*ennes*

n. 1. a wooded plateau in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France; the site of intense fighting in World Wars I and II. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness. [ 1913 Webster ]

A total barrenness of invention. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. 1. The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Contrition; as, brokenness of heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. cheyenne. (Ethnol.) A warlike tribe of indians, related to the blackfeet, formerly inhabiting the region of Wyoming, but now mostly on reservations in the Indian Territory. They are noted for their horsemanship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. South.

Syn. -- Intoxication; inebriation; inebriety. -- Drunkenness, Intoxication, Inebriation. Drunkenness refers more to the habit; intoxication and inebriation, to specific acts. The first two words are extensively used in a figurative sense; a person is intoxicated with success, and is drunk with joy. “This plan of empire was not taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected success.” Burke.

n. The state of being ven, level, or disturbed; smoothness; horizontal position; uniformity; impartiality; calmness; equanimity; appropriate place or level; as, evenness of surface, of a fluid at rest, of motion, of dealings, of temper, of condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

It had need be something extraordinary, that must warrant an ordinary person to rise higher than his own evenness. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of being frozen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ AS. grēnnes. See Green. ] 1. The quality of being green; viridity; verdancy; as, the greenness of grass, or of a meadow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Freshness; vigor; newness. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Immaturity; unripeness; as, the greenness of fruit; inexperience; as, the greenness of youth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Heathenesse. ] State of being heathen or like the heathen. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Hence. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. pref. im- not + penna feather. ] (Zool.) An order of birds, including only the penguins, in which the wings are without quills, and not suited for flight. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

‖n. pl. [ NL., from L. longus long + penna wing. ] (Zool.) A group of longwinged sea birds, including the gulls, petrels, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Erroneousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Frequency. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. pl. [ F. ] Window blinds having movable slats, similar to Venetian blinds. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Of or pertaining to Sienna, a city of Italy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Slovenliness. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ F.; -- so called after the town of Valenciennes. ] A rich kind of lace made at Valenciennes, in France. Each piece is made throughout, ground and pattern, by the same person and with the same thread, the pattern being worked in the net. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Vienna, or the people of Vienna. -- n. sing. & pl. An inhabitant, or the inhabitants, of Vienna. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Whence. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]