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‖n. [ L., he is sick. ] (Camb. Univ.) A medical certificate that a student is ill. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Aëro-; Taxis. ] (Bacteriology) The positive or negative stimulus exerted by oxygen on aërobic and anaërobic bacteria. -- A`ër*o*tac"tic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. [ F. agiotage, fr. agioter to practice stockjobbing, fr. agio. ] Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Amnion. ] (Zool.) That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes. [ 1913 Webster ]

All history, therefore, being built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of lies. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Annotated; p. pr. & vb. n. Annotating. ] [ L. annotatus; p. p. of annotare to annotate; ad + notare to mark, nota mark. See Note, n. ] To explain or criticize by notes; as, to annotate the works of Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make notes or comments; -- with on or upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the act of adding notes.
Syn. -- annotation [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. annotatio: cf. F. annotation. ] A note, added by way of comment, or explanation; -- usually in the plural; as, annotations on ancient authors, or on a word or a passage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An annotator. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by annotations; of the nature of annotation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] A writer of annotations; a commentator. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to an annotator; containing annotations. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'a`nqos flower + &unr_; order. ] (Bot.) The arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence. [ 1913 Webster ]

#) a. Having the quality an antidote; fitted to counteract the effects of poison. Sir T. Browne. -- An"ti*do`tal*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Antidotal. -- n. An antidote; also, a book of antidotes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Hostile to priests or the priesthood. Waterland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. pl. apotactitae, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; set apart; &unr_; from + &unr_; to arrange, ordain. ] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of ancient Christians, who, in supposed imitation of the first believers, renounced all their possessions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus comprising the orange tortrix.
Syn. -- genus Argyrotaenia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a phylum of higher fungi, coextensive with the class Ascomycetes. It comprises Hemiascomycetes; Plectomycetes; Pyrenomycetes; Discomycetessac fungi; in some classification systems it is considered a division of the kingdom Fungi.
Syn. -- subdivision Ascomycota, Ascomycotina, subdivision Ascomycotina. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. . [ PJC ]

n. 1. magnetic tape for use in recording sound. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a tape recording of sound. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 a genus having but one species; the New Caledonian yew.
Syn. -- genus Austrotaxus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. ballottade, fr. ballotter to toss. See Ballot, v. i. ] (Man.) A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or upon a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ballottage. ] In France, a second ballot taken after an indecisive first ballot to decide between two or several candidates; a runoff election. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. Voting by ballot. [ Obs. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Ballotade. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. (Bot.) [ NL., fr. NL. & E. basidium + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, fungus. ] (Bot.) A large subdivision of the kingdom Fungi coextensive with the phylum Basidiomycetes, characterized by having the spores borne on a basidium. It embraces those fungi best known to the public, such as mushrooms, toadstools, etc. Among the classes of the Basidiomycota are: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi). In the 1913 Webster, the Basidiomycetes were defined as "coördinate with the Ascomycetes", and other fungal phyla (the Zygomycota and Deuteromycota) were not mentioned.
Syn. -- Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycotina. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_; book + &unr_; a burial. ] One who hides away books, as in a tomb. [ R. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. all the plant and animal life of a particular region.
Syn. -- biology. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. bi`os life + &unr_; arrangement. ] (Biol.) The classification of living organisms according to their structural character; taxonomy. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Colombia. Population (2000) = 45, 448. [ PJC ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. botanique. See Botany. ] Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition. -- Bo*tan"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Botanic garden, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. --
Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots. [1913 Webster]

v. to collect and study plants.
Syn. -- botanize. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. botaniste. ] One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Botanized p. pr. & vb. n. Botanizing ] [ Cf. F. botaniser. ] To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To explore for botanical purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who botanizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A botanist. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Botany + -logy: cf. F. botanologie. ] The science of botany. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Botany + -mancy: cf. F. botanomantie. ] An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Botanies [ F. botanique, a. & n., fr. Gr. &unr_; botanic, fr. &unr_; herb, plant, fr. &unr_; to feed, graze. ] 1. The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See Plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A book which treats of the science of botany. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Botany is divided into various departments; as,
Structural Botany, which investigates the structure and organic composition of plants;
Physiological Botany, the study of their functions and life; and
Systematic Botany, which has to do with their classification, description, nomenclature, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hence, any place to which desperadoes resort. [ 1913 Webster ]

Botany Bay kino (Med.), an astringent, reddish substance consisting of the inspissated juice of several Australian species of Eucalyptus. --
Botany Bay resin (Med.), a resin of reddish yellow color, resembling gamboge, the product of different Australian species of Xanthorrhæa, esp. the grass tree (Xanthorrhæa hastilis). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. bottarga, bottarica; or Sp. botarga; a kind of large sausages, a sort of wide breeches: cf. F. boutargue. ] A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cabotage, fr. caboter to sail along the coast; cf. Sp. cabo cape. ] (Naut.) Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kenota`fion; keno`s empty + ta`fos burial, tomb: cf. F. cénotaphe. ] An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

A cenotaph in Westminster Abbey. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]