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n. [ L. amotio. See Amove. ] 1. Removal; ousting; especially, the removal of a corporate officer from his office. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Deprivation of possession. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ L., withdrawn (from it&unr_;place). ] (Zool.) Elevated, -- as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to anastomosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ So named from Angoumois in France. ] (Zool.) A small moth (Gelechia cerealella) which is very destructive to wheat and other grain. The larva eats out the interior of the grain, leaving only the shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Preventing fermentation or decomposition. -- n. An agent so used. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to the automobile. automotive supplies automotive engineering [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. 1 containing within itself the means of propulsion or movement. an automotive vehicle
Syn. -- self-propelled, self-propelling. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Berg + mote meeting. ] A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners. Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Heb. behemōth, fr. Egyptian P-ehe-maut hippopotamus. ] 1. An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. something of large size or great power. [ PJC ]

n. [ F. bergamote, fr. It. bergamotta; prob. a corruption of Turk. beg armūdi a lord's pear. ] 1. (Bot.) (a) A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit. (b) A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The essence or perfume made from the fruit. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A variety of pear. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot. [ 1913 Webster ]

The better hand . . . gives the nose its bergamot. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wild bergamot (Bot.), an American herb of the Mint family (Monarda fistulosa). [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. See Barmote. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having two motors. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n.; pl. Bonsmots [ F. bon good + mot word. ] A witty repartee; a jest. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Bergamot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (AS. Law) [ Burgh + mote meeting. ] A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly. [ 1913 Webster ]

p.a. [ See Besmut. ] Bespotted with mud or dirt. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. calor heat + E. motor. ] (Physics) A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects.

n. (Alchemy) The matter of which the philosopher's stone was believed to be composed. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. Formerly also }. [ Chemical + Gr. &unr_; arrangement, fr. &unr_; to arrange. ] (Biol.) The sensitiveness exhibited by small free-swimming organisms, as bacteria, zoospores of algæ, etc., to chemical substances held in solution. They may be attracted (positive chemotaxis) or repelled (negative chemotaxis). -- Chem`o*tac"tic a. -- Chem`o*tac"tic*al*ly, adv. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Pertaining to, or produced by, chemosmosis. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to chemotherapy; using chemotherapy; having properties beneficial for chemotherapy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness); -- also used especially in reference to the use of chemicals to treat cancer. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; color + -type. ] 1. A sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. See Chromolithograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A photographic picture in the natural colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Commove. ] To commove; to disturb; to stir up. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Society being more or less commoted and made uncomfortable. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. commotio: cf. F. commotion. See Motion. ] 1. Disturbed or violent motion; agitation. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ What ] commotion in the winds ! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A popular tumult; public disturbance; riot. [ 1913 Webster ]

When ye shall hear of wars and commotions. Luke xxi. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement. “He could not debate anything without some commotion.” Clarendon.

Syn. -- Excitement; agitation; perturbation; disturbance; tumult; disorder; violence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
Syn. -- CER, conditioned emotion. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. ko`smos the world + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; god. ] Same as Pantheism. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. ko`smos universe + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to place or arrange. ] (Metaph.) Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cosmothetic idealists (Metaph.), those who assume, without attempting to prove, the reality of external objects as corresponding to, and being the ground of, the ideas of which only the mind has direct cognizance. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cosmothetic idealists . . . deny that mind is immediately conscious of matter. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Demoted p. pr. & vb. n. Demoting ] [ Pref. de- + mote, as in promote; cf. L. demovere to remove. ] To reduce to a lower grade or rank, as in the military, one's employment, or in school; to assign to a lower position.
Syn. -- bump, relegate, kick downstairs, break one's rank. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. dhmotiko`s, fr. dh^mos the people: cf. F. démotique. ] Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common. [ 1913 Webster ]

Demotic alphabet or
Demotic character, a form of writing used in Egypt after six or seven centuries before Christ, for books, deeds, and other such writings; a simplified form of the hieratic character; -- called also epistolographic character, and enchorial character. See Enchorial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The department of knowledge relative to the care and culture of the people; sociology in its broadest sense; -- in library cataloguing. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Med.) Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity. -- n. Any agent that depresses the activity of the motor centers, as bromides, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or . [ After Dr. Rudolf Diesel, of Munich, the inventor. ] A type of internal-combustion engine in which the air drawn in by the suction stroke is so highly compressed that the heat generated ignites the fuel (usually a heavy oil), the fuel being automatically sprayed into the cylinder under pressure. The Diesel engine has a very high thermal efficiency. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Pertaining to ecchymosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zoöl.) The eelpout. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Electro-motive force (Physics), the force which produces, or tends to produce, electricity, or an electric current; sometimes used to express the degree of electrification as equivalent to potential, or more properly difference of potential. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. électromoteur. ] 1. (Physics) A mover or exciter of electricity; as apparatus for generating a current of electricity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mech.) An apparatus or machine for producing motion and mechanical effects by the action of electricity; an electro-magnetic engine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. emovere, emotum, to remove, shake, stir up; e out + movere to move: cf. F. émotion. See Move, and cf. Emmove. ] A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

How different the emotions between departure and return! W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some vague emotion of delight. Tennyson.

Syn. -- Feeling; agitation; tremor; trepidation; perturbation; passion; excitement. -- Emotion, Feeling, Agitation. Feeling is the weaker term, and may be of the body or the mind. Emotion is of the mind alone, being the excited action of some inward susceptibility or feeling; as, an emotion of pity, terror, etc. Agitation may be bodily or mental, and usually arises in the latter case from a vehement struggle between contending desires or emotions. See Passion. “Agitations have but one character, viz., that of violence; emotions vary with the objects that awaken them. There are emotions either of tenderness or anger, either gentle or strong, either painful or pleasing.” Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To give an emotional character to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affected with emotion. [ R. ] “The emotioned soul.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. unsusceptible to, destitute of, or showing no emotion; unmoved by feeling. Opposite of emotional; as, he kept his emotionless objectivity and faith in the cause he served. [ Narrower terms: matter-of-fact, prosaic; philosophical, philosophic; phlegmatic, phlegmatical, stolid; stoic, stoical; unblinking ] Also See: cool, passionless, unmoved(predicate), unmoving.
Syn. -- unemotional, passionless. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Attended by, or having the character of, emotion. H. Brooke. -- E*mo"tive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. Susceptibility to emotion. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Emotiveness. Hickok. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to endosmose; of the nature endosmose; osmotic. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; + &unr_; leader. See Enomoty. ] (Gr. Antiq.) The commander of an enomoty. Mitford. [ 1913 Webster ]