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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 ]

adj. having a slanted or oblique direction.
Syn. -- bias, catacorner, catercorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, diagonal, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered, oblique, skew, skewed, slanted. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. Cater to cut diagonally. ] Diagonal. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. Having a slanted or oblique direction.
Syn. -- bias, catacorner, cata-cornered, catercorner, cater-cornered, diagonal, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered, oblique, skew, skewed, slanted. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. cinereus, fr. cinis ashes. ] Like ashes; ash-colored; grayish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. 1 Having corners or angles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who divines. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having four corners or angles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. funereus, fr. fentus a funeral. ] Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn; as, at a funereal pace. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. Longfellow.

-- Fu*ne"re*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

‖n. [ NL. See Hetero-, and Nereis. ] (Zool.) A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this state the head and its appendages are changed in form, the eyes become very large; more or less of the parapodia are highly modified by the development of finlike lobes, and branchial lamellæ, and their setæ become longer and bladelike. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Impolite; rude; displaying socially incorrect behavior.
Syn. -- rude, unmannered, unmannerly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having banners. [ 1913 Webster ]

pl. Knights bannerets. A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of battle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Lanier. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. f. n. m. } [ F. lanier, OF. also, lasnier. Cf. Lanyard. ] (Zool.) A long-tailed falcon (Falco lanarius), of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa, resembling the American prairie falcon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having a certain way, esp. a polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self; as, a well-mannered child. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give her princely training, that she may be
Mannered as she is born. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. [ 1913 Webster ]

His style is in some degree mannered and confined. Hazlitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Contr. fr. ne were. ] Were not. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. E. Nereids L. Nereides [ L. Nereis, -idis, Gr. Nhrei:`s Nhrhi:`s, Nhrhi:`dos, a daughter of Nereus, a nymph of the sea, fr. Nhrey`s Nereus, an ancient sea god; akin to nhro`s wet, Skr. nāra water, cf. Gr. na`ein to flow. ] 1. (Class. Myth.) A sea nymph, one of the daughters of Nereus, who were attendants upon Neptune, and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail of a fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any species of Nereis. The word is sometimes used for similar annelids of other families. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any annelid resembling Nereis, or of the family Lycoridae or allied families. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n.; pl. Nereides [ L. ] 1. (Class. Myth.) A Nereid. See Nereid. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A genus, including numerous species, of marine chaetopod annelids, having a well-formed head, with two pairs of eyes, antennae, four pairs of tentacles, and a protrusile pharynx, armed with a pair of hooked jaws. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. (Paleon.) Fossil tracks of annelids. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ NL. See Nereid, and Cyst. ] (Bot.) A genus of gigantic seaweeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Nereocystis Lutkeana, of the North Pacific, has a stem many fathoms long, terminating in a great vesicle, which is crowned with a tuft of long leaves. The stem is used by the Alaskans for fishing lines. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who sins. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the special jointed organs situated on the under side, and near the end, of the abdomen of spiders, by means of which they spin their webs. Most spiders have three pairs of spinnerets, but some have only two pairs. The ordinary silk line of the spider is composed of numerous smaller lines jointed after issuing from the spinnerets. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a taking or drawing together, fr. &unr_; to take together; sy`n with + &unr_; to take, to grasp. See Syn-, and Heresy. ] (Gram.) The union, or drawing together into one syllable, of two vowels that are ordinarily separated in syllabification; synecphonesis; -- the opposite of diaeresis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Synaeresis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three-cornered stem. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. venereus, venerius, fr. Venus, Veneris, Venus, the goddess of love. See Venerate. ] 1. Of or pertaining to venery, or sexual love; relating to sexual intercourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Into the snare I fell
Of fair, fallacious looks, venereal trains,
Softened with pleasure and voluptuous life. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) (a) Arising from sexual intercourse; as, a venereal disease; venereal virus or poison. (b) Adapted to the cure of venereal diseases; as, venereal medicines. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Adapted to excite venereal desire; aphrodisiac. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Consisting of, or pertaining to, copper, formerly called by chemists Venus. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) The venereal disease; syphilis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. vénérien. ] Devoted to the offices of Venus, or love; venereal. [ Obs. ] “I am all venerean in feeling.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. venereus. ] 1. Venereal; exciting lust; aphrodisiac. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lustful; lascivious; libidinous. [ R. ] Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]