*ender*

n. One who apprehends. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. A barkeeper. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

2. An instrument used for bending. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A drunken spree. [ Low, U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A sixpence. [ Slang, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending. Specifically, an electrical device with a rapidly rotating spindle to which a specially designed container can be attached, so that the contents of the container are agitated by rotating blades at adjustable speeds, permitting various degrees of homogenization of the contents. container are [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. calandre, LL. calendra, corrupted fr. L. cylindrus a cylinder, Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;. See Cylinider. ] 1. A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper, etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance. It consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who pursues the business of calendering. [ 1913 Webster ]

My good friend the calender. Cawper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Calendered p. pr. & vb. n. Calendering. ] [ Cf. F. calandrer. See Calender, n. ] To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Per. qalender. ] One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Cheven. ] (Zool.) The chub. Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who commends or praises. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who contends; a contestant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A strainer. See Colander. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Fender. ] One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator. [ 1913 Webster ]

Provinces . . . left without their ancient and puissant defenders. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

He degenereth into beastliness. Joye. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who depends; a dependent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who descends. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who discommends; a dispraiser. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who dispends or expends; a steward. [ Obs. ] Wyclif (1 Cor. iv. 1). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (a) (Naut.) A vessel capable of moving in either direction, having bow and rudder at each end. (b) (Railroad) A locomotive with pilot at each end. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who emends. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, makes an end of something; as, the ender of my life. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Endermic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; in + &unr_; skin. ] (Med.) Acting through the skin, or by direct application to the skin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Endermic method, that in which the medicine enters the system through the skin, being applied either to the sound skin, or to the surface denuded of the cuticle by a blister. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By the endermic method; as, applied endermically. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; in + &unr_; skin. ] (Anat.) The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes. -- En`de*ron"ic, a. [1913 Webster]

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

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Engendered p. pr. & vb. n. Engendering. ] [ F. engender, L. ingenerare; in + generare to beget. See Generate, and cf. Ingenerate. ] 1. To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife. [ 1913 Webster ]

Engendering friendship in all parts of the common wealth. Southey.

Syn. -- To breed; generate; procreate; propagate; occasion; call forth; cause; excite; develop. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace. “I saw their mouths engender.” Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To make tender. [ R. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To treat with tenderness. [ R. ] Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Fend, v. t. & i., cf. Defender. ] One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm; as: (a) A screen to prevent coals or sparks of an open fire from escaping to the floor. (b) Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel or a wharf. (c) A screen to protect a carriage from mud thrown off the wheels: also, a splashboard. (d) Anything set up to protect an exposed angle, as of a house, from damage by carriage wheels. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To copulate; to breed. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. genre, gendre (with excrescent d.), F.genre, fr. L. genus, generis, birth, descent, race, kind, gender, fr. the root of genere, gignere, to beget, in pass., to be born, akin to E. kin. See Kin, and cf. Generate, Genre, Gentle, Genus. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Kind; sort. [ Obs. ] “One gender of herbs.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sex, male or female. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The use of the term gender to refer to the sex of an animal, especially a person, was once common, then fell into disuse as the term became used primarily for the distinction of grammatical declension forms in inflected words. In the late 1900's, the term again became used to refer to the sex of people, as a euphemism for the term sex, especially in discussions of laws and policies on equal treatment of sexes. Objections by prescriptivists that the term should be used only in a grammatical context ignored the earlier uses. [ PJC ]

3. (Gram.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living objects. R. Morris. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Adjectives and pronouns are said to vary in gender when the form is varied according to the gender of the words to which they refer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Gendered p. pr. & vb. n. Gendering. ] [ OF. gendrer, fr. L. generare. See Gender, n. ] To beget; to engender. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no gender. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A large North American aquatic salamander (Protonopsis horrida or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Engender. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who intends. Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See 3d Calender. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. lavendre, F. lavande, It. lavanda lavender, a washing, fr. L. lavare to wash; cf. It. lsavendola, LL. lavendula. So called because it was used in bathing and washing. See Lave. to wash, and cf. Lavender. ] 1. (Bot.) An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (Lavandula vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (Lavandula Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The pale, purplish color of lavender flowers, paler and more delicate than lilac. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lavender cotton (Bot.), a low, twiggy, aromatic shrub (Santolina Chamæcyparissus) of the Mediterranean region, formerly used as a vermifuge, etc., and still used to keep moths from wardrobes. Also called ground cypress. --
Lavender water, a perfume, toilet water, or shaving lotion containing the essential oil of lavender, and sometimes the essential oil of bergamot, and essence of ambergris. --
Sea lavender. (Bot.) See Marsh rosemary. --
To lay in lavender. (a) To lay away, as clothing, with sprigs of lavender. (b) To pawn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. One who lends. [ 1913 Webster ]

The borrower is servant to the lender. Prov. xxii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. (Far.) Same as Malanders. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who mends or repairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who misspends. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest.
Syn. -- usurer, loan shark, shark, money-lender. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Sp. mocador. Cf. Mokadour. ] A handkerchief. [ Obs. ] [ Written also muckinder, muckiter, mockadour. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A seller of newspapers. [ 1913 Webster ]