*rene*

n. 1. Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Severity; strictness; austerity. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. conscious knowledge; as, he had no awareness of his mistakes.
Syn. -- cognizance, knowingness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; as, the crash intruded on his awareness.
Syn. -- sentience. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having the neck bare. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being bare. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. carena, corrupted fr. quarentena. See Quarantine. ] (Ecol.) A fast of forty days on bread and water. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A rich aromatic oil, C15H24, extracted from oil of red cedar, and regarded as a polymeric terpene; also any one of a class of similar substances, as the essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper, etc., of which cedrene proper is the type. [ Written also cedren. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Crenelle. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OF. crenel, F. cr&unr_;neau, LL. crenellus, kernellus, dim. (prob.) fr. L. crena notch. See Crenny. ] 1. An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Same as Crenature. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Crenelated p. pr. & vb. n. Crenelating ] [ LL. crenellare, kernellare: cf. F. cr&unr_;neler to indent. See Crenelle. ] [ Written also crenellate. ] 1. To furnish with crenelles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To indent; to notch; as, a crenelated leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

Crenelated molding (Arch.), a kind of indented molding used in Norman buildings. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; as, a crenelated molding.
Syn. -- embattled, crenelate, crenellated, crenellate, indented. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having turrets and battlements in the style of a castle; -- of a building.
Syn. -- battlemented, castellated, castled, crenellated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure. [ Written also crenellation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. (Bot.) Same as Crenate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dire- + -ness. ] Terribleness; horror; woefulness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. durus hard; -- so called because solid at ordinary temperatures. ] (Chem.) A colorless, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C6H2(CH3)4, off artificial production, with an odor like camphor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

This same entireness or completeness. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Entireness in preaching the gospel. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Oneness; unity; -- applied to a condition of intimacy or close association. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

True Christian love may be separated from acquaintance, and acquaintance from entireness. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See Enterprise. ] (Polit. Econ.) One who takes the initiative to create a product or establish a business for profit; generally, whoever undertakes on his own account an enterprise in which others are employed and risks are taken. F. A. Walker. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an entrepreneur or entrepreneurship; as, entrepreneurial risks. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. willing to undertake a project requiring initiative and involving risk, for one's own purposes; -- of people. [ PJC ]

n. the activity of organizing, managing, and assuming the risks of a business enterprise. The individual doing the organizing is called the entrepreneur. [ PJC ]

n. Ubiquity; omnipresence. [ R. ] Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C13H10 having a beautiful violet fluorescence; whence its name. It occurs in the higher boiling products of coal tar, and is obtained artificially. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. [ See Fore, and Anent. ] Over against; opposite to. [ Now dialectic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The land forenenst the Greekish shore. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Frantic, a. ] Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic; frenzied. Milton.
Syn. -- frenetical. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Frenetic; frantic; frenzied. -- Frenet"ic*al*ly, adv.
Syn. -- frenetic; phrenetic. [1913 Webster]

n. [ F. gangrène, L. gangraena, fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to gnaw, eat; cf. Skr. gras, gar, to devour, and E. voracious, also canker, n., in sense 3. ] (Med.) A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applied to mortification of the soft parts in any stage. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Gangrened p. pr. & vb. n. Gangrening. ] [ Cf. F. gangréner. ] To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to mortification or gangrene. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Green. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; "i`ppos horse + &unr_; a fountain.] A fountain on Mount Helicon in Bœotia, fabled to have burst forth when the ground was struck by the hoof of Pegasus. Also, its waters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration. Keats. [1913 Webster]

Nor maddening draughts of Hippocrene. Longfellow. [1913 Webster]

n. The state or quality of being immature; immaturity. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or condition of being impure; impurity. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Insecurity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Chem.) An oily, volatile unsaturated hydrocarbon (C5H8), obtained by the distillation of caoutchouc or gutta-percha, and used to make synthetic rubber by polymerization. In organic chemistry, it is viewed conceptually as the building block of the terpene series of hydrocarbons. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ L. lac, lactis, milk. ] A preparation of casein from milk, used in printing calico. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being mature; maturity. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
Syn. -- meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Greatness. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ L. Nazarenus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; Nazareth. ] 1. A native or inhabitant of Nazareth; -- a term of contempt applied to Christ and the early Christians. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Judaizing Christians in the first and second centuries, who observed the laws of Moses, and held to certain heresies. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. That can not be renewed; as, a nonrenewable option; books on that shelf are nonrenewable. Opposite of renewable.
Syn. -- unrenewable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ n., n. } Hardness. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Obscurity. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. paraenesis, Gr. parai`nesis, fr. parainei^n to advise. ] Exhortation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. parainetiko`s: cf. F. parénétique. ] Hortatory; encouraging; persuasive. [ R. ] F. Potter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Phenyl + antracene. ] (Chem.) A complex hydrocarbon, C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is phrenetic. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. phreneticus, Gr. frenhtiko`s, frenitiko`s: cf. F. phrénétique. See Frantic, and cf. Frenetic. ] Relating to phrenitis; suffering from frenzy; delirious; mad; frantic; frenetic. -- Phre*net"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. The state of being pure (in any sense of the adjective). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; fire. ] (Chem.) One of the less volatile hydrocarbons of coal tar, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C16H10. [ 1913 Webster ]