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n. [ Bind, cf. Woodbine. ] The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bis twice + nervus sinew, nerve. ] 1. (Bot.) Two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Having only two nerves, as the wings of some insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bobbin + net. ] A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand. [ Sometimes written bobbin net. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The English machine-made net is now confined to point net, warp net, and bobbin net, so called from the peculiar construction of the machines by which they are produced. Tomlinsom. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Cabineted; p. pr. & vb. n. Cabineting. ] To inclose [ R. ] Hewyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Suitable for a cabinet; small. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Varnhagen von Ense ] is a walking cabinet edition of Goethe. For. Quar. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., dim. of cabine or cabane. See Cabin, n. ] 1. A hut; a cottage; a small house. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Hearken a while from thy green cabinet,
The rural song of careful Colinet. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small room, or retired apartment; a closet. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A private room in which consultations are held. [ 1913 Webster ]

Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In England, the cabinet or cabinet council consists of those privy councilors who actually transact the immediate business of the government. Mozley & W. -- In the United States, the cabinet is composed of the heads of the executive departments of the government, namely, the Secretary of State, of the Treasury, of War, of the Navy, of the Interior, and of Agiculture, the Postmaster-general, and the Attorney-general. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (a) A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. Hence: (b) A decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an étagère or closed with doors. See étagère. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cabinet council. (a) Same as Cabinet, n., 4 (of which body it was formerly the full title). (b) A meeting of the cabinet. --
Cabinet councilor, a member of a cabinet council. --
Cabinet photograph, a photograph of a size smaller than an imperial, though larger than a carte de visite. --
Cabinet picture, a small and generally highly finished picture, suitable for a small room and for close inspection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cannabinus. ] Pertaining to hemp; hempen. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) A carbine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A carbineer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. carbine, OF. calabrin carabineer (cf. Ot. calabrina a policeman), fr. OF & Pr. calabre, OF. cable, chable, an engine of war used in besieging, fr. LL. chadabula, cabulus, a kind of projectile machine, fr. Gr. &unr_; a throwing down, fr. &unr_; to throw; &unr_; down + &unr_; to throw. Cf. Parable. ] (Mil.) A short, light musket or rifle, esp. one used by mounted soldiers or cavalry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. carabinier. ] (Mil.) A soldier armed with a carbine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. columbinus, fr. columba dove. ] Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored. “Columbine innocency.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. columbina, L. columbinus dovelike, fr. columba dove: cf. F. colombine. Perh. so called from the beaklike spurs of its flowers. ] 1. (Bot.) A plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia; as, Aquilegia vulgaris, or the common garden columbine; Aquilegia Canadensis, the wild red columbine of North America. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes. Brewer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Combined p. pr. & vb. n. Combining. ] [ LL. combinare, combinatum; L. com- + binus, pl. bini, two and two, double: cf. F. combiner. See Binary. ] 1. To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous substance, as by chemical union. [ 1913 Webster ]

So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Friendship is the cement which really combines mankind. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

And all combined, save what thou must combine
By holy marriage. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Earthly sounds, though sweet and well combined. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bind; to hold by a moral tie. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I am combined by a sacred vow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate. [ 1913 Webster ]

You with your foes combine,
And seem your own destruction to design Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

So sweet did harp and voice combine. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To unite by affinity or natural attraction; as, two substances, which will not combine of themselves, may be made to combine by the intervention of a third. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Card Playing) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played. [ 1913 Webster ]

Combining weight (Chem.), that proportional weight, usually referred to hydrogen as a standard, and for each element fixed and exact, by which an element unites with another to form a distinct compound. The combining weights either are identical with, or are multiples or submultiples of, the atomic weight. See Atomic weight, under Atomic, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. United closely; confederated; chemically united. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In combination or cooperation; jointly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, combines. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. concubina; con- + cubare to lie down, concumbere to lie together, akin to E. cubit. ] 1. A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Concubine has been sometimes, but rarely, used of a male paramour as well as of a female. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were Hagar and Keturah, the concubines of Abraham; and such concubines were allowed by the Roman laws. Their children were not heirs of their father. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to the ancient town of Eugubium (now Gubbio); as, the Eugubine tablets, or tables, or inscriptions. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Med.) A principle, or mixture of principles, derived from various species of Euphorbia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality or state of being flabby. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The climbing stem of the hop. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be incapable of combining; to disagree; to differ. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A Jacobin.

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Mil.) A kind of small ordnance formerly in use. [ Written also rabanet. ] Ainsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To combine again. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Zool.) (a) The chaffinch; -- called also roberd. (b) The European robin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A military engine formerly used for throwing darts and stones. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Sabinus. ] Of or pertaining to the ancient Sabines, a people of Italy. -- n. One of the Sabine people. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. Sabina herba, fr. Sabini the Sabines. Cf. Savin. ] (Bot.) See Savin. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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

n. Quality of being shrubby. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being slabby. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) Antimony hydride, or hydrogen antimonide, a colorless gas produced by the action of nascent hydrogen on antimony. It has a characteristic odor and burns with a characteristic greenish flame. Formerly called also antimoniureted hydrogen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being stubby. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to succuba. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Tabby. ] A fabric like poplin, with a watered surface. [ Written also tabinet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Tabbinet. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G. tobin, D. tabijn. See Tabby. ] A stout twilled silk used for dresses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. turbo, -inis, that which spins or whirls round, whirl. ] 1. A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In some turbines, the water is supplied to the wheel from below, instead of above. Turbines in which the water flows in a direction parallel to the axis are called parallel-flow turbines. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A type of rotary engine with a set of rotating vanes, diagonally inclined and often curved, attached to a central spindle, and obtaining its motive force from the passage of a fluid, as water, steam, combusted gases, or air, over the vanes. Water turbines are frequently used for generating power at hydroelectric power stations, and steam turbines are used for generating power from coal- or oil-fired electric power stations. Turbines are also found in jet engines, and in some automobile engines. In the 1913 dictionary, the turbine was further decribed thus: “There are practically only two distinct kinds, and they are typified in the de Laval and the Parsons and Curtis turbines. The
de Laval turbine is an impulse turbine, in which steam impinges upon revolving blades from a flared nozzle. The flare of the nozzle causes expansion of the steam, and hence changes its pressure energy into kinetic energy. An enormous velocity (30, 000 revolutions per minute in the 5 H. P. size) is requisite for high efficiency, and the machine has therefore to be geared down to be of practical use. Some recent development of this type include turbines formed of several de Laval elements compounded as in the ordinary expansion engine. The Parsons turbine is an impulse-and-reaction turbine, usually of the axial type. The steam is constrained to pass successively through alternate rows of fixed and moving blades, being expanded down to a condenser pressure of about 1 lb. per square inch absolute. The Curtis turbine is somewhat simpler than the Parsons, and consists of elements each of which has at least two rows of moving blades and one row of stationary. The bucket velocity is lowered by fractional velocity reduction. Both the Parsons and Curtis turbines are suitable for driving dynamos and steamships directly. In efficiency, lightness, and bulk for a given power, they compare favorably with reciprocating engines.” [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

‖pr. n. [ NL., dim. fr. L. turbo, -inis, a top. ] (Zool.) A genus of large marine gastropods having a thick heavy shell with conspicuous folds on the columella. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + combine. ] To separate, as substances in combination; to release from combination or union. [ R. ] Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A yellowish amorphous alkaloid extracted from the rootstock of Veratrum album. [ 1913 Webster ]