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‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. ba`lanos acorn + glw^ssa tongue. ] (Zool.) A peculiar marine worm. See Enteropneusta, and Tornaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Bot.) (a) