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a. Said before, or in a preceding part; already described or identified. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. (Naut.) The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being before the time of Moses. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ It., fr. L. ad + satis enough. See Assets. ] (Mus.) A direction equivalent to very; as, adagio assai, very slow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Assailed p. pr. & vb. n. Assailing. ] [ OE. assailen, asailen, OF. asaillir, assailler, F. assaillir; a (L. ad) + saillir to burst out, project, fr. L. salire to leap, spring; cf. L. assilire to leap or spring upon. See Sally. ] 1. To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery. [ 1913 Webster ]

No rude noise mine ears assailing. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

No storm can now assail
The charm he wears within. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To encounter or meet purposely with the view of mastering, as an obstacle, difficulty, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The thorny wilds the woodmen fierce assail. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by words, hostile influence, etc.; as, to assail one with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The papal authority . . . assailed. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

They assailed him with keen invective; they assailed him with still keener irony. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To attack; assault; invade; encounter; fall upon. See Attack. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being assailed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. assaillant, p. pr. of assaillir. ] Assailing; attacking. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. assaillant. ] One who, or that which, assails, attacks, or assaults; an assailer. [ 1913 Webster ]

An assailant of the church. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who assails. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make a saint of. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ OF. beseel, F. bisaïeul, fr. L. bis twice + LL. avolus, dim. of L. avus grandfather. ] 1. A great-grandfather. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Capsicum. ] (Chem.) A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. corsaire (cf. It. corsare, corsale, Pr. corsari), LL. corsarius, fr. L. cursus a running, course, whence Sp. corso cruise, corsa cruise, coasting voyage, corsear to cruise against the enemy, to pirate, corsario cruising, a privateer authorized to cruise against the enemy. See Course. ] 1. A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piratical vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

Barbary corsairs . . . infested the coast of the Mediterranean. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A Californian market fish (Sebastichthys rosaceus). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Mus.) A dancing tune in the Scotch style. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Elcesai, the leader of the sect. ] (Eccl.) One of a sect of Asiatic Gnostics of the time of the Emperor Trajan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An object of interest to the eye; one worshiped with the eyes. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That's the eye-saint, I know,
Among young gallants. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mentioned before; aforesaid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) (a) The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast. (b) The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner. (c) The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) the topsail on a foremast. See Sail. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having all its sails set, ; hence, without restriction or reservation. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., the spindle tree; also, charcoal made from it. ] (Fine Arts) (a) Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement. (b) A drawing made with it. See Charcoal, n. 2, and Charcoal drawing, under Charcoal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A mountain in Tibet, 26, 287 feet high. [ proper name ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ F., from gris gray. ] 1. (Fine Arts) Decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in English especially for painted glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of French fancy dress goods. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) Any sail set forward of the foremast. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. voile latine a sail in the shape of a right-angled triangle; cf. It. & Sp. vela latina; properly Latin sail. See Latin. ] (Naut.) A triangular sail, extended by a long yard, which is slung at about one fourth of its length from the lower end, to a low mast, this end being brought down at the tack, while the other end is elevated at an angle or about forty-five degrees; -- used in small boats, feluccas, xebecs, etc., especially in the Mediterranean and adjacent waters. Some lateen sails have also a boom on the lower side. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) The principal sail in a ship or other vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ They ] hoised up the mainsail to the wind. Acts xxvii. 40. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The mainsail of a ship is extended upon a yard attached to the mainmast, and that of a sloop or schooner upon the boom. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a topsail set on the mainmast. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. 1. A Nilotic language. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. An African tribe inhabiting parts of Kenya and Tanzania. [ PJC ]

Picture of Masai women and children standing by the roadside.
(Photographed in Kenya 1983 by PJC)


[ PJC ]

a. Not rightly aimed. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail. R. H. Dana, Jr. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. mosaïque; cf. Pr. mozaic, musec, Sp. & Pg. mosaico, It. mosaico, musaico, LGr. &unr_;, &unr_;, L. musivum; all fr. Gr. &unr_; belonging to the Muses. See Muse the goddess. ] 1. (Fine Arts) A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A picture or design made in mosaic; an article decorated in mosaic. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Something resembling a mosaic{ 1 }; something made up of different pieces, fitted together by design to form a unified composition. [ PJC ]

aerial mosaic An aerial photograph of a large area, made by carefully fitting together aerial photographs of smaller areas so that the edges match in location, and the whole provides a continuous image of the larger area. Called also
mosaic map and photomosaic. --
mosaic virus A type of plant virus that causes green and yellow mottling of leaves of a plant. A much-studied type is the tobacco mosaic virus, affecting the tobacco plant. [ PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to the style of work called mosaic; formed by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients. [ 1913 Webster ]

A very beautiful mosaic pavement. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Florentine mosaic. See under Florentine. --
Mosaic gold. (a) See Ormolu. (b) Stannic sulphide, SnS2, obtained as a yellow scaly crystalline powder, and used as a pigment in bronzing and gilding wood and metal work. It was called by the alchemists aurum musivum, or aurum mosaicum. Called also bronze powder. --
Mosaic work. See Mosaic, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. [ From Moses. ] Of or pertaining to Moses, the leader of the Israelites, or established through his agency; as, the Mosaic law, rites, or institutions. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mosaic (in either sense). “A mosaical floor.” Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of a mosaic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Attachment to the system or doctrines of Moses; that which is peculiar to the Mosaic system or doctrines. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To excel, or to leave behind, in sailing; to sail faster than. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal; as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness. “Paradisaical pleasures.” Gray.
Syn. -- paradisiacal, paradisiac, paradisaic, paradisal, elysian, paradisial. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Causing happinesss. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A plant with an elongated celerylike head of broadstalked leaves used as a vegetable in east Asia.
Syn. -- Chinese cabbage, celery cabbage, napa, Brassica rapa pekinensis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ L. Pharisaicus, Gr. Farisai:ko`s: cf. F. pharisaïque. See Pharisee. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the Pharisees; resembling the Pharisees. “The Pharisaic sect among the Jews.” Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Addicted to external forms and ceremonies; making a show of religion without the spirit of it; ceremonial; formal; hypocritical; self-righteous. “Excess of outward and pharisaical holiness.” Bacon. “Pharisaical ostentation.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Phar`i*sa"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Phar`i*sa"ic*al*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. pharisaisme. ] 1. The notions, doctrines, and conduct of the Pharisees, as a sect. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Rigid observance of external forms of religion, without genuine piety; hypocrisy in religion; a censorious, self-righteous spirit in matters of morals or manners. “A piece of pharisaism.” Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to the time before Moses; as, premosaic history. [ 1913 Webster ]