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n. [ OE. alebery, alebrey; ale + bre broth, fr. AS. brīw pottage. ] A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their aleberries, caudles, possets. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prov. E. bleb, bleib, blob, bubble, blister. This word belongs to the root of blub, blubber, blabber, and perh. blow to puff. ] A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arsenic abounds with air blebs. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. marred by small bubbles or small particles of foreign material; -- of glass or quartzite.
Syn. -- blebby. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Containing blebs, or characterized by blebs; as, blebby glass.
Syn. -- blebbed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. fragrant rounded shrub of SW US and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine.
Syn. -- brittle bush, incienso, Encelia farinosa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. bumblen to make a humming noise (dim. of bum, v. i.) + bee. Cf. Humblebee. ] (Zool.) A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called humblebee; -- so named from its sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ There are many species. All gather honey, and store it in the empty cocoons after the young have come out. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A pasteboard shell used in signaling. It is filled with a composition which makes a brilliant light when it explodes. Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes.

-- Cas"tle*build`ing, n. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. celebrans, p. pr. of celebrare. See Celebrate. ] One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Celebrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Celebrating. ] [ L. celebratus, p. p. of celebrare to frequent, to celebrate, fr. celeber famous. ] 1. To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To honor by solemn rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to keep; as, to celebrate a birthday. [ 1913 Webster ]

From even unto even shall ye celebrate your Sabbath. Lev. xxiii. 32. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to solemnize; to perform with appropriate rites; as, to celebrate a marriage.

Syn. -- To commemorate; distinguish; honor. -- To Celebrate, Commemorate. We commemorate events which we desire to keep in remembrance, when we recall them by some special observace; as, to commemorate the death of our Savior. We celebrate by demonstrations of joy or solemnity or by appropriate ceremonies; as, to celebrate the birthday of our Independence. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are called upon to commemorate a revolution as surprising in its manner as happy in its consequences. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Earth, water, air, and fire, with feeling glee,
Exult to celebrate thy festival. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having celebrity; distinguished; renowned. [ 1913 Webster ]

Celebrated for the politeness of his manners. Macaulay.

Syn. -- Distinguished; famous; noted; famed; renowned; illustrious. See Distinguished. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. celebratio. ] The act, process, or time of celebrating. [ 1913 Webster ]

His memory deserving a particular celebration. Clarendok. [ 1913 Webster ]

Celebration of Mass is equivalent to offering Mass Cath. Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

To hasten the celebration of their marriage. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who celebrates; a praiser. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Famous. [ Obs. ] Speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Celebrities [ L. celebritas: cf. F. célébrité. ] 1. Celebration; solemnization. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The celebrity of the marriage. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state or condition of being celebrated; fame; renown; as, the celebrity of Washington. [ 1913 Webster ]

An event of great celebrity in the history of astronomy. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person of distinction or renown; -- usually in the plural; as, he is one of the celebrities of the place. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also clotbur. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. concelebratus, p. p. of concelebrare to concelebrate. ] To celebrate together. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a bee that is parasitic in the nests of bumblebees. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. delebilis. See 1st Dele. ] Capable of being blotted out or erased. “An impression easily deleble.” Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Hellebore. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Helleborin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after the German chemist Freiesleben. ] A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Glebæ /plu>. [ L., a clod. ] (Bot.) The chambered sporogenous tissue forming the central mass of the sporophore in puff balls, stinkhorns, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. glèbe, L. gleba, glaeba, clod, land, soil. ] 1. A lump; a clod. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Turf; soil; ground; sod. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fertile of corn the glebe, of oil, and wine. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eccl. Law) The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no glebe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being glebous. [ R. ]

{ } a. [ Cf. L. glaebosus cloddy. ] Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful. “Gleby land.” Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The curved bar connected by a shaft to the front wheel of a bicycle or motorcycle, positioned nearly horizontally in front of the rider's seat, designed to be gripped by the rider while riding, and used to steer the vehicle. Usually used in the plural; as, don't let go of the handlbars. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. A deciduous much-branched shrub (Lyonia ligustrina) with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers.
Syn. -- maleberry, male berry, privet andromeda, Lyonia ligustrina. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. helleborus, elleborus, Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;; cf. F. hellébore, ellébore. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Bot.) A genus of perennial herbs (Helleborus) of the Crowfoot family, mostly having powerfully cathartic and even poisonous qualities. Helleborus niger is the European black hellebore, or Christmas rose, blossoming in winter or earliest spring. Helleborus officinalis was the officinal hellebore of the ancients. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Any plant of several species of the poisonous liliaceous genus Veratrum, especially Veratrum album and Veratrum viride, both called white hellebore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A poisonous glucoside found in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a sharp tingling taste. It possesses the essential virtues of the plant; -- called also elleborin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice or theory of using hellebore as a medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A low bush (Viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Hobblebush. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Whortleberry. ] (Bot.) (a) The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from Gaylussacia resinosa. (b) The shrub that bears the berries. Called also whortleberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Squaw huckleberry. See Deeberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. humbilbee, hombulbe; cf. D. hommel, G. hummel, OHG. humbal, Dan. humle, Sw. humla; perh. akin to hum. √15. Cf. Bumblebee. ] (Zool.) The bumblebee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Huckleberry, Whortleberry. ] See Whortleberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of celebrity or distinction; obscurity. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Coagulated sour milk diluted with water; -- a common beverage among the Arabs. Also, a fermented liquor made of the same. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Bot.) A deciduous much-branched shrub (Lyonia ligustrina) with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers; also called swamp andromeda.
Syn. -- privet andromeda, he-huckleberry, Lyonia ligustrina. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Bot.) A kind of coffee. See Pea berry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The philosophical system of Malebranche, an eminent French metaphysician. The fundamental doctrine of his system is that the mind can not have knowledge of anything external to itself except in its relation to God. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The sunfish (Orthagoriscus, or Mola). [ Written also molebat. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An agricultural implement used in Flanders, consisting of a kind of large shovel drawn by a horse and guided by a man. [ Written also mollebaert and mouldebaert. ] Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. someone who does special exercises to develop the musculature; a bodybuilder. [ WordNet 1.5 ]