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v. t. [ OF. agreger. See Aggravate. ] To make heavy; to aggravate. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. allègre, earlier alègre, fr. L. alacer. ] Gay; cheerful; sprightly. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Alleged p. pr. & vb. n. Alleging. ] [ OE. aleggen to bring forward as evidence, OF. esligier to buy, prop. to free from legal difficulties, fr. an assumed LL. exlitigare; L. ex + litigare to quarrel, sue (see Litigate). The word was confused with L. allegare (see Allegation), and lex law. Cf. Allay. ] 1. To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To bring forward; adduce; advance; assign; produce; declare; affirm; assert; aver; predicate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Allay. ] To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being alleged or affirmed. [ 1913 Webster ]

The most authentic examples allegeable in the case. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Allegation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Allegation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

With many complaints and allegements. Bp. Sanderson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who affirms or declares. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; N temperate regions esp. mountains.
Syn. -- columbine, aquilegia [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ OE. asegen, OF. asegier, F. assiéger, fr. LL. assediare, assidiare, to besiege. See Siege. ] To besiege. [ Obs. ] “Assieged castles.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A siege. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. barége, so called from Baréges, a town in the Pyrenees. ] A gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Begemmed p. pr. & vb. n. Begemming. ] To adorn with gems, or as with gems. [ 1913 Webster ]

Begemmed with dewdrops. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those lonely realms bright garden isles begem. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Begot (Archaic) Begat p. p. Begot, Begotten p. pr. & vb. n. Begetting. ] [ OE. bigiten, bigeten, to get, beget, AS. begitan to get; pref. be- + gitan. See Get, v. t. ] 1. To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To get (with child.) [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To produce as an effect; to cause to exist. [ 1913 Webster ]

Love is begot by fancy. Granville. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who begets; a father. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Besieged p. pr. & vb. n. Besieging. ] [ OE. bisegen; pref. be- + segen to siege. See Siege. ] To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset. [ 1913 Webster ]

Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To environ; hem in; invest; encompass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged. Golding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Anat.) The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. collège, L. collegium, fr. collega colleague. See Colleague. ] 1. A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops. [ 1913 Webster ]

The college of the cardinals. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portion in this. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In France and some other parts of continental Europe, college is used to include schools occupied with rudimentary studies, and receiving children as pupils. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A building, or number of buildings, used by a college. “The gate of Trinity College.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Fig.: A community. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thick as the college of the bees in May. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

College of justice, a term applied in Scotland to the supreme civil courts and their principal officers. --
The sacred college, the college or cardinals at Rome. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A joint regent or ruler. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ F., fr. It. corteggio train, fr. corte court. See Court. ] A train of attendants; a group following and attending to some important person.
Syn. -- retinue, suite, entourage. [ 1913 Webster WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a procession, especially a funeral procession following the casket carrying a dead person. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. kynhgetikh` (sc. te`chnh art), fr. kynhge`ths hunter; ky`wn, kyno`s, dog + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to lead. ] The art of hunting with dogs. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ AS. danegeld. See Dane, and Geld, n. ] (Eng. Hist.) An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm. Wharton's Law Dict. Tomlins. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. i. [ See Degenerate. ] To degenerate. [ Obs. ] “Degendering to hate.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

He degenereth into beastliness. Joye. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Degenerate, a. ] 1. The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Willful degeneracy from goodness. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Degeneracy of spirit in a state of slavery. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

To recover mankind out of their universal corruption and degeneracy. S. Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. degeneratus, p. p. of degenerare to degenerate, cause to degenerate, fr. degener base, degenerate, that departs from its race or kind; de- + genus race, kind. See Kin relationship. ] Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low. [ 1913 Webster ]

Faint-hearted and degenerate king. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A degenerate and degraded state. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Degenerate from their ancient blood. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

These degenerate days. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

I had planted thee a noble vine . . . : how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? Jer. ii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Degenerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Degenerating. ] 1. To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate. [ 1913 Webster ]

When wit transgresseth decency, it degenerates into insolence and impiety. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a person who has declined from a high standard, especially a sexual deviate; -- usually used disparagingly or opprobriously of persons whose sexual behavior does not conform to the norms of accepted morals. [ PJC ]

2. a person or thing that has fallen from a higher to a lower state, or reverted to an earlier type or stage of development or culture. RHUD [ PJC ]

adv. In a degenerate manner; unworthily. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Degeneracy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dégénération. ] 1. The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our degeneration and apostasy. Bates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Biol.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The thing degenerated. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Cockle, aracus, . . . and other degenerations. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Amyloid degeneration,
Caseous degeneration, etc. See under Amyloid, Caseous, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. degener. See Degenerate. ] Degenerate; base. [ Obs. ] “Degenerous passions.” Dryden. “Degenerous practices.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Basely. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Milling) To extract the germs from, as from wheat grains. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Milling) A machine for breaking open the kernels of wheat or other grain and removing the germs. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to narrate; dia` through + &unr_; to lead. ] A narrative or history; a recital or relation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To alienate from allegiance. [ Obs. & R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of a privilege or privileges. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Ægean. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. egens, -entis, p. pr. of egere to be needy, suffer want. ] The state of needing, or of suffering a natural want. [ R. ] J. Grote.

n. An impetuous flood; a bore. See Eagre. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ From L. egerminare to sprout. ] To germinate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. egestus, p. p. of egerere to carry out, to discharge; e out + gerere to carry. ] (Physiol.) To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., neut. pl. from p. p. of L. egere. See Egest. ] (Physiol.) That which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. egestio. ] Act or process of egesting; a voiding. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]