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n. [ F. almucantarat, almicantarat, ultimately fr. Ar. al-muqantarāt, pl., fr. qantara to bend, arch. ] (Astron.) A small circle of the sphere parallel to the horizon; a circle or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Almucanter staff, an ancient instrument, having an arc of fifteen degrees, formerly used at sea to take observations of the sun's amplitude at the time of its rising or setting, to find the variation of the compass. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. antelucanus; ante + lux light. ] Held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning. “Antelucan worship.” De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Araucania, a territory south of Chili. ] (Bot.) A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a family of tall evergreen cone-bearing trees of South America and Australia with broad leathery leaves; in some classifications included in the Pinaceae.
Syn. -- family Araucariaceae, araucaria family [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Relating to, or of the nature of, the Araucaria. The earliest conifers in geological history were mostly Araucarian. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to an archduke or archduchy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small flat curl worn on the temple by women. [ Humorous ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Caducous. ] (Law) Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. carrucagium (OF. charuage.), fr. LL. carruca plow, fr. L. carruca coach. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Old Eng. Law.) A tax on every plow or plowland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of plowing. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. carucata, carrucata. See Carucage. ] A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Geog.) a large mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.
Syn. -- Caucasus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian or Georgian. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member of any of the white races of mankind. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. belonging to the caucasian racial group.
Syn. -- caucasian. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. (Geog.) a large region between the Black and Caspian seas.
Syn. -- Caucasia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Geog.) the mountain range located between the Black and Caspian seas. [ PJC ]

n. An educating together, of different sexes or races; -- now used almost exclusively in reference to the education males and females together. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

-- Co*ed`u*ca"tion*al a. [1913 Webster]

‖n. [ Prob. native name. ] (Zool.) A large, Old World, ground cuckoo of the genus Centropus, of several species. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., fr. native name. ] See Coca. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. ducal. See Duke. ] Of or pertaining to a duke. [ 1913 Webster ]

His ducal cap was to be exchanged for a kingly crown. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of a duke, or in a manner becoming the rank of a duke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ducat, It. ducato, LL. ducatus, fr. dux leader or commander. See Duke. ] A coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in Europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The gold ducat is generally of the value of nine shillings and four pence sterling, or somewhat more that two dollars. The silver ducat is of about half this value. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. or Sp. ducaton, fr. ducat. ] A silver coin of several countries of Europe, and of different values. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. éducabilité. ] Capability of being educated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. éducable. ] Capable of being educated. “Men are educable.” M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Educated p. pr. & vb. n. Educating ] [ L. educatus, p. p. of educare to bring up a child physically or mentally, to educate, fr. educere to lead forth, bring up (a child). See Educe. ] To bring up or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train; to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.

Syn. -- To develop; instruct; teach; inform; enlighten; edify; bring up; train; breed; rear; discipline; indoctrinate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Formed or developed by education; as, an educated man. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution.
Syn. -- student, pupil. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. educatio; cf. F. éducation. ] The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education. [ 1913 Webster ]

To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge. H. Spenser.

Syn. -- Education, Instruction, Teaching, Training, Breeding. Education, properly a drawing forth, implies not so much the communication of knowledge as the discipline of the intellect, the establishment of the principles, and the regulation of the heart. Instruction is that part of education which furnishes the mind with knowledge. Teaching is the same, being simply more familiar. It is also applied to practice; as, teaching to speak a language; teaching a dog to do tricks. Training is a department of education in which the chief element is exercise or practice for the purpose of imparting facility in any physical or mental operation. Breeding commonly relates to the manners and outward conduct. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to education. “His educational establishment.” J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a specialist in the theory of eduction.
Syn. -- educationist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.
Syn. -- educationalist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. éducatif. ] Tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who educates; a teacher. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Erucæ [ L., a caterpillar, also, a sort of colewort. ] (Zoöl.) An insect in the larval state; a caterpillar; a larva. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; seasonable, opportune; e'y^ well, good + &unr_; season. ] (Min.) A metallic mineral, a selenide of copper and silver; -- so called by Berzelius on account of its being found soon after the discovery of the metal selenium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An unfermentable sugar, obtained as an uncrystallizable sirup by the decomposition of melitose; also obtained from a Tasmanian eucalyptus, -- whence its name. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a tree of the genus Eucalyptus.
Syn. -- eucalyptus, eucalyptus tree, gum tree. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ eucalyptus + L. oleum oil. ] (Chem.) A volatile, terpenelike oil (C10H18O), which is the main constituent of the oil of eucalyptus. It has cockroach repellent activity and is used as a flavoring aid in pharmaceuticals. Chemically it is 1, 3, 3-trimethyl-2-oxabicyclo-[ 2, 2, 2 ]-octane. MI11
Syn. -- cineole, cajeputol. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

In the 1913 Webster eucalytpol was defined as an oil “consisting largely of cymene”. Cymene (isopropyltoluene, C10H14) differs from that of the substance currently called eucalyptol, in having an unsaturated ring and no oxygen. Para-cymene does occur in eucalyptus oil as well as some other essential oils. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. e'y^ well, good + &unr_; covered. The buds of Eucalyptus have a hemispherical or conical covering, which falls off at anthesis. ] (Bot.) A myrtaceous genus of trees, mostly Australian. Many of them grow to an immense height, one or two species exceeding the height even of the California Sequoia.
Syn. -- eucalyptus tree, gum tree, eucalypt. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ They have rigid, entire leaves with one edge turned toward the zenith. Most of them secrete resinous gums, whence they called gum trees, and their timber is of great value. Eucalyptus Globulus is the blue gum; E. gigantea, the stringy bark: E. amygdalina, the peppermint tree. E. Gunnii, the Tasmanian cider tree, yields a refreshing drink from wounds made in the bark in the spring. Other species yield oils, tars, acids, dyes and tans. It is said that miasmatic valleys in Algeria and Portugal, and a part of the unhealthy Roman Campagna, have been made more salubrious by planting groves of these trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. quandong trees.
Syn. -- genus Eucarya, Fusanus, genus Fusanus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an organism with "good" or membrane-bound nuclei having multiple chromosomes; eucaryotes also have other membrane-bound organelles such as mitochondria or chloroplasts, within the cytoplasm enclosed by the outer membrane. Such cells are characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria and blue-green algae. Contrasted with prokaryote.
Syn. -- eukaryote. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. of or pertaining to eukaryotes; same as eukaryotic. Contrasted with prokaryotic.
Syn. -- eukaryotic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. fauces throat. ] Pertaining to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial; esp., (Phon.) produced in the fauces, as certain deep guttural sounds found in the Semitic and some other languages. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ayin is the most difficult of the faucals. I. Taylor (The Alphabet). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] An instrument used by the ancients in driving piles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) Soft clayey matter in the vein, or surrounding it. [ Written also flookan, flukan, and fluccan. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ After J. B. L. Foucault (1819-68), French physicist. ] (Elec.) An eddy current. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. An order coextensive with the family Fucaceae.
Syn. -- order Fucales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ a. [ L. fucatus, p. p. of fucare to color, paint, fr. fucus. ] Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show. [ 1913 Webster ]