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n. 1. 1 a genus of climbing salamanders.
Syn. -- genus Aneides. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. 1 of or pertaining to apnea.
Syn. -- apnoeic [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. [ from the order Araneida. ] relating to or resembling a spider.
Syn. -- araneidan. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Araneina or spiders. -- n. One of the Araneina; a spider. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. [ L. aranea spider + -form. ] (Zool.) Having the form of a spider. Kirby. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. aranea spider. ] (Zool.) The order of Arachnida that includes the spiders. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ They have mandibles, modified as poison fangs, leglike palpi, simple eyes, abdomen without segments, and spinnerets for spinning a web. They breathe by pulmonary sacs and tracheæ in the abdomen. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖‖ } n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) See Araneina. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a sultanate in Northwestern Borneo. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to Brunei; as, Bruneian oil production. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a native or inhabitant of Brunei. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ Cf. Icel. kenn skilled, learned, or E. canny. Cf. Kenn. ] [ North of Eng. & Scot. ] 1. Artful; cunning; shrewd; wary. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Skillful; knowing; capable. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Cautious; prudent; safe.. Ramsay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Having pleasing or useful qualities; gentle. Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Reputed to have magical powers. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

No canny, not safe, not fortunate; unpropitious. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) See Conine.

n. Mutual agreement. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being contemporaneous. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lines of contemporaneity in the oolitic system. J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. cuneus a wedge + -form: cf. F. cunei-forme. See Coin. ] 1. Wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; -- especially applied to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. See Arrowheaded. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to, or versed in, the ancient wedge-shaped characters, or the inscriptions in them. “A cuneiform scholar.” Rawlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. 1. The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. I. Taylor (The Alphabet). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) (a) One of the three tarsal bones supporting the first, second third metatarsals. They are usually designated as external, middle, and internal, or ectocuniform, mesocuniform, and entocuniform, respectively. (b) One of the carpal bones usually articulating with the ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. diaphanéité. See Diaphanous. ] The quality of being diaphanous; transparency; pellucidness. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Diathermanous. ] The property of transmitting radiant heat; the quality of being diathermous. Melloni. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships.
Syn. -- family Echeneididae, family Echeneidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the type genus of the Echeneididae; they are typical remoras.
Syn. -- genus Echeneis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Same as Æneid. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Ento- + cuneiform, cuniform. ] (Anat.) One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being without or beyond a thing; foreignness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. femineus womanly. ] Womanliness; femininity. C. Reade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. ] (Geol.) A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic gneiss or syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to, or resembling, gneiss; consisting of gneiss. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gneiss + -oid. ] Resembling gneiss; having some of the characteristics of gneiss; -- applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and gneiss, or mica slate and gneiss. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the structure of gneiss. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Gorgoneia [ NL., fr. Gr. Gorgo`neios, equiv. to Gorgei^os belonging to a Gorgon. ] (Arch.) A mask carved in imitation of a Gorgon's head. Elmes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. hétérogénéité. ] The state of being heterogeneous; contrariety. [ 1913 Webster ]

The difference, indeed the heterogeneity, of the two may be felt. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. homogénéité. ] Same as Homogeneousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. instantanéité. ] Quality of being instantaneous. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Also or Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc.; -- so called from its originator, Sebastian Kneipp (1821-97), a German priest. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

prop. n. The site of three famous battles among Greek city-states: in 418 BC and 362 BC and 207 BC.
Syn. -- Mantineia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ Meso- + cuneiform, cuniform. ] (Anat.) One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Icel. hnefi; akin to Dan. naeve, Sw. näfve. ] The fist. [ Obs. ] “I kiss thy neif.” “Give me your neaf.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OF. neïf, naïf, a born serf, fr. L. nativus born, imparted by birth. See Native. ] A woman born in the state of villeinage; a female serf. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Neighed p. pr. & vb. n. Neighing. ] [ OE. neien, AS. hn&aemacr_;gan, prob. of imitative origin; cf. MHG. nēgen, Icel. hneggja, gneggja, Sw. gnägga. Cf. Nag a horse. ] 1. To utter the cry of the horse; to whinny. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To scoff or sneer; to jeer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Neighed at his nakedness. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The cry of a horse; a whinny. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. neighebour, AS. neáhgebūr; neáh nigh + gebūr a dweller, farmer; akin to D. nabuur, G. nachbar, OHG. nāhgibūr. See Nigh, and Boor. ] [ Spelt also neighbour. ] 1. A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is near in sympathy or confidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

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No more shall be the neighbor to my counsel. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves? Luke x. 36. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gospel allows no such term as “stranger;” makes every man my neighbor. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Near to another; adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring. “The neighbor cities.” Jer. l. 40. “The neighbor room.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A copse that neighbors by. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Neighbored p. pr. & vb. n Neighboring. ] 1. To adjoin; to border on; to be near to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Leisurely ascending hills that neighbor the shore. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To associate intimately with. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also neighbourhood. ] 1. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Vicinity; vicinage; proximity. -- Neighborhood, Vicinity. Neighborhood is Anglo-Saxon, and vicinity is Latin. Vicinity does not commonly denote so close a connection as neighborhood. A neighborhood is a more immediately vicinity. The houses immediately adjoining a square are in the neighborhood of that square; those which are somewhat further removed are also in the vicinity of the square. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Living or being near; adjacent; as, the neighboring nations or countries. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being neighborly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Also written neighbourly. ] Appropriate to the relation of neighbors; having frequent or familiar intercourse; kind; civil; social; friendly. -- adv. In a neighborly manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Judge if this be neighborly dealing. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being neighbors. [ R. ] J. Bailie. [ 1913 Webster ]

Same as neighbor, neighboring, neighborhood, neighborly. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ PJC ]