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adv. In an ambidextrous manner; cunningly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being ambidextrous; ambidexterity. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to anestrus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. not in a state of estrus; not in heat; -- of lower mammals; as, an anestrous bitch. Opposite of estrous. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Asymmetrical. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ater. ] Coal-black; very black. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adventurous. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Law) Tainted with, or constituting, barratry. -- Bar"ra*trous*ly, adv. Kent. [1913 Webster]

a. Blusterous. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) (a) In England, a large salmon trout of several species, as Salmo trutta and Salmo Cambricus, which ascend rivers; -- called also sea trout. (b) Salvelinus malma of California and Oregon; -- called also Dolly Varden trout and red-spotted trout. (c) The huso or salmon of the Danube. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to a citrus tree; as, a citrous disease.
Syn. -- citrus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of or pertaining to citrus. the citrus production of Florida
Syn. -- citrus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ F. dartreux. See Dartars. ] (Med.) Relating to, or partaking of the nature of, the disease called tetter; herpetic. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dartrous diathesis, A morbid condition of the system predisposing to the development of certain skin diseases, such as eczema, psoriasis, and pityriasis. Also called rheumic diathesis, and herpetism. Piffard. [ 1913 Webster ]

a., adv., n. Same as Dexterous, Dexterously, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. in a period of sexual inactivity; -- of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season.
Syn. -- dioestrous, dioestrual. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. in a period of sexual inactivity; -- of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season.
Syn. -- diestrous, diestrual. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. F. désastreux. See Disaster. ] 1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The moon
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; ending in utter failure or ruin; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an undertaking. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. Shak.

-- Dis*as"trous*ly, adv. -- Dis*as"trous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- (intens.) + trouble. ] To trouble. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. goîtreux, L. gutturosus. See Goiter. ] Pertaining to the goiter; affected with the goiter; of the nature of goiter or bronchocele. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let me not be understood as insinuating that the inhabitants in general are either goitrous or idiots. W. Coxe.

a. [ Pref. hypo- + nitrous. ] (Chem.) Containing or derived from nitrogen having a lower valence than in nitrous compounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hyponitrous acid (Chem.), an unstable nitrogen acid, NOH, whose salts are produced by reduction of the nitrates, although the acid itself is not isolated in the free state except as a solution in water; -- called also nitrosylic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to idolatry; partaking of the nature of idolatry; given to idolatry or the worship of false gods; as, idolatrous sacrifices. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Josiah ] put down the idolatrous priests. 2 Kings xxiii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Consisting in, or partaking of, an excessive attachment or reverence; as, an idolatrous veneration for antiquity. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a idolatrous manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. il- not + lustrous. ] Without luster. [ Obs. & R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Characterized by imposture; deceitful. “Impostrous pretense of knowledge.” Grote. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. latirostre. See Latirostres. ] (Zool.) Having a broad beak. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. lustreux. See 3d Luster. ] Bright; shining; luminous. “ Good sparks and lustrous.” Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

. The namaycush. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Zool.) Having only one estrus period per breeding cycle or per year; -- of certain mammals. [ PJC ]

a. [ OE. monstruous, F. monstrueux, fr. L. monstruosus, fr. monstrum. See Monster. ] 1. Marvelous; strange. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love . . . is unnatural and monstrous in his affections. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Extraordinary in a way to excite wonder, dislike, apprehension, etc.; -- said of size, appearance, color, sound, etc.; as, a monstrous height; a monstrous ox; a monstrous story. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful. [ 1913 Webster ]

So bad a death argues a monstrous life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Abounding in monsters. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide
Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Exceedingly; very; very much. “A monstrous thick oil on the top.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

And will be monstrous witty on the poor. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a monstrous manner; unnaturally; extraordinarily; as, monstrously wicked. “Who with his wife is monstrously in love.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being monstrous, unusual, extraordinary. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. nitrosus full of natron: cf. F. nitreux. See Niter. ] 1. Of, pertaining to, or containing, niter; of the quality of niter, or resembling it. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of those compounds in which nitrogen has a relatively lower valence as contrasted with nitric compounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nitrous acid (Chem.), a hypothetical acid of nitrogen HNO2, not known in the free state, but forming a well known series of salts, viz., the nitrites. --
Nitrous oxide. See Laughing gas. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving to measure distance on a road. [ R. ] Sydney Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Opiniaster. [ Obs. ]. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Excessively troubled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A penstock. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. petrosus, fr. petra a stone. ] 1. Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone. Hooper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) Same as Petrosal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. salpêtreux. ] Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) (a) Any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European bull trout and salmon trout, and the eastern American spotted trout. (b) The common squeteague, and the spotted squeteague. (c) A California fish of the family Chiridae, especially Hexagrammus decagrammus; -- called also spotted rock trout. See Rock trout, under Rock. (d) A California sciaenoid fish (Cynoscion nobilis); -- called also white sea bass. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Sinister. ] 1. Being on the left side; inclined to the left; sinistral. “Sinistrous gravity.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wrong; absurd; perverse. [ 1913 Webster ]

A knave or fool can do no harm, even by the most sinistrous and absurd choice. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a sinistrous manner; perversely; wrongly; unluckily. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. With a tendency to use the left hand. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many, in their infancy, are sinistrously disposed, and divers continue all their life left-handed. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of coarse blanket or garment used by the North American Indians. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth used in trade with the North American Indians. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ See Strut. ] To swell; to puff out; to project. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. triquetrus. ] Three sided, the sides being plane or concave; having three salient angles or edges; trigonal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. troubadour, fr. Pr. trobador, (assumed) LL. tropator a singer, tropare to sing, fr. tropus a kind of singing, a melody, song, L. tropus a trope, a song, Gr. &unr_; a turn, way, manner, particular mode in music, a trope. See Trope, and cf. Trouv&unr_;re. ] One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Causing trouble; troublesome. [ Obs. ] “troublable ire.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Troubled p. pr. & vb. n. Troubling. ] [ F. troubler, OF. trobler, trubler, tourbler, fr. (assumed) LL. turbulare, L. turbare to disorderly group, a little crowd; both from turba a disorder, tumult, crowd; akin to Gr. &unr_;, and perhaps to E. thorp; cf. Skr. tvar, tur, o hasten. Cf. Turbid. ] 1. To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate. [ 1913 Webster ]

An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water. John v. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

God looking forth will trouble all his host. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now is my soul troubled. John xii. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

Take the boy to you; he so troubles me
'T is past enduring. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To disturb; perplex; afflict; distress; grieve; harass; annoy; tease; vex; molest. [ 1913 Webster ]