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{ } a. [ Pref. bi- + rostrate. ] Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks. [ 1913 Webster ]

The capsule is bilocular and birostrated. Ed. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. brevis short + E. rostral, rostrate. ] (Zool.) Short-billed; having a short beak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. calamistratus, curled with the curling iron, fr. calamistrum curling iron, fr. calamus a reed. ] To curl or friz, as the hair. [ Obs. ] Cotgrave.

a. [ L. capistratus, p. p. of capistrare halter. ] (Zool.) Hooded; cowled. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Castrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Castrating. ] [ L. castrarus, p; p. of castrare to castrate, asin to Skr. çastra knife. ] 1. To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate. [ 1913 Webster ]

My . . . correspondent . . . has sent me the following letter, which I have castrated in some places. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. deprived of reproductive organs or sexual attributes.
Syn. -- altered, neutered, unsexed, fixed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. to throw (something or someone) out of a window. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ L. demonstratus, p. p. of demonstrare to demonstrate; de- + monstrare to show. See Monster. ] 1. To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To show, or make evident, by reasoning or proof; to prove by deduction; to establish so as to exclude the possibility of doubt or denial. [ 1913 Webster ]

We can not demonstrate these things so as to show that the contrary often involves a contradiction. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Anat.) To exhibit and explain (a dissection or other anatomical preparation). [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having been proved or verified beyond doubt; proved by demonstration. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Demonstrator. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dentirostral. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fully prostrate; humble; low; rude. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

How may weak mortal ever hope to file
His unsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate style. G. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. e- out + rostrate. ] (Bot.) Without a beak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fenestratus, p. p. of fenestrare to furnish with openings and windows. ] 1. Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated; as, fenestrate membranes; fenestrate fronds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Having transparent spots, as the wings of certain butterflies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. (Arch.) Having windows; characterized by windows. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Same as Fenestrate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Fluster, v. t. ] To fluster. [ Colloq. ] Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. frustratus, p. p. of frustrare, frustrari, to deceive, frustrate, fr. frustra in vain, witout effect, in erorr, prob. for frudtra and akin to fraus, E. fraud. ] Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. “Our frustrate search.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Frustrated p. pr. & vb. n. Frustrating. ] 1. To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shall the adversary thus obtain
His end and frustrate thine ? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.

Syn. -- To balk; thwart; foil; baffle; defeat. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In vain. [ Obs. ] Vicars. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Illustrated p. pr. & vb. n. Illustrating ] [ L. illustratus, p. p. of illustrare to illustrate, fr. illustris bright. See Illustrious. ] 1. To make clear, bright, or luminous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To prove him, and illustrate his high worth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons, and examples. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Matter to me of glory, whom their hate
Illustrates. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. illustratus, p. p. ] Illustrated; distinguished; illustrious. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This most gallant, illustrate, and learned gentleman. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. provided with pictures; -- of a publication; as, an illustrated weekly. Opposite of unillustrated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Lustrated p. pr. & vb. n. Lustrating ] [ L. lustratus, p. p. of lustrare to lustrate, fr. lustrum. See Lustrum. ] To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify. [ 1913 Webster ]

We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. magistratus, fr. magister master: cf. F. magistrat. See Master. ] A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it. “All Christian rulers and magistrates.” Book of Com. Prayer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of magistrates some also are supreme, in whom the sovereign power of the state resides; others are subordinate. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. to write an orchestra score for; -- of a musical composition. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. To be the chief coordinator of (an activity requiring action by more than one person); to organize and coordinate.
Syn. -- mastermind, engineer, direct, organize. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. Arranged for performance by an orchestra; -- of a musical composition. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Coordinated to achieve a maximal effect; -- of actions of a group. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ L. praemonstratus, p. p. of praemonstrare; prae before + monstrate to show. ] To show beforehand; to foreshow. [ R. ] Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. prémontré, fr. Prémontré, fr. L. pratum monstratum. ] (R. C. Ch.) One of a religious order of regular canons founded by St. Norbert at Prémontré, in France, in 1119. The members of the order are called also White Canons, Norbertines, and Premonstrants. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. prostratus, p. p. of prosternere to prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out, throw down. See Stratum. ] 1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lying at mercy, as a supplicant. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture. [ 1913 Webster ]

Prostrate fall
Before him reverent, and there confess
Humbly our faults. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Bot.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Prostrated p. pr. & vb. n. Prostrating. ] 1. To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To demonstrate again, or anew. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every truth of morals must be redemonstrated in the experience of the individual man before he is capable of utilizing it as a constituent of character or a guide in action. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To register. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Remonstrated p. pr. & vb. n. Remonstrating. ] [ LL. remonstratus, p. p. of remonstrare to remonstrate; L. pref. re- + monstrare to show. See Monster. ] To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will remonstrate to you the third door. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To present and urge reasons in opposition to an act, measure, or any course of proceedings; to expostulate; as, to remonstrate with a person regarding his habits; to remonstrate against proposed taxation. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is proper business of a divine to state cases of conscience, and to remonstrate against any growing corruptions in practice, and especially in principles. Waterland. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Expostulate, Remonstrate. These words are commonly interchangeable, the principal difference being that expostulate is now used especially to signify remonstrance by a superior or by one in authority. A son remonstrates against the harshness of a father; a father expostulates with his son on his waywardness. Subjects remonstrate with their rulers; sovereigns expostulate with the parliament or the people. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. [ L. rostratus, fr. rostrum a beak. See Rostrum. ] 1. Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Furnished or adorned with beaks; as, rostrated galleys. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of one testicle. -- Sem`i*cas*tra"tion pos>n. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sequestrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Sequestrating. ] To sequester. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Strategic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Strategy. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_; of or for a general: cf. F. stratégique. ] Of or pertaining to strategy; effected by artifice. -- Stra*te"gic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Strategic line (Mil.), a line joining strategic points. --
Strategic point (Mil.), any point or region in the theater or warlike operations which affords to its possessor an advantage over his opponent, as a mountain pass, a junction of rivers or roads, a fortress, etc. [1913 Webster]

n. Strategy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. stratégiste. ] One skilled in strategy, or the science of directing great military movements. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Strategi [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;. See Stratagem. ] (Gr. Antiq.) The leader or commander of an army; a general. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. stratégie. See Stratagem. ] 1. The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The use of stratagem or artifice. [ 1913 Webster ]

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v. t. [ See Subminister. ] To supply; to afford; to subminister. [ Obs. ] Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A substratum. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having very slight furrows. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. substratus, p. p. of substrahere. See Substratum. ] To strew or lay under anything. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The melted glass being supported by the substrated sand. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]