v. t. [ LL. afforestare; ad + forestare. See Forest. ] To convert into a forest;
n. The act of converting into forest or woodland. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Said before, or in a preceding part; already described or identified. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A female anchoret. [ 1913 Webster ]
And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form;
a. [ L. arborescens, p. pr. of arborescere to become a tree, fr. arbor tree. ] Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree. “Arborescent hollyhocks.” Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
n. A female author. Glover. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ The word is not very much used, author being commonly applied to a female writer as well as to a male. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n. [ L. calor heat. ] (Physics) The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ L. clamator, pl. clamatores, a bawler. ] (Zool.) A division of passerine birds in which the vocal muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of singing. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To convert into, or add to, a forest. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ L. cursor, pl. cursores, a runner. ] (Zool.)
v. t. To clear of forests; to disforest. U. S. Agric. Reports. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to carry through, to throw off by perspiration;
v. t.
By charter 9 Henry III. many forests were disafforested. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
n. The act of clearing land of forests. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Law) A woman disseizes. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A female doctor.[ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
n. [ F. efflorescence. ]
n. The state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ F. efflorescent, L. efflorescens, -entis, blooming, p. pr. of efflorescere. See Effloresce, v. i. ]
n. [ Fem. of Elector. ] An electress. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
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Gel electrophoresis is a technique in which the molecules to be separated are moved through a gelatinous medium under the influence of an electric field. At the completion of a period of electrophoresis, the gel, unlike a liquid solution, may be manipulated as a single object, permitting the substances contained within to be detected or visualized by a variety of methods, and their relative mobilities determined. It is therefore a popular analytic tool in biochemistry, and has many variants. Popular substances used to create the gel are starch, polyacrylamide, and agarose. Since a polyacrylamide gel can be created with different concentrations and different degrees of cross-linking, the pore size of the gel can be controlled to provide special properties appropriate to separation of specific molecules, as for example optimizaion for separation within a particular molecular weight range. in SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, SDS (sodium dodecyl sulfate, a detergent) is included; it binds to and denatures protein molecules, allowing them to be separated on the basis of their molecular weight alone. It is thus used as one method of determining the molecular weights of isolated protein chains. [ PJC ]
v. t. To turn into a forest. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A factor who is a woman. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A woman who favors or gives countenance.
n. [ See Florescent. ] (Bot.) A bursting into flower; a blossoming. Martyn. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. florescens, p. pr. of florescere begin to blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See Flower. ] Expanding into flowers; blossoming. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ From Fluor. ] (Chemistry, Optics) A luminescence emitted by certain substances due to the absorption of radiation at one wavelength, and the almost instantaneous re-emission of radiation at another, usually longer wavelength. The re-radiation stops almost as soon as the incident radiation is halted, thus distinguishing this phenomenon from
a. Having the property of fluorescence. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Chem.) A colorless, amorphous substance which is produced by the reduction of fluoresceïn, and from which the latter may be formed by oxidation. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Mentioned before; aforesaid. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Naut.)
v. t. [ AS. foresecgan; fore + secgan to say. See Say, v. t. ] To foretell. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Her danger nigh that sudden change foresaid. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ AS. foreseón; fore + seón to see. See See, v. t. ]
A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Prov. xxii. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]
Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To have or exercise foresight. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. being such as may reasonable be anticipated;
conj., or (strictly) p. p. Provided; in case that; on condition that. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
One manner of meat is most sure to every complexion, foreseen that it be alway most commonly in conformity of qualities, with the person that eateth. Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who foresees or foreknows. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To seize beforehand. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To shadow or typi&unr_;y beforehand; to prefigure. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. See Foreshow. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The fore part of a ship. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. the part of the seashore between the high-water and and low-water marks. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
v. t.
Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie
Foreshortened in the tract of time. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]