n. One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors. [ 1913 Webster ]
Dull and addle-pated. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Corrupted fr. another-gates. ] Of another kind. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who ascertains. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ F., fr. aubain an alien, fr. L. alibi elsewhere. ] Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized. Littré. [ 1913 Webster ]
Droit d'aubaine
n. [ OF. bargaigné, p. p. See Bargain, v. i. ] (Law) The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a chemical substance obtainable as a white crystalline ester (
n. [ From beta, generic name of the beet. ] (Chem.) A nitrogenous base,
adj. stained with blood;
p. a. Supplied with brains. [ 1913 Webster ]
If th' other two be brained like us. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a white crystalline ester (
n. (Chem.) The essential principle of cacao; -- now called
adj. bound with chains;
n. [ F. châtelaine the wife of a castellan, the mistress of a chateau, a chatelaine chain. ] An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively;
[ Its name is supposed to be derived from the similarity of the effects it gives to those of a picture by Claude Lorrain (often written Lorraine). ] A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Stupid. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells.
a. Having a coarse grain or texture, as wood; hence, wanting in refinement. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Chem.) A powerful narcotic alkaloid,
a. Giddy; rash. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer. Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]
Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed;
adv. By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who constrains. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n. the quantity that a container will hold. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n. placed and transported in a container{ 2 }. [ PJC ]
n. [ OE. cordwaner, cordiner, fr. OF. cordoanier, cordouanier, F. cordonnier. ] A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker. [ Archaic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon. [ 1913 Webster ]
She was none of your crossgrained, termagant, scolding jades. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies;
n. [ See Muslin delaine, under Muslin. ] A kind of fabric for women's dresses. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
a. Disdainful. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Revenge the jeering and disdained contempt
Of this proud king. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Freed from restraint; unrestrained. [ Archaic ] E. A. Poe. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Same as Distrainor. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ F. ] (Zool.) The missel thrush. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. having lost much energy or emotion from vigorous activity; -- of people;
to go down the drain
n. One who, or that which, drains. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Stupid; doltish. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. p. p. of entertain.
n.
n. One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.
The mask of sneering faineance was gone. C. Kingsley. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
. A deity believed to be real but conceived as not acting in human affairs, hence not worshiped. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]