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a. [ F., p. pr. of administrer. See Administer. ] Executive; acting; managing affairs. -- n. One who administers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adulterans, p. pr. of adulterare. ] That which is used to adulterate anything. -- a. Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adumbrans, p. pr. of adumbrare. ] Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F., shaded enamel. ] (Fine Arts) An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. alterans, p. pr.: cf. F. altérant. ] Altering; gradually changing. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An alterative. [ R. ] Chambers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Amaranth, 1. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. amarantus, Gr. &unr_;, unfading, amaranth; 'a priv. + &unr_; to quench, cause to wither, fr. a root meaning to die, akin to E. mortal; -- so called because its flowers do not soon wither: cf. F. amarante. The spelling with th seems to be due to confusion with Gr. &unr_; flower. ] 1. An imaginary flower supposed never to fade. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A color inclining to purple. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs.
Syn. -- family Amaranthaceae, amaranth family [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to amaranth. “Amaranthine bowers.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. [ 1913 Webster ]

They only amaranthine flower on earth
Is virtue. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of a purplish color. Buchanan. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. Same as Amaranth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. erraunt, errant, errand, equiv. to E. errant wandering, which was first applied to vagabonds, as an errant rogue, an errant thief, and hence passed gradually into its present and worse sense. See Errant. ] Notoriously or preëminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward. [ 1913 Webster ]

I discover an arrant laziness in my soul. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Thorough or downright, in a good sense. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An arrant honest woman. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Notoriously, in an ill sense; infamously; impudently; shamefully. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. aspirant, p. pr. of aspirer. See Aspire. ] Aspiring. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. aspirant. ] One who aspires; one who eagerly seeks some high position or object of attainment. [ 1913 Webster ]

In consequence of the resignations . . . the way to greatness was left clear to a new set of aspirants. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or resembling, the Aurantiaceæ, an order of plants (formerly considered natural), of which the orange is the type. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Law) A process issued by a presiding judge or by a court against a person guilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime; -- so called in distinction from a justice's warrant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf.Brand goose, Brent, Brenicle. ] (Zool.) A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) -- called also brent and brand goose. The name is also applied to other related species. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Brent. ] Steep. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ AS. brant; akin to Dan. brat, Icel. brattr, steep. ] 1. Steep; high. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them. Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Smooth; unwrinkled. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Your bonnie brow was brent. Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The European redstart; -- so called from the red color of its tail. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For brand-fox; cf. G. brandfuchs, Sw. bradräf. So called from its yellowish brown and somewhat black color. See Brand. ] (Zool.) A kind of fox found in Sweden (Vulpes alopex), smaller than the common fox (Vulpes vulgaris), but probably a variety of it. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. calcitrans, p. pr. of calcitrare to kick, fr. calx, calcis , heel. ] Kicking. Hence: Stubborn; refractory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cauterizing substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. celebrans, p. pr. of celebrare. See Celebrate. ] One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of southern European herbs and subshrubs.
Syn. -- genus Centranthus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. supporting combustion.
Syn. -- combustive. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. commorans, p. pr. of commorari to abide; com- + morari to delay. ] 1. (Law) Ordinarily residing; inhabiting. [ 1913 Webster ]

All freeholders within the precinct . . . and all persons commorant therein. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Am. Law) Inhabiting or occupying temporarily. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A resident. Bp. Hacket. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. conflagrans, p. pr. of conflagrare; con- + flagrare to blaze. See Flagrant. ] Burning together in a common flame. [ R. ] “The conflagrant mass.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. conspirans, p. pr. of conspirare: cf. F. conspirant. ] Engaging in a plot to commit a crime; conspiring. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who remonstrates in opposition or answer to a remonstrant. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They did the synod wrong to make this distinction of contraremonstrants and remonstrants. Hales. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. coopérant. ] Operating together; as, cooperant forces. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ See Courant. ] A sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is harder to dance a corant well, than a jig. Sir W. temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dancing a coranto with him upon the heath. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cormoran, fr. Armor. mōr-vran a sea raven; mōr sea + bran raven, with cor, equiv. to L. corvus raven, pleonastically prefixed; or perh. fr. L. corvus marinus sea raven. ] 1. (Zool.) Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese. [ Written also corvorant. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. corroborans, p. pr. See Corroborate. ] Strengthening; supporting; corroborating. Bacon. -- n. Anything which gives strength or support; a tonic. [ 1913 Webster ]

The brain, with its proper corroborants, especially with sweet odors and with music. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Cormorant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F., p. pr. of courir to run, L. currere. Cf. Current. ] (Her.) Represented as running; -- said of a beast borne in a coat of arms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. courante, fr. courant, p. pr. ] 1. A piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance; a coranto. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sprightly dance; a coranto; a courant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gael. cranntara. ] The fiery cross, used as a rallying signal in the Highlands of Scotland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. D. krans, G. kranz. ] A garland carried before the bier of a maiden. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet here she is allowed her virgin crants, Her maiden strewments. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. corinthe (raisins de Corinthe raisins of Corinth) currant (in sense 1), from the city of Corinth in Greece, whence, probably, the small dried grape (1) was first imported, the Ribes fruit (2) receiving the name from its resemblance to that grape. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum. [ 1913 Webster ]

Black currant, a shrub or bush (Ribes nigrum and Ribes floridum) and its black, strong-flavored, tonic fruit. --
Cherry currant, a variety of the red currant, having a strong, symmetrical bush and a very large berry. --
Currant borer (Zool.), the larva of an insect that bores into the pith and kills currant bushes; specif., the larvae of a small clearwing moth (Ægeria tipuliformis) and a longicorn beetle (Psenocerus supernotatus). --
Currant worm (Zool.), an insect larva which eats the leaves or fruit of the currant. The most injurious are the currant sawfly (Nematus ventricosus), introduced from Europe, and the spanworm (Eufitchia ribearia). The fruit worms are the larva of a fly (Epochra Canadensis), and a spanworm (Eupithecia). --
Flowering currant,
Missouri currant, a species of Ribes (Ribes aureum), having showy yellow flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. déclarant, p. pr. of déclarer. ] (Law) One who declares. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. décolorant, p. pr. ] A substance which removes color, or bleaches. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. delirans, - antis, p. pr. of delirare. See Delirium. ] Delirious. [ Obs. ] Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]