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n. Abeyance. [ R. ] Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being in a state of abeyance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Hinduism) one of 7 to 12 sons of Aditi; gods of celestial light. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Aëro- + yacht. ] A form of hydro-aëroplane; a flying boat. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. aloyage. ] The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. anoiance, anuiance. ] 1. The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. [ 1913 Webster ]

A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which annoys. [ 1913 Webster ]

A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair,
Any annoyance in that precious sense. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Anthokyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'a`nqos flower + ky`anos blue. ] (Chem.) The blue coloring matter of certain flowers. Same as Cyanin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. apo- + the Gr. letter Y. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to a portion of the horn of the hyoid bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Skr. ārya excellent, honorable; akin to the name of the country Iran, and perh. to Erin, Ireland, and the early name of this people, at least in Asia. ] 1. One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindu Kush and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindu, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The language of the original Aryans. [ Written also Arian. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Nazism) a non-Jewish caucasian of Nordic stock; -- a classification used by Nazis, having no anthropological basis. [ Written also Arian. ] [ PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make Aryan (a language, or in language). K. Johnston. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be assayed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Aurum + cyanide. ] (Chem.) A double cyanide of gold and some other metal or radical; -- called also cyanaurate. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Pg. aia, akin to Sp. aya a governess, ayo a tutor. ] A native nurse for children; also, a lady's maid. [ India ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Banian. ] (Bot.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A yard belonging to a barn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Basi- + Gr. υ (the letter “upsilon”); from the shape. ] (Anat.) Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted hyoid arch. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to bathymetry. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) The East Indian weaver bird (Ploceus Philippinus). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., from Pg. bailadeira a female dancer, bailar to dance. ] A female dancer in the East Indies. [ Written also bajadere. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Meteor.) A violent thunder squall occurring on the south coast of Cuba, esp. near Bayamo. The gusts, called bayamo winds, are modified foehn winds. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. [ OF. bayard, baiart, bay horse; bai bay + -ard. See Bay, a., and -ard. ] Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blind bayard moves the mill. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. F. bayeur, fr. bayer to gape. ] A stupid, clownish fellow. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Blind; stupid. [ Obs. ] “A formal and bayardly round of duties.” Goodman. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ Ar. bayad. ] (Zool.) A large, edible, siluroid fish of the Nile, of two species (Bagrina bayad and Bagrina docmac). [ 1913 Webster ]

Woolen yarn. [ Prov. Eng. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Pain in the bowels; colic. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. to complain, especially in a whining or grumbling manner; to gripe.
Syn. -- gripe, whine, complain, moan, snivel, grumble, squawk. [ PJC + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a person who complains habitually, usually about everyday minor problems.
Syn. -- whiner, complainer, moaner, sniveler, crybaby, grumbler, squawker. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genus of North American spring wildflowers.
Syn. -- genus Besseya. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>n. The act or the result of betraying. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Dicyanide. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Biscay in Spain. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Biscay. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Russ. boiárin'. ] A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ English writers sometimes call Russian landed proprietors boyars. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Boyaux or Boyaus [ F. boyau gut, a long and narrow place, and (of trenches) a branch. See Bowel. ] (Fort.) A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Buoyancy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Buoyancies 1. The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such are buoyancies or displacements of the different classes of her majesty's ships. Eng. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy of spirits. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Buoy, v. t. & i. ] 1. Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury. “Buoyant on the flood.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier. [ 1913 Webster ]

The water under me was buoyant. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits. -- Buoy"ant*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines. [ 1913 Webster ]

A valuable kind of Peruvian bark obtained from the Cinchona Calisaya, and other closely related species. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] 1. A small cañon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley. [ Local, Western U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dry riverbed. [ PJC ]

n. [ Corrupted fr. cariole. ] A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to a caryatid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Caryatids [ See Caryatides. ] (Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; (&unr_;) priestesses in the temple of Diana (the Greek Artemis) at Caryæ (Gr. &unr_;), a village in Laconia; as an architectural term, caryatids. ] (Arch) Caryatids. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Corresponding male figures were called Atlantes, Telamones, and Persians. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any orchid of the genus Cattleya characterized by a hood-shaped three-lobed lip enclosing the column; they are among the most popular and most extravagantly beautiful orchids known. Called also cattleya orchid. [ WordNet 1.5 ]