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a. Pertaining to amenorrhoea. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow. “The olecranon on anconeal process.” Flower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 an order of mosses which comprises a single genus: Andreaea.
Syn. -- order Andreaeales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Anguineous. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Annealed p. pr. & vb. n. Annealing. ] [ OE. anelen to heat, burn, AS. an&unr_;lan; an on + &unr_;lan to burn; also OE. anelen to enamel, prob. influenced by OF. neeler, nieler, to put a black enamel on gold or silver, F. nieller, fr. LL. nigellare to blacken, fr. L. nigellus blackish, dim. of niger black. Cf. Niello, Negro. ] 1. To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To heat, as glass, tiles, or earthenware, in order to fix the colors laid on them. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. 1. The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The burning of metallic colors into glass, earthenware, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ antea, ante, before. Cf. Ancient. ] Being before, or in front. [ R. ] J. Fleming. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Good against venereal poison; antisyphilitic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Astron.) Apogean. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Appealed p. pr. & vb. n. Appealing. ] [ OE. appelen, apelen, to appeal, accuse, OF. appeler, fr. L. appellare to approach, address, invoke, summon, call, name; akin to appellere to drive to; ad + pellere to drive. See Pulse, and cf. Peal. ] 1. (Law) (a) To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court. (b) To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To summon; to challenge. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To invoke. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. (Law) To apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior to a superior judge or court for the purpose of reëxamination of for decision. Tomlins. [ 1913 Webster ]

I appeal unto Cæsar. Acts xxv. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.; as, I appeal to all mankind for the truth of what is alleged. Hence: To call on one for aid; to make earnest request. [ 1913 Webster ]

I appeal to the Scriptures in the original. Horsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

They appealed to the sword. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. appel, apel, OF. apel, F. appel, fr. appeler. See Appeal, v. t. ] 1. (Law) (a) An application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for reëxamination or review. (b) The mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected. (c) The right of appeal. (d) An accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public. (e) An accusation of a felon at common law by one of his accomplices, which accomplice was then called an approver. See Approvement. Tomlins. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A summons to answer to a charge. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A call upon a person or an authority for proof or decision, in one's favor; reference to another as witness; a call for help or a favor; entreaty. [ 1913 Webster ]

A kind of appeal to the Deity, the author of wonders. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Resort to physical means; recourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every milder method is to be tried, before a nation makes an appeal to arms. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Capable of being appealed against; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That may be accused or called to answer by appeal; as, a criminal is appealable for manslaughter. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An appellant. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes an appeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That appeals; imploring. -- Ap*peal"ing*ly, adv. -- Ap*peal"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to a tree, or to trees; of nature of trees. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Attached to, found in or upon, or frequenting, woods or trees; as, arboreal animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

Woodpeckers are eminently arboreal. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; the north + &unr_;, &unr_;, country. ] (Zool.) Of or pertaining to arctic lands; as, the arctogeal fauna. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. L. arealis, fr. area. ] Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Self-produced; autogenous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. balneum bath. ] Of or pertaining to a bath. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Boil a tumor. ] (Med.) A small inflammatory tumor; a pustule. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bealed p. pr. & vb. n. Bealing. ] To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ F. beau beautiful + idéal ideal. ] A conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. berg mountain + mehl meal. ] (Min.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Veal too immature to be suitable for food. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. ground bones, used as a fertilizer or as a component in animal feed; -- it is high in phosphate content. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. [ L. borealis: cf. F. boréal. See Boreas. ] 1. Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast. [ 1913 Webster ]

So from their own clear north in radiant streams,
Bright over Europe bursts the boreal morn. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biogeography) Designating or pertaining to a terrestrial division consisting of the northern and mountainous parts of both the Old and the New World; -- equivalent to the Holarctic region exclusive of the Transition, Sonoran, and corresponding areas. The term is used by American authors and applied by them chiefly to the Nearctic subregion. The Boreal region includes approximately all of North and Central America in which the mean temperature of the hottest season does not exceed 18° C. (= 64.4° F.). Its subdivisions are the Arctic zone and
Boreal zone, the latter including the area between the Arctic and Transition zones. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Cf.F. bractéal. ] Having the nature or appearance of a bract. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To stamp with the broad seal; to make sure; to guarantee or warrant. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy presence broadseals our delights for pure. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

The great seal of England; the public seal of a country or state. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a financial specialist who trades for his own account and so acts both as a broker and principal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Anal.) Pertaining to the calcaneum; as, calcaneal arteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to a calyx. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ }. (Gas Manuf.) A compound hydraulic valve for regulating the passage of the gas through a set of purifiers so as to cut out each one in turn for the renewal of the lime. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ or }. (Gas Manuf.) A compound hydraulic valve for regulating the passage of the gas through a set of purifiers so as to cut out each one in turn for the renewal of the lime. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. centrum + linea line. ] Converging to a center; -- applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Cerealis pert. to Ceres, and hence, to agriculture. See Ceres. ] Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L. See Cereal. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 1. (Antiq.) Public festivals in honor of Ceres. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The cereals. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A nitrogenous substance closely resembling diastase, obtained from bran, and possessing the power of converting starch into dextrin, sugar, and lactic acid. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Circumesophagal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the coccyx; as, the coccygeal vertebræ. [ 1913 Webster ]

Coccygeal glands (Zool.) , glands situated at the base of the tail of birds. They secrete the oil with which the plumage is dressed. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Sp. cochinilla, dim. from L. coccineus, coccinus, scarlet, fr. coccum the kermes berry, G. ko`kkos berry, especially the kermes insect, used to dye scarlet, as the cochineal was formerly supposed to be the grain or seed of a plant, and this word was formerly defined to be the grain of the Quercus coccifera; but cf. also Sp. cochinilla wood louse, dim. of cochina sow, akin to F. cochon pig. ] A dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ These insects are gathered from the plant, killed by the application of heat, and exposed to the sun to dry. When dried they resemble small, rough berries or seeds, of a brown or purple color, and form the cochineal of the shops, which is used for making carmine, and also as a red dye. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Cochineal contains as its essential coloring matter carminic acid, a purple red amorphous substance which yields carmine red. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A plant of Central and Southern America, of the Cactus family, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Common + weal. ] Commonwealth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such a prince,
So kind a father of the commonweal. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Common + wealth well-being. ] 1. A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws. [ 1913 Webster ]

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This term is applied to governments which are considered as free or popular, but rarely, or improperly, to an absolute government. The word signifies, strictly, the common well-being or happiness; and hence, a form of government in which the general welfare is regarded rather than the welfare of any class. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The whole body of people in a state; the public. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eng. Hist.) Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659.

Syn. -- State; realm; republic. [ 1913 Webster ]