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n. An illegitimate child. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. [ Obs. ] Grose. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A native or one of the people of Algiers or Algeria. Also, a pirate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a family name used in some classifications for the swans.
Syn. -- subfamily Anserinae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. anserinus, fr. anser a goose. ] 1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Pertaining to the Anseres. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. 1. The act of bedding ashlar in mortar. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ashlar when in thin slabs and made to serve merely as a case to the body of the wall. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Carp.) The short upright pieces between the floor beams and rafters in garrets. See Ashlar, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. atherina, fr. Gr. &unr_; a kind of smelt. ] (Zool.) A small marine fish of the family Atherinidæ, having a silvery stripe along the sides. The European species (Atherina presbyter) is used as food. The American species (Menidia notata) is called silversides and sand smelt. See Silversides. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A bacterial vaccine. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. The act of one who badgers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female ballet dancer.
Syn. -- danseuse. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the act or process of subjecting to strong repeated blows.
Syn. -- banging. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. (Mil.) An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It was a large beam, with a head of iron, which was sometimes made to resemble the head of a ram. It was suspended by ropes to a beam supported by posts, and so balanced as to swing backward and forward, and was impelled by men against the wall. Grose. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Mil.) A train of artillery for siege operations. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or } n. (Chem.) An alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green heart of Guiana (Nectandra Rodiœi). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine. [ Written also bibirine. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Beery condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

A controversy (1886 -- 93) between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the claim of the United States, but established regulations for the preservation of the fur seal. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. changing for the better; -- antonym of worsening. [ Narrower terms: ameliorating(prenominal), ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Causing bewilderment or great perplexity; as, bewildering difficulties. -- Be*wil"der*ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. A skirmishing. “Frays and bickerings.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Altercation; wrangling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. biological science applied to the study the relation between workers and their environments.
Syn. -- ergonomics. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the application of engineeering principles to solve problems in medicine, such as the design of artificial limbs or organs; -- called also biomedical engineering. [ PJC ]

3. the branch of engineering dealing with the application of biological processes to the solution of practical problems, such as the manufacture of products by fermentation, the production and use of enzymes for various purposes, the use of microorganisms in environmental cleanup, etc.; -- called also biotechnology. [ PJC ]

n. The application of engineeering principles to solve problems in medicine, such as the design of artificial limbs or organs; -- called also bioengineering. [ PJC ]

n. A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Senseless babble or boasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. harshly or corrosively critical in tone; -- of comments about people or their actions. blistering criticism
Syn. -- acerb, acerbic, acid, bitter, caustic, scathing, venomous, virulent, vitriolic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. intensely hot. blistering sun
Syn. -- blistery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. very fast; as, a blistering pace.
Syn. -- red-hot, scorching. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. talking incoherently; as, a blithering idiot.
Syn. -- jabbering. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of weeping noisily. [ 1913 Webster ]

He spake well save that his blubbering interrupted him. Winthrop. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by blunders. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a blundering manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. [ 1913 Webster ]

A tempest and a blustering day. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. “A blustering fellow.” L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a blustering manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The practices of a boroughmonger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ trademark. ] a brand of aspirin tablets coated with a substance capable of neutralizing acid (a “buffer”); -- sometimes applied generically to any buffered aspirin preparation.
Syn. -- buffered aspirin. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The business of a butcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. [ 1913 Webster ]

That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A substance prepared from animal fat with some other ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter. [ 1913 Webster ]

The manufacturers ship large quantities of oleomargarine to England, Holland, and other countries, to be manufactured into butter, which is sold as butterine or suine. Johnson's Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. Also }. [ From Cadaver and amine. ] (Chem.) A sirupy, nontoxic ptomaine, H2N.(CH2)5.NH2 (chemically pentamethylene diamine), formed in putrefaction of flesh, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. The use of cannon. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of working in timber; carpentry. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ So called from St. Catherine of Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her martyrdom. ] 1. (Geoth.Arth.) Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine-wheel window. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Pyrotechny) A revolving piece of fireworks resembling in form the window of the same name. [ Written also Catharine wheel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) Same as Center, n., 6. [ Written also centring. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cera wax + -in: cf. L. cerinus wax-colored. ] 1. (Chem.) A waxy substance extracted by alcohol or ether from cork; sometimes applied also to the portion of beeswax which is soluble in alcohol. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Min.) A variety of the mineral allanite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an ancient religious sect, so called from Cerinthus, a Jew, who attempted to unite the doctrines of Christ with the opinions of the Jews and Gnostics. Hook. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lewdness. [ Obs. ] Rom. xiii. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being cheery. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner to cheer or encourage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) (a) The precursory symptoms of cholera. (b) The first stage of epidemic cholera. (c) A mild form of cholera. [ 1913 Webster ]