v. t. [ L. ablactatus, p. p. of ablactare; ab + lactare to suckle, fr. lac milk. ] To wean. [ R. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam. Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Hort.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ad + E. ambulacral. ] (Zool.) Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ Gr. 'agalakti`a; 'a priv. + ga`la, gala`ktos ] (Med.) Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Lacking milk to suckle with. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. [ Prob. from ah! lack! OE. lak loss, failure, misfortune. See Lack. ] An exclamation expressive of sorrow. [ Archaic. or Poet. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. [ For alack the day. Cf. Lackaday. ] An exclamation expressing sorrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Shakespeare has “alack the day” and “alack the heavy day.” Compare “woe worth the day.” [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. alacer, alacris, lively + -fly. ] To rouse to action; to inspirit. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alacer, alacris. ] Brisk; joyously active; lively. [ 1913 Webster ]

'T were well if we were a little more alacrious. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With alacrity; briskly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Alacrity. [ Obs. ] Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. alacritas, fr. alacer lively, eager, prob. akin to Gr. &unr_; to drive, Goth. aljan zeal. ] A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have not that alacrity of spirit,
Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

See under Lace. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Ambulacrum + -form ] (Zool.) Having the form of ambulacra. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Ambulacra [ L., an alley or covered way. ] (Zool.) (a) One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays. (b) One of the suckers on the feet of mites. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ampullaceus, fr. ampulla. ] Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling. Kirby. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ampullaceous sac (Zool.), one of the peculiar cavities in the tissues of sponges, containing the zooidal cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Akin to, or derived from, the almond. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. amylum starch, Gr. &unr_;. See Amidin. ] Pertaining to starch; of the nature of starch; starchy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. fld>(Med.) Of or pertaining to anaphylaxis; caused by anaphylaxis. [ PJC ]

n. fld>(Med.) Shock resulting from anaphylaxis{ 2 }. It is a severe form of physiological shock, often having a fatal outcome, and is caused by an extreme immunological reaction to antigens. It is characterized by smooth muscle contraction and capillary dilation throughout the body, initiated by antibodies of the IgE class. It is usually seen when an antigen to which a person has become hypersensitized is injected intravenously or subcutaneously. It is also called generalyzed anaphylaxis or systemic anaphylaxis, and sometimes anaphylaxis. [ Stedman ] [ PJC + AS ]

n. Same as Anlace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Origin unknown. ] A broad dagger formerly worn at the girdle. [ Written also anelace. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Away from the ambulacral region. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. discriminatory against black people; opposed to black people
Syn. -- racist [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. See Appalachian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. a- + placental. ] Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. pl. [ Pref. a- not + placenta. ] (Zool.) Mammals which have no placenta. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_; a flat cake + fe`rein to bear. ] (Zool.) A division of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setæ, but is without shelly plates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. one of the aplacophora; a deep-water wormlike mollusk lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine limy spicules on the covering mantle.
Syn. -- solenogaster [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name Appalachian was given to the mountains by the Spaniards under De Soto, who derived it from the neighboring Indians. Am. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. argillaceus, fr. argilla. ] Of the nature of clay; consisting of, or containing, argil or clay; clayey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Argillaceous sandstone (Geol.), a sandstone containing much clay. --
Argillaceous iron ore, the clay ironstone. --
Argillaceous schist or
state. See Argillite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a family designation used in some classifications for the genus Azolla.
Syn. -- family Azollaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Malay bālachān. ] A condiment formed of small fishes or shrimps, pounded up with salt and spices, and then dried. It is much esteemed in China. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. close-fitting and woolen and covers all of the head but the face.
Syn. -- balaclava helmet. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Belaced ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To fasten, as with a lace or cord. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cover or adorn with lace. [ Obs. ] Beaumont. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To beat with a strap. See Lace. [ Obs. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ It. beneplacito pleasure, fr. L. bene well + placitus pleasing. ] 1. At or during pleasure. [ 1913 Webster ]

For our English judges there never was . . . any bene placito as their tenure. F. Harrison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) At pleasure; ad libitum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a natural family of monoecious trees and shrubs, including the genera Betula; Alnus; Carpinus; Corylus; Ostrya; and Ostryopsis.
Syn. -- family Betulaceae, birch family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + laciniate. ] Doubly fringed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense. “The birthplace of valor.” Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. blak, AS. blæc; akin to Icel. blakkr dark, swarthy, Sw. bläck ink, Dan. blæk, OHG. blach, LG. & D. blaken to burn with a black smoke. Not akin to AS. blāc, E. bleak pallid. √98. ] 1. Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes. [ 1913 Webster ]

O night, with hue so black! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds. [ 1913 Webster ]

I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible. “This day's black fate.” “Black villainy.” “Arise, black vengeance.” “Black day.” “Black despair.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Black is often used in self-explaining compound words; as, black-eyed, black-faced, black-haired, black-visaged. [ 1913 Webster ]

