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n. [ Gr. 'ammi`ths, 'ammi`tis, sandstone, fr. 'a`mmos or "a`mmos sand.] (Geol.) Oölite or roestone; -- written also hammite. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

n. [ From the desert of Atacama, where found. ] (Min.) An oxychloride of copper, usually in emerald-green prismatic crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. azymite. ] (Eccl. Hist.) One who administered the Eucharist with unleavened bread; -- a name of reproach given by those of the Greek church to the Latins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An inhabitant of a madhouse; a madman. “Raving bedlamites.” Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A descendant of Benjamin; one of the tribe of Benjamin. Judg. iii. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who believes in Benthamism. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. 1. An inhabitant of Bethlehem in Judea. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An insane person; a madman; a bedlamite. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One of an extinct English order of monks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Bindheim, a German who analyzed it. ] (Min.) An amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) Bismuth trioxide, or bismuth ocher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. calamus a reed: cf. F. calamite. ] (Paleon.) A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Catamitus, an old form of Ganymedes Ganymede, Gr. Ganymh`dhs. ] A boy kept for unnatural purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Min.) A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) A compound or salt of chromous hydroxide regarded as an acid. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose.
Syn. -- commitment. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ After the French geologist Dolomieu. ] (Geol. & Min.) A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive beds as a compact limestone, often crystalline granular, either white or clouded. It includes much of the common white marble. Also called bitter spar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de-Dôme in Auvergne, France, where it is found. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; power. See Dynamic. ] (Chem.) An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who uses dynamite; esp., one who uses it for the destruction of life and property. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the descendants of Esau or Edom, the brother of Jacob; an Idumean. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Native sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salt.

n. [ See Hermit. ] A hermit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.

{ , a. (Hist.) Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n. A descendant of Fatima. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Fumitory. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A gothamist. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An inhabitant of New York city. [ Jocular ] Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Graham bread. ] One who follows the dietetic system of Graham. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called because it occurs in rounded or flattened pieces which look like gum. ] (Min.) A yellow amorphous mineral, essentially a hydrated oxide of uranium derived from the alteration of uraninite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.[ L. hamus hook. ] (Paleon.) A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A descendant of Ham, Noah's second son. See Gen. x. 6-20. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Zool.) The aquatic larva of a large American winged insect (Corydalus cornutus), much used a fish bait by anglers; the dobson. It belongs to the Neuroptera. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Hermit. ] A hermit. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female hermit. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From St. Hieronymus, or Jerome. ] (Eccl.) See Jeronymite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after Sir A. Hume. ] (Min.) A mineral of a transparent vitreous brown color, found in the ejected masses of Vesuvius. It is a silicate of iron and magnesia, containing fluorine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + &unr_; eye. ] See Apophyllite. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not limited; interminable. Bp. Hall. -- Il*lim"it*ed*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

The absoluteness and illimitedness of his commission was generally much spoken of. Clarendon. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. indomitus. ] Not tamed; untamed; savage; wild. [ Obs. ] J. Salkeld. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A Muslim. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Itacolumi, a mountain of Brazil. ] (Min.) A laminated, granular, siliceous rocks, often occurring in regions where the diamond is found. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One belonging of the mediæval religious orders called Hermits of St. Jerome. [ Written also Hieronymite. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited. [ 1913 Webster ]

Limited company, a company in which the liability of each shareholder is limited by the number of shares he has taken, so that he can not be called on to contribute beyond the amount of his shares. [ Eng. ] Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With limitation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being limited. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, limits. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A friar licensed to beg within certain bounds, or whose duty was limited to a certain district. [ Formerly written also limitour. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

A limitour of the Gray Friars, in the time of his limitation, preached many times, and had but one sermon at all times. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after Mr. Ludlam, of London. ] (Min.) A mineral occurring in small, green, transparent, monoclinic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. mīte mite (in sense 1); akin to LG. mite, D. mijt, G. miete, OHG. mīza; cf. Goth. maitan to cut. ] 1. (Zool.) A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the dust mite, cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, three-toed spider mite, etc. See Acarina. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ D. mijt; prob. the same word. ] A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. The name is also applied to a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ. [ 1913 Webster ]

Two mites, which make a farthing. Mark xii. 49. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A small weight; one twentieth of a grain. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle. [ 1913 Webster ]

For in effect they be not worth a myte. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A genus of low slender herbs of North America and Northeast Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals.
Syn. -- genus Mitella. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Mitella, -- slender, perennial herbs with a pod slightly resembling a bishop's miter; bishop's cap. [ 1913 Webster ]

False miterwort, a white-flowered perennial herb of the United States (Tiarella cardifolia). [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. mitre, fr. L. mitra headband, turban, Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by bishops and other church dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, the present form being a lofty cap with two points or peaks. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The surface forming the beveled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Numis.) A sort of base money or coin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Miter box (Carp. & Print.), an apparatus for guiding a handsaw at the proper angle in making a miter joint; esp., a wooden or metal trough with vertical kerfs in its upright sides, for guides. --
Miter dovetail (Carp.), a kind of dovetail for a miter joint in which there is only one joint line visible, and that at the angle. --
Miter gauge (Carp.), a gauge for determining the angle of a miter. --
Miter joint, a joint formed by pieces matched and united upon a line bisecting the angle of junction, as by the beveled ends of two pieces of molding or brass rule, etc. The term is used especially when the pieces form a right angle, such as the edges of a window frame, and the edge of each piece at the point of junction is cut at a 45° angle to its long direction. See Miter, 2. --
Miter shell (Zool.), any one of numerous species of marine univalve shells of the genus Mitra. --
Miter square (Carp.), a bevel with an immovable arm at an angle of 45°, for striking lines on stuff to be mitered; also, a square with an arm adjustable to any angle. --
Miter wheels, a pair of bevel gears, of equal diameter, adapted for working together, usually with their axes at right angles. [ 1913 Webster ]