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n. [ Cf. F. désagrément disagreeable circumstance, disagreeableness. ] 1. The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unsuitableness; unadaptedness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Difference of opinion or sentiment. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A falling out, or controversy; difference.

Syn. -- Difference; diversity; dissimilitude; unlikeness; discrepancy; variance; dissent; misunderstanding; dissension; division; dispute; jar; wrangle; discord. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Freemen [ AS. freóman; freófree + mann man. ] 1. One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member of a corporation, company, or city, possessing certain privileges; a member of a borough, town, or State, who has the right to vote at elections. See Liveryman. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Both having been made freemen on the same day. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or resembling, the institutions or the practices of freemasons; as, a freemasonic signal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The institutions or the practices of freemasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

An agreement binding only as a matter of honor; often, specif., such an agreement among the heads of industrial or merchantile enterprises, the terms of which could not be included and enforced in a legal contract. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ or, more fully, or }. (Law) A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay all the installments of rent as they become due the contract shall determine and the title vest absolutely in him, and that if he chooses he may at any time during the term surrender the goods and be quit of any liability for future installments upon the contract. In the United States such a contract is generally treated as a conditional sale, and the term hire purchase is also sometimes applied to a contract in which the hirer is not free to avoid future liability by surrender of the goods. In England, however, if the hirer does not have this right the contract is a sale. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. prééminence, L. praeeminentia. See Preëminent. ] The quality or state of being preëminent; superiority in prominence or in excellence; distinction above others in quality, rank, etc.; rarely, in a bad sense, superiority or notoriety in evil; as, preëminence in honor. [ 1913 Webster ]

The preëminence of Christianity to any other religious scheme. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Painful preëminence! yourself to view
Above life's weakness, and its comforts too. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beneath the forehead's walled preëminence. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. praeminens, -entis, p. pr. praeminere to be prominent, to surpass: cf. F. prééminent. See Pre-, and Eminent. ] Eminent above others; prominent among those who are eminent; superior in excellence; surpassing, or taking precedence of, others; rarely, surpassing others in evil, or in bad qualities; as, preëminent in guilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

In goodness and in power preëminent. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a preëminent degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To employ beforehand. “Preëmployed by him.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Preëmpted; p. pr. & vb. n. Preëmpting. ] [ See Preëmption. ] 1. To settle upon (public land) with a right of preemption, as under the laws of the United States; to take by preemption. [ Also spelled pre-empt. ] [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. To acquire or take for oneself first (an object or right), thereby preventing others from acquiring; to appropriate; to arrogate. [ PJC ]

3. To supplant or take the place of (an action), due to changes in circumstances or priorities; as, the regular meeting was preempted by an emergency conference. [ PJC ]

4. To prevent or delay (an event) by acting beforehand; to head off; to preclude. [ PJC ]

n. [ Pref. pre- + emption: cf. F. préemption. See Redeem. ] The act or right of preemption. Specifically: (a) The act or right of purchasing before others. (b) The privilege or prerogative formerly enjoyed by the king of buying provisions for his household in preference to others. [ Eng. ] (c) The right of an actual settler upon public lands (particularly those of the United States) to purchase a certain portion at a fixed price in preference to all other applicants. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who holds a prior right to purchase certain public land. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to preëmption; having power to preëmpt; preëmpting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. L. praeemptor. ] One who preëmpts; esp., one who preëmpts public land. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to preëmption. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Heb. ] (Zool.) The Hebrew name of a horned wild animal, probably the Urus. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In King James's Version it is called unicorn; in the Revised Version, wild ox. Job xxxix. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Ream to make a hole in. ] (Naut.) To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reeming iron (Naut.), an iron chisel for reeming the seams of planks in calking ships. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To put, or go, on board a vessel again; to embark again. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A putting, or going, on board a vessel again. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To embody again. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To embrace again. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 1. to appear once more.
Syn. -- reappear, appear again. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. To emerge again. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of reemerging. [ 1913 Webster ]