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n. [ Gr. kw^nos cone + 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, tooth. ] (Zool.) A peculiar toothlike fossil of many forms, found especially in carboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be the teeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws of annelids. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an extinct order of primitive vertebrates; the precise taxonomy is not clear; in some classifications it is considered a separate phylum.
Syn. -- order Conodonta, Conodontophorida, order Conodontophorida. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. kwnoeidh`s conical; kw^nos cone + e'i^dos form: cf. F. conoïde. ] 1. Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geom.) (a) A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; as, a parabolic conoid, elliptic conoid, etc.; -- more commonly called paraboloid, ellipsoid, etc. (b) A surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as always to meet a given straight line and a given curve, and continue parallel to a given plane. Math. Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a cone; conoidal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. conoïdal. ] Nearly, but not exactly, conical. Lindley. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. Pertaining to a conoid; having the form of a conoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One nominated in conjunction with another; a joint nominee. Kirby. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to econometrics; as, econometric theories. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the application of mathematics and statistics to the study of economic and financial data. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ F. économique, L. oeconomicus orderly, methodical, Gr. &unr_; economical. See Economy. ] 1. Pertaining to the household; domestic. “In this economical misfortune [ of ill-assorted matrimony. ]” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Relating to domestic economy, or to the management of household affairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

And doth employ her economic art
And busy care, her household to preserve. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Managing with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said of character or habits. [ 1913 Webster ]

Just rich enough, with economic care,
To save a pittance. Harte. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Managed with frugality; not marked with waste or extravagance; using the minimum of time or effort or resources required for effectiveness; frugal; -- said of acts; saving; as, an economical use of money or of time; an economic use of home heating oil. [ wns=3 ] [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

5. of or pertaining to the national or regional economy; relating to political economy; relating to the means of living, or the resources and wealth of a country; relating to the production or consumption of goods and services of a nation or region; as, economic growth; economic purposes; economical truths; an economic downturn. [ 1913 Webster ]

These matters economical and political. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

There was no economical distress in England to prompt the enterprises of colonization. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Economic questions, such as money, usury, taxes, lands, and the employment of the people. H. C. Baird. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Regulative; relating to the adaptation of means to an end. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. of or pertaining to economics. economic theory [ WordNet 1.5 ]

8. profitable. Opposite of uneconomic. [ wns=4 ] [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

9. avoiding waste; as, an economical meal. Opposite of wasteful.
Syn. -- frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting, thrifty. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

☞ Economical is the usual form when meaning frugal, saving; economic is the form commonly used when meaning pertaining to the management of a household, or of public affairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With economy; with careful management; with prudence in expenditure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ta` o'ikonomika`, equiv. to "h o'ikonomi`a. See Economic.] 1. The science of household affairs, or of domestic management. [1913 Webster]

2. Political economy; the science of the utilities or the useful application of wealth or material resources; the study of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services of a nation or region, and its effect on the wealth of a country. See Political economy, under Political. “In politics and economics.” V. Knox. [1913 Webster +PJC]

v. t. same as economize.
Syn. -- conserve, husband, economize. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a person who economizes and avoids waste.
Syn. -- economizer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. économiste. ] 1. One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste. “Economists even to parsimony.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is conversant with political economy; an expert in the field of economics. [ wns=1 ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or practice of using to the best effect. [ R. ] H. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Economized p. pr. & vb. n. Economizing. ] [ Cf. F. économiser. ] To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income. [ Written also economise. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Expenses in the city were to be economized. Jowett (Thucyd. ). [ 1913 Webster ]

Calculating how to economize time. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be prudently sparing in expenditure; to be frugal and saving; as, to economize in order to grow rich. [ Written also economise. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, economizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: (Steam Boilers) An arrangement of pipes for heating feed water by waste heat in the gases passing to the chimney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Economies [ F. économie, L. oeconomia household management, fr. Gr. o'ikonomi`a, fr. o'ikono`mos one managing a household; o'i^kos house (akin to L. vicus village, E. vicinity) + no`mos usage, law, rule, fr. ne`mein to distribute, manage. See Vicinity, Nomad. ] 1. The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Himself busy in charge of the household economies. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The position which they [ the verb and adjective ] hold in the general economy of language. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the Greek poets, as also in Plautus, we shall see the economy . . . of poems better observed than in Terence. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Jews already had a Sabbath, which, as citizens and subjects of that economy, they were obliged to keep. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony. [ 1913 Webster ]

Political economy. See under Political.

Syn. -- Economy, Frugality, Parsimony. Economy avoids all waste and extravagance, and applies money to the best advantage; frugality cuts off indulgences, and proceeds on a system of saving. The latter conveys the idea of not using or spending superfluously, and is opposed to lavishness or profusion. Frugality is usually applied to matters of consumption, and commonly points to simplicity of manners; parsimony is frugality carried to an extreme, involving meanness of spirit, and a sordid mode of living. Economy is a virtue, and parsimony a vice. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have no other notion of economy than that it is the parent to liberty and ease. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

The father was more given to frugality, and the son to riotousness [ luxuriousness ]. Golding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. iconoclasme. See Iconoclast. ] The doctrine or practice of the iconoclasts; image breaking. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. e'ikw`n image + &unr_; to break: cf. F. iconoclaste. ] 1. A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who exposes or destroys impositions or shams; one who attacks cherished beliefs; a radical. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the iconoclasts, or to image breaking. Milman.

{ } n. [ Gr. e'ikw`n an image + &unr_; a slave. ] (Eccl. Hist.) One who serves images; -- opposed to an iconoclast. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Iconography. ] An engraving or other picture or illustration for a book. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A maker of images. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to iconography. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Representing by means of pictures or diagrams; as, an icongraphic encyclopædia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a sketch or description; e'ikw`n an image + &unr_; of describe: cf. F. iconographie. ] 1. The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The study of representative art in general. [ 1913 Webster ]

Christian iconography, the study of the representations in art of the Deity, the persons of the Trinity, angels, saints, virtues, vices, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. e'ikw`n an image + &unr_; to worship: cf. F. iconolâtre. ] One who worships images. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Iconolater. ] The worship of images as symbols; -- distinguished from idolatry, the worship of images themselves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; e'ikw`n an image + &unr_; discourse: cf. F. iconologie. ] The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a war against images; e'ikw`n an image + &unr_; fight. ] Hostility to images as objects of worship. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. See Icon, and Mania. ] A mania or infatuation for icons, whether as objects of devotion, bric-a-brac, or curios. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; e'ikw`n image + &unr_; fight. ] Opposed to pictures or images as objects of worship. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. e'ikw`n an image + &unr_; to love. ] A student, or lover of the study, of iconography. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A non-market economy in which government intervention is important in allocating goods and resources and determining prices. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. See Economical. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Economics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Economy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. th^le far + iconograph. ] 1. An instrument essentially the same as the telemetrograph. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A form of facsimile telegraph. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Politics) an economic hypothesis, proposed by President Ronald Regan, that large cuts in tax rates would so stimulate the economy that the tax revenue on the increases in business and personal income would offset the anticipated tax revenue losses, so that such tax cuts would not increasing the federal budget deficit. Its believers do not consider the actual massive deficit increases subsequent to the 1982-83 tax cut as being caused by the tax cut itself, but by other governmental policies. This hypothesis was graphically illustrated by the Laffer curve. [ PJC ]

See Zirco-. [ 1913 Webster ]