Black act, the English statute 9 George I, which makes it a felony to appear armed in any park or warren, etc., or to hunt or steal deer, etc., with the face blackened or disguised. Subsequent acts inflicting heavy penalties for malicious injuries to cattle and machinery have been called black acts. --
Black angel (Zool.), a fish of the West Indies and Florida (Holacanthus tricolor), with the head and tail yellow, and the middle of the body black. --
Black antimony (Chem.), the black sulphide of antimony, Sb2S3, used in pyrotechnics, etc. --
Black bear (Zool.), the common American bear (Ursus Americanus). --
Black beast. See Bête noire. --
Black beetle (Zool.), the common large cockroach (Blatta orientalis). --
Black bonnet (Zool.), the black-headed bunting (Embriza Schœniclus) of Europe. --
Black canker, a disease in turnips and other crops, produced by a species of caterpillar. --
Black cat (Zool.), the fisher, a quadruped of North America allied to the sable, but larger. See Fisher. --
Black cattle, any bovine cattle reared for slaughter, in distinction from dairy cattle. [ Eng. ] --
Black cherry. See under Cherry. --
Black cockatoo (Zool.), the palm cockatoo. See Cockatoo. --
Black copper. Same as Melaconite. --
Black currant. (Bot.) See Currant. --
Black diamond. (Min.) See Carbonado. --
Black draught (Med.), a cathartic medicine, composed of senna and magnesia. --
Black drop (Med.), vinegar of opium; a narcotic preparation consisting essentially of a solution of opium in vinegar. --
Black earth, mold; earth of a dark color. Woodward. --
Black flag, the flag of a pirate, often bearing in white a skull and crossbones; a signal of defiance. --
Black flea (Zool.), a flea beetle (Haltica nemorum) injurious to turnips. --
Black flux, a mixture of carbonate of potash and charcoal, obtained by deflagrating tartar with half its weight of niter. Brande & C. --
Black Forest [ a translation of G. Schwarzwald ], a forest in Baden and Würtemburg, in Germany; a part of the ancient Hercynian forest. --
Black game, or
Black grouse. (Zool.) See Blackcock, Grouse, and Heath grouse. --
Black grass (Bot.), a grasslike rush of the species Juncus Gerardi, growing on salt marshes, and making good hay. --
Black gum (Bot.), an American tree, the tupelo or pepperidge. See Tupelo. --
Black Hamburg (grape) (Bot.), a sweet and juicy variety of dark purple or “black” grape. --
Black horse (Zool.), a fish of the Mississippi valley (Cycleptus elongatus), of the sucker family; the Missouri sucker. --
Black lemur (Zool.), the Lemurniger of Madagascar; the acoumbo of the natives. --
Black list, a list of persons who are for some reason thought deserving of censure or punishment; -- esp. a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, made for the protection of tradesmen or employers. See Blacklist, v. t. --
Black manganese (Chem.), the black oxide of manganese, MnO2. --
Black Maria, the close wagon in which prisoners are carried to or from jail. --
Black martin (Zool.), the chimney swift. See Swift. --
Black moss (Bot.), the common so-called long moss of the southern United States. See Tillandsia. --
Black oak. See under Oak. --
Black ocher. See Wad. --
Black pigment, a very fine, light carbonaceous substance, or lampblack, prepared chiefly for the manufacture of printers' ink. It is obtained by burning common coal tar. --
Black plate, sheet iron before it is tinned. Knight. --
Black quarter, malignant anthrax with engorgement of a shoulder or quarter, etc., as of an ox. --
Black rat (Zool.), one of the species of rats (Mus rattus), commonly infesting houses. --
Black rent. See Blackmail, n., 3. --
Black rust, a disease of wheat, in which a black, moist matter is deposited in the fissures of the grain. --
Black sheep, one in a family or company who is unlike the rest, and makes trouble. --
Black silver. (Min.) See under Silver. --
Black and tan, black mixed or spotted with tan color or reddish brown; -- used in describing certain breeds of dogs. --
Black tea. See under Tea. --
Black tin (Mining), tin ore (cassiterite), when dressed, stamped and washed, ready for smelting. It is in the form of a black powder, like fine sand. Knight. --
Black walnut. See under Walnut. --
Black warrior (Zool.), an American hawk (Buteo Harlani). [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Dark; murky; pitchy; inky; somber; dusky; gloomy; swart; Cimmerian; ebon; atrocious. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black. [ 1913 Webster ]

Black is the badge of hell,
The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A black pigment or dye. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A black garment or dress; as, she wears black; pl. (Obs.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery. [ 1913 Webster ]

Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers. Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black. [ 1913 Webster ]

The black or sight of the eye. Sir K. Digby. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A stain; a spot; a smooch. [ 1913 Webster ]

Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust. Rowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Black and white, writing or print; as, I must have that statement in black and white. --
Blue black, a pigment of a blue black color. --
Ivory black, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. When ground it is the chief ingredient of the ink used in copperplate printing. --
Berlin black. See under Berlin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Blacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Blacking. ] [ See Black, a., and cf. Blacken. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully. [ 1913 Webster ]

They have their teeth blacked, both men and women, for they say a dog hath his teeth white, therefore they will black theirs. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sins which black thy soul. J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Black + Moor. ] A negro or negress. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the dark color of a bruise in the flesh, which is accompanied with a mixture of blue. “To pinch the slatterns black and blue.” Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. discolored by or as if by bruising; -- of skin. livid bruises
Syn. -- livid. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. print or writing, especially the result of the printing process.
Syn. -- print. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. (Photography, Imaging; Printing) depicted only in black and white colors, or in shades of gray; also called monochromatic and monochrome; -- of images. Opposite of color or in color, and contrasting with polychrome technicolor three-color; as, a black-and-white TV; black-and-white film; the movie “Schindler's List” was shot in black and white.
Syn. -- black and white, monochromatic, monochrome. [ WordNet 1.5 ]