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n. Ivory black or animal charcoal. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. Abashed; confounded; discomfited. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. ele, F. aile, wing, wing of a building, L. ala, contr. fr. axilla. ] (Arch.) (a) A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall. (b) Improperly used also for the have; -- as in the phrases, a church with three aisles, the middle aisle. (c) Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into which the pews of a church open. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with an aisle or aisles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without an aisle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in algebra. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being appraised. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Appraise. Cf. Apprizal. ] A valuation by an authorized person; an appraisement. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Appraised p. pr. & vb. n. Appraising. ] [ Pref. ad- + praise. See Praise, Price, Apprize, Appreciate. ] 1. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To estimate; to conjecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

Enoch . . . appraised his weight. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To praise; to commend. [ Obs. ] R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

Appraised the Lycian custom. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the United States, this word is often pronounced, and sometimes written, apprize. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Appraise. Cf. Apprizement. ] The act of setting the value; valuation by an appraiser; estimation of worth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Appraise, Apprizer. ] One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To raise. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An idiom of the Aramaic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'archai:smo`s, fr. 'archai^os ancient, fr. 'archh` beginning: cf. F. archaïsme. See Arch, a. ] 1. An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness. [ 1913 Webster ]

A select vocabulary corresponding (in point of archaism and remoteness from ordinary use) to our Scriptural vocabulary. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Am antiquary. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who uses archaisms. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The religious tenets or practices of the Bahais. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. pl. [ F., fr. baiser to kiss + mains hands. ] Respects; compliments. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To praise greatly or extravagantly. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ F. ] Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the district around Bordeaux. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. braiser, fr. braise coals. ] (Cookery) To stew or broil in a covered kettle or pan. [ 1913 Webster ]

A braising kettle has a deep cover which holds coals; consequently the cooking is done from above, as well as below. Mrs. Henderson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kettle or pan for braising. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ So called from its iridescent colors. ] (Zool.) A European marine fish (Pagrus vulgaris) allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species. [ Also written brazier. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. [ F. ] 1. Charcoal powder; breeze. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Cookery) Braised meat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bourdelais, prob. fr. bordelais. See Bordelais. ] A sort of grape. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. caisse, case, chest. See 1st Case. ] 1. (Mil.) (a) A chest to hold ammunition. (b) A four-wheeled carriage for conveying ammunition, consisting of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber. Farrow. (c) A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (a) A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level. (b) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins. (c) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) A sunk panel of ceilings or soffits. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pneumatic caisson (Engin.), a caisson, closed at the top but open at the bottom, and resting upon the ground under water. The pressure of air forced into the caisson keeps the water out. Men and materials are admitted to the interior through an air lock. See Lock. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Med.) A disease frequently induced by remaining for some time in an atmosphere of high pressure, as in caissons, diving bells, etc. It is characterized by neuralgic pains and paralytic symptoms. It is caused by the release of bubbles of gas, usually nitrogen, from bodily fluids into the blood and tissues, when a person, having been in an environment with high air pressure, moves to a lower pressure environment too rapidly for the excess dissolved gases to be released through normal breathing. It may be fatal, but can be reversed or alleviated by returning the affected person to a high air pressure, and then gradually decreasing the pressure to allow the gases to be released from the body fluids. It is a danger well known to divers. It is also called the bends and decompression sickness. It can be prevented in divers by a slow return to normal pressure, or by using a breathing mixture of oxygen combined with a gas having low solubility in water, such as helium. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. [ F. chaise seat, or chair, chaise or carriage, for chaire, from a peculiar Parisian pronunciation. See Chair. ] 1. A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thorough-braces. It is usually drawn by one horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Loosely, a carriage in general. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An idiom or peculiarity in the Chaldee dialect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. complaisance. See Complaisant, and cf. Complacence. ] Disposition to please or oblige; obliging compliance with the wishes of others; a deportment indicative of a desire to please; courtesy; civility. [ 1913 Webster ]

These [ ladies ] . . . are by the just complaisance and gallantry of our nation the most powerful part of our people. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

They strive with their own hearts and keep them down,
In complaisance to all the fools in town. Young.

Syn. -- Civility; courtesy; urbanity; suavity; affability; good breeding. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. complaisant, p. pr. of complaire to acquiesce as a favor, fr. L. complacere. See Complacent. ] Desirous to please; courteous; obliging; compliant; as, a complaisant gentleman. [ 1913 Webster ]

There are to whom my satire seems too bold:
Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough. Pope.

Syn. -- Obliging; courteous; affable; gracious; civil; polite; well-bred. See Obliging.

-- Com"plai*sant`ly, adv. -- Com"plai*sant`ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Counterfesance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. deis, des, table, dais, OF. deis table, F. dais a canopy, L. discus a quoit, a dish (from the shape), LL., table, fr. Gr. &unr_; a quoit, a dish. See Dish. ] 1. The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A canopy over the seat of a person of dignity. [ Obs. ] Shiply. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of daisies; adorned with daisies. “The daisied green.” Langhorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

The grass all deep and daisied. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Daisies [ OE. dayesye, AS. dæges-eáge day's eye, daisy. See Day, and Eye. ] (Bot.) (a) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositæ. The common English and classical daisy is Bellis perennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays. (b) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word daisy is also used for composite plants of other genera, as Erigeron, or fleabane. [ 1913 Webster ]

Michaelmas daisy (Bot.), any plant of the genus Aster, of which there are many species. --
Oxeye daisy (Bot.), the whiteweed. See Daisy (b). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purple or blue rays.
Syn. -- . [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Naut.) Having a deep waist, as when, in a ship, the poop and forecastle are much elevated above the deck. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Blamable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dispraised p. pr. & vb. n. Dispraising. ] [ OE. dispreisen, OF. desprisier, despreisier, F. dépriser; pref. des- (L. dis-) + prisier, F. priser, to prize, praise. See Praise, and cf. Disprize, Depreciate. ] To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dispraising the power of his adversaries. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall in love with him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. despris. See Dispraise, v. t. ] The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

In praise and in dispraise the same. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who blames or dispraises. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By way of dispraise. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Mus.) A dancing tune in the Scotch style. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; (sc. &unr_;), fr. &unr_; to stamp in; &unr_; in + &unr_; to strike. ] (Fine Arts) Having to do with inlaid work; -- especially used with reference to work of the ancient Greeks. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. malicious burning to destroy property; arson. [ Mostly British usage ]
Syn. -- arson, incendiarism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ OF.; F fraicheur, fr. frais, fem. fraîche, fresh; of German origin. See Frash, a. ] Freshness; coolness. [ R. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Froise. ] A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]