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a. Of or pertaining to catechu or its derivatives. See catechin. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Min.) The Mexican name for turquoise. See Turquoise. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. e'yfyh`s well grown, graceful; e'y^ well + fyh` growth, fr. fy`ein to grow. This affected style of conversation and writing, fashionable for some time in the court of Elizabeth, had its origin from the fame of Lyly's books, “Euphues, or the Anatomy of Wit, ” and “Euphues and his England.” ] (Rhet.) An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who affects excessive refinement and elegance of language; -- applied esp. to a class of writers, in the age of Elizabeth, whose productions are marked by affected conceits and high-flown diction. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to the euphuists, or euphuism; affectedly refined. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To affect excessive refinement in language; to be overnice in expression. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Chin. feng wind + shiu water. ] A system of spirit influences for good and evil believed by the Chinese to attend the natural features of landscape; also, a kind of geomancy dealing with these influences, used in determining sites for graves, houses, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

[ Native name; -- so called from its cry. ] (Zool.) A New Zealand starling (Heteralocha acutirostris), remarkable for the great difference in the form and length of the bill in the two sexes, that of the male being sharp and straight, that of the female much longer and strongly curved. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Usher. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To usher. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an organic acid which is obtained as a white crystalline substance from catechin, asafetida, oil of cloves, etc., and by distillation itself yields pyrocatechin. [ 1913 Webster ]