n. A westerly wind which blows nearly continuously between 30° and 50° of latitude in both the northern and the southern hemisphere. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
adv. [ Pref. a- + straddle. ] In a straddling position; astride; bestriding;
n.
n. [ F. balustrade, It. balaustrata fr. balaustro. See Baluster. ] (Arch.) A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, or the eaves of a building, or as a guard railing on a staircase; -- it serves as a guard to prevent people from falling.
v. t. To bestride. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Pref. contra- + dance: cf. F. contrdance. Cf. Country-dance. ] A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself,
And say it is not so. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The future can not contradict the past. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
No truth can contradict another truth. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]
A greater power than we can contradict
Hath thwarted our intents. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To oppose in words; to gainsay; to deny, or assert the contrary of, something. [ 1913 Webster ]
They . . . spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Acts xiii. 45. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Capable of being contradicted. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. one who contradicts. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. contradictio answer, objection: cf. F. contradiction. ]
His fair demands
Shall be accomplished without contradiction. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
can he make deathless death? That were to make
Strange contradiction. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
We state our experience and then we come to a manly resolution of acting in contradiction to it. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be true. Hobbes. [ 1913 Webster ]
Of contradictions infinite the slave. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
Principle of contradiction (Logic),
a. Contradictory; inconsistent; opposing. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
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a. Contradictory; inconsistent. --
n. [ L. ] A contradicter. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a contradictory manner. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being contradictory; opposition; inconsistency. J. Whitaker. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ LL. contradictorius: cf. F. contradictoire. ]
Schemes . . . contradictory to common sense. Addisn. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
It is common with princes to will contradictories. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Distinguished by opposite qualities. J. Goodwin. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Distinction by contrast. [ 1913 Webster ]
That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. having the quality of contradistinction; distinguishing by contrast. --
v. t.
These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. [ L. dextra the right hand + ad to. ] (Anat.) Toward the right side; dextrally. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F., fr. Sp. estrado, orig., a carpet on the floor of a room, also, a carpeted platform, fr. L. stratum bed covering. See Stratum. ] (Arch.) A portion of the floor of a room raised above the general level, as a place for a bed or a throne; a platform; a dais. [ 1913 Webster ]
He [ the teacher ] himself should have his desk on a mounted estrade or platform. J. G. Fitch. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. extra- + L. dictio a saying. See Diction. ] Consisting not in words, but in realities. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Of these extradictionary and real fallacies, Aristotle and logicians make in number six. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
v. t.
n. [ L. ex out + traditio a delivering up: cf. F. extradition. See Tradition. ] The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F.; pref. extra- outside + dos (L. dorsum) the back. ] (Arch.) The exterior curve of an arch; esp., the upper curved face of the whole body of voussoirs. See Intrados. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. extra- + dotal. ] Forming no part of the dowry;
v. i. & t. to negotiate with much give and take. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n. negotiation accompanied by mutual concessions and shrewd bargaining. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
adj. relating to areas between the layers of the skin.
adj. same as intradermal.
n. [ F., fr. L. intra within + F. dos the back, L. dorsum. Cf. Extrados. ] (Arch.) The interior curve of an arch; esp., the inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together. See Extrados. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A wrong tradition. “Monsters of mistradition.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or selling them; to overstock the market. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act or practice of buying goods beyond the means of payment; a glutting of the market. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ Sp., p.p. of reconcentrar to inclose, to reconcentrate. ] Lit., one who has been reconcentrated; specif., in Cuba, the Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. The act of contradicting one's self or itself; repugnancy in conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two members, one of which contradicts the other;
a. Contradicting one's self or itself. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. [ L. sinistra the left hand + ad to. ] (Anat. & Zool.) Toward the left side; sinistrally. [ 1913 Webster ]
. A feme sole trader. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
v. i.
v. t. To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of;
n.
a. Applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in two circles in the hub. See Straddle, v. i., and Straddle, v. t., 3. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ It. strada street or road + E. metrical. ] Of, or relating to, the measuring of streets or roads. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. tetras, -adis, Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;: cf. F. tétrade. ]