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n. [ L. architectus, architecton, Gr. &unr_; chief artificer, master builder; pref. 'archi- (E. archi-) + &unr_; workman, akin to &unr_; art, skill, &unr_; to produce: cf. F. architecte, It. architetto. See Technical. ] 1. A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A contriver, designer, or maker. [ 1913 Webster ]

The architects of their own happiness. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A French woman is a perfect architect in dress. Coldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Used in building; proper for building. Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. architectonique. ] 1. The science of architecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of arranging knowledge into a system. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. architectonicus, Gr. &unr_;. See Architect. ] 1. Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive. “Architectonic wisdom.” Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Relating to the systemizing of knowledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The science of architecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An architect. [ Obs. ] North. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female architect. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the art of building; conformed to the rules of architecture. -- Ar`chi*tec"tur*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. architectura, fr. architectus: cf. F. architecture. See Architect. ] 1. The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many other architectures besides Gothic. Ruskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship. [ 1913 Webster ]

The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Military architecture, the art of fortifications. --
Naval architecture, the art of building ships. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. pref. &unr_; + &unr_;, &unr_;, a kind of squid. ] (Zool.) A genus of gigantic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. architrave, fr. It. architrave; pref. archi- + trave beam, L. trabs. ] (Arch.) (a) The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column. (b) The group of moldings, or other architectural member, above and on both sides of a door or other opening, especially if square in form. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with an architrave. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bronchus + -itis. ] (Med.) Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A genus of birds including the spruce grouse Canachites canadensis.
Syn. -- genus Canachites. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. To shoot out; to sprout. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have known barley chit in seven hours after it had been thrown forth. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3d pers. sing. of Chide. Chideth. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. AS. cīð shoot, sprig, from the same root as cīnan to yawn. See Chink a cleft. ] 1. The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

A little chit of a woman. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An excrescence on the body, as a wart. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A small tool used in cleaving laths. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Chat, by way of reduplication. ] Familiar or trifling talk; prattle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Chiton. ] (Chem.) A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process of becoming chitinous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the nature of chitin; consisting of, or containing, chitin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. small intestines of hogs prepared as food.
Syn. -- chitterlings. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_; a chiton (in sense 1). ] 1. An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a shrubby tree of the U. S. Pacific coast (Rhamnus purshianus or Rhamnus purshiana), whose bark is the cascara sagrada, used as a mild cathartic or laxative.
Syn. -- cascara, cascara buckthorn, bearberry, bearwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a deciduous tree of SE U.S. and Mexico.
Syn. -- false buckthorn, chittimwood, shittimwood, black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. a shrubby tree of southern U.S. (Cotinus obovatus) having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke; -- called also American smoke tree.
Syn. -- American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ Cf. Chatter. ] 1. To chirp in a tremulous manner, as a bird. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To shiver or chatter with cold. [ Scot. ] Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The frill to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed out resembled the small entrails. See Chitterlings. [ Obs. ] Gascoigne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ Cf. AS. cwiþ womb, Icel. kvið, Goth. qiþus, belly, womb, stomach, G. kutteln chitterlings. ] (Cookery) The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native Indian name. ] (Zool.) The axis deer of India. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Hind. chi&tsdot_;&tsdot_;ī. ] 1. A short letter or note; a written message or memorandum; a certificate given to a servant; a pass, or the like. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club. [ India, China, etc. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Full of chits or sprouts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Childish; like a babe. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. conchite. See Conch. ] (Paleon.) A fossil or petrified conch or shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Composed of shells; containing many shells. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. en- + Gr. &unr_; wheel. ] (Paleon.) A fossil joint of a crinoid stem. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Gr. &unr_; to pray. ] One who resolves religion into prayer. [ Obs. ] Gauden. [ 1913 Webster ]

. British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. "a`ls sea + qri`x, tricho`s, hair.] (Min.) An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color. [1913 Webster]

n. A genus of plants including one of the skunk cabbages.
Syn. -- genus Lysichiton, genus Lysichitum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Fr. Gr. mala`chh a mallow, from its resembling the green color of the leaf of mallows: cf. F. malachite. Cf. Mallow. ] (Min.) Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Green malachite, or malachite proper, admits of a high polish, and is sometimes used for ornamental work. Blue malachite, or azurite, is a related species of a deep blue color. [ 1913 Webster ]

Malachite green. See Emerald green, under Green, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Mechitar, an Armenian., who founded the congregation in the early part of the eighteenth century. ] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious congregation of the Roman Catholic Church devoted to the improvement of Armenians. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Heb. melek king. ] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect, chiefly in Syria and Egypt, which acknowledges the authority of the pope, but adheres to the liturgy and ceremonies of the Eastern Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also myriachit. ] [ Yakoot merjäk epileptic, fr. imerek jerk, rage. ] (Med.) A nervous disease in which the patient involuntarily imitates the words or action of another. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. All that architecture which, since the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, about 1420, has been designed with deliberate imitation of Greco-Roman buildings. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Omphalo- + Gr. &unr_; breath, spirit, soul: cf. F. omphalopsyque. ] (Eccl.Hist.) A name of the Hesychasts, from their habit of gazing upon the navel. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a testicle + -itis. ] (Med.) Inflammation of the testicles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Peshito. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. rachitique. See Rachitis. ] (Med.) Of or pertaining to rachitis; affected by rachitis; rickety. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. "rachi^tis (sc. nosos), fr. "ra`chis, -ios, the spine. ] [ Written also rhachitis. ] 1. (Med.) Literally, inflammation of the spine, but commonly applied to the rickets. See Rickets. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A disease which produces abortion in the fruit or seeds. Henslow. [ 1913 Webster ]