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n. [ L. acus needle + punctura a pricking, fr. pungere to prick: cf. F. acuponcture. ] Pricking with a needle; a needle prick. Specifically (Med.): The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes, such as to relieve pain. It was first recorded as being practised in China, and the technique is believed to be over 2, 000 years old. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

Acupuncture
(An NIH Consensus Statement prepared by a nonadvocate, non-Federal panel of experts)

November 3-5, 1997
Vol. 15, No. 5

Acupuncture as a therapeutic intervention is widely practiced in the United States. While there have been many studies of its potential usefulness, many of these studies provide equivocal results because of design, sample size, and other factors. The issue is further complicated by inherent difficulties in the use of appropriate controls, such as placebos and sham acupuncture groups. However, promising results have emerged, for example, showing efficacy of acupuncture in adult post-operative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting and in post-operative dental pain. There are other situations such as addiction, stroke rehabilitation, headache, menstrual cramps, tennis elbow, fibromyalgia, myofacial pain, osteoarthritis, low back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and asthma where acupuncture may be useful as an adjunct treatment or an acceptable alternative or be included in a comprehensive management program. Further research is likely to uncover additional areas where acupuncture interventions will be useful.
taken from: https://web.archive.org/web/20011126211520/http://odp.od.nih.gov/consensus/cons/107/107_intro.htm [ PJC ]

v. t. To treat with acupuncture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 dioecious evergreen trees or shrubs; equatorial to S and SE Africa: yellowwood2; similar to trees or genus Podocarpus.
Syn. -- genus Afrocarpus [ WordNet 1.5 ]

1. (Physics) A kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closed space; also, a pump to condense air or force it into a closed space. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Steam Engines) A pump used to exhaust from a condenser the condensed steam, the water used for condensing, and any commingled air. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. not limited in use or function.
Syn. -- general-purpose. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ AS. ampella, ampolla, L. ampulla: cf. OF. ampolle, F. ampoule. ] 1. Same as Ampulla, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. same as ampule. [ PJC ]

n. 1. a small glass bottle which has been or can be sealed hermetically by application of flame to a narrow opening at the top. aAn ampule usually has a narrow constriction near the top which can be scored and easily broken to open the ampule. Once opened, they cannot be hermetically re-sealed; thus the quantity contained is usually that which is to be used at once or within a short time. The contents are often sealed under vacuum to retard degradation by air.
Syn. -- phial, vial, ampoule [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. an ampule, or vial resembling an ampule, which contains a drug. [ PJC ]

‖ n.; pl. Ampullæ [ L. ] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) (a) A cruet for the wine and water at Mass. (b) The vase in which the holy oil for chrism, unction, or coronation is kept. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Biol.) Any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ampullaceus, fr. ampulla. ] Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling. Kirby. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ampullaceous sac (Zool.), one of the peculiar cavities in the tissues of sponges, containing the zooidal cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Resembling an ampulla. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ a. Having an ampulla; flask-shaped; bellied. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Ampulla + -form. ] Flask-shaped; dilated. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Amputated; p. pr. & vb. n. Amputating. ] [ L. amputatus, p. p. of amputare: amb- + putare to prune, putus clean, akin to E. pure. See Putative. ] 1. To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Surg.) To cut off (a limb or projecting part of the body). Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. amputatio: cf. F. amputation. ] The act of amputating; esp. the operation of cutting off a limb or projecting part of the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who amputates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a computer that represents information by continuously variable quantities (e.g., positions or voltages). [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ proper name ] 1. (Hinduism) wife of Siva and a benevolent aspect of Devi: goddess of plenty.
Syn. -- Parvati, Anapurna [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. 1 a mountain in Nepal, 26, 504 feet high.
Syn. -- Anapurna [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. L. ad + podium foothold, Gr. &unr_;, dim. of &unr_;, &unr_;, foot. ] 1. A support or supporter; a stay; a prop. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

If a vine be to climb trees that are of any great height, there would be stays and appuies set to it. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Man.) The mutual bearing or support of the hand of the rider and the mouth of the horse through the bit and bridle. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Point d'appui [ F., a point of support. ] (Mil.) (a) A given point or body, upon which troops are formed, or by which are marched in line or column. (b) An advantageous defensive support, as a castle, morass, wood, declivity, etc. (c) any point of support or basis of operations, as a rallying point. [ 1913 Webster +Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. appulsus, fr. appellere, appulsum, to drive to; ad + pellere to drive: cf. F. appulse. ] 1. A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against. [ 1913 Webster ]

In all consonants there is an appulse of the organs. Holder. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A driving or striking against; an appulse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Striking against; impinging; as, the appulsive influence of the planets. P. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By appulsion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. apurtenaunce, apartenance, F. appartenance, LL. appartenentia, from L. appertinere. See Appertain. ] That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlins. Bouvier. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances. Reid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
Syn. -- gear, paraphernalia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Something which belongs or appertains to another thing; an appurtenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mysterious appurtenants and symbols of redemption. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. appartenant, p. pr. of appartenir. See Appurtenance. ] Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Common appurtenant. (Law) See under Common, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;. See Apode, n. ] (Zool.) A genus of fresh-water phyllopod crustaceans. See Phyllopod. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. aqua water, + punctura puncture, pungere, punctum, to, prick. ] (Med.) The introduction of water subcutaneously for the relief of pain. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. 1 a genus of slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas.
Syn. -- genus Ariocarpus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ L. astipulari; ad + stipulari to stipulate. ] To assent. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. astipulatio. ] Stipulation; agreement. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) See Larkspur. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Puffed; praised. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tinge or dye with a purple color. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To spurt on or over; to asperse. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + punctate. ] Having two punctures, or spots. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having two points. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + pupil (of the eye). ] (Zool.) Having an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different color, as in some butterflies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + stipule. ] (Bot.) Having two stipules. [ 1913 Webster ]

A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal. [ 1913 Webster ]

And fat black puddings, -- proper food,
For warriors that delight in blood. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. type genus of the Bradypodidae, comprising the three-toed sloths.
Syn. -- genus Bradypus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An exceptionally advantageous position from which to extol one's ideas; -- applied especially to the presidency of the United States, which was described thus by President Theodore Rossevelt. [ PJC ]

n. [ Origin unknown; cf. Bumble, n. ] 1. The old game of nineholes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Card Playing) Whist played in an unscientific way. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. See Cajuput. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of Malayan origin; kāyu tree + pūtih white. ] (Med.) A highly stimulating volatile inflammable oil, distilled from the leaves of an East Indian tree (Melaleuca cajuputi, etc.) It is greenish in color and has a camphoraceous odor and pungent taste. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A colorless or greenish oil extracted from cajuput. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Pg. ] Chamber; house; -- used in and See Legislature. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]