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‖ [ L., Greek white. ] Dung of dogs or hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a genus of tropical Old World epiphytic orchids with showy flowers sometimes grotesque.
Syn. -- genus Angrecum, genus Angraecum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. any of various spectacular orchids of the genus Angraecum having 2-ranked dark green leathery leaves and usually nocturnally scented white or ivory flowers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L., fr. antecurrere to run before; ante + currere to run. ] A forerunner; a precursor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. assecuratio, fr. assecurare. ] Assurance; certainty. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ LL. assecurare. ] To make sure or safe; to assure. [ Obs. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. assécution, fr. L. assequi to obtain; ad + sequi to follow. ] An obtaining or acquiring. [ Obs. ] Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Auto- + fecundation. ] (Biol.) Self-impregnation. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ In the language of the (Arawak or Taino) Indians of Guiana, barbacoa a frame on which all kinds of flesh and fish are roasted or smoke-dried. ] 1. a framework of metal or brick, usually with a grill on top, in which a fire is lighted and on which food is cooked, usually outdoors; -- also called a barbecue grill. [ PJC ]

2. A social entertainment, where people assemble, usually in the open air, at which a meal is prepared on a barbecue grill. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Barbecued p. pr. & vb. n. Barbecuing. ] 1. To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron. [ 1913 Webster ]

They use little or no salt, but barbecue their game and fish in the smoke. Stedman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog. [ 1913 Webster ]

Send me, gods, a whole hog barbecued. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Cooked on a barbecue.
Syn. -- grilled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Roasting a large piece of meat on a grill or a revolving spit out of doors over an open fire. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ n., . [ Native name. ] (Bot.) The nut of the Brazilian tree Myristica Bicuhyba, which yields a medicinal balsam used for rheumatism. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] (Zool.) A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyræna spet). See Barracuda. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To curl; to adorn with curls. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + molecular. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, involving, or formed from, two molecules; as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Cæcums, L. Cæca [ L. caecus blind, invisible, concealed. ] (Anat.) (a) A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or duct. (b) The blind part of the large intestine beyond the entrance of the small intestine; -- called also the blind gut. [ Also spelled cecum. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The cæcum is comparatively small in man, and ends in a slender portion, the vermiform appendix; but in herbivorous mammals it is often as large as the rest of the large intestine. In fishes there are often numerous intestinal cæca. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a type of rabbit (Sylvilagus aquaticus) inhabiting southeastern U.S. swamps and lowlands; -- called also swamp rabbit.
Syn. -- swamp rabbit, swamp hare. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Corrupt, from F. quart d'écu. ] A quarter of a crown. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The bunch of them were not worth a cardecu. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The caecum, the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens.
Syn. -- caecum, blind gut. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. caecutire to be blind, fr. caecus blind. ] Partial blindness, or a tendency to blindness. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. type genus of the Cercopithecidae, consisting of one genus of guenons.
Syn. -- genus Cercopithecus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A joint executor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A joint executrix. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To follow closely; to endeavor to overtake; to pursue. [ Obs. ] Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. consecutio. See Consequent. ] 1. A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A succession or series of any kind. [ Obs. ] Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Month of consecution (Astron.), a month as reckoned from one conjunction of the moon with the sun to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. consécutif. See Consequent. ] 1. Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding. [ 1913 Webster ]

The actions of a man consecutive to volition. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) Having similarity of sequence; -- said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consecutive chords (Mus.), chords of the same kind succeeding one another without interruption. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a consecutive manner; by way of sequence; successively. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

v. t. To give additional security to or for. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From L. decubare; de- + cubare. See Decumbent. ] Act of lying down; decumbence. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. de- + cubare, to lie down: cf. F. décubitus. ] (Med.) An attitude assumed in lying down; as, the dorsal decubitus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] Also, sometimes, Anglicized (Ordnance) An accidental blowing off of, or other serious damage to, the breechblock of a gun; also, a removal of the breechblock for the purpose of disabling the gun. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. decumanus of the tenth, and by metonymy, large, fr. decem ten. ] Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [ R. ] Also used substantively. “Such decuman billows.” Gauden. “The baffled decuman.” Lowell.

n. a woody climber of southeastern US (Decumaria barbara) having white flowers in compound terminal clusters.
Syn. -- Decumaria barbata, Decumaria barbara. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. The act or posture of lying down. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ancient manner of decumbency. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. decumbens, -entis, p. pr. of decumbere; de- + cumbere (only in comp.), cubare to lie down. ] 1. Lying down; prostrate; recumbent. [ 1913 Webster ]

The decumbent portraiture of a woman. Ashmole. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a decumbent posture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astrol.) Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. décuple, L. decuplus, fr. decem ten. ] Tenfold. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A number ten times repeated. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decupled p. pr. & vb. n. Decupling ] To make tenfold; to multiply by ten. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. decurio, decurionis, fr. decuria a squad of ten, fr. decem ten. ] (Rom. Antiq.) A head or chief over ten; especially, an officer who commanded a division of ten soldiers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. decurionatus, fr. decurio. ] The office of a decurion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of running down; a lapse. [ R. ] Gauden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. decurrens, -entis, p. pr. of decurrere to run down; de- + currere to run: cf. F. décurrent. ] (Bot.) Extending downward; -- said of a leaf whose base extends downward and forms a wing along the stem. -- De*cur"rent*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. decursio, fr. decurrere. See Decurrent. ] A flowing; also, a hostile incursion. [ Obs. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. décursif. See Decurrent. ] Running down; decurrent. [ 1913 Webster ]