ 1913 Webster ]

Homestead law. (a) A law conferring special privileges or exemptions upon owners of homesteads; esp., a law exempting a homestead from attachment or sale under execution for general debts. Such laws, with limitations as to the extent or value of the property, exist in most of the States. Called also homestead exemption law. (b) Also, a designation of an Act of Congress authorizing and regulating the sale of public lands, in parcels of 160 acres each, to actual settlers. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the straight segment of a racetrack leading to the finish line. [ wns=1 ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Hence: [ fig. ] The last or concluding part of any extended activity that has a definite conclusion; the final phase of any activity; as, the election was neck-and-neck in the homestretch. [ PJC ]

(Bot.) The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. It sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone is called marble. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Most. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Mestizo. ] The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called in the West Indies. [ Written also mustee. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Mister, a trade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Mestinos See Mestizo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Mestizos [ Sp. mestizo; akin to OF. mestis, F. métis; all fr. (assumed) LL. mixtitius, fr. L. mixtus mixed, p. p. of miscere to mix. See Mix, and cf. Mestee, Métif, Métis, Mustee. ] The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock. [ Spanish America ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Mestizo wool, wool imported from South America, and produced by mixed breeds of sheep. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of brass. See Maslin. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rhymer; a maker of poor poetry. Bp. Hall. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G., from L. semestris half-yearly; sex six + mensis a month. ] A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or university which divides the year into two terms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. trimestris of three months; tri- (see Tri-) + mensis month: cf. F. trimestre. ] A term or period of three months. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Trimestrial. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a trimester, or period of three months; occurring once in every three months; quarterly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + domesticate. ] To make wild or roving. [ 1913 Webster ]