v. t. [ L. aberuncare, for aberruncare. See Averruncate. ] To weed out. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A weeding machine. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. ala wing + truncus trunk. ] (Zool.) The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax. Kirby. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Pertaining to an Earl of Arundel;
a. [ L. arundifer; arundo reed + ferre to bear. ] Producing reeds or canes. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. arundinaceus, fr. arundo reed. ] Of or pertaining to a reed; resembling the reed or cane. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. arundineus, fr. arundo reed. ] Abounding with reeds; reedy. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ G., enlightenment. ] A philosophic movement of the 18th century characterized by a lively questioning of authority, keen interest in matters of politics and general culture, and an emphasis on empirical method in science. It received its impetus from the unsystematic but vigorous skepticism of Pierre Bayle, the physical doctrines of Newton, and the epistemological theories of Locke, in the preceding century. Its chief center was in France, where it gave rise to the skepticism of Voltaire , the naturalism of Rousseau, the sensationalism of Condillac, and the publication of the “Encyclopedia” by D'Alembert and Diderot. In Germany, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Herder were representative thinkers, while the political doctrines of the leaders of the American Revolution and the speculations of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine represented the movement in America. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
v. t. [ L. averruncare to avert; a, ab, off + verruncare to turn; formerly derived from ab and eruncare to root out. Cf. Aberuncate. ]
n. [ Cf. OF. averroncation. ]
n. An instrument for pruning trees, having two blades, or a blade and a hook, fixed on a long rod and operated by a string or wire; a tree pruner. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
‖n. [ G., lit., mountain gap. ] (Phys. Geog.) The crevasse or series of crevasses, usually deep and often broad, frequently occurring near the head of a mountain glacier, about where the névé field joins the valley portion of the glacier. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. [ See Broun a brook. ] Same as Brun, a brook. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n. a sultanate in Northwestern Borneo. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
adj.
n. [ F. brugnon (cf. It. brugna, prugna), fr. L. prunum. See Prune, n. ] A nectarine. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation. [ 1913 Webster ]
See Japan black. [ 1913 Webster ]
[ G. Braunschweiger grün, first made at Brunswick, in Germany. ] An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. brunt, bront, fr. Icel. bruna to rush; cf. Icel. brenna to burn. Cf. Burn, v. t. ]
It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a native or inhabitant of Burundi. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n. a terrestrial Siberian squirrel (Eutamius asiaticus or Eutamius sibiricus).
[ a trade name, from Carbon + corundum. ] A beautiful crystalline compound,
caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a very hard mineral used as an abrasive; same as corundun.
n.;
☞ The name
v. i.
And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]
The ship crunched through the ice. Kane. [ 1913 Webster ]
The crunching and ratting of the loose stones. H. James. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch;
a. (Geom.) Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; -- used of curves. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Prob. fr. L. crux a cross + E. node. ] (Geom.) A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See
v. t.
n. [ L. detruncatio: cf. F. détroncation. ] The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To dissatisfy; to disaffect; to anger. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ OE. dronke, drunke, dronken, drunken, AS. druncen. Orig. the same as drunken, p. p. of drink. See Drink. ]
Be not drunk with wine, where in is excess. Eph. v. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]
Drunk with recent prosperity. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood. Deut. xxxii. 42. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A drunken condition; a spree. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Drunk + -ard. ] One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot. [ 1913 Webster ]
The drunkard and glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ AS. druncen, prop., that has drunk, p. p. of drincan, taken as active. See Drink, v. i., and cf. Drunk. ]
Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
Let the earth be drunken with our blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The drunken quarrels of a rake. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Drunkenness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a drunken manner. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. South.
a. Utterly drunk; very drunk. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]