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n. [ OE. brimston, bremston, bernston, brenston; cf. Icel. brennistein. See Burn, v. t., and Stone. ] Sulphur; See Sulphur. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches. [ 1913 Webster ]

From his brimstone bed at break of day
A-walking the devil has gone. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing or resembling brimstone; sulphurous. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A broomstick. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stick used as a handle of a broom. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Gael. carn a cairn + gorm azure. ] (Min.) A smoky yellow or brown variety of rock crystal, or crystallized quartz, found especially, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in Scotland.
Syn. -- smoky quartz. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents. [ 1913 Webster ]

The poet took the matters of fact as they came down to him and circumstanced them, after his own manner. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. circumstantia, fr. circumstans, -antis, p. pr. of circumstare to stand around; circum + stare to stand. See Stand. ] 1. That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things. [ 1913 Webster ]

The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An event; a fact; a particular incident. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sculptor had in his thoughts the conqueror weeping for new worlds, or the like circumstances in history. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Circumlocution; detail. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

So without more circumstance at all
I hold it fit that we shake hands and part. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings. [ 1913 Webster ]

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not a circumstance, of no account. [ Colloq. ] --
Under the circumstances, taking all things into consideration.

Syn. -- Event; occurrence; incident; situation; condition; position; fact; detail; item. See Event. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. 1. Placed in a particular position or condition; situated. [ 1913 Webster ]

The proposition is, that two bodies so circumstanced will balance each other. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Governed by events or circumstances. [ Poetic & R. ] “I must be circumstanced.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. circumstans. See Circumstance. ] Standing or placed around; surrounding. [ R. ] “Circumstant bodies.” Sir K. Digby. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. Capable of being circumstantiated. [ Obs. ] Jer Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to an essential; -- generally in the plural; as, the circumstantials of religion. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. circonstanciel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Consisting in, or pertaining to, circumstances or particular incidents. [ 1913 Webster ]

The usual character of human testimony is substantial truth under circumstantial variety. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Incidental; relating to, but not essential. [ 1913 Webster ]

We must therefore distinguish between the essentials in religious worship . . . and what is merely circumstantial. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tedious and circumstantial recitals. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

Circumstantial evidence (Law), evidence obtained from circumstances, which necessarily or usually attend facts of a particular nature, from which arises presumption. According to some authorities circumstantial is distinguished from positive evidence in that the latter is the testimony of eyewitnesses to a fact or the admission of a party; but the prevalent opinion now is that all such testimony is dependent on circumstances for its support. All testimony is more or less circumstantial. Wharton.

Syn. -- See Minute. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail. “I will endeavor to describe with sufficient circumstantiality.” De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In respect to circumstances; not essentially; accidentally. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of the fancy and intellect, the powers are only circumstantially different. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In every circumstance or particular; minutely. [ 1913 Webster ]

To set down somewhat circumstantially, not only the events, but the manner of my trials. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Circumstantiated p. pr. & vb. n. Circumstantiating ] [ See Circumstantiating (&unr_;). ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To place in particular circumstances; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

If the act were otherwise circumstantiated, it might will that freely which now it wills reluctantly. Bramhall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To prove or confirm by circumstances; to enter into details concerning. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither will time permint to circumstantiate these particulars, which I have only touched in the general. State Trials (1661). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Deem + -ster; i. e., doomster. Cf. Dempster. ] A judge in the Isle of Man who decides controversies without process. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Deemster. ] 1. A deemster. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (O. Scots Law) An officer whose duty it was to announce the doom or sentence pronounced by the court. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Dempster. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A stick with which a drum is beaten. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything resembling a drumstick in form; -- applied especially to the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl, when cooked and served at the table. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

With its pleasant groves and farmsteads. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A farmstead. [ Scot. ] Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. hamster. ] (Zool.) A small European rodent (Cricetus frumentarius). It is remarkable for having a pouch on each side of the jaw, under the skin, and for its migrations. Hamsters are commonly kept as a pets. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. (Anat.) One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hamstrung; p. pr. & vb. n. Hamstringing. See String. ] To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable. [ 1913 Webster ]

So have they hamstrung the valor of the subject by seeking to effeminate us all at home. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hemstitched p. pr. & vb. n. Hemstitching. ] [ Hem + stitch. ] To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An instrument out of tune or rudely constructed; music badly played. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Mountain Standard Time, the time of the 105th meridian, used in the mountain states of the U.S. [ abbr. ]
Syn. -- Mountain Time, Mountain Standard Time. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) A yellow-flowered weed; -- so named from a Mr. Ramsted who introduced it into Pennsylvania. See Toad flax. Called also Ramsted weed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A kind of blue sapphire brought from Ceylon. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Seamstress. ] One who sews well, or whose occupation is to sew. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From older seamster, properly fem., AS. seámestre. See Seam. ] A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The business of a seamstress. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A seamster. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rude musical instrument somewhat like a cittern. [ R. ] Dampier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who drives a team. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not circumstantial; not entering into minute particulars. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not important; not pertinent; trivial. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]