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a. Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The language of the Alemanni. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Swabian dialect . . . is known as the Alemannic. Amer. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Alemannic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ ‖ n. [ Tamil anai kattu dam building. ] A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation. [ India ] Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being annihilated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Annihilated. [ Archaic ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Annihilated; p. pr. & vb. n. Annihilating. ] [ L. annihilare; ad + nihilum, nihil, nothing, ne hilum (filum) not a thread, nothing at all. Cf. File, a row. ] 1. To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be. [ 1913 Webster ]

It impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees. “To annihilate the army.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 destroyed completely.
Syn. -- exterminated, wiped out(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. criticising vehemently and effectively; making light of; as, afire with annihilating invective.
Syn. -- devastating, withering. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. annihilation. ] 1. The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being annihilated. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Theol.) One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving to annihilate; destructive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Annihilative. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Annually. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. anniversarius; annus year + vertere, versum, to turn: cf. F. anniversaire. ] Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Anniversary day (R. C. Ch.). See Anniversary, n., 2. --
Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [ Eastern U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Anniversaries [ Cf. F. anniversaire. ] 1. The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (R. C. Ch.) The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The celebration which takes place on an anniversary day. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. anni versus the turning of a year. ] Anniversary. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an order that bans something. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. same as banister. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ LL. bannitio. See Banish. ] The act of expulsion. [ Obs. ] Abp. Laud. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From L. Britannia Great Britain. ] A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and is used for table ware. Called also Britannia metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Britannicus, fr. Britannia Great Britain. ] Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the type genus of the Burmanniaceae; slender herbs of warm regions with leaves resembling scales and flowers with a 3-angled or 3-winged perianth.
Syn. -- genus Burmannia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family of chiefly tropical herbs with basal or bractlike leaves and small flowers.
Syn. -- family Burmanniaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Caffeic + tannic. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the tannin of coffee. [ 1913 Webster ]

Caffetannic acid, a variety of tannin obtained from coffee berries, regarded as a glucoside. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. cannibale. Columbus, in a letter to the Spanish monarchs written in Oct., 1498, mentions that the people of Haiti lived in great fear of the Caribales (equivalent to E. Caribbees.), the inhabitants of the smaller Antilles; which form of the name was afterward changed into NL. Canibales, in order to express more forcibly their character by a word intelligible through a Latin root “propter rabiem caninam anthropophagorum gentis.” The Caribbees call themselves, in their own language. Calinago, Carinago, Calliponam, and, abbreviated, Calina, signifying a brave, from which Columbus formed his Caribales. ] A human being that eats human flesh; hence, any that devours its own kind. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to cannibals or cannibalism. “Cannibal terror.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility.
Syn. -- beastly, bestial, brute(prenominal), brutish. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. cannibalisme. ] The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity. Berke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. to eat human flesh.
Syn. -- practice cannibalism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. to use parts of (something, such as a machine), to repair something else.
Syn. -- use parts of. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. & t. same as cannibalise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In the manner of cannibal. “An he had been cannibally given.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Can + -kin. ] A small can or drinking vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a canny manner. [ N. of Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Caution; crafty management. [ N. of Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the practice of taking holidays in a caravan. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to a clan; closely united, like a clan; disposed to associate only with one's clan or clique; actuated by the traditions, prejudices, habits, etc., of a clan.

-- Clan"nish*ly, adv. -- clan"nish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a tendency to associate with only a select group.
Syn. -- cliquishness, exclusiveness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a tendency to associate with only one's own clan; the propensity to display the sentiments, habits, and prejudices of one's own clan. [ PJC ]

a. Having crannies, chinks, or fissures; as, a crannied wall. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ etc. } an anniversary celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the event commemorated. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ , n. [ Another spelling of frangipane. ] A perfume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus Plumeria.

a. [ Gall nutgall + tannic. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to the tannin or nutgalls. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gallotannic acid. See Tannic acid, under Tannic. [ 1913 Webster ]

, n. (Mech.) A refractory material consisting of crushed or ground siliceous stone, mixed with fire clay; -- used for lining Bessemer converters; also used for macadamizing roads. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Henna + tannic. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a brown resinous substance resembling tannin, and extracted from the henna plant; as, hennotannic acid.

n. 1. A genus with only one species, the golden cup.
Syn. -- genus Hunnemania. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The art or act of varnishing in the Japanese manner. [ 1913 Webster ]