n. See Accustomance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. (Zool.) A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Med.) Antistrumous. --
a. [ Gr. &unr_; not blown through. ] (Med.) Devoid of air; free from air;
a. That may be assumed. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. By way of assumption. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ OE. for amel, enamel. ] To figure or variegate. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Auto- + pneumatic. ] Acting or moving automatically by means of compressed air. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
‖n. [ F., fr. L. bruma winter. ] The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. brumalis, fr. bruma winter: cf. F. brumal. ] Of or pertaining to winter. “The brumal solstice.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; a burning heat. ] (Med.) Great heat, as of the body in fever. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ Pref. circum + agitate. ] To agitate on all sides. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Pref. circum- + ambage, obs. sing. of ambages. ] A roundabout or indirect course; indirectness. [ Obs. ] S. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of surrounding or encompassing. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. circum- + ambient. ] Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing. “The circumambient heaven.” J. Armstrong. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ L. circumambulatus, p. p. of circumambulare to walk around; circum + ambulare. See Ambulate. ] To walk round about. --
a. Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent. “Consumable commodities.” Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. contumax, -acis. See Contumacy. ]
There is another very, efficacious method for subduing the most obstinate, contumacious sinner. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n.;
The bishop commanded him . . . to be thrust into the stocks for his manifest and manifold contumacy. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Relating to, derived from, or like, the Dipterix odorata, a tree of Guiana. [ 1913 Webster ]
Coumaric acid (Chem.),
n. [ F., fr. coumarou, a tree of Guiana. ] (Chem.) The concrete essence of the tonka bean, the fruit of Dipterix (
‖n. [ See Coumarin. ] (Bot.) The tree (Dipteryx odorata) which bears the tonka bean; also, the bean itself. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) An order of marine Crustacea, mostly of small size. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ Cf. F., It., & Sp. curcuma; all fr. Ar. kurkum. Cf. Turmeric. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants of the order
Curcuma paper. (Chem.)
a. See Customary. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. decumanus of the tenth, and by metonymy, large, fr. decem ten. ] Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [ R. ] Also used substantively. “Such decuman billows.” Gauden. “The baffled decuman.” Lowell.
n. a woody climber of southeastern US (Decumaria barbara) having white flowers in compound terminal clusters.
v. t. To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.;
a. [ LL. diplumatus, p. p. of deplumare. See Deplume. ] (Zool.) Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Deplumate. ]
v. t. & i.
n. [ L. despumatio: cf. F. despumation. ] The act of throwing up froth or scum; separation of the scum or impurities from liquids; scumming; clarification. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. dumus bramble. ] Pertaining to, or set with, briers or bushes; brambly. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; a live coal covered with ashes, fr. &unr_; to set on fire, fr. &unr_;: cf. F. empyreume. See Empyreal. ] (Chem.) The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels.
Empyreumatic oils,
v. t. To render empyreumatic. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; mark caused by burning, fr. &unr_;. See Encaustic. ] (Med.) An ulcer in the eye, upon the cornea, which causes the loss of the humors. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Disinterred. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. LL. exhumatio, F. exhumation. ] The act of exhuming that which has been buried;
a. (Zool.) Having the structure of a filoplume. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. folmard, fulmard; AS. fūl foul + mearð, meard, marten: cf. F. marte, martre. See Foul, a., and Marten the quadruped. ] (Zool.) The European polecat; -- called also
a. [ From Fume. ] Smoky; hence, fond of smoking; addicted to smoking tobacco. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OF. fumage, fumaige, fr. L. fumus smoke. ] Hearth money. [ 1913 Webster ]
Fumage, or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Chem.) A salt of fumaric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, fumitory (Fumaria officinalis). [ 1913 Webster ]
Fumaric acid (Chem.),
n. [ L. fumus smoke, fume. ] (Chem.) An alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ It. fumaruola, fr. fumo smoke, L. fumus: cf. F. fumerolle, fumarolle. ] A hole or spot in a volcanic or other region, from which fumes issue. [ 1913 Webster ]
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