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a. Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Amazing; surprising; wonderful; marvelous. [ 1913 Webster ]

As*ton"ish*ing*ly, adv. -- As*ton"ish*ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. See Brattice, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an expression that is limited to English as spoken by Englishmen (especially as contrasted with American English).
Syn. -- Anglicism, Briticism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a custom that is peculiar to England or its citizens.
Syn. -- Anglicism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Ceramics) The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelain. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner to diminish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dish-shaped; concave. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic. [ 1913 Webster ]

The distinguishing doctrines of our holy religion. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Distinguishing pennant (Naut.), a special pennant by which any particular vessel in a fleet is recognized and signaled. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With distinction; with some mark of preference. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A form of expression peculiar to the English language as spoken in England; an Anglicism. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to throw into ecstasy. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ 277), n. }[ Cf. F. fétichisme. ] [ Written also feticism. ] 1. The doctrine or practice of belief in fetiches. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Excessive devotion to one object or one idea; abject superstition; blind adoration. [ 1913 Webster ]

The real and absolute worship of fire falls into two great divisions, the first belonging rather to fetichism, the second to polytheism proper. Tylor.

{ n. } A believer in fetiches. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was by nature a fetichist. H. Holbeach.

{ a. } Pertaining to, or involving, fetichism. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man of the fifteenth century, inheriting its strange web of belief and unbelief, of epicurean levity and fetichistic dread. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., n., a. See Fetich, n., Fetichism, n., Fetichistic, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a thing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to complete or to render fit for the market or for use. [ 1913 Webster ]

Finishing coat. (a) (Plastering) the final coat of plastering applied to walls and ceilings, usually white and rubbed smooth. (b) (Painting) The final coat of paint, usually differently mixed applied from the others. --
Finishing press, a machine for pressing fabrics. --
Finishing rolls (Iron Working), the rolls of a train which receive the bar from roughing rolls, and reduce it to its finished shape. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To change to fish. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike. Pennant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act, practice, or art of one who fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fishery. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Fishing, n. ] Pertaining to fishing; used in fishery; engaged in fishing; as, fishing boat; fishing tackle; fishing village. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fishing fly, an artificial fly for fishing. --
Fishing line, a line used in catching fish. --
Fishing net, a net of various kinds for catching fish; including the bag net, casting net, drag net, landing net, seine, shrimping net, trawl, etc. --
Fishing rod, a long slender rod, to which is attached the line for angling. --
Fishing smack, a sloop or other small vessel used in sea fishing. --
Fishing tackle, apparatus used in fishing, as hook, line, rod, etc. --
Fishing tube (Micros.), a glass tube for selecting a microscopic object in a fluid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An investigation searching for evidence of wrongdoing, with no credible evidence of such wrongdoing available at the outset of the investigation, and often without specifying in advance the wrongdoing to be proven. [ metaphorical ] [ PJC ]

adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the furniture and appliances and other movable accessories (including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other building) livable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. accessory wearing apparel.
Syn. -- trappings. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish; an Hibernicism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Amorously pensive; indicating melancholy; as, languishing eyes, or look. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Suffering neglect; neglected. [ PJC ]

4. Continuing in a weak or deteriorating state; lingering. [ PJC ]

adv. In a languishing manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Promoting growth; nutritious. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Nutritively; cherishingly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. paroissien, LL. parochianus. ] One who belongs to, or is connected with, a parish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & vb. n. from Planish, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

Planishing rolls (Coining), rolls between which metal strips are passed while cold, to bring them to exactly the required thickness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Household furniture; stock. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Polish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Polishing iron, an iron burnisher; esp., a small smoothing iron used in laundries. --
Polishing slate. (a) A gray or yellow slate, found in Bohemia and Auvergne, and used for polishing glass, marble, and metals. (b) A kind of hone or whetstone; hone slate. --
Polishing snake, a tool used in cleaning lithographic stones. --
Polishing wheel, a wheel or disk coated with, or composed of, abrading material, for polishing a surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rapturous; transporting. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a ravishing manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resplendent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From OF. espanir to spread, F. épanouir. See Expand. ] The full blooming of a flower. [ Obs. ] Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Suretyship. Prov. xi. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Vanish, v. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vanishing fraction (Math.), a fraction which reduces to the form 0/0 for a particular value of the variable which enters it, usually in consequence of the existence of a common factor in both terms of the fraction, which factor becomes 0 for this particular value of the variable. Math. Dict. --
Vanishing line (Persp.), the intersection of the parallel of any original plane and the picture; one of the lines converging to the vanishing point. --
Vanishing point (Persp.), the point to which all parallel lines in the same plane tend in the representation. Gwilt. --
Vanishing stress (Phon.), stress of voice upon the closing portion of a syllable. Rush. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of laying on varnish; also, materials for varnish. [ 1913 Webster ]