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v. t. 1. To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men forgot, or feared, to consult nature . . . ; they were content to consult libraries. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are . . . to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To deliberate upon; to take for. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Manythings were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people. Hab. ii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The council broke;
And all grave consults dissolved in smoke. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A council; a meeting for consultation. [ Obs. ] “A consult of coquettes.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Agreement; concert [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an expert who gives advice.
Syn. -- adviser, advisor. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Formed by consultation; resulting from conference. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consultary response (Law), the opinion of a court on a special case. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. consultatio: cf. F. consultation. ] 1. The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thus they doubtful consultations dark
Ended. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause. [ 1913 Webster ]

Writ of consultation (Law), a writ by which a cause, improperly removed by prohibition from one court to another, is returned to the court from which it came; -- so called because the judges, on consultation, find the prohibition ill-founded. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to consultation; having the privilege or right of conference. “A consultative . . . power.” Abp. Bramhall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Formed by, or resulting from, consultation; advisory. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who consults, or asks counsel or information. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That consults. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consulting physician (Med.), a physician who consults with the attending practitioner regarding any case of disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Determined by, or pertaining to, consultation; deliberate; consultative. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that remains in the grace of God sins not by any deliberative, consultive, knowing act. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a desultory manner; without method; loosely; immethodically. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being desultory or without order or method; unconnectedness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The seeming desultoriness of my method. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Desultory. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. desultorius, fr. desultor a leaper, fr. desilire, desultum, to leap down; de + salire to leap. See Saltation. ] 1. Leaping or skipping about. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I shot at it [ a bird ], but it was so desultory that I missed my aim. Gilbert White. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Goldsmith ] knew nothing accurately; his reading had been desultory. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject; as, a desultory remark.

Syn. -- Rambling; roving; immethodical; discursive; inconstant; unsettled; cursory; slight; hasty; loose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. insultus, fr. insilire to leap upon: cf. F. insulte. See Insult, v. t. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; a deprecatory remark; an affront; an indignity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage.

3. (Med., Biology) An injury to an organism; trauma; as, to produce an experimental insult to investigate healing processes. [ PJC ]

Syn. -- Affront; indignity; abuse; outrage; contumely. See Affront. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Insulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Insulting. ] [ F. insulter, L. insultare, freq. fr. insilire to leap into or upon; pref. in- in, on + salire to leap. See Salient. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To leap or jump. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give me thy knife, I will insult on him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like the frogs in the apologue, insulting upon their wooden king. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To behave with insolence; to exult. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The lion being dead, even hares insult. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

An unwillingness to insult over their helpless fatuity. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being insulted or affronted. [ R. ] Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. insultatio, fr. insultare: cf. OF. insultation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of insulting; abusive or insolent treatment; insult. [ Obs. ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exultation. [ Obs. ] Is. xiv. (heading). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who insults. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc. -- In*sult"ing*ly, adv.

Syn. -- Insolent; impertinent; saucy; rude; abusive; contemptuous. See Insolent. [1913 Webster]

n. Insolent treatment; insult. [ Obs. ] “My speech of insultment ended.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. jurisconsultus; jus, juris, right + consulere, consultum, to consult: cf. F. jurisconsulte. ] (Law) A man learned in the civil law; an expert in juridical science; a professor of jurisprudence; a jurist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An adviser to business about efficient management practices. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. praesultor; prae before + salire to dance. ] A leader in the dance. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Resulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Resulting. ] [ F. résulter, fr. L. resultare, resultarum, to spring or leap back, v. intens. fr. resilire. See Resile. ] 1. To leap back; to rebound. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The huge round stone, resulting with a bound. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; -- followed by in; as, this measure will result in good or in evil. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought, or endeavor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pleasure and peace do naturally result from a holy and good life. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Resulting trust (Law), a trust raised by implication for the benefit of a party granting an estate. The phrase is also applied to a trust raised by implication for the benefit of a party who advances the purchase money of an estate, etc. Bouvier. --
Resulting use (Law), a use which, being limited by the deed, expires or can not vest, and thence returns to him who raised it. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To proceed; spring; rise; arise; ensue; terminate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A flying back; resilience. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sound is produced between the string and the air by the return or the result of the string. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect; as, the result of a course of action; the result of a mathematical operation. [ 1913 Webster ]

If our proposals once again were heard,
We should compel them to a quick result. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then of their session ended they bid cry
With trumpet's regal sound the great result. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Effect; consequence; conclusion; inference; issue; event. See Effect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of resulting; that which results; a result. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. resultans, p. pr. : cf. F. résultant. ] Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or following as a result or consequence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Resultant force or
Resultant motion (Mech.), a force which is the result of two or more forces acting conjointly, or a motion which is the result of two or more motions combined. See Composition of forces, under Composition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which results. Specifically: (a) (Mech.) A reultant force or motion. (b) (Math.) An eliminant. [ 1913 Webster ]

The resultant of homogeneous general functions of n variables is that function of their coefficients which, equaled to zero, expresses in the simplest terms the condition of the possibility of their existence. Sylvester. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. resultatus, p. p. ] A result. [ Obs. ] “The resultate of their counsil.” BAcon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. HAving results or effects. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resultant. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being without result; as, resultless investigations. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. senatus consultum. ] A decree of the Roman senate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Subsultory. [ R. ] Berkley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. subsilire, subsultum, to spring up; sub under + salire to leap. ] Bounding; leaping; moving by sudden leaps or starts. [ R. ] -- Sub*sul"to*ri*ly, adv. [R.] [1913 Webster]

Flippancy opposed to solemnity, the subsultory to the continuous, -- these are the two frequent extremities to which the French manner betrays men. De Quincey. [1913 Webster]

‖n. [ NL. See Subsultory. ] (Med.) A starting, twitching, or convulsive motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. sultan (cf. Sp. soldan, It. sultano, soldano), Ar. sultān sultan, dominion. Cf. Soldan. ] A ruler, or sovereign, of a Mohammedan state; specifically, the ruler of the Turks; the Padishah, or Grand Seignior; -- officially so called. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sultan flower. (Bot.) See Sweet sultan, under Sweet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. ] 1. The wife of a sultan; a sultaness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. A kind of seedless raisin produced near Smyrna in Asiatic Turkey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sultana bird (Zool.), the hyacinthine, or purple, gallinule. See Illust. under Gallinule. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. sultanat. ] 1. The rule or dominion of a sultan; sultanship. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The territory ruled by a sultan.
Syn. -- soldanrie. [ PJC ]

n. A sultana. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to a sultan. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a deep red color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The dominions of a sultan. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or dignity of a sultan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sultanry. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a sultry manner. [ 1913 Webster ]