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‖n. [ F. ] Savage fierceness; ferocity. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L., to the man. ] A phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of Indo-Malayan climbing herbs having thick fleshy oblong leaves and naked unisexual flowers: Chinese evergreen.
Syn. -- genus Aglaonema. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ NL., fr. E. albumin. ] (Med.) The level of albumin in the blood. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + AS ]

n. Same as Alignment. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ The Eng. form alinement is preferable to alignment, a bad spelling of the French ]. New Eng. Dict. (Murray). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ a. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'anaimi`a; 'an priv. + a'i^ma blood. ] (Med.) A morbid condition in which number of the red blood cells or concentration of hemoglobin decreases below that of normal. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; wind + -gram. ] A record made by an anemograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; wind + -graph. ] An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Produced by an anemograph; of or pertaining to anemography. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'a`nemos wind + -graphy. ] 1. A description of the winds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The art of recording the direction and force of the wind, as by means of an anemograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; wind + -logy. ] The science of the wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; wind + -meter. ] An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of the wind; a wind gauge. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to anemometry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Anemometer + -graph. ] An anemograph. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of ascertaining the force or velocity of the wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. anemone, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; wind. ] 1. (Bot.) A genus of plants of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The sea anemone. See Actinia, and Sea anemone. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word is sometimes pronounced especially by classical scholars. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus consisting of one species: the rue anemone.
Syn. -- genus Anemonella. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Chem.) An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from, the anemone, or from anemonin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from some species of anemone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Anemone. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. pollinated by the wind; -- of flowering plants; especially grasses etc. entomophilous [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 a genus consisting of one species: the yerba mansa.
Syn. -- genus Anemopsis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. 'a`nemos wind + fi`los lover. ] (Bot.) Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind-Fertilized. Lubbock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; wind + -scope: cf. F. anémoscope. ] An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; wind. ] A condition in the wood of some trees in which the rings are separated, as some suppose, by the action of high winds upon the trunk; wind shake. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ from aplasia{ 2 }. ] (Med.) an anemia characterized by substantial reduction or cessation of production of red blood cells and hemoglobin by the bone marrow. Stedman
Syn. -- Ehrlich's anemia; anemia gravis. [ PJC ]

n. [ Pref. arch- + enemy. ] A principal enemy. Specifically, Satan, the grand adversary of mankind. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Literally, a setting at one.) Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; agreement; concord. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By whom we have now received the atonement. Rom. v. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

He desires to make atonement
Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; expiation; amends; -- with for. Specifically, in theology: The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal suffering, and death of Christ. [ 1913 Webster ]

When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement be can make for it is, to warn others. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense. Potter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Day of Atonement (Jewish Antiq.), the only fast day of the Mosaic ritual, celebrated on the tenth day of the seventh month (Tishri), according to the rites described in Leviticus xvi. Also called Yom Kippur. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ AS. ben&unr_;man. Cf. Benim. ] To deprive (of), or take away (from). [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Bename. 1. Promised; vowed. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Named; styled. [ Archaic ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. ground bones, used as a fertilizer or as a component in animal feed; -- it is high in phosphate content. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. 1. the art of creating motion pictures; as, this story would be good cinema; -- often used in the phrase the cinema.
Syn. -- the film. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. a theater where motion pictures are shown.
Syn. -- movie theater, movie theatre, movie house, picture palace. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. same as motion picture. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ PJC ]

{ , a. 1. See Kinematic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the cinema; as, cinematic entertainment. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. sing. See Kinematics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, motion + -graph. ] 1. an older name for a movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the movie projector are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zoogyroscope, zoopraxiscope, etc.

The cinematograph, invented by Edison in 1894, is the result of the introduction of the flexible film into photography in place of glass. Encyc. Brit. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by the instrument described above. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. One who takes motion pictures with a movie camera, especially one expert in the art. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. one who exhibits motion pictures; an operator of a motion picture projector; a projectionist. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

-- Cin`e*mat`o*graph"ic a. -- Cin`e*mat`o*graph"ic*al*ly adv. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; motion + -graph. ] An integrating anemometer. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; the tibia. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to the shin bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cnemial crest, a crestlike prominence on the proximal end of the tibia of birds and some reptiles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. con- + tenement. ] (Law) That which is held together with another thing; that which is connected with a tenement, or thing holden, as a certain quantity of land adjacent to a dwelling, and necessary to the reputable enjoyment of the dwelling; appurtenance. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of defining; definition; description. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. détrônement. ] Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Divination. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a thing called out, fr. &unr_; to cry out; 'ek out + &unr_; voice. ] (Rhet.) A breaking out with some interjectional particle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Ecphonema. ] A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation. G. Brown. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. L. Enemata [ L. enema, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to send in; &unr_; in + &unr_; to send. ] (Med.) An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment. Hoblyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Enemies [ OF. enemi, F. ennemi, from L. inimicus; in- (negative) + amicus friend. See Amicable. ] One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood. [ 1913 Webster ]

To all good he enemy was still. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

I say unto you, Love your enemies. Matt. v. 44. [ 1913 Webster ]

The enemy (Mil.), the hostile force. In this sense it is construed with the verb and pronoun either in the singular or the plural, but more commonly in the singular; as, we have met the enemy and he is ours or they are ours. [ 1913 Webster ] It was difficult in such a country to track the enemy. It was impossible to drive him to bay. Macaulay.

Syn. -- Foe; antagonist; opponent. See Adversary. [ 1913 Webster ]