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n. The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; to hear + -meter. ] (Physics.) An instrument for measuring the acuteness of the sense of hearing. Itard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; to hear + -metry. ] The measuring of the power or extent of hearing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. acumen, fr. acuere to sharpen. Cf. Acute. ] Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination. Selden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sharpness; sagacity; keenness; shrewdness; acuteness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adjumentum, for adjuvamentum, fr. adjuvare to help; ad + juvare to help. ] Help; support; also, a helper. [ Obs. ] Waterhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. albus white. ] 1. The white of an egg. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Chem.) Same as Albumin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Albumenized p. pr. & vb. n. Albumenizing. ] To cover or saturate with albumen; to coat or treat with an albuminous solution; as, to albumenize paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., from allumer to light. ] A match for lighting candles, lamps, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to alphanumerics.
Syn. -- alphanumeric, alphameric, alphamerical [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Computers) using or consisting of only alphabetical and numerical characters; -- contrasting with binary or control. alphanumeric characters
Syn. -- alphanumeric, alphanumerical, alphameric, alphamerical [ PJC ]

n. 1. a character set that includes letters and digits and punctuation marks. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ L. ] (Chem.) Alum. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. annumeratus, p. p. of annumerare. See Numerate. ] To add on; to count in. [ Obs. ] Wollaston. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. annumeratio. ] Addition to a former number. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Appaumé. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Aposteme. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. appaumé; &unr_; (l. ad) + paume the palm, fr. L. palma. ] (Her.) A hand open and extended so as to show the palm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. argument, L. argumentum, fr. arguere to argue. ] 1. Proof; evidence. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There is.. no more palpable and convincing argument of the existence of a Deity. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why, then, is it made a badge of wit and an argument of parts for a man to commence atheist, and to cast off all belief of providence, all awe and reverence for religion? South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning, or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it, or against it. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The argument is about things, but names. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem. [ 1913 Webster ]

You and love are still my argument. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The abstract or argument of the piece. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Shields ] with boastful argument portrayed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Matter for question; business in hand. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sheathed their swords for lack of argument. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Astron.) The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Math.) The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. argumentari. ] To make an argument; to argue. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. argumentabilis. ] Admitting of argument. [ R. ] Chalmers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. argumentalis. ] Of, pertaining to, or containing, argument; argumentative. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. argumentatio, from argumentari: cf. F. argumentation. ] 1. The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which manner of argumentation, how false and naught it is, . . . every man that hath with perceiveth. Tyndale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Debate; discussion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Reasoning; discussion; controversy. See Reasoning. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Given to argument; characterized by argument; disputatious; as, an argumentative writer. [ 1913 Webster ]

--Ar`gu*men"ta*tive*ly, adv. -- Ar`gu*men"ta*tive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To argue or discuss. [ Obs. ] Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Assumed p. pr. & vb. n. Assuming. ] [ L. assumere; ad + sumere to take; sub + emere to take, buy: cf. F. assumer. See Redeem. ] 1. To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The god assumed his native form again. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively. [ 1913 Webster ]

The consequences of assumed principles. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pretend to possess; to take in appearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ambition assuming the mask of religion. Porteus. [ 1913 Webster ]

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To receive or adopt. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To arrogate; usurp; appropriate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To be arrogant or pretentious; to claim more than is due. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) To undertake, as by a promise. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Supposed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By assumption. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. assumentum, fr. ad + suere to sew. ] A patch; an addition; a piece put on. [ Obs. ] John Lewis (1731). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes. W. D. Whitney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A form of Ambry, a closet; but confused with Almonry, as if a place for alms. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Designating or conforming to either of the scales used by the French chemist Antoine Baumé in the graduation of his hydrometers; of or relating to Baumé's scales or hydrometers. There are two Baumé hydrometers. One, which is used with liquids heavier than water, sinks to 0° in pure water, and to 15° in a 15 per cent salt solution; the other, for liquids lighter than water, sinks to 0° in a 10 per cent salt solution and to 10° in pure water. In both cases the graduation, based on the distance between these fundamental points, is continued along the stem as far as desired. Since all the degrees on a Baumé scale are thus equal in length, while those on a specific-gravity scale grow smaller as the density increases, there is no simple relation between degrees Baumé and specific gravity. However, readings on Baumés scale may be approximately reduced to specific gravities by the following formulæ (x in each case being the reading on Baumé's scale): (a) for liquids heavier than water, sp. gr. = 144 ÷ (144 - x); (b) for liquids lighter than water, sp. gr. = 144 ÷ (134 + x). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Decked with feathers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Bitumen. ] Bitumen. [ Poetic ] May. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Smeared with bitumen. [ R. ] “The hatches caulked and bitumed.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. bitumen: cf. F. bitume. Cf. Béton. ] 1. Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Photog.) Any process in which advantage is taken of the fact that prepared bitumen is rendered insoluble by exposure to light, as in photolithography. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. brume winter season, mist, L. bruma winter. ] Mist; fog; vapors. “The drifting brume.” Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. calumet, fr. L. calamus reed. See Halm, and cf. Shawm. ] A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Smoked the calumet, the Peace pipe,
As a signal to the nations. Lowgfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The calumet is used as a symbol of peace. To accept the calumet is to agree to terms of peace, and to refuse it is to reject them. The calumet of peace is used to seal or ratify contracts and alliances, and as an evidence to strangers that they are welcome. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. catechumenus, Gr. kathchoy`menos instructed, from kathchei^n. See Catechise. ] (Eccl.) One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or condition of a catechumen or the time during which one is a catechumen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to catechumens; as, catechumenical instructions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A catechumen. Bp. Morton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. cera wax. ] (Physiol.) The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear; the earwax. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. circum- + esophagal. ] (Anat.) Surrounding the esophagus; -- in (Zool.) said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Circumesophagal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Mutual help; cooperation. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., dim. of columen column. See Column. ] 1. (Bot.) (a) An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens. (b)A columnlike axis in the capsules of mosses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) A term applied to various columnlike parts; as, the columella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of the ear, the bony or cartilaginous rod connecting the tympanic membrane with the internal ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) (a) The upright pillar in the axis of most univalve shells. (b) The central pillar or axis of the calicles of certain corals. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Columella + -form. ] Shaped like a little column, or columella. [ 1913 Webster ]