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a. Of or pertaining to Aragon, in Spain, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Aragon, in Spain. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Benin. Beninese bronzes
Syn. -- Benin. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a native or inhabitant of Benin. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pertaining to the city or canton of Bern, in Switzerland, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Bern. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a native or inhabitant of Bhutan.
Syn. -- Bhutani. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bhutan. Bhutanese Buddhists
Syn. -- Bhutani. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to Bologna. -- n. A native of Bologna. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bolognese school (Paint.), a school of painting founded by the Carracci, otherwise called the Lombard or Eclectic school, the object of which was to unite the excellences of the preceding schools. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n. [1913 Webster]

a. Of or pertaining to Ceylon; -- since the change of name, replaced by Sri Lankan. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Ceylon; -- since the change of name, replaced by Sri Lankan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. cherso`nhsos; che`rsos land + nh`sos island. ] A peninsula; a tract of land nearly surrounded by water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Chersonese, or Jutland; the Tauric Chersonese, or Crimea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chinese paper. See India paper, under India. --
Chinese wax, a snowy-white, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccidæ especially Coccus Sinensis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. 1. A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Any of several acts forbidding the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States, originally from 1882 to 1892 by act of May 6, 1882, then from 1892 to 1902 by act May 5, 1892. By act of April 29, 1902, all existing legislation on the subject was reënacted and continued, and made applicable to the insular possessions of the United States. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
Syn. -- vermilion, vermillion, cinibar. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ AS. fnēsan, gefnēsan. ] To breathe heavily; to snort. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or relating to Gabon or its inhabitants; as, Gabonese hills; Gabonese writers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a native or inhabitant of Gabon. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Geol.) The closing subdivision of the Hamilton period in the American Devonian system; -- so called because the formations of this period crop out in Genesee, New York. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. same as Ghanaian (in both senses).
Syn. -- Ghanian, Ghanaian. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to Guyana; as, Jonestown the Guyanese capital. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Guyana; as, Guyanese followers of the religious cult leader died in Jonestown. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A native or inhabitant of Guyana. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or inhabitant, or the people, of Havana. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The abbreviated writing style of headline writers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. a. [ Indo- + Chinese. ] 1. Of or pertaining to Indo-China (i. e., Farther India, or India beyond the Ganges). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pert. to the Mongoloid races of India, esp. Farther India, or designating, or of, their languages.

Tradition and comparative philology agree in pointing to northwestern China, between the upper courses of the Yang-tsekiang and of the Ho-ang-ho, as the original home of the Indo-Chinese race. Census of India, 1901. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Of or pertaining to Japan, or its inhabitants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A native or inhabitant of Japan; collectively, the people of Japan. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. sing. The language of the people of Japan, called in the Japanese language nihongo. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Java, or to the people of Java. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Java. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Leon, in Spain. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Leon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. manganèse, It. manganese, sasso magnesio; prob. corrupted from L. magnes, because of its resemblance to the magnet. See Magnet, and cf. Magnesia. ] (Chem.) An element obtained by reduction of its oxide, as a hard, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty (melting point 1244° C), but easily oxidized. Its ores occur abundantly in nature as the minerals pyrolusite, manganite, etc. Symbol Mn. Atomic number 25; Atomic weight 54.938 [ C=12.011 ]. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ An alloy of manganese with iron (called ferromanganese) is used to increase the density and hardness of steel. [ 1913 Webster ]

Black oxide of manganese,
Manganese dioxide or
Manganese peroxide, or
Black manganese (Chem.), a heavy black powder MnO2, occurring native as the mineral pyrolusite, and valuable as a strong oxidizer; -- called also familiarly manganese. It colors glass violet, and is used as a decolorizer to remove the green tint of impure glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A brass alloy having from 1 to 4 percent of manganese added to harden it; made by adding manganese to the copper and zinc used in brass.
Syn. -- high-strength brass. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. Cast steel containing a considerable percentage (10-14) of manganese, which makes it very hard and tough and highly resistant to wear. See Alloy steel, above. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Of or pertaining to Messina, or its inhabitans. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. Of or pertaining to Milan in Italy, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or inhabitant of Milan; people of Milan. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Modena or its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or inhabitant of Modena; the people of Modena. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Nose. [ Obs. ] Piers plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Japanese nippon, Japan. ] a native or inhabitant of Japan.
Syn. -- Japanese. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. Of or relating to or characteristic of Japan or its people or their culture or language; Japanese. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pron. A reflexive form of the indefinite pronoun one. Commonly written as two words, one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]

One's self (or more properly oneself), is quite a modern form. In Elizabethan English we find a man's self = one's self. Morris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle.
Syn. -- Pekingese, Peke. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. & n. See Polonaise. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. punaise, fr. punais stinking, fr. L. putere. ] (Zool.) A bedbug. [ R or Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Sienna, a city of Italy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ It. ] Of or pertaining to Turin. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or inhabitant of Turin; collectively, the people of Turin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. venaesectio; L. vena vein + sectio section. ] (Med.) The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ It. Veronese. ] Of or pertaining to Verona, in Italy. -- n. sing. & pl. A native of Verona; collectively, the people of Verona. [ 1913 Webster ]