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. (Physics & Chem.) Rays of relatively low penetrating power emitted by radium and other radioactive substances, and shown to consist of positively charged alpha particles (helium nuclei) having enormous velocities but small masses. They are slightly deflected by a strong magnetic or electric field. Compare beta ray and gamma ray. Because the rays penetrate only a small distance in dense matter such as living tissue, small pellets of radioactive substances emitting alpha rays have been used to cause local destruction of tissue, as in cancer therapy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

adv. [ All + way. The s is an adverbial (orig. a genitive) ending. ] 1. At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even in Heaven his [ Mammon's ] looks and thoughts. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Constancy during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals; invariably; uniformly; -- opposed to sometimes or occasionally. [ 1913 Webster ]

He always rides a black galloway. Bulwer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. Anywise; at all. Tennyson. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

, adv. [ Prob. a corruption of arriswise. See Arris. ] Placed in such a position as to exhibit the top and two sides, the corner being in front; -- said of a rectangular form. Encyc. Brit. Cussans. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. See Baize. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

(Physics) Radiations first observed by the French physicist Henri Becquerel, in working with uranium and its compounds. They consist of a mixture of alpha, beta, and gamma rays. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Physics) a form of ionizing radiation emitted by radioactive substances (such as radium), more penetrating than alpha rays, and consisting of negatively charged electrons. The electrons are the same kind of particle as those of cathode rays, but have much higher velocities (about 35, 000 to 180, 000 miles per second). They are readily deflected by a magnetic or electric field. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

ads. Breadthwise. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Chippeway. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the northern and western shores of Lake Superior; -- called also Objibways. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. By way of, or along, the coast; following a coastline; as, coastwise winds contributed to the storm. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl. (Eccl.) The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From day in the sense of day fixed for trial. ] An umpire or arbiter; a mediator. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither is there any daysman betwixt us. Job ix. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light; the dawn; hence, the beginning. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us. Luke i. 78. [ 1913 Webster ]

A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early part of September; canicular days; -- so called in reference to the rising in ancient times of the Dog Star (Sirius) with the sun. Popularly, the sultry, close part of the summer; metaphorically, a period of inactivity.
Syn. -- dog days, canicule, canicular days. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

☞ The conjunction of the rising of the Dog Star with the rising of the sun was regarded by the ancients as one of the causes of the sultry heat of summer, and of the maladies which then prevailed. But as the conjunction does not occur at the same time in all latitudes, and is not constant in the same region for a long period, there has been much variation in calendars regarding the limits of the dog days. The astronomer Roger Long states that in an ancient calendar in Bede (died 735) the beginning of dog days is placed on the 14th of July; that in a calendar prefixed to the Common Prayer, printed in the time of Queen Elizabeth, they were said to begin on the 6th of July and end on the 5th of September; that, from the Restoration (1660) to the beginning of New Style (1752), British almanacs placed the beginning on the 19th of July and the end on the 28th of August; and that after 1752 the beginning was put on the 30th of July, the end on the 7th of September. Some English calendars now put the beginning on July 3d, and the ending on August 11th. A popular American almanac of the present time (1890) places the beginning on the 25th of July, and the end on the 5th of September. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge. [ 1913 Webster ]

to get a word in edgewise to succeed in expressing an opinion in a conversation, in spite of constant speech from another or others; as, he talked incessantly and I couldn't get a word in edgewise. the form edgeways is now uncommon. [ PJC ]

Glad to get in a word, as they say, edgeways. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. 1. On end; erectly; in an upright position. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. With the end forward. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of gayety. Mir. for Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Geol.) A grayish or greenish compact rock, composed of feldspar and augite, and allied to basalt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a rural, unsophisticated person; also used in an extended sense for one who is not very intelligent or uninterested in culture.
Syn. -- yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, bumpkin, chawbacon. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Seed from grass, especially that which falls out of hay. [ PJC ]

n. A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stalk of hay. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Elec.) Rays (chiefly cathode rays) developed by the electric discharge in Hittorf tubes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. pl.; sing. Kioway (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians distantly related to the Shoshones. They formerly inhabited the region about the head waters of the North Platte. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or } n. (Mach.) A secondary shaft, as in a sliding change gear for an automobile; a cam shaft operated by a two-to-one gear in an internal-combustion engine. It is generally a shaft moving more or less independently of the other parts of a machine, as, in some marine engines, a shaft, driven by a small auxiliary engine, for independently operating the valves of the main engine to insure uniform motion. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The condition of being a layman. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Smithfield was a laystall of all ordure and filth. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place where milch cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. At least; at all events. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

At leastways, or
At leastwise, at least. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Physics.) Rays emanating from the outer surface of a plate composed of any material permeable by cathode rays, as aluminium, which forms a portion of a wall of a vacuum tube, or which is mounted within the tube and exposed to radiation from the cathode. Lenard rays are similar in all their known properties to cathode rays. So called from the German physicist Philipp Lenard (b. 1862), who first described them. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } adv. In the direction of the length; running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing; in a longitudinal direction. Contrasted with crosswise. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Lengthwise. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A country in Southeast Asia including the former nation of Malaya on the Malay Peninsula, and part of Borneo; sometimes still referred to as Malaya. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Malaysia or its people or their culture; as, Malaysian police cracked down hard on drug smugglers; Malaysian poetry. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } adv. In many different ways; variously. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ For now on (OE. an) days. See A-, 1. ] In these days; at the present time. [ 1913 Webster ]

What men of spirit, nowadays,
Come to give sober judgment of new plays? Garrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. [ No, a. + way. Cf. -wards. ] In no manner or degree; not at all; nowise. [ 1913 Webster ]

But Ireland will noways allow that name unto it. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. pl. See Chippeways. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. pl.; sing. Ojibway. (Ethnol.) Same as Chippeways. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. orfrais, F. orfroi; F. or gold + fraise, frise, fringe, ruff. See Fraise, and cf. Auriphrygiate. ] See Orphrey. [ Obs. ] Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. See Otherwise. Tyndale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To poise. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the total amount of money paid in wages; as, the company had a large paysheet.
Syn. -- payroll. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a list of employees and their salaries; as, the company had a long paysheet.
Syn. -- payroll. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a slip of paper included with a person's salary payment, that records how much money the person has earned and how much tax or insurance etc. has been taken out. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Playful; wanton; sportive. [ R. ] R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n. [R.] [1913 Webster]

n. pl. a period when a person is young and inexperienced. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Toward the side; sidewise. [ 1913 Webster ]

A second refraction made sideways. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

His beard, a good palm's length, at least, . . .
Shot sideways, like a swallow's wings. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) Any sail extended on a stay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A remora, -- fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Straightway. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]