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n. [ Anamorphosis + -scope. ] An instrument for restoring a picture or image distorted by anamorphosis to its normal proportions. It usually consists of a cylindrical mirror. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to form anew; &unr_; again + &unr_; to form; morfh` form. ] 1. (Persp.) A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) Same as Anamorphism, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) A morbid or monstrous development, or change of form, or degeneration. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Anamorphosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'an priv. + 'orqo`s straight + -scope. ] (Physics) An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. anorthose triclinic feldspar (fr. Gr. 'an priv. + 'orqo`s straight) + -ite. ] (Petrol.) A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda-lime feldspar, usually labradorite. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Transformation into the form of a human being. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_; to sew together. ] Seamless. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ba`qos depth, fr. baqy`s deep. ] (Rhet.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. be`nqos depth of the sea. ] The bottom of the sea, esp. of the deep oceans; hence (Bot. & Zool.), the fauna and flora of the sea bottom; -- opposed to plankton. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. A sweet wine. See Calcavella. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a native or inhabitant of Czechoslovakia; a Czechoslovakian.
Syn. -- Czechoslovakian, Czech. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n.; pl. Choses [ F., fr. L. causa cause, reason. See Cause. ] (Law) A thing; personal property. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chose in action, a thing of which one has not possession or actual enjoyment, but only a right to it, or a right to demand it by action at law, and which does not exist at the time in specie; a personal right to a thing not reduced to possession, but recoverable by suit at law; as a right to recover money due on a contract, or damages for a tort, which can not be enforced against a reluctant party without suit. --
Chose in possession, a thing in possession, as distinguished from a thing in action. --
Chose local, a thing annexed to a place, as a mill. --
Chose transitory, a thing which is movable. Cowell. Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Choose. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Choose. Selected from a number; picked out; choice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Seven hundred chosen men left-handed. Judg. xx. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Cirrose. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; orange-colored: cf. F. cirrhose. So called from the yellowish appearance which the diseased liver often presents when cut. ] (Med.) A disease of the liver in which it usually becomes smaller in size and more dense and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimes applied to similar changes in other organs, caused by increase in the fibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance of the organ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actæa, plants of the Crowfoot family. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. adj. Of or pertaining to Czechoslovakia. Since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech republic and Slovakia in January 1993, this term no longer refers to any current country.
Syn. -- Czechoslovak, Czech. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the inhabitants of Czechoslovakia or the Czech Republic; as, the Czech population.
Syn. -- Czechoslovak, Czech. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. a native or inhabitant of Czechoslovakia. Since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech republic and Slovakia in January 1993, this term no longer refers to a citizen of any current country. The natives of the former Czechoslovakia are now Czechs or Slovaks.
Syn. -- Chechoslovak, Czech. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. The act of freeing from phosphorous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, sound + -scope. ] (Med.) An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an extinct heavy-bodied reptile of the late Paleozoic having a dorsal sail or crest. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; 'epi` + &unr_; to set right again; &unr_; again + &unr_; to set straight. ] A figure by which a speaker recalls a word or words, in order to substitute something else stronger or more significant; as, Most brave! Brave, did I say? most heroic act! [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; character. See Ethic. ] 1. The character, sentiment, or disposition of a community or people, considered as a natural endowment; the spirit which actuates manners and customs; also, the characteristic tone or genius of an institution or social organization. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (esthetics) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character -- character as influenced by the ethos (sense 1) of a people -- rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; -- opposed to pathos. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ , a. Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Fluo- + phosphate. ] (Chem.) A double salt of fluoric and phosphoric acids. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Chosen beforehand. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. gāst breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. gēst spirit, soul, D. geest, G. geist, and prob. to E. gaze, ghastly. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The spirit; the soul of man. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I thought that I had died in sleep,
And was a blessed ghost. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Poe. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ghost moth (Zool.), a large European moth (Hepialus humuli); so called from the white color of the male, and the peculiar hovering flight; -- called also great swift. --
Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; (Theol.) the third person in the Trinity. --
To give up the ghost or
To yield up the ghost, to die; to expire. [ 1913 Webster ]

And he gave up the ghost full softly. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. Gen. xlix. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To die; to expire. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A religious dance of the North American Indians, participated in by both sexes, and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is, through trance and vision, to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends. The dance is the chief rite of the
Ghost-dance, or
Messiah,
religion, which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka, the Indian Messiah, who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race, the dead with the living, should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth. The religion inculcates peace, righteousness, and work, and holds that in good time, without warlike intervention, the oppressive white rule will be removed by the higher powers. The religion spread through a majority of the western tribes of the United States, only in the case of the Sioux, owing to local causes, leading to an outbreak. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without life or spirit. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a ghost; ghastly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being ghostly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. gastlich, gostlich, AS. gāstlic. See Ghost. ] 1. Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. Book of Common Prayer [ Ch. of Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

One of the gostly children of St. Jerome. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to apparitions. Akenside. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Spiritually; mystically. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ghost lore. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To write (a book, article, speech, etc.) for someone else; -- the written material appears under the name of the person for whom it was written.
Syn. -- ghost. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who ghost-writes (a book, article, etc.) for someone else. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. gna`qos the jaw + &unr_; a roof. ] (Zool.) One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. gna`qos the jaw + &unr_;, &unr_;, the mouth. ] (Zool.) A comprehensive division of vertebrates, including all that have distinct jaws, in contrast with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them. [ Written also Gnathostomata. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, prop., a bolting together, fr. &unr_; to fasten with bolts or nails, &unr_; bolt, nail: cf. F. gomphose. ] (Anat.) A form of union or immovable articulation where a hard part is received into the cavity of a bone, as the teeth into the jaws. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. gra`fein to write + -scope. ] 1. An optical instrument for magnifying engravings, photographs, etc., usually having one large lens and two smaller ones. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An optical device for showing (or photographing) an image when projected upon the atmosphere as a screen. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Hosannas [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. Heb. hōshī'āh nnāsave now, save, we pray, hōshīa' to save (Hiphil, a causative form, of yāsha') + nā, a particle. ] A Hebrew exclamation of praise to the Lord, or an invocation of blessings. “Hosanna to the Highest.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hosanna to the Son of David. Matt. xxi. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Hose, formerly Hosen [ AS. hose; akin to D. hoos, G. hose breeches, OHG. hosa, Icel. hosa stocking, gather, Dan. hose stocking; cf. Russ. koshulia a fur jacket. ] 1. Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee. [ 1913 Webster ]

These men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments. Dan. iii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A flexible pipe, made of leather, India rubber, or other material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hose carriage,
Hose cart, or
Hose truck, a wheeled vehicle fitted for conveying hose for extinguishing fires. --
Hose company, a company of men appointed to bring and manage hose in the extinguishing of fires. [ U.S. ] --
Hose coupling, coupling with interlocking parts for uniting hose, end to end. --
Hose wrench, a spanner for turning hose couplings, to unite or disconnect them. [ 1913 Webster ]