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a. [ Gr. 'a`nqrwpos man + -oid. ] Resembling man; -- applied especially to certain apes, as the ourang or gorilla. -- n. An anthropoid ape. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Anthropoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Anthropoid. ] (Zool.) The suborder of primates which includes the monkeys, apes, and man. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + poise. ] Balanced. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Appointed; p. pr. & vb. n. Appointing. ] [ OE. appointen, apointen, OF. apointier to prepare, arrange, lean, place, F. appointer to give a salary, refer a cause, fr. LL. appunctare to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement; L. ad + punctum a point. See Point. ] 1. To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out. [ 1913 Webster ]

When he appointed the foundations of the earth. Prov. viii. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint. 2 Sam. xv. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

He hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness. Acts xvii. 31. [ 1913 Webster ]

Say that the emperor request a parley . . . and appoint the meeting. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To assign, designate, or set apart by authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service. Num. iv. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

These were cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. Josh. xx. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out. [ 1913 Webster ]

The English, being well appointed, did so entertain them that their ships departed terribly torn. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Appoint not heavenly disposition. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Law) To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. Burrill. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

To appoint one's self, to resolve. [ Obs. ] Crowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To ordain; to determine; to arrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel. 2 Sam. xvii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being appointed or constituted. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having acquired an office or responsibility through appointment; -- said of officials, and contrasting with elected. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. fixed or established by order or command.
Syn. -- decreed, ordained, prescribed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. provided with furnishing and accessories especially of a tasteful kind. a house that is beautifully appointed [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. selected for a duty or job [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. appointé, p. p. of appointer. See Appoint, v. t. ] 1. A person appointed. [ 1913 Webster ]

The commission authorizes them to make appointments, and pay the appointees. Circular of Mass. Representatives (1768). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (law) A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed. Kent. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. appointement. ] 1. The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being appointed to som&unr_; service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appointment to meet at six. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments. [ 1913 Webster ]

According to the appointment of the priests. Ezra vi. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) The exercise of the power of designating (under a “power of appointment”) a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cavaliers emulated their chief in the richness of their appointments. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll prove it in my shackles, with these hands
Void of appointment, that thou liest. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An expense proportioned to his appointments and fortune is necessary. Chesterfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Designation; command; order; direction; establishment; equipment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & a. [ OE. aver de peis, goods of weight, where peis is fr. OF. peis weight, F. poids, L. pensum. See Aver, n., and Poise, n. ] 1. Goods sold by weight. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Avoirdupois weight. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Avoirdupois weight, a system of weights by which coarser commodities are weighed, such as hay, grain, butter, sugar, tea. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The standard Avoirdupois pound of the United States is equivalent to the weight of 27.7015 cubic inches of distilled water at 62° Fahrenheit, the barometer being at 30 inches, and the water weighed in the air with brass weights. In this system of weights 16 drams make 1 ounce, 16 ounces 1 pound, 25 pounds 1 quarter, 4 quarters 1 hundred weight, and 20 hundred weight 1 ton. The above pound contains 7, 000 grains, or 453.54 grams, so that 1 pound avoirdupois is equivalent to 1 31-144 pounds troy. (See Troy weight.) Formerly, a hundred weight was reckoned at 112 pounds, the ton being 2, 240 pounds (sometimes called a long ton). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a pen which has a small metal ball as point of transfer of ink to paper, at the tip of a cylandrical and non-refillable reservoir of ink; -- short for ballpoint pen.
Syn. -- ballpoint pen, ballpen, Biro. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A child's game. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Counter- + point. ] An opposite point [ Obs. ] Sir E. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. contrepoint; cf. It. contrappunto. Cf. Contrapuntal. ] (Mus.) (a) The setting of note against note in harmony; the adding of one or more parts to a given canto fermo or melody. (b) The art of polyphony, or composite melody, i. e., melody not single, but moving attended by one or more related melodies. (c) Music in parts; part writing; harmony; polyphonic music. See Polyphony. [ 1913 Webster ]

Counterpoint, an invention equivalent to a new creation of music. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. contrepoincte, corruption of earlier counstepointe, countepointe, F. courtepointe, fr. L. culcita cushion, mattress (see Quilt, and cf. Cushion) + puncta, fem. p. p. of pungere to prick (see Point). The word properly meant a stitched quilt, with the colors broken one into another. ] A coverlet; a cover for a bed, often stitched or broken into squares; a counterpane. See 1st Counterpane. [ 1913 Webster ]

