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adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + gush. ] In a gushing state. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of wild sheep.
Syn. -- genus Ammotragus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. angustus. See Anguish. ] Narrow; strait. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. angustatus, p. p. of angustare to make narrow. ] Narrowed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of making narrow; a straitening or contacting. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. angustus narrow + clavus a nail, a stripe. ] (Rom. Antiq.) A narrow stripe of purple worn by the equites on each side of the tunic as a sign of rank. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } a. [ L. angustus narrow (see Anguish) + folium leaf. ] (Bot.) Having narrow leaves. Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

See Angostura bark. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] (Anat.) A prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. See Ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL.; pref. archi- + L. magus, Gr. ma`gos, a Magian. ] 1. The high priest of the Persian Magi, or worshipers of fire. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A great magician, wizard, or enchanter. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, and &unr_; &unr_;, hill of Ares (Mars' Hill). ] The highest judicial court at Athens. Its sessions were held on Mars' Hill. Hence, any high court or tribunal [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ L. Argus, Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. (Myth.) A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One very vigilant; a guardian always watchful. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A genus of East Indian pheasants. The common species (Argus giganteus) is remarkable for the great length and beauty of the wing and tail feathers of the male. The species Argus Grayi inhabits Borneo. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Extremely observant; watchful; sharp-sighted. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) A species of shell (Cypræa argus), beautifully variegated with spots resembling those in a peacock's tail. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. 'aspa`ragos, 'asfa`ragos; cf. sparga^n to swell with sap or juice, and Zend çparegha prong, sprout, Pers. asparag, Lith. spurgas sprout, Skr. sphurj to swell. Perh. the Greek borrowed from the Persian. Cf. Sparrowgrass. ] 1. (Bot.) A genus of perennial plants belonging to the natural order Liliaceæ, and having erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers. Specifically: The Asparagus officinalis, a species cultivated in gardens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The young and tender shoots of Asparagus officinalis, which form a valuable and well-known article of food. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word was formerly pronounced sparrowgrass; but this pronunciation is now confined exclusively to uneducated people. [ 1913 Webster ]

Asparagus beetle (Zool.), a small beetle (Crioceris asparagi) injurious to asparagus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. augustus; cf. augere to increase; in the language of religion, to honor by offerings: cf. F. auguste. See Augment. ] Of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority. “Forms august.” Pope. “August in visage.” Dryden. “To shed that august blood.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

So beautiful and so august a spectacle. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

To mingle with a body so august. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Grand; magnificent; majestic; solemn; awful; noble; stately; dignified; imposing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Augustus. See note below, and August, a. ] The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The old Roman name was Sextilis, the sixth month from March, the month in which the primitive Romans, as well as Jews, began the year. The name was changed to August in honor of Augustus Cæsar, the first emperor of Rome, on account of his victories, and his entering on his first consulate in that month. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Augustanus, fr. Augustus. See August, n. ] 1. Of or pertaining to Augustus Cæsar or to his times. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg. [ 1913 Webster ]

Augustan age of any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called because the reign of Augustus Cæsar was the golden age of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b. 1638) has been called the Augustan age of French literature, and that of Queen Anne (b. 1664) the Augustan age of English literature. --
Augustan confession (Eccl. Hist.), or confession of Augsburg, drawn up at Augusta Vindelicorum, or Augsburg, by Luther and Melanchthon, in 1530, contains the principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for separating from the Roman Catholic church. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Eccl.) A member of one of the religious orders called after St. Augustine; an Austin friar. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo in Northern Africa (b. 354 -- d. 430), or to his doctrines. [ 1913 Webster ]

Augustinian canons, an order of monks once popular in England and Ireland; -- called also regular canons of St. Austin, and black canons. --
Augustinian hermits or
Austin friars, an order of friars established in 1265 by Pope Alexander IV. It was introduced into the United States from Ireland in 1790. --
Augustinian nuns, an order of nuns following the rule of St. Augustine. --
Augustinian rule, a rule for religious communities based upon the 109th letter of St. Augustine, and adopted by the Augustinian orders. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of a class of divines, who, following St. Augustine, maintain that grace by its nature is effectual absolutely and creatively, not relatively and conditionally. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. The doctrines held by Augustine or by the Augustinians. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an august manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus consisting of the mole rats.
Syn. -- genus Bathyergus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A liquor made of rum and molasses. [ Local, U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit. [ Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the type genus of the Caprimulgidae, including the whip-poor-will (Caprimulgus vociferus) and the chuck-will's-widow (Caprimulgus carolinensis).
Syn. -- genus Caprimulgus. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖n.; pl. Choragi [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;; &unr_; chorus + &unr_; to lead. ] (Gr. Antiq.) A chorus leader; esp. one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contents at Athens. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. krataigo`s. ] (Bot.) A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. L. cunnus vulva + lingere to lick. ] Stimulation of the vulva or clitoris of one person by the tongue of another, for the purpose of giving sexual gratification.
Syn. -- cunnilinctus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ L. degustare: cf. F. déguster. See Gust to taste. ] To taste. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. degustatio: cf. F. dégustation. ] (Physiol.) Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. a genus comprising the tree wallabies.
Syn. -- genus Dendrolagus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disgusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Disgusting. ] [ OF. desgouster, F. dégoûter; pref. des- (L. dis-) + gouster to taste, F. goûter, fr. L. gustare, fr. gustus taste. See Gust to taste. ] To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by. [ 1913 Webster ]

To disgust him with the world and its vanities. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ærius is expressly declared . . . to have been disgusted at failing. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alarmed and disgusted by the proceedings of the convention. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. desgoust, F. dégoût. See Disgust, v. t. ] Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite disgust. [ 1913 Webster ]

The manner of doing is more consequence than the thing done, and upon that depends the satisfaction or disgust wherewith it is received. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a vulgar hack writer such oddities would have excited only disgust. Macaulay.

Syn. -- Nausea; loathing; aversion; distaste; dislike; disinclination; abomination. See Dislike. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having a strong distaste from surfeit.
Syn. -- fed up(predicate), sick of(predicate), tired of(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting. [ 1913 Webster ]

That horrible and disgustful situation. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. That causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting. -- Dis*gust"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. o'isofa`gos; root of o'i`sw which is used as future of fe`rein to bear, carry (cf. Skr. vī to go, drive) + fagei^n to eat. ] (Anat.) That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive. [ Written also œsophagus. ]

n. (Min.) A mineral of a brownish black color, essentially a tantalo-niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; -- so called after Robert Ferguson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }. (Bot.) A poisonous mushroom (Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius), having usually a bright red or yellowish cap covered with irregular white spots. It has a distinct volva at the base, generally an upper ring on the stalk, and white spores. Called also fly agaric, deadly amanita. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. L. Fungi E. Funguses [ L., a mushroom; perh. akin to a doubtful Gr. &unr_; sponge, for &unr_;; if so, cf. E. sponge. ] 1. (Bot.) Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, -- the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each. See fungi. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The fungi are all destitute of chorophyll, and, therefore, to be supplied with elaborated nourishment, must live as saprophytes or parasites. They range in size from single microscopic cells to systems of entangled threads many feet in extent, which develop reproductive bodies as large as a man's head. The vegetative system consists of septate or rarely unseptate filaments called hyphæ; the aggregation of hyphæ into structures of more or less definite form is known as the mycelium. See Fungi, in the Supplement. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A spongy, morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies, as the proud flesh of wounds. Hoblyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. resembling a fungus or fungi.
Syn. -- fungoid. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Gushed p. pr. & vb. n. Gushing. ] [ OE. guschen, cf. Icel. gusa and gjsa, also D. gucsen; perh. akin to AS. geótan to pour, G. giessen, Goth. giutan, E. gut. Cf. Found to cast. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously. [ 1913 Webster ]

He smote the rock that the waters gushed out. Ps ixxviii 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

A sea of blood gushed from the gaping wound. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed plase; an emission of a liquid in a large quantity, and with force; the fluid thus emitted; a rapid outpouring of anything; as, a gush of song from a bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gush of springs,
An fall of lofty foundains. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sentimental exhibition of affection or enthusiasm, etc.; effusive display of sentiment. [ Collog. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who gushes. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]