a. Alabastrine. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to an atrium. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to Austria, or to its inhabitants. --
a. Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia. --
Bactrian camel,
a. [ L. bimestris; bis twice + mensis month. ] Continuing two months. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. & i. [ L. de- + patria one's country. ] To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
A subject born in any state
May, if he please, depatriate. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Finance) an index of certain stock prices on the New York Stock Exchange, computed by the Dow Jones publishing company as a weighted average of the prices of the common stocks of 30 specific companies classified as "industrial". The Dow Jones Industrial Average is often taken as an indicator of the movement of American stock prices generally, though other indices are maintained, averaging the prices of other stocks, and these often change in opposite directions from those of the DJIA.
v. t.
n. The process of elutriating; a decanting or racking off by means of water, as finer particles from heavier. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Anat.) Epigastric. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who rides on horseback; a horseman; a rider. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. equester, from eques horseman, fr. equus horse: cf. F. équestre. See Equine. ]
An equestrian lady appeared upon the plains. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The art of riding on horseback; performance on horseback; horsemanship;
v. t.
The expatriated landed interest of France. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. expatriation. ] The act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance. [ 1913 Webster ]
Expatriation was a heavy ransom to pay for the rights of their minds and souls. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. originating or located or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere;
n. a hypothetical form of life existing outside the Earth or its atmosphere, especially intelligent life on other planets or in other solar systems;
n. A genus of moths whose larvae are called fall webworms.
a. [ Cf. F. industriel, LL. industrialis. See Industry. ] Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights. [ 1913 Webster ]
The great ideas of industrial development and economic social amelioration. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]
Industrial exhibition,
Industrial school,
n.
Industrialism must not confounded with industriousness. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. & i. To make industrial; to develop so that most of the working population is engaged in non-agricultural labor; to develop economically; -- of nations or geographical areas;
adj.
adv. With reference to industry. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. An area designated in zoning regulations to be used by industry, often located in a suburban area, and having some park-like sections. [ PJC ]
n. The changes in the methods of production as well as the resulting changes in economic and social organization accompanying the replacement of hand labor by power-driven machinery. It started in England in about 1760, and spread to other countries with very varying time lags. The introduction of powered machinery such as the steam engine and power loom led to the concentration of large areas of manufacturing in large companies, and made some goods more plentiful and cheaper by mechanical production and economies of scale. [ PJC ]
n. [ NL. ] See Yttria. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Geol.) A term applied to many American Mesozoic strata, in which the characteristics of the Jurassic and Triassic periods appear to be blended. --
prop. a.
prop. n.
‖n. [ L., fr. Gr.
n. [ L. mater mother + -arch. ]
a. Of or pertaining to a matriarch; governed by a matriarch or matriarchs;
n. The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Law) A false or erroneous trial; a trial which has no result; a trial which comes to no conclusion, such as a criminal trial which does not produce a unanimous verdict of the jurors. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]
a. [ Multi- + striate. ] Having many streaks. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Niter. ] An artificial bed of animal matter for the manufacture of niter by nitrification. See Nitrification, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
a. (Nat. Hist.) Without striations; unstriped;
n. [ Sp. nutria an otter, fr. L. lutra, lytra. ] The fur of the coypu. See Coypu. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the gadflies. --
a. [ L. patria fatherland, country, fr. pater father. ] (Lat. Gram.) Derived from the name of a country, and designating an inhabitant of the country; gentile; -- said of a noun. --
n. [ F. patriarche, L. patriarcha, Gr.
The patriarch hoary, the sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]
The monarch oak, the partiarch of trees. Dryde. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. patriarcal. ]
About whose patriarchal knee
Late the little children clung. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Patriarchal cross (Her.),
Patriarchal dispensation,
n. [ Cf. F. patriarcat. ]
n. The office or jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. patriarchicus, Gr.
n. Government by a patriarch, or the head of a family. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A patriarchate. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]