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n. One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Admonisher. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. producing or activated by epinephrine or adrenaline an adrenergic nerve fiber [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Chem.) Same as Ethiops mineral. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The time just after dinner. “An after-dinner's sleep.” Shak. [ Obs. ] -- a. Following dinner; post-prandial; as, an after-dinner nap. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. aggenerare to beget in addition. See Generate. ] The act of producing in addition. [ Obs. ] T. Stanley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ /Ale + con, OE. cunnen to test, AS. cunnian to test. See Con. ] Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [ Also called aletaster. ] [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who adjusts things to a line or lines or brings them into line. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An almoner. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. aumener, aulmener, OF. almosnier, aumosnier, F. aumônier, fr. OF. almosne, alms, L. eleemosyna. See Alms. ] 1. One who distributes alms, esp. the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.; also, one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A social worker in a hospital. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ PJC ]

3. An official in a hospital whose job it is to calculate how much a patient must pay for treatment. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ PJC ]

n. The office of an almoner. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL. anergia, fr. Gr. &unr_;- not + &unr_; work. ] Lack of energy; inactivity. -- An*er"gic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

a. [ Gr. 'a priv. + nhro`s wet, moist + -oid: cf. F. anéroïde. ] Containing no liquid; -- said of a kind of barometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aneroid barometer, a barometer the action of which depends on the varying pressure of the atmosphere upon the elastic top of a metallic box (shaped like a watch) from which the air has been exhausted. An index shows the variation of pressure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An aneroid barometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. antiphonaire. See Antiphon. ] A book of antiphons. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Good against venereal poison; antisyphilitic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who apportions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who arraigns. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who ascertains. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes atonement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; (pl. Attorney-generals or Attorneys-general). (Law) The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. avenier, fr. aveine, avaine, avoine, oats, F. avoine, L. avena. ] (Feud. Law) An officer of the king's stables whose duty it was to provide oats for the horses. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. Baboonish behavior. Marryat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who goes up in a balloon; an aëronaut. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. banere, OF. baniere, F. bannière, bandière, fr. LL. baneria, banderia, fr. bandum banner, fr. OHG. bant band, strip of cloth; cf. bindan to bind, Goth. bandwa, bandwo, a sign. See Band, n. ] 1. A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hang out our banners on the outward walls. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any flag or standard; as, the star-spangled banner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Banner fish (Zool.), a large fish of the genus Histiophorus, of the Swordfish family, having a broad bannerlike dorsal fin; the sailfish. One species (Histiophorus Americanus) inhabits the North Atlantic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with, or bearing, banners. “A bannered host.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.[ OE. baneret, OF. baneret, F. banneret; properly a dim. of OF. baniere. See Banner. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The usual mode of conferring the rank on the field of battle was by cutting or tearing off the point of the pennon or pointed flag on the spear of the candidate, thereby making it a banner. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A civil officer in some Swiss cantons. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A small banner. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called in allusion to the fable of the man who burned his barn in order to rid it of rats. ] 1. A member of the radical section of the Democratic party in New York, about the middle of the 19th century, which was hostile to extension of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; -- opposed to Hunker. [ Political Cant, U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. an impressively successful or unusually good event. [ informal ] ”The rock concert was a real barnburner.” [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Bot.) Having the nerves radiating from the base; -- said of leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head.
Syn. -- beanball. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro. [ 1913 Webster ]

A sermon of a new beginner. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who bemoans. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bis twice + nervus sinew, nerve. ] 1. (Bot.) Two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Having only two nerves, as the wings of some insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who blackens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. Heb. bnē hargem sons of thunder. -- an appellation given by Christ to two of his disciples (James and John). See Mark iii. 17. ] Any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an embarrassing mistake.
Syn. -- blunder, blooper, bungle, foul-up, flub, botch, boo-boo, misdoing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. one who bones food. [ PJC ]

n. A boor killed for the table. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ F. brigadier, fr. brigade. ] (Mil.) An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ See Bude light. ] A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Buffooneries [ F. bouffonnerie. ] The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a “What makes you blush?” Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]