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n. [ From the introducer, a German named Baunscheidt. ] (Med.) A form of acupuncture, followed by the rubbing of the part with a stimulating fluid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A tick or bag made of cloth, used for inclosing the materials of a bed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The time to go to bed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous; having a bloodlust. -- Blood"thirst`i*ness (&unr_;), n. [1913 Webster]

n. [ OE. brede, breede, whence later bredette, AS. br&aemacr_;du, fr. brād broad. See Broad, a. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fine Arts) The quality of having the colors and shadows broad and massive, and the arrangement of objects such as to avoid to great multiplicity of details, producing an impression of largeness and simple grandeur; -- called also breadth of effect.

Breadth of coloring is a prominent character in the painting of all great masters. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without breadth. [ 1913 Webster ]

ads. Breadthwise. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

ads. In the direction of the breadth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the fur of a very young karakul lamb. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; the lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur.
Syn. -- caracul, karakul. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Min.) A mineral consisting principally of silicate of iron, and crystallizing in hexagonal prisms with perfect basal cleavage; -- so named from the Swedish mineralogist Cronstedt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the length or breadth of a finger used as a linear measure.
Syn. -- finger, finger's breadth, digit. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not so much as a footbreadth. Deut. ii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Verdin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>. The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch. [ Also spelled hairsbreadth. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss. Judg. xx. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm. Ex. xxxvii. 12.
Syn. -- handsbreadth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand.
Syn. -- handbreath. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

or n. 1. A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of unleavened hard biscuit or sea bread. Called also pilot biscuit, pilot bread, ship biscuit and ship bread [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any of several mahogany trees, esp. the Cercocarpus betuloides. MW10 [ PJC ]

n. (Zool.) See Jurel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A headdress. “A headtire of fine linen.” 1 Esdras iii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The manner of dressing the head, as at a particular time and place. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of a hundred equal parts into which one whole is, or may be, divided; the quotient of a unit divided by a hundred. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G. See Land; Day. ] (Prussia.) The diet or legislative body; as, the Landtag of Prussia. See Legislature, below. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n.; pl. -drosten /plu>. Sometimes incorrectly . [ D., fr. land land + drost a kind of official; akin to G. truchsess. ] (In South Africa) (a) A chief magistrate in rural districts. He was replaced in 1827 by “resident magistrates.” (b) The president of the Heemraad. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. the middle of the gestation period. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The middle of an academic term or a political term in office. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. An examination given in the middle of an academic term; a midterm examination.
Syn. -- midterm examination, midterm exam, midterm. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) (a) The red-tailed hawk. (b) The European redstart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small Australian singing bird (Phyrrholaemus brunneus). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called also English grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A top; a platform at a masthead; -- so called because formerly round in shape. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. s&aemacr_;dtīma. ] The season proper for sowing. [ 1913 Webster ]

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease. Gen. viii. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any species of small burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidae, native of Ceylon and Southern Asia. They have a small mouth which can not be dilated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Prodigal; extravagant; wasteful. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Spendthrift; prodigal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. stadhouder; stad a city, a town + houder a holder. ] Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The office or position of a stadtholder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) The limulus. (b) Any hemipterous insect of the genus Uroxiphus, found upon forest trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a thing for the thousandth time. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quotient of a unit divided by a thousand; one of a thousand equal parts into which a unit is divided. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not circumstantial; not entering into minute particulars. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not important; not pertinent; trivial. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ D. veld. Cf. Field, n. ] A region or tract of land; esp., the open field, thinly forested or with bushes and shrubs; grass country. [ South Africa ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Med.) An infective sore mostly on the hands and feet, often contracted in walking on the veldt and apparently due to a specific microorganism. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ From Wide. ] The quality of being wide; extent from side to side; breadth; wideness; as, the width of cloth; the width of a door. [ 1913 Webster ]