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[ After Alphonse Bertillon, French anthropologist. ] A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. A red wine from Chambertin near Dijon, in Burgundy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Jean Baptiste Colbert, a minister of Louis XIV., who encouraged the lace manufacture in France. ] A kind of lace. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Pinners edged with colbertine. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Difference rose between
Mechlin, the queen of lace, and colbertine. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An imp. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. 1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert; as, Gilbertian libretti. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Wildly comic and improbable, as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas; as, Gilbertian coincidences. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings. T. C. Worsley [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A genus of evergreen heathlike or scandent shrubs of Madagascar, Australasia, and Polynesia.
Syn. -- genus Hibbertia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A small genus of Australian shrubs.
Syn. -- genus Lambertia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. libertas liberty + caedere to kill: cf. (for sense 2) F. liberticide. ] 1. The destruction of civil liberty. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A destroyer of civil liberty. B. F. Wade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. libertinage. See Libertine. ] Libertinism; license. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. libertinus freedman, from libertus one made free, fr. liber free: cf. F. libertin. See Liberal. ] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A defamatory name for a freethinker. [ Obsolescent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. libertinus of a freedman: cf. F. libertin. See Libertine, n. ] 1. Free from restraint; uncontrolled. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

You are too much libertine. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of a libertine or freedman. [ R. ] Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Licentious conduct; debauchery; lewdness. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Licentiousness of principle or opinion. [ 1913 Webster ]

That spirit of religion and seriousness vanished all at once, and a spirit of liberty and libertinism, of infidelity and profaneness, started up in the room of it. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]