*ella*

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Andorra. Population (2000) = 22, 390. [ PJC ]

n. 1. 1 a genus consisting of one species: the rue anemone.
Syn. -- genus Anemonella. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) See Annelida. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Appealable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capability of appeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. appellans, p. pr. of appellare; cf. F. appelant. See Appeal. ] Relating to an appeal; appellate. “An appellant jurisdiction.” Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

Party appellant (Law), the party who appeals; appellant; -- opposed to respondent, or appellee. Tomlins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Law) (a) One who accuses another of felony or treason. [ Obs. ] (b) One who appeals, or asks for a rehearing or review of a cause by a higher tribunal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A challenger. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eccl. Hist.) One who appealed to a general council against the bull Unigenitus. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One who appeals or entreats. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. appelatus, p. p. of appellare. ] Pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, appeals. “Appellate jurisdiction.” Blackstone. “Appellate judges.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Appelate court, a court having cognizance of appeals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person or prosecuted for a crime. [ Obs. ] See Appellee. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. appellatio, fr. appellare: cf. F. appellation. See Appeal. ] 1. The act of appealing; appeal. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of calling by a name. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation. [ 1913 Webster ]

They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Name. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. appellativus, fr. appellare: cf. F. appelatif. See Appeal. ] 1. Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. appelativum, sc. nomen. ] 1. A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An appellation or title; a descriptive name. [ 1913 Webster ]

God chosen it for one of his appellatives to be the Defender of them. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being appellative. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. appellatorius, fr. appellare. ] Containing an appeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

An appellatory libel ought to contain the name of the party appellant. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An amoebalike protozoan with a chitinous shell resembling an umbrella. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. Atellanus, fr. Atella, an ancient town of the Osci, in Campania. ] Of or pertaining to Atella, in ancient Italy; as, Atellan plays; farcical; ribald. -- n. A farcical drama performed at Atella. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. It. avellana a filbert, fr. L. Avella or Abella a city of Campania. ] (Her.) In the form of four unhusked filberts; as, an avellane cross. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See 1st Barb. ] (Bot.) Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It., literally fine lady; bella beautiful + donna lady. ] (Bot.) (a) An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade. (b) A species of Amaryllis (Amaryllis belladonna); the belladonna lily. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stoneware jug of a pattern originated in the neighborhood of Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + flabellate. ] (Zool.) Flabellate on both sides. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + flagellate. ] Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Pref. bi- + lamellate. ] (Bot.) Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bis twice + ocellatus. See Ocellated. ] (Zool.) Having two ocelli (eyelike spots); -- said of a wing, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus off Eurasian herbs and small shrubs: buckler mustard.
Syn. -- genus Biscutella. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A sweet wine from Portugal; -- so called from the district of Carcavelhos. [ Written also Calcavellos or Carcavelhos. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Cancellarean. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cancellatus, p. p. of cancellare, See Cancel, v. t. ] 1. (Bot.) Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Crossbarred; marked with cross lines. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) Open or spongy, as some porous bones. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cancellatio: cf. F. cancellation. ] 1. The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ LL. (OE. canel, canelle, cinnamon, fr. F. cannelle), Dim. of L. canna a reed. Canella is so called from the shape of the rolls of prepared bark. See Cane. ] (Bot.) A genus of trees of the order Canellaceæ, growing in the West Indies. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The principal species is Canella alba, and its bark is a spice and drug exported under the names of wild cinnamon and whitewood bark. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A large evergreen shrub or small tree (Canella alba or Canella winterana) having white aromatic bark and leathery leaves and small purple to red flowers in terminal cymes. Its bark is called wild cinnamon.
Syn. -- wild cinnamon, white cinnamon tree, Canella winterana. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a natural family having one genus: aromatic tropical trees of East Africa and Florida to West Indies. In 1913 the family was classed as an order: see canella.
Syn. -- family Canellaceae, canella family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L., a little goat, dim. of caper a goat. ] (Asrton.) A brilliant star in the constellation Auriga. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Chaplain. ] The curate of a chapel; a chaplain. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. capitellum, dim. of caput head. ] (Bot.) Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected into minute capitula. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. See A cappella. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus somprising the skeleton shrimp.
Syn. -- genus Caprella. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Bot.) Belonging to, forming, or containing carpels. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Botany) bearing or consisting of carpels. Opposite of acarpelous.
Syn. -- pistillate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OF. castelain, F. châtelain, L. castellanus pertaining to a castle, an occupant of a caste, LL., a governor of a castle, fr. L. castellum castle, citadel, dim. of castrum fortified place. See Castle, and cf. Chatelaine. ] A governor or warden of a castle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Castellanies [ LL. castellania. ] The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. castellatus, fr. castellare. See Castle. ] 1. Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. castellation, fr. castellare, fr. L. castellum. See Castle. ] The act of making into a castle. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A genus of pygmy marmosets.
Syn. -- genus Cebuella. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ L. ] (Arch.) The part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticoes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. celer, OF. celier, F. celier, fr. L. cellarium a receptacle for food, pantry, fr. cella storeroom. See Cell. ] A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept. [ 1913 Webster ]