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a. [ L. acanthinus, Gr. &unr_;, thorny, fr. &unr_;. See Acanthus. ] Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. fitness to fly. “the plane received a certificate of airworthiness”. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. [ For in all (= every) thing. ] Altogether. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Icel. (modern) alping, earlier alpingi; allr all + ping assembly. See All, and Thing. ] The national assembly or parliament of Iceland. See Thing, n., 8. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to amaranth. “Amaranthine bowers.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. [ 1913 Webster ]

They only amaranthine flower on earth
Is virtue. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of a purplish color. Buchanan. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'an priv. + &unr_; thorny, fr. &unr_; thorn. ] (Zool.) A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin-rays, as the cod. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

Did you ever know of anything so unlucky? A. Trollope. [ 1913 Webster ]

They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G. Sumner. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Expressing an indefinite comparison; -- with as or like. [ Colloq. or Lowx ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I fear your girl will grow as proud as anything. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Any thing, written as two words, is now commonly used in contradistinction to any person or anybody. Formerly it was also separated when used in the wider sense. “Necessity drove them to undertake any thing and venture any thing.” De Foe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Anything but, not at all or in any respect. “The battle was a rare one, and the victory anything but secure.” Hawthorne. --
Anything like, in any respect; at all; as, I can not give anything like a fair sketch of his trials. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In any measure; anywise; at all. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mine old good will and hearty affection towards you is not . . . anything at all quailed. Robynson (More's Utopia). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who holds to no particular creed or dogma. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To repent; to displease; to disgust. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of taking a bath or baths. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bathing machine, a small room on wheels, to be driven into the water, for the convenience of bathers, who undress and dress therein. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake. Smyth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bethought p. pr. & vb. n. Bethinking. ] [ AS. beþencan; pref. be- + þencan to think. See Think. ] To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronoun, often with of or that before the subject of thought. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have bethought me of another fault. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rest . . . may . . . bethink themselves, and recover. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

We bethink a means to break it off. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To recollect; remember; reflect. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To think; to recollect; to consider. “Bethink ere thou dismiss us.” Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Naut.) Anything added to raise the sides of a ship. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the act or process of giving birth. [ PJC ]

{ } n. Native bismuth sulphide; -- sometimes called bismuthite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air. [ 1913 Webster ]

Subject to a difficulty of breathing. Melmoth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Air in gentle motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the Spirit. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Aspiration; secret prayer. “Earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state.” Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Exercising; promotion of respiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here is a lady that wants breathing too;
And I have heard, you knights of Tyre
Are excellent in making ladies trip. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Utterance; communication or publicity by words. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Breathing place; vent. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Stop; pause; delay. [ 1913 Webster ]

You shake the head at so long a breathing. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is wide open; aspiration; the sound expressed by the letter h. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Gr. Gram.) A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. See Rough breathing, Smooth breathing, below. [ 1913 Webster ]

Breathing place. (a) A pause. “That cæsura, or breathing place, in the midst of the verse.” Sir P. Sidney. (b) A vent. --
Breathing time, pause; relaxation. Bp. Hall. --
Breathing while, time sufficient for drawing breath; a short time. Shak. --
Rough breathing (spiritus asper) (&asper_;). See 2d Asper, n. --
Smooth breathing (spiritus lenis), a mark (') indicating the absence of the sound of h, as in 'ie`nai (ienai). [ 1913 Webster ]

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adj. able to think clearly and accurately. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. [ 1913 Webster ]

From others he shall stand in need of nothing,
Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

As for me, . . . my clothing was sackloth. Ps. xxxv. 13 [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The art of process of making cloth. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Instructing [ refugees ] in the art of clothing. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mach.) See Card clothing, under 3d Card. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. colocynthine. ] (Chem.) The active medicinal principle of colocynth; a bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Doing nothing; disinclined to work or exertion; inactive; idle; lazy; -- of people; as, a do-nothing policy. [ prenominal ]
Syn. -- bone-idle, bone-lazy, faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, shiftless, slothful, workshy, work-shy. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. person who does no work.
Syn. -- idler, loafer, layabout, bum, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. [ Jocular ] Carlyle. Miss Austen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) Acetylene. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. e'y^ well + &unr_; yellow. ] (Chem.) A yellow pigment imported from India and China. It has a strong odor, and is said to be obtained from the urine of herbivorous animals when fed on the mango. It consists if a magnesium salt of euxanthic acid. Called also puri, purree, and Indian yellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; all things. [ 1913 Webster ]

More wise, more learned, more just, more everything. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. furthing, AS. feórðung, fr. feórða fourth, feór, feówer, four. See Four. ] 1. The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A very small quantity or value. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In her cup was no farthing seen of grease. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A division of land. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thirty acres make a farthing land; nine farthings a Cornish acre; and four Cornish acres a knight's fee. R. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. vardingale, fardingale, fr. OF. vertugale, verdugade, F. vertugade, vertugadin, from Sp. verdugado, being named from its hoops, fr. verdugo a young shoot of tree, fr. verde green, fr. L. viridis. See Verdant. ] A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat. [ 1913 Webster ]

We'll revel it as bravely as the best, . . .
With ruffs and cuffs, and farthingales and things. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of being filthy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. 2 Cor. vii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is filthy, or makes filthy; foulness; nastiness; corruption; pollution; impurity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. 2 Chron. xxix. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Dan. See Folk, and Thing. ] The lower house of the Danish Rigsdag, or Parliament. See Legislature, below. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. 1. To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The soul of every man
Prophetically doth forethink thy fall. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To contrive (something) beforehend. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To contrive beforehand. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret. [ Obs. ] “Let it forthink you.” Tyndale. [ 1913 Webster ]

That me forthinketh, quod this January. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century. [ 1913 Webster ]

Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child. Addison.

Syn. -- Infidel; skeptic; unbeliever. See Infidel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. inclined to forms one's own opinions rather than depend upon authority, especially about social and religious issues; exhibiting boldness of speculation; skeptical of authority.
Syn. -- latitudinarian, undogmatic, undogmatical. [ WordNet 1.5 + 1913 Webster ]

n. State or quality of being frothy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Exaggerated declamation; rant. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The art or business of a gunsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. fr. L. helianthes, or NL. helianthus, sunflower, in allusion to its color. ] (Chem.) An artificial, orange dyestuff, analogous to tropaolin, and like it used as an indicator in alkalimetry; -- called also methyl orange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Contempt; scorn. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. hyacinthinus, Gr. &unr_;. ] Belonging to the hyacinth; resembling the hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

His curling locks like hyacinthine flowers. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hyacinthine boy, for whom
Morn well might break and April bloom. Emerson.

n. [ Pref. hypo- + xanthin. ] (Physiol. Chem.) A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, closely related to xanthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body, but especially in muscle tissue; -- called also sarcin, sarkin. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Ianthinæ E. Ianthinas [ NL., fr. L. ianthinus violet-blue, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; violet + &unr_; flower. ] (Zool.) Any gastropod of the genus Ianthina, of which various species are found living in mid ocean; -- called also purple shell, and violet snail. [ Written also janthina. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It floats at the surface by means of a raft, which it constructs by forming and uniting together air bubbles of hardened mucus. The Tyrian purple of the ancients was obtained in part from mollusks of this genus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'ichqy`s fish. ] (Physiol. Chem.) A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ilex the genus including the holly + Gr. &unr_; yellow. ] (Chem.) A yellow dye obtained from the leaves of the holly. [ 1913 Webster ]