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v. t. [ Cf. OF. amesurer, LL. admensurare. See Measure. ] 1. To measure. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) Formerly, the adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who admeasures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. arch- + treasurer. ] A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Paraguay. Population (2000) = 502, 426. [ PJC ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + sunder. ] Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places. [ 1913 Webster ]

I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder. Zech. xi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

As wide asunder as pole and pole. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Hind. Myth.) An enemy of the gods, esp. one of a race of demons and giants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Basuto (Ethnol.) A warlike South African people of the Bantu stock, divided into many tribes, at one time subjected by the English. They formerly practiced cannibalism, but have now adopted many European customs. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

{ } n. [ L. bonasus, Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;. ] (Zool.) The aurochs or European bison. See Aurochs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. casuel, F. casuel, fr. L. casualis, fr. casus fall, accident, fr. cadere to fall. See Case. ] 1. Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Casual breaks, in the general system. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses. [ 1913 Webster ]

A constant habit, rather than a casual gesture. Hawthorne.

Syn. -- Accidental; fortutious; incidental; occasional; contingent; unforeseen. See Accidental. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who believes in casualism. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Without design; accidentally; fortuitously; by chance; occasionally. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being casual. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Casualties [ F. casualité, LL. casualitas. ] 1. That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency. [ 1913 Webster ]

Losses that befall them by mere casualty. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. (Mil. & Naval) Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Casualty ward, A ward in a hospital devoted to the treatment of injuries received by accident.

Syn. -- Accident; contingency; fortuity; misfortune. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of large ostrichlike birds; the cassowaries.
Syn. -- family Casuaridae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an order of ratite birds comprising the cassowaries and emus.
Syn. -- order Casuariiformes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., supposed to be named from the resemblance of the twigs to the feathers of the cassowary, of the genus Casuarius. ] (Bot.) A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called beefwood from its color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of plants having only one genus, Casuarina.
Syn. -- family Casuarinaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an order of chiefly Australian trees and shrubs comprising the casuarinas, having only one family, Casuarinaceae.
Syn. -- order Casuarinales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the type and sole genus of the Casuaridae; the cassowaries.
Syn. -- genus Casuarius. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. casus fall, case; cf. F. casuiste. See Casual. ] One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry. [ 1913 Webster ]

The judment of any casuist or learned divine concerning the state of a man's soul, is not sufficient to give him confidence. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To play the casuist. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to casuists or casuistry; as, casuistic thinking. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases. [ 1913 Webster ]

The consideration of these nice and puzzling question in the science of ethics has given rise, in modern times, to a particular department of it, distinguished by the title of casuistry. Stewart. [ 1913 Webster ]

Casuistry in the science of cases (i.e., oblique deflections from the general rule). De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in regard to duties, obligations, and morals. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] An event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of circumstances; a case; an act of God. See the Note under Accident. [ 1913 Webster ]

Casus belli, an event or combination of events which is a cause war, or may be alleged as a justification of war. --
Casus fortuitus, an accident against which due prudence could not have provided. See Act of God, under Act. --
Casus omissus, a case not provided for by the statute. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Geog.) a large region between the Black and Caspian seas.
Syn. -- Caucasia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Geog.) the mountain range located between the Black and Caspian seas. [ PJC ]

n. [ F. chasuble, LL. casubula, cassibula, casula, a hooded garment, covering the person like a little house; cf. It. casupola, casipola, cottage, dim of L. casa cottage. ] (Eccl.) The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle. [ Written also chasible, and chesible. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] See Chrysoprase. Rev. xxi. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Commensurable. ] Having the same measure; commensurate; proportional. [ 1913 Webster ]

She being now removed by death, a commeasurable grief took as full possession of him as joy had done. I. Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To be commensurate with; to equal. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. dis- + pleasure: cf. OF. desplaisir, F. déplaisir. Cf. Displease. ] 1. The feeling of one who is displeased; irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by anything that counteracts desire or command, or which opposes justice or a sense of propriety; disapprobation; dislike; dissatisfaction; disfavor; indignation. [ 1913 Webster ]

O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Ps. vi. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn
From his displeasure. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which displeases; cause of irritation or annoyance; offense; injury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hast thou delight to see a wretched man
Do outrage and displeasure to himself? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. State of disgrace or disfavor; disfavor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He went into Poland, being in displeasure with the pope for overmuch familiarity. Peacham.

Syn. -- Dissatisfaction; disapprobation; disfavor; distaste; dislike; anger; hate; aversion; indignation; offense. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To displease. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Embrace. ] An embrace. [ Obs. ] “Our locked embrasures.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. embraser, perh. equiv. to ébraser to widen an opening; of unknown origin. ] 1. (Arch.) A splay of a door or window. [ 1913 Webster ]

Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure,
Sat the lovers. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fort.) An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. See Illust. of Casemate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Erase. ] 1. The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the place where something has been erased. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Bot.) An annual European false flax (Camelina sativa) having small white flowers; cultivated since Neolithic times as a source of fiber and for its oil-rich seeds; widely naturalized in North America.
Syn. -- gold of pleasure, Camelina sativa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ See Igasurine. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, nux vomica or St. Ignatius's bean; as, igasuric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Malay igasura the nux vomica. ] (Chem.) An alkaloid found in nux vomica, and extracted as a white crystalline substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being immeasurable; immensurability. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. im- not + measurable: cf. F. measurable. Cf. Immensurable, Unmeasurable. ] Incapable of being measured; indefinitely extensive; illimitable; immensurable; vast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of depth immeasurable. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being immeasurable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Eternity and immeasurableness belong to thought alone. F. W. Robertson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an immeasurable manner or degree. “Immeasurably distant.” Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Immeasurable. [ R. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To lay up, as in a treasury; to hoard. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Same as Masoola boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the quality of being measurable.
Syn. -- quantifiability. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ F. mesurable, L. mensurabilis. See Measure, and cf. Mensurable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Moderate; temperate; not excessive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of his diet measurable was he. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Meas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Meas"ur*a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet do it measurably, as it becometh Christians. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]