‖n. [ NL.; auto- + Gr. &unr_; motion. ] (Physiol.) Spontaneous or voluntary movement; movement due to an internal cause. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
a. [ Auto- + kinetic. ] Self-moving; moving automatically. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
. In fire-alarm telegraphy, a system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
adj. more pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion.
A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Redeem from broking pawn the blemished crown. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
. (Elec.) A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; -- called also
n.
adj. pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion;
adj. planning for the future; concerned primarily with the future; -- contrasted with conern for the immediate present or reacting to past events.
a. Handsome; fine-looking;
n. [ Hexose + -kinase. ] (Biochem.) an enzyme catalyzing the transfer of a phosphate residue from ATP to a hexose, as in the formation of glucose-6-phosphate from glucose. [ PJC ]
a. [ Hydro-, 1 + kinetic. ] Of or pertaining to the motions of fluids, or the forces which produce or affect such motions; -- opposed to
a. Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. appearing to be important;
adj. intended as a joke; -- of communications.
no joking matter
adv. In a joking way; sportively.
‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr.
a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to karyokinesis;
a. Obsequious; fawning; cringing. “Knee-crooking knave.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Bot.) See
a. Having a certain look or appearance; -- often compounded with adjectives;
n.
All dreary was his cheer and his looking. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
Looking for,
n. A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver. [ 1913 Webster ]
There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
prop. n.
a. Looking on or forward. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The business of a pawnbroker. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Drudging; servile. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Bred to some poking profession. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion or vexation;
adv. By way of revocation. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being smoky. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. & n. from Smoke. [ 1913 Webster ]
Smoking bean (Bot.),
Smoking car,
n. [ metaphorical ] [ from imagined situations where a person holding a pistol, still smoking from having been fired, is found standing over a dead person ] Incontrovertible evidence; convincing evidence. [ PJC ]
n.
I doubt not with one gentle stroking to wipe away ten thousand tears. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A tocsin. [ Obs. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]