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a. [ L. avidus, fr. av&unr_;re to long: cf. F. avide. See Avarice. ] Longing eagerly for; eager; greedy. “Avid of gold, yet greedier of renown.” Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Avid. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Eagerly; greedily. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. aviditas, fr. avidus: cf. F. avidité. See Avid. ] Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity. [ 1913 Webster ]

His books were received and read with avidity. Milward. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bos, bovis, ox, cow. ] (Zool.) Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any member of the family Cervidae, a type of deer distinguished from the Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
Syn. -- deer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family of deer including the reindeer, moose, elks, muntjacs, and roe deer.
Syn. -- family Cervidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. curvus + E. dentate. ] Having curved teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to David, the king and psalmist of Israel, or to his family. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. Not to provide; to fail to provide. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Divide. ] 1. Capable of being divided; divisible. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Divided; separated; parted. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Different; distinct. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Divided; p. pr. & vb. n. Dividing. ] [ L. dividere, divisum; di- = dis- + root signifying to part; cf. Skr. vyadh to pierce; perh. akin to L. vidua widow, and E. widow. Cf. Device, Devise. ] 1. To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divide the living child in two. 1 Kings iii. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let it divide the waters from the waters. Gen. i. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share. [ 1913 Webster ]

True justice unto people to divide. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye shall divide the land by lot. Num. xxxiii. 54. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance. [ 1913 Webster ]

If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom can not stand. Mark iii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every family became now divided within itself. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Math.) To subject to arithmetical division. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Logic) To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Mech.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations. [ Obs. ] Spenser.

Syn. -- To sever; dissever; sunder; cleave; disjoin; disunite; detach; disconnect; part; distribute; share. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Indo-Germanic family divides into three groups. J. Peile. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause separation; to disunite. [ 1913 Webster ]

A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To break friendship; to fall out. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To have a share; to partake. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes. [ 1913 Webster ]

The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals. Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; also called watershed and water parting. A divide on either side of which the waters drain into two different oceans is called a continental divide. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. 1. Parted; disunited; distributed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; -- said of a leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Separately; in a divided manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dividendum thing to be divided, neut. of the gerundive of dividere: cf. F. dividende. ] 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) A number or quantity which is to be divided. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Dividend; share. [ Obs. ] Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who deals out to each his share. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who made me a judge or a divider over you? Luke xii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who, or that which, causes division. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hate is of all things the mightiest divider. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Money, the great divider of the world. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another). The structure may be a wall with an opening in it to allow seeing one part of the room from the other. This term is also used to designate a semitransparent curtain formed by hanging multiple strings of various materials from a ceiling, intended to visually partition a room without inhibiting passage between the partitions
Syn. -- partition, room divider. [ WordNet 1.5 PJC ]

a. That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dividing engine, a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars (as for scales); also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. --
Dividing sinker. (Knitting Mach.). See under Sinker. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By division. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Dividuous. ] Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By dividing. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dividuus divisible, divided, fr. dividere. ] Divided; dividual. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous, selfsubsistent. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ Skr. Drāvi&dsdot_;a, prob. meaning, Tamil. ] (Ethnol.) A race of Hindustan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindu or Aryan invasion. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. [ From Skr. Drāvi&dsdot_;a, the name of the southern portion of the peninsula of India. ] (Ethnol.) Of or pertaining to the Dravida. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dravidian languages, a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important; Telegu, Malayalam, and Kannada are included. These languages are distinct from the Indo-European family of languages. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. one of the languages native to southern India; a Dravidian language.
Syn. -- Dravidian, Dravidian language. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. évidence, L. Evidentia. See Evident. ] 1. That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Faith is . . . the evidence of things not seen. Heb. xi. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

O glorious trial of exceeding love
Illustrious evidence, example high. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who bears witness. [ R. ] “Infamous and perjured evidences.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; -- the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it. Greenleaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

Circumstantial evidence,
Conclusive evidence, etc. See under Circumstantial, Conclusive, etc. --
Crown's evidence,
King's evidence, or
Queen's evidence, evidence for the crown, in English courts; equivalent to state's evidence in American courts. [ Eng. ] --
State's evidence, evidence for the government or the people. [ U. S. ] --
To turn King's evidence
To turn Queen's evidence, or
To turn State's evidence, to confess a crime and give evidence against one's accomplices.

Syn. -- Testimony; proof. See Testimony. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Evidenced p. pr. & vb. n. Evidencing ] To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an offender. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who gives evidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. évinent, l. evidens, -entis; e out + videns, p. pr. of videre to see. See Vision. ] Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your honor and your goodness is so evident. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And in our faces evident the signs
Of foul concupiscence. Milton.

Syn. -- Manifest; plain; clear; obvious; visible; apparent; conclusive; indubitable; palpable; notorious. See Manifest. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to, or affording, evidence; indicative; especially, relating to the evidences of Christianity. Bp. Fleetwood. “Evidential tracks.” Earle.. -- Ev`i*den"tial*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential. [ 1913 Webster ]

When a fact is supposed, although incorrectly, to be evidentiary of, or a mark of, some other fact. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an evident manner; clearly; plainly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth. Gal. iii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was evidently in the prime of youth. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being evident. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fervidus, fr. fervere. See Fervent. ] 1. Very hot; burning; boiling. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mounted sun
Shot down direct his fervid rays. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ardent; vehement; zealous. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fervid wishes, holy fires. Parnell.

-- Fer"vid*ly, adv. -- Fer"vid*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. fulvidus, fr. L. fulvus. ] Fulvous. [ R. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of birds including the loons.
Syn. -- family Gavidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. gravidus, fr. gravis heavy, loaded. See Grave, a. ] Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety; -- of animals as well as people. “ His gravid associate.” Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. gravidatus, p. p. of gravidare to load, impregnate. See Gravid. ] Made pregnant; big. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Gravidity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. graviditas. ] The state of being gravidated; pregnancy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. impavidus. See In- not, and Pavid. ] Fearless. -- Im*pav"id*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Unforeseen; unexpected; not provided against; unprepared. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All improvided for dread of death. E. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. improvidentia; OF. improvidence. Cf. Imprudence. ] The quality of being improvident; lack of foresight or thrift. [ 1913 Webster ]

The improvidence of my neighbor must not make me inhuman. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. im- not + provident: cf. L. improvidus. See Provident, and cf. Imprudent. ] Not provident; wanting foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent; thoughtless; as, an improvident man. [ 1913 Webster ]

Improvident soldiers! had your watch been good,
This sudden mischief never could have fallen. Shak.

Syn. -- Inconsiderable; negligent; careless; shiftless; prodigal; wasteful. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Improvidently. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]