*tast*

n. See Aleconner. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. anti- + asthmatic. ] (Med.) Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma. -- n. A remedy for asthma. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. anti- + asthmatic. ] (Med.) Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma. -- n. A remedy for asthma. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. a- + taste. ] To taste or cause to taste. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ It. capotasto. ] (Music) A sort of bar or movable nut, attached to the finger board of a guitar or other fretted instrument for the purpose of raising uniformly the pitch of all the strings. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to check; kata` down, wholy + &unr_; to set. ] (Med.) Checking evacuations through astringent or styptic qualities. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to set; kata` down + &unr_; to place. ] 1. (Rhet.) That part of a speech, usually the exordium, in which the orator sets forth the subject matter to be discussed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) The state, or condition of anything; constitution; habit of body. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to place among the stars. ] A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars. [ 1913 Webster ]

The catasterisms of Eratosthenes. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. catastropha, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to turn up and down, to overturn; kata` down + &unr_; to turn. ] 1. An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune. [ 1913 Webster ]

The strange catastrophe of affairs now at London. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

The most horrible and portentous catastrophe that nature ever yet saw. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Geol.) A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of a pertaining to a catastrophe. B. Powell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Geol.) The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; -- opposed to the doctrine of uniformism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Geol.) One who holds the theory or catastrophism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Discomfort; uneasiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger. [ 1913 Webster ]

On the part of Heaven,
Now alienated, distance and distaste. Milton.

Syn. -- Disrelish; disinclination; dislike; aversion; displeasure; dissatisfaction; disgust. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Distasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Distasting. ] 1. Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike. [ 1913 Webster ]

Although my will distaste what it elected. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To offend; to disgust; to displease. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He thought in no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons,
Which at the are scarce found to distaste. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Manifesting distaste or dislike; repulsive. “Distasteful looks.” Shak.

Syn. -- Nauseous; unsavory; unpalatable; offensive; displeasing; dissatisfactory; disgusting.

- Dis*taste"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*taste"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to excite distaste. [ Obs. ] -- n. That which excites distaste or aversion. [ Obs. ] Whitlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Something which excites distaste or disgust. [ Obs. ] Speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Formed as if fr. (assumed) Gr. &unr_;. See Entasis. ] (Med.) Relating to any disease characterized by tonic spasms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One whose manners or ideas are fantastic. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. fantastique, fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; able to represent, fr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to make visible. See Fancy. ] 1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque. [ 1913 Webster ]

There at the foot of yonder nodding beech,
That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. T. Gray.

Syn. -- Fanciful; imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; queer. See Fanciful. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to draw it out to be seen. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fantastically. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a fantastic manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Fantastically. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fantasticalness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. ] A fantastic. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To taste before another. “Foretasted fruit.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who tastes beforehand, or before another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hepta- + Gr. sti`chos line, verse. ] (Pros.) A composition consisting of seven lines or verses. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory. [ R. ] Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. (&unr_;) down + (&unr_;) to cause to stand. ] (Physiol.) A substance formed by a catabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See catabolic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Poetaster. ] One who has but a smattering of Latin. Walker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of metastannic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a compound of tin (metastannic acid), obtained, as an isomeric modification of stannic acid, in the form of a white amorphous substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Metastases [ L., transition, fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to place in another way; &unr_; after + &unr_; to place. ] 1. (Theol.) A spiritual change, as during baptism. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A change in the location of a disease, as from one part to another. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Especially: The migration of cancerous or malignant cells from the site of their origin to other parts of the body. Such cells may migrate to multiple new locations, making therapy more difficult and often leading to death. [ PJC ]

4. (Physiol.) The act or process by which matter is taken up by cells or tissues and is transformed into other matter; in plants, the act or process by which are produced all of those chemical changes in the constituents of the plant which are not accompanied by a production of organic matter; metabolism. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. to spread from one part of the body to other parts, and grow there; to spread by metastasis{ 3 }; -- said of cancer cells. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth; a metastatic tumor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the metasternum. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Pref. meta- + sternum. ] 1. (Anat.) The most posterior element of the sternum; the ensiform process; xiphisternum. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The ventral plate of the third or last segment of the thorax of insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL. metastoma, from Gr. meta` behind + sto`ma mouth. ] (Zool.) A median elevation behind the mouth in the arthropods. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Octostyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. pa^s, panto`s, all + sto`ma, sto`matos, mouth. ] (Zool.) One of the divisions of Flagellata, including the monads and allied forms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; of five verses; &unr_; (see Penta-) + &unr_; line, verse. ] A composition consisting of five verses. [ 1913 Webster ]