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a. [ F. adroit; à (L. ad) = droit straight, right, fr. L. directus, p. p. of dirigere. See Direct. ] Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply. “Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant.” Horsley. “He was adroit in intrigue.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Dexterous; skillful; expert; ready; clever; deft; ingenious; cunning; ready-witted. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an adroit manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adroitness was as requisite as courage. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Skill. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; cat + -oid. ] (Zool.) A group of the Carnivora, which includes the cats, civets, and hyenas. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Changeable in color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) See Garnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'amfi` + &unr_; color. ] (Chem.) Exhibiting or producing two colors, as substances which in the color test may change red litmus to blue and blue litmus to red. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol., Chem.) any of a variety of synthetic derivatives or analogs of testosterone, which promote the increase of muscle mass and strength. The anabolic steroids are sometimes used by athletes to increase muscular strength so as to enhance their performance in competition. They have serious side effects, and the use of such compounds has been banned by many athletic regulatory committees. [ PJC ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; a hook + &unr_; shape. ] Hook-shaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a man. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ Gr. 'androeidh`s of man's form; 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man + e'i^dos form. ] A machine or automaton in the form of a human being. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'a priv. + nhro`s wet, moist + -oid: cf. F. anéroïde. ] Containing no liquid; -- said of a kind of barometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aneroid barometer, a barometer the action of which depends on the varying pressure of the atmosphere upon the elastic top of a metallic box (shaped like a watch) from which the air has been exhausted. An index shows the variation of pressure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An aneroid barometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Anther + -oid. ] Resembling an anther. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Arum + -oid. ] (Bot.) Any plant of the Arum family (Araceæ); -- have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe.
Syn. -- arum [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 ]

/mhw>, a. [ Arum + -oid. ] (Bot.) Belonging to, or resembling, the Arum family of plants (Araceae).
Syn. -- araceous [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. [ Cf. Prov. E. rynt, rynt thee, roynt, or runt, terms used by milkmaids to a cow that has been milked, in order to drive her away, to make room for others; AS. r&ymacr_;man to make room or way, fr. rūm room. The final t is perh. for ta, for thou. Cf. Room space. ] Stand off, or begone. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Aroint thee, witch, the rump-fed ronyon cries. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To drive or scare off by some exclamation. [ R. ] “Whiskered cats arointed flee.” Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus comprising the alligatorfishes.
Syn. -- genus Aspidophoroides. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; starlike, starry; 'asth`r star + e'i^dos form: cf. F. astéroïde. See Aster. ] A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. astroites: cf. F. astroite. ] A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone. [ Obs. ] [ Written also astrite and astrion. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, a beard, or an ear, of grain + -oid. ] Shaped like an ear of grain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The tenets of the Averroists. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Bacterium + -oid. ] (Biol.) Resembling bacteria; as, bacteroid particles. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to a bistro. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To braid. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Broidered ] [ OE. broiden, brouden, F. broder, confused with E. braid; F. broder is either the same word as border to border (see Border), or perh. of Celtic origin; cf. W. brathu to sting, stab, Ir. & Gael. brod goad, prickle, OE. brod a goad; and also Icel. broddr a spike, a sting, AS. brord a point. ] To embroider. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They shall make a broidered coat. Ex. xxviii. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who embroiders. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Embroidery. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The golden broidery tender Milkah wove. Tickell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

The planets and comets had been broiling in the sun. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. brouiller to disorder, from LL. brogilus, broilus, brolium, thicket, wood, park; of uncertain origin; cf. W. brog a swelling out, OHG. prōil marsh, G. brühl, MHG. brogen to rise. The meaning tumult, confusion, comes apparently from tangled undergrowth, thicket, and this possibly from the meaning to grow, rise, sprout. ] A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Contention; fray; affray; tumult; altercation; dissension; discord; contest; conflict; brawl; uproar. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Broiled p. pr. & vb. n. Broiling. ] [ OE. broilen, OF. bruillir, fr. bruir to broil, burn; of Ger. origin; cf. MHG. brüejen, G. brühen, to scald, akin to E. brood. ] 1. To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To subject to great (commonly direct) heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. cooked by direct exposure to radiant heat. baked fried bolied
Syn. -- grilled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels. [ 1913 Webster ]

What doth he but turn broiler, . . . make new libels against the church? Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who broils, or cooks by broiling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A gridiron or other utensil used in broiling, or the compartment in a stove where such a utensil is located. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A chicken or other bird fit for broiling. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun. -- n. The act of causing anything to broil. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cancer + oid. ] 1. (Zool.) Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Like a cancer; as, a cancroid tumor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) See under Capric. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Carrion. ] Dead body; carrion. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of extinct beavers of the Pleistocene; of eastern and southern U.S.
Syn. -- genus Castoroides. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. centrum + -oid. ] The center of mass, inertia, or gravity of a body or system of bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cerebrum + -oid. ] Resembling, or analogous to, the cerebrum or brain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Chancre + -oil. ] (Med.) A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to a chancroid. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Chimæra + old. ] (Zool.) Related to, or like, the chimæra. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cholera + -oid. ] Choleriform. [ 1913 Webster ]