Embroidered coverlets or counterpoints of purple silk. Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Counterpoised p. pr. & vb. n. Counterpoising. ] [ OE. countrepesen, counterpeisen, F. contrepeser. See Counter, adv., and Poise, v. t. ] 1. To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Weights, counterpoising one another. Sir K. Digby. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To act against with equal power; to balance. [ 1913 Webster ]

So many freeholders of English will be able to beard and counterpoise the rest. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. countrepese, OF. contrepois, F. contrepods. See Counter, adv., and Poise, n. ] 1. A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fastening that to our exact balance, we put a metalline counterpoise into the opposite scale. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force. [ 1913 Webster ]

The second nobles are a counterpoise to the higher nobility, that they grow not too potent. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium; equiponderance. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pendulous round eart, with balanced air,
In counterpoise. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports “point.” [ 1913 Webster ]

(Physics), That combination of volume and pressure, at the critical temperature of the substance, at which the liquid and gaseous phases of a given quantity of a substance have identical values for their densities and other properties. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Despoiled p. pr. & vb. n. Despoiling. ] [ OF. despoiller, F. dépouiller, L. despoliare, despoliatum; de- + spoliare to strip, rob, spolium spoil, booty. Cf. Spoil, Despoliation. ] 1. To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of. [ 1913 Webster ]

The clothed earth is then bare,
Despoiled is the summer fair. Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss. Milton.

Syn. -- To strip; deprive; rob; bereave; rifle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Spoil. [ Obs. ] Wolsey. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence.
Syn. -- pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who despoils. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Despoliation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Classical Mythology) the daughter of Zeus and Demeter; made queen of the underworld by Pluto in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Proserpina.
Syn. -- Persephone, Kore, Cora. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Meteor.) The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disapointed; p. pr. & vb. n. Disappointing. ] [ OF. desapointier, F. désappointer; pref. des- (L. dis-) + apointier, F. appointier, to appoint. See Appoint. ] 1. To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions, expectations, or plans are disappointed; a bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was disappointed, but very agreeably. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Disappointed of a thing not obtained; disappointed in a thing obtained. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To frustrate; to fail; to hinder of result. [ 1913 Webster ]

His retiring foe
Shrinks from the wound, and disappoints the blow. Addison.

Syn. -- To tantalize; fail; frustrate; balk; baffle; delude; foil; defeat. See Tantalize. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unprepared; unequipped. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. defeating one's expectations or hopes; failing to fulfill one's expectations or hopes; as, a disappointing result; a disappointing crop yield. [ PJC ]

n. the act of disappointing someone.
Syn. -- disappointment, dashing hopes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. désappointement. ] 1. The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration. [ 1913 Webster ]

If we hope for things of which we have not thoroughly considered the value, our disappointment will be greater than our pleasure in the fruition of them. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

In disappointment thou canst bless. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which disappoints.

Syn. -- Miscarriage; frustration; balk. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An old rural game. [ 1913 Webster ]

With any boy at dust-point they shall play. Peacham (1620). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n., or . [ NL.; electro- + Gr. poiw^n, p. pr. of poiei^n to make. ] (Elec.) An exciting and depolarizing acid solution used in certain cells or batteries, as the Grenet battery. Electropoion is best prepared by mixing one gallon of concentrated sulphuric acid diluted with three gallons of water, with a solution of six pounds of potassium bichromate in two gallons of boiling water. It should be used cold. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F., fr. en bon point in good condition. See Bon, and Point. ] Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. empoisonner; pref. em- + F. poison. See Poison, and cf. Impoison. ] To poison; to impoison. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Poison. [ Obs. ] Remedy of Love. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Poisoner. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. empoisonnement. ] The act of poisoning. Bacon.

n. A point of termination or completion.
Syn. -- end point. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Equi- + poise. ] 1. Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; -- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces. [ 1913 Webster ]

The means of preserving the equipoise and the tranquillity of the commonwealth. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our little lives are kept in equipoise
By opposite attractions and desires. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Counterpoise. [ 1913 Webster ]

The equipoise to the clergy being removed. Buckle.

n. 1. the lowest temperature at which the vapors given off by a volatile liquid exposed to air will burst into flame when approached by a flame. Also called flashing point. [ PJC ]

2. That point in time or that degree of provocation at which someone will suddenly begin to act vigorously; -- often used in reference to angry reactions. [ PJC ]

v. t. To set, order, or appoint, beforehand. Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]