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n. (Geom.) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner; wholly; positively. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Accoutered or Accoutred p. pr. & vb. n. Accoutering or Accoutring. ] [ F. accouter, OF. accoutrer, accoustrer; à (L. ad) + perh. LL. custor, for custos guardian, sacristan (cf. Custody), or perh. akin to E. guilt. ] To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. [ 1913 Webster ]

Both accoutered like young men. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose especially military; as, troops accoutered for battle [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. pl. [ F. accoutrement, earlier also accoustrement, earlier also accoustrement. See Accouter. ] Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers. [ 1913 Webster ]

How gay with all the accouterments of war! [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acutus, p. p. of acuere to sharpen, fr. a root ak to be sharp. Cf. Ague, Cute, Edge. ] 1. Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to dull or stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Med.) Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

Acute angle (Geom.), an angle less than a right angle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Subtile; ingenious; sharp; keen; penetrating; sagacious; sharp-witted; shrewd; discerning; discriminating. See Subtile. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much. [ R. ] Walker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern fine distinctions. [ 1913 Webster ]

Perhaps, also, he felt his professional acuteness interested in bringing it to a successful close. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Med.) Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Penetration; sagacity; keenness; ingenuity; shrewdness; subtlety; sharp-wittedness. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. ajouter; confused with L. adjutare. ] To add. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Elec.) The quantity of electricity delivered in hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of charge quantity; the Ampere hour is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms and are sometimes similarly used. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a computer that represents information by continuously variable quantities (e.g., positions or voltages). [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

{ } n. [ L. arbutus, akin to arbor tree. ] The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose-colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. archiluth, It. arciliuto. ] (Mus.) A large theorbo, or double-necked lute, formerly in use, having the bass strings doubled with an octave, and the higher strings with a unison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. argutus, p. p. of arguere. See Argue. ] 1. Sharp; shrill. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sagacious; acute; subtle; shrewd. [ 1913 Webster ]

The active preacher . . . the argue schoolman. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a subtle; shrewdly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Acuteness. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. astutus, fr. astus craft, cunning; perh. cognate with E. acute. ] Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Keen; eagle-eyed; penetrating; skilled; discriminating; cunning; sagacious; subtle; wily; crafty. [ 1913 Webster ]

As*tute"ly, adv. -- As*tute"ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Attributed; p. pr. & vb. n. Attributing. ] [ L. attributus, p. p. of attribuere; ad + tribuere to bestow. See Tribute. ] To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to). [ 1913 Webster ]

We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it. Abp. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Ascribe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. attributum. ] 1. That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic. [ 1913 Webster ]

But mercy is above this sceptered away; . . .
It is an attribute to God himself. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Reputation. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Paint. & Sculp.) A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Gram.) Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Basi- + solute, a. ] (Bot.) Prolonged at the base, as certain leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of beauty; beautiful; very handsome. [ Mostly poetic ] -- Beau"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Beau"te*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Beluted; p. pr. & vb. n. Beluting. ] [ Pref. be- + L. lutum mud. ] To bespatter, as with mud. [ R. ] Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus off Eurasian herbs and small shrubs: buckler mustard.
Syn. -- genus Biscutella. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F.; bouter to thrust, put + feu fire. ] An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Animated by . . . John à Chamber, a very boutefeu, . . . they entered into open rebellion. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. brut, nasc., brute, fem., raw, rough, rude, brutish, L. brutus stupid, irrational: cf. It. & Sp. bruto. ] 1. Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation. [ 1913 Webster ]

A creature . . . not prone
And brute as other creatures, but endued
With sanctity of reason. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

The influence of capital and mere brute labor. Playfair. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent. [ 1913 Webster ]

A great brute farmer from Liddesdale. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

brute force, The application of predominantly physical effort to achieve a goal that could be accomplished with less effort if more carefully considered. Figuratively, repetitive or strenuous application of an obvious or simple tactic, as contrasted with a more clever stratagem achieving the same goal with less effort; -- as, the first prime numbers were discovered by the brute force repetition of the Sieve of Eratosthenes. [ PJC ]

n. 1. An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brutes may be considered as either aërial, terrestrial, aquatic, or amphibious. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person. [ 1913 Webster ]

An ill-natured brute of a husband. Franklin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Beast. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ For bruit. ] To report; to bruit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a rude or violent manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Brutality. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Insensibility. “The bruteness of nature.” Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of East Indian trees or shrubs: dhak.
Syn. -- genus Butea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. any of three isomeric singly unsaturated hydrocarbons C4H8; all are used in making synthetic rubbers; -- called also butylene. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) a genus of broad-winged soaring hawks.
Syn. -- genus Buteo. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. relating to or resembling a hawk of the genus Buteo. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. any hawk of the genus Buteo. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Chem.) A colorless or greenish oil extracted from cajuput. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cautèle, L. cautela, fr. cavere to be on one's guard, to take care. ] 1. Caution; prudence; wariness. [ Obs. ] Fulke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Craft; deceit; falseness. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. cauteleux, LL. cautelosus. See Cautel. ] 1. Caution; prudent; wary. [ Obs. ] “Cautelous, though young.” Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Crafty; deceitful; false. [ Obs. ] Shak.

-- Cau"te*lous*ly, adv. -- Cau"te*lous*ness, n. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cautère, L. cauterium, fr. Gr. &unr_; a branding iron, fr. &unr_; to burn. Cf. Caustic, Cautery. ] A hot iron for searing or cauterizing. Minsheu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cauterizing substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The use or application of a caustic; cautery. Ferrand. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. cautèrisation. ] (Med.) The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cauterized p. pr. & vb. n. Cauterizing. ] [ L. cauterizare, Gr. &unr_;, fr. a branding iron: cf. F. cautérised.. See cauter. ] 1. To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To sear, as the conscience. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Cauteries [ L. cauterium, Gr. &unr_;. See Cauter. ] 1. (Med.) A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The iron of other agent in cauterizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Actual cautery, a substance or agent (as a hot iron) which cauterizes or sears by actual heat; or the burning so effected. --
Potential cautery, a substance which cauterizes by chemical action; as, lunar caustic; also, the cauterizing produced by such substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a delicatessen that specializes in dressed meats and meat dishes, particularly pork products. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the items typically sold in a charcuterie{ 1 }. [ PJC ]

n. [ F. chute, prop. a fall. ] 1. A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. See Shoot. [ 1913 Webster ]