n. [ L. anadema, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to wreathe; &unr_; up + &unr_; to bind. ] A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath. Drayton. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; + &unr_; to double, &unr_;, &unr_;, twofold, double. ] (Rhet.) A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, “He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. anadrome. ] (Zool.) A fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; running upward; &unr_; + &unr_; a running, &unr_; to run. ] 1. (Zool.) Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Tending upwards; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem. D. C. Eaton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Bastinado, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bastinado. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Bastinadoes [ Sp. bastonada (cf. F. bastonnade), fr. baston (cf. F. bâton) a stick or staff. See Baston. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A blow with a stick or cudgel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bastinadoed p. pr. & vb. n. Bastinadoing. ] To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet. [ 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. A country in North America, bordering the United States on the north. It is a federation which includes English-speaking provinces and the French-speaking Province of Quebec. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Canada balsam. See under Balsam. --
Canada goose. (Zool.) See Wild goose. --
Canada jay. See Whisky Jack. --
Canada lynx. (Zool.) See Lynx. --
Canada lily. (Bot.) a plant of eastern North America (Lilium canadense) having yellow or orange flowers with dark spots; called also meadow lily. RHUD --
Canada porcupine (Zool.) See Porcupine, and Urson. --
Canada rice (Bot.) See under Rick. --
Canada robin (Zool.), the cedar bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

Canadian period (Geol.), A subdivision of the American Lower Silurian system embracing the calciferous, Quebec, and Chazy epochs. This period immediately follows the primordial or Cambrian period, and is by many geologists regarded as the beginning of the Silurian age, See the Diagram, under Geology. --
Canadian goose, an erroneous variant of Canada goose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. Canonnade; cf. It. cannanata. ] 1. The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. [ 1913 Webster ]

A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted towm. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blue Walden rolls its cannonade. Ewerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cannonade; p. pr. & vb. n. Cannonading. ] To attack with heavy artillery; to batter with cannon shot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To discharge cannon; as, the army cannonaded all day. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Carbonadoed p. pr. & vb. n. Carbonadoing. ] 1. To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A short-legged hen daintily carbonadoed. Bean. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cut or hack, as in fighting. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll so carbonado your shanks. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. carbonnade, It. carbonata, Sp. carbonada, from L. carbo coal. ] (Cookery) Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Carbonadoes [ Pg., carbonated. ] (Min.) A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Carron, in Scotland where it was first made. ] (Med.) A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. casson, for caisson a large chest. This sugar comes from Brazil in large chests. ] Raw sugar; sugar not refined. Mc Elrath. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. kata` down + 'ana` up + dro`mos running, course. ] (Zool.) Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of green algae some of which are colored red by hematochrome.
Syn. -- family Chlamydomonadaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. colonnade, It. colonnata, fr. colonna column. See Colonel. ] (Arch.) A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ When in front of a building, it is called a portico; when surrounding a building or an open court or square, a peristyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having a series of columns arranged at regular intervals; furnished with a colonnade. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. cottonade. ] A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. dragon dragoon, because Louis XIV., in persecuting the Protestants of his kingdom, quartered dragoons upon them. ] The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade. [ 1913 Webster ]

He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands. C. Kingsley.

n. See Dragonnade. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; 'epi` + &unr_; to make double. ] (Rhet.) A figure by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence; as, “Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.” Phil. iv. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. esplanade, Sp. esplanada, explanada, cf. It. spianata; fr. Sp. explanar to level, L. explanare to flatten or spread out. See Explain. ] 1. (Fort.) (a) A clear space between a citadel and the nearest houses of the town. Campbell (Mil. Dict. ). (b) The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Hort.) A grass plat; a lawn. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any clear, level space used for public walks or drives; esp., a terrace by the seaside. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. fanfaronnade, fr. Sp. fanfarronada. See Fanfaron. ] A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Fencing) A thrust in the side. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) A type of hand grenade designed to burst into multiple fragments upon detonation of the explosive charge; the fragments fly away at high velocity, killing or wounding persons nearby. Contrasted to concussion grenade. The common type of fragmentation grenade used by the American military was sometimes jocosely referred to as a pineapple from its reticulated surface appearance, resembling that of the fruit. [ PJC ]

n. [ F. gabionnade. ] 1. (Fort.) A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A structure of gabions sunk in lines, as a core for a sand bar in harbor improvements. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. See Gabionade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gasconnade, from Gascon an inhabitant of Gascony, the people of which were noted for boasting. ] A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Gasconaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Gasconading. ] To boast; to brag; to bluster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A great boaster; a blusterer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Gonads [ Gr. &unr_; that which generates. ] (Anat.) One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland. Wiedersheim. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiology) A hormone secreted by the pituitary gland and placenta, which stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity.
Syn. -- gonadotropic hormone. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Sp., dim. of granada pomegranate. See Grenade, Garnet. ] (Bot.) The fruit of certain species of passion flower (esp. Passiflora quadrangularis) found in Brazil and the West Indies. It is as large as a child's head, and is a good dessert fruit. The fruit of Passiflora edulis is used for flavoring ices. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A West Indian tree (Brya ebenus) yielding a fine grade of green ebony.
Syn. -- granadilla tree, Brya ebenus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. See Grenade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. grenade a pomegranate, a grenade, or Sp. granada; orig., filled with seeds. So called from the resemblance of its shape to a pomegranate. See Carnet, Grain a kernel, and cf. Pomegranate. ] (Min.) A hollow ball or shell of iron filled with powder of other explosive, ignited by means of a fuse, and thrown from the hand among enemies. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hand grenade. (a) A small grenade of iron or glass, usually about two and a half inches in diameter, to be thrown from the hand into the head of a sap, trenches, covered way, or upon besiegers mounting a breach. (b) A portable fire extinguisher consisting of a glass bottle containing water and gas. It is thrown into the flames. Called also fire grenade. --
Rampart grenades, grenades of various sizes, which, when used, are rolled over the pararapet in a trough. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to Grenada; as, the Grenadian capital. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Grenada; as, Grenadian troops. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a native or inhabitant of Grenada. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. grenadier. See Grenade. ] 1. (Mil.) Originaly, a soldier who carried and threw grenades; afterward, one of a company attached to each regiment or battalion, taking post on the right of the line, and wearing a peculiar uniform. In modern times, a member of a special regiment or corps; as, a grenadier of the guard of Napoleon I. one of the regiment of Grenadier Guards of the British army, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The feats of grenadiers have been memorialized in song, as in the following: (for the melody see https://web.archive.org/web/20040202232801/http://www.acronet.net/~robokopp/english.html)

ca. 18th Century

The British Grenadiers

2. (Zool.) Any marine fish of the genus Macrurus, in which the body and tail taper to a point; they mostly inhabit the deep sea; -- called also onion fish, and rat-tail fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A bright-colored South African grosbeak (Pyromelana orix), having the back red and the lower parts black. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. granadillo. ] A handsome tropical American wood, much used for making flutes and other wind instruments; -- called also Grenada cocos, or cocus, and red ebony. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] 1. A thin gauzelike fabric of silk or wool, for women's wear. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A trade name for a dyestuff, consisting essentially of impure fuchsine.

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n. Same as Grenade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A genus of North American terrestrial orchids usually included in the genus Habenaria.
Syn. -- genus Gymnadeniopsis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. arleguinade. ] A play or part of a play in which the harlequin is conspicuous; the part of a harlequin. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]