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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. Capable of being acted. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 baneberry.
Syn. -- genus Actaea [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being attracted; subject to attraction. -- At*tract"a*ble*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. (Bot.) Belonging to, or like, the family of plants of which the prickly pear is a common example. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;. See Catallactics. ] (Zool.) A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphæra is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. capable of being transmitted by infection; same as communicable, 1; -- of disease.
Syn. -- catching, communicable, contagious, transmissible, transmittable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Pref. de- + L. lactare to suck milk, from lac milk. ] The act of weaning. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Capable of being extracted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, milk + &unr_; to lead. ] (Med.) An agent exciting secretion of milk. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. Not perceptible to the touch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. intractabilis: cf. F. intraitable, formerly also intractable. See In- not, and Tractable. ] Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child.

Syn. -- Stubborn; perverse; obstinate; refractory; cross; unmanageable; unruly; headstrong; violent; ungovernable; unteachable.

-- In*tract"a*ble*ness, n. -- In*tract"a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. jactantia, fr. jactans, p. pr. of jactare to throw, boast, freq. fr. jacere to throw; cf. F. jactance. ] A boasting; a bragging. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. jactatio, fr. jactare: af. F. jactation. See Jactancy. ] A throwing or tossing of the body; a shaking or agitation. Sir. W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. lac, lactis, milk: cf. F. laitage. See Lacteal. ] The produce of animals yielding milk; milk and that which is made from it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Lactone + amido. ] (Chem.) One of a series of anhydrides of an amido type, analogous to the lactones, as oxindol; a cyclic amide. [ 1913 Webster ]

beta-lactam or
β-lactam, (a) a lactam in which the amide bond is contained within a four-membered ring, which includes the amide nitrogen and the carbonyl carbon. (b) an antibiotic containing a beta-lactam, such as a penicillin, cephalosporin, or carbapenem; also called a beta-lactam antibiotic. [ informal, laboratory slang ] [ PJC ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an amido acid related to lactic acid, and called also amido-propionic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Lactic + amide. ] (Chem.) An acid amide derived from lactic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance having a neutral reaction. It is metameric with alanine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. lactans, p. pr. of lactare to suck, fr. lac, lactis, milk. ] Suckling; giving suck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. lac, lactis, milk. ] A preparation of casein from milk, used in printing calico. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. lactarius, fr. lac, lactis, milk: cf. F. lactaire. ] Milky; full of white juice like milk. [ Obs. ] “Lactary or milky plants.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a dairyhouse. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. lac, lactis, milk: cf. F. lactate. ] (Chem.) A salt of lactic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. actively producing milk; -- of female mammals. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. The secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland; giving suck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. mactatio, fr. macture to slay, sacrifice. ] The act of killing a victim for sacrifice. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) Defective flow or vitiated condition of the milk. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. not able to be drawn into the main body; -- of claws and other extensile parts of animals or objects; as, a bear's claws, unlike a cat's, are nonretractile. Opposite of retractile. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ React + -ance. ] (Elec.) The influence of a coil of wire upon an alternating current passing through it, tending to choke or diminish the current, or the similar influence of a condenser; inductive resistance. Reactance is measured in ohms. The reactance of a circuit is equal to the component of the impressed electro-motive force at right angles to the current divided by the current, that is, the component of the impedance due to the self-inductance or capacity of the circuit. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Elec.) A choking coil. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Capable of being refracted. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. rétractable. ] Capable of being retracted; retractile. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. retractatus, p. p. of retractare. See Retract. ] To retract; to recant. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. rétractation, L. retractatio a revision, reconsideration. ] The act of retracting what has been said; recantation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Saccholactic. ] (Chem.) A salt of saccholactic acid; -- formerly called also saccholate. [ Obs. ] See Mucate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being touched; tangible. [ R. ] “They [ women ] being created to be both tractable and tactable.” Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. tractabilitas: cf.F. tractabilite. ] The quality or state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. tractabilis, fr, tractare to draw violently, to handle, treat. See Treat, v. t. ] 1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner. [ 1913 Webster ]

I shall find them tractable enough. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures. [ Obs. ] Holder. [ 1913 Webster ]

--Tract"a*ble*ness, n. -- Tract"a/bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the Tractarians, or their principles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Ch. of England) One of the writers of the Oxford tracts, called “Tracts for the Times, ” issued during the period 1833-1841, in which series of papers the sacramental system and authority of the Church, and the value of tradition, were brought into prominence. Also, a member of the High Church party, holding generally the principles of the Tractarian writers; a Puseyite. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. (Ch. of England) The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the “Tracts for the Times.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. tractatus a touching, handling, treatise. See Tractable, and Tract a treatise, Treaty. ] A treatise; a tract; an essay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Agreeing in substance with Augustin's, from whose fourteenth Tractate on St. John the words are translated. Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. tractatio. ] Treatment or handling of a subject; discussion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A full tractation of the points controverted. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., a handler. ] One who writes tracts; specif., a Tractarian. [ R. ] C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]