*astra*

a. & n. See Astrakhan. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + straddle. ] In a straddling position; astride; bestriding; as, to sit astraddle a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; starry. ] (Zool.) Pertaining to the genus Astræa or the family Astræidæ. -- n. A coral of the family Astræidæ; a star coral. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. astragalus, Gr. &unr_; the ankle bone, a molding in the capital of the Ionic column. ] 1. (Arch.) A convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gun.) A round molding encircling a cannon near the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the astragalus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Astragalus + -oid. ] (Anat.) Resembling the astragalus in form. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; ankle bone, die + -mancy. ] Divination by means of small bones or dice. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. See Astragal. ] 1. (Anat.) The ankle bone, or hock bone; the bone of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia at the ankle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A genus of papilionaceous plants, of the tribe Galegeæ, containing numerous species, two of which are called, in English, milk vetch and licorice vetch. Gum tragacanth is obtained from different oriental species, particularly the Astragalus gummifer and Astragalus verus. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) See Astragal, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Astrakhan in Russia or its products; made of an Astrakhan skin. -- n. The skin of stillborn or young lambs of that region, the curled wool of which resembles fur. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. astralis, fr. astrum star, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. astral. See Star. ] 1. Pertaining to, coming from, or resembling, the stars; starry; starlike. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shines only with an astral luster. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some astral forms I must invoke by prayer. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to an aster; as, astral rays; astral sphere. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. (Theosophy) Consisting of, belonging to, or designating, a kind of supersensible substance alleged to be next above the tangible world in refinement; as, astral spirits; astral bodies of persons; astral current; the astral plane. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

Astral lamp, an Argand lamp so constructed that no shadow is cast upon the table by the flattened ring-shaped reservoir in which the oil is contained. --
Astral spirits, spirits formerly supposed to live in the heavenly bodies or the aërial regions, and represented in the Middle Ages as fallen angels, spirits of the dead, or spirits originating in fire. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + strand. ] Stranded. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. [ See Estray, Stray. ] Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye were as sheep going astray. 1 Pet. ii. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. ] Of or pertaining to landed property. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cadastral survey, or
Cadastral map, a survey, map, or plan on a large scale (Usually 1/2500 of the linear measure of the ground, or twenty-five inches to the mile or about an inch to the acre) so as to represent the relative positions and dimensions of objects and estates exactly; -- distinguished from a topographical map, which exaggerates the dimensions of houses and the breadth of roads and streams, for the sake of distinctness. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. castramétation, fr. L. castra camp + metari to measure off, fr. meta limit. ] (Mil.) The art or act of encamping; the making or laying out of a camp. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Castrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Castrating. ] [ L. castrarus, p; p. of castrare to castrate, asin to Skr. çastra knife. ] 1. To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate. [ 1913 Webster ]

My . . . correspondent . . . has sent me the following letter, which I have castrated in some places. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. deprived of reproductive organs or sexual attributes.
Syn. -- altered, neutered, unsexed, fixed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. castratio; cf. F. castration. ] The act of castrating. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., properly p. p. of castrare. See Castrate. ] A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. emplastratio a budding. ] 1. The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ See 1st Emplaster. ] (Med.) The application of a plaster or salve. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, the stomach. ] (Biol.) A primeval larval form; a double-walled sac from which, according to the hypothesis of Haeckel, man and all other animals, that in the first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two-layered structural stage, or gastrula form, must have descended. This idea constitutes the Gastræa theory of Haeckel. See Gastrula. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, stomach + &unr_; pain. ] (Med.) Pain in the stomach or epigastrium, as in gastric disorders. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An order of fungi sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes.
Syn. -- order Hymenogastrales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>n. A highly seasoned cut of smoked beef. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Among or around the stars. “Comets in periastral passage.” R. A. Proctor. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. Same as Shaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of one testicle. -- Sem`i*cas*tra"tion pos>n. [1913 Webster]

{ ‖‖ } n. [ Skr. cāstra an order or command, a sacred book, fr. cās to order, instruct, govern. Cf. Sastra. ] A treatise for authoritative instruction among the Hindoos; a book of institutes; especially, a treatise explaining the Vedas. [ Written also sastra. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; channel + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, stomach. ] (Zool.) An order of lowly organized Mollusca belonging to the Isopleura. A narrow groove takes the place of the foot of other gastropods. [ 1913 Webster ]