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n. Alms. [ Obs. ] Cheke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Anastomozed p. pr. & vb. n. Anastomosing. ] [ Cf. F. anastomoser, fr. anastomose. See Anastomosis. ] 1. (Anat. & Bot.) To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ribbing of the leaf, and the anastomosing network of its vessels. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of any channels or lines, to meet and unite or run into each other, as rivers; to coalesce; to interjoin. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Vehemence of temper. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. animosus, fr. animus soul, spirit, courage. ] Full of spirit; hot; vehement; resolute. [ Obs. ] Ash. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol.) See Albumose. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. comosus hairy, from coma hair. ] (Bot.) Bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down, as the seeds of milkweed. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. cymosus full of shoots: cf. FF. cymeux. See Cyme. ] (Bot.) Having the nature of a cyme, or derived from a cyme; bearing, or pertaining to, a cyme or cymes. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖, n. See Damsel. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prop., in sixteenth; fr. L. decimus tenth + sextus sixth. ] A book consisting of sheets, each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of book; -- usually written 16mo or 16°. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; as, a decimosexto form, book, leaf, size. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. dumosus, fr. dumus a thornbush, a bramble. ] 1. Abounding with bushes and briers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Having a compact, bushy form. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Med.) To discolor by the production of an ecchymosis, or effusion of blood, beneath the skin; -- chiefly used in the passive form; as, the parts were much ecchymosed. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ NL. endosmosis, fr. Gr. 'e`ndon within + &unr_; a thrusting, impulsion, fr. &unr_; to push: cf. F. endosmose. ] (Physics) The transmission of a fluid or gas from without inward in the phenomena, or by the process, of osmose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Epidermis. ] (Physiol. Chem.) Keratin.

n. [ Exo+osmose: cf. F. ezosmose. ] (Physics) The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids through membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed to endosmose. See Osmose. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; marriage + E. sepal. ] (Bot.) Formed of united sepals; monosepalous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Clustered in grains at intervals; grumous. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }[ L. hamus hook. ] (Bot.) Having the end hooked or curved. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hemi- + albumose. ] (Physiol. Chem.) An albuminous substance formed in gastric digestion, and by the action of boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into hemipeptone. Called also hemialbumin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. lacrymosus, better lacrimosus, fr. lacrima, lacruma (also badly spelt lachryma) a tear, for older dacrima, akin to E. tear. See Tear the secretion. ] Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful. [ 1913 Webster ]

You should have seen his lachrymose visnomy. Lamb.

-- Lach"ry*mose`ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

{ . } See Lachrymary, Lachrymatory, Lachrymose. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. mammosus having large breasts, mamma breast. ] (Bot.) Having the form of the breast; breast-shaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Zool.) A species of small opossum (Didelphys murina) ranging from Mexico to Brazil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. marmouset a grotesque figure, an ugly little boy, prob. fr. LL. marmoretum, fr. L. marmor marble. Perhaps confused with marmot. See Marble. ] (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small South American monkeys of the genera Hapale and Midas, family Hapalidae. They have long soft fur, and a hairy, nonprehensile tail. They are often kept as pets. Called also squirrel monkey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. See Muzzle. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A light wine, usually white, produced in the vicinity of the river Moselle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Perh. fr. Vamose. ] To go, or move (in a certain manner); -- usually with out, off, along, etc. [ Colloq. ] E. N. Wescott. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Multi- + ramose. ] Having many branches. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, equiv. to &unr_; impulse, fr. &unr_; to push. ] (Chemical Physics) (a) The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused, when in contact. Same as osmosis, which see. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Electric osmose, or
Electric endosmose (Elec.), the transportation of a liquid through a porous septum by the action of an electric current. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. plumosus, fr. pluma feather: cf. F. plumeux. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Having feathers or plumes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. racemosus full of clusters. ] Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as, (Bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat.) the racemose glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a raceme. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ramosus, from ramus a branch. ] Branched, as the stem or root of a plant; having lateral divisions; consisting of, or having, branches; full of branches; ramifying; branching; branchy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. rimosus, fr. rima a chink: cf. F. rimeux. ] 1. Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Nat. Hist.) Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a rimose manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. squamosus, fr. squama a scale: cf. F. squameux. ] 1. Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. strumosus: cf. F. strumeux. ] 1. (Med.) Strumous. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Having a struma. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. [ Sp. vamos let us go. ] To vamoose; -- an older spelling and pronunciation variant. [ Written also vamos, and vamoose. ] [ Slang, Eng. & U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]