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n. One who, or that which, begrimes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To berhyme. [ The earlier and etymologically preferable spelling. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a type of calorimeter made of a steel body which closes tightly and resists high pressure, designed for measuring the amount of heat developed durng chemical combustion of a quantity of combustible material in an oxygen atmosphere. [ PJC ]

‖n. pl. [ F. bout end + rimé rhymed. ] Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. calor heat + -meter; cf. F. calorimètre. ] 1. (Physiol.) An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc. For combustion processes, a bomb calorimeter may be used. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. (Engineering) An apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the process of using the calorimeter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Satisfactory calorimetric results. Nichol. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Chlorometry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Color + -meter: cf. F. colorimètre. ] An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Colorimeter. ] 1. The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. crime, fr. L. crimen judicial decision, that which is subjected to such a decision, charge, fault, crime, fr. the root of cernere to decide judicially. See Certain. ] 1. Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong. “To part error from crime.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Crimes, in the English common law, are grave offenses which were originally capitally punished (murder, rape, robbery, arson, burglary, and larceny), as distinguished from misdemeanors, which are offenses of a lighter grade. See Misdemeanors. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity. [ 1913 Webster ]

No crime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That which occasion crime. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Capital crime, a crime punishable with death.

Syn. -- Sin; vice; iniquity; wrong. -- Crime, Sin, Vice. Sin is the generic term, embracing wickedness of every kind, but specifically denoting an offense as committed against God. Crime is strictly a violation of law either human or divine; but in present usage the term is commonly applied to actions contrary to the laws of the State. Vice is more distinctively that which springs from the inordinate indulgence of the natural appetites, which are in themselves innocent. Thus intemperance, unchastity, duplicity, etc., are vices; while murder, forgery, etc., which spring from the indulgence of selfish passions, are crimes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Free from crime; innocent. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. deprimens, p. pr. of deprimere. See Depress. ] Serving to depress. [ R. ] “Depriment muscles.” Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. detrimentum, fr. deterere, detritum, to rub or wear away; de + terere to rub: cf. F. détriment. See Trite. ] 1. That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

I can repair
That detriment, if such it be. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy. [ Eng. ]

Syn. -- Injury; loss; damage; disadvantage; prejudice; hurt; mischief; harm. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To do injury to; to hurt. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Other might be determined thereby. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor. Addison.

Syn. -- Injurious; hurtful; prejudicial; disadvantageous; mischievous; pernicious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being detrimental; injuriousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dirimens, p. pr. of dirimere. See Dirempt. ] (Law) Absolute. [ 1913 Webster ]

Diriment impediment (R. C. Ch.), an impediment that nullifies marriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Dreariness. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. experimentum, fr. experiri to try: cf. OF. esperiment, experiment. See Experience. ] 1. A trial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something uncertain; esp., one under controlled conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some hypothesis, theory, or known truth; practical test; proof. [ 1913 Webster ]

A political experiment can not be made in a laboratory, nor determined in a few hours. J. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Experience. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Adam, by sad experiment I know
How little weight my words with thee can find. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Experimented; p. pr. & vb. n. Experinenting. ] To make experiment; to operate by test or trial; -- often with on, upon, or in, referring to the subject of an experiment; with, referring to the instrument; and by, referring to the means; as, to experiment upon electricity; he experimented in plowing with ponies, or by steam power. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial or experience. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf.F. expérimental. ] 1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. an orientation that favors experimentation and innovation; as, the children of psycholoigsts are often raised in an atmosphere of experimentalism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who makes experiments, especially one who likes to experiment; an experimenter. Whaterly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who relies primarily on experimentation and the evidence of one's own senses; an empiricist; -- contrasted with theoretician or dogmatist. [ PJC ]

v. i. To make experiments (upon); to experiment. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By experiment; by experience or trial. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relying on experiment or experience. “an experimentarian philosopher.” Boyle. -- n. One who relies on experiment or experience. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of experimenting; practice by experiment. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Experimental; of the nature of experiment. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. ] An experimenter. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments. Faraday. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An experimenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. ] (Civ. Law) The crime of falsifying. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This term in the Roman law included not only forgery, but every species of fraud and deceit. It never has been used in so extensive a sense in modern common law, in which its predominant significance is forgery, though it also includes perjury and offenses of a like character. Burrill. Greenleaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Floramour. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Dan. grim, griim, lampblack, soot, grime, Icel. grīma mask, sort of hood, OD. grijmsel, grimsel, soot, smut, and E. grimace. ] Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To sully or soil deeply; to dirt. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. imprimerie, fr. imprimer to imprint. ] [ Obs. ] (a) A print; impression. (b) A printing establishment. (c) The art of printing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; equal + &unr_; circumference: cf. F. isopérimètre. See Perimeter. ] (Geom.) Having equal perimeters of circumferences; as, isoperimetrical figures or bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Geom.) The science of figures having equal perimeters or boundaries. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Print.) A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This line is printed in long primer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OF. lormier, loremier, fr. LL. loranum bridle, L. lorum thong, the rein of a bridle. ] A maker of bits, spurs, and metal mounting for bridles and saddles; hence, a saddler. [ Obs. ] Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic. “Follies and light merriment.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Methought it was the sound
Of riot and ill-managed merriment. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. nutrimentum, fr. nutrire to nourish. See Nourish. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. That which nourishes; a nutrient; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment. [ 1913 Webster ]

The stomach returns what it has received, in strength and nutriment diffused into all parts of the body. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which promotes development or growth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Is not virtue in mankind
The nutriment that feeds the mind? Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Nutritious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Groups of persons organized for illegal purposes, such as bootlegging, conducting illegal gambling, loansharking, extortion, etc.; -- a general term encompassing most forms of criminal groups, but especially those that are consolidated into “families” more or less recognizing each other's different regions of operation; sometimes considered synonymous with the mafia or the syndicate. [ PJC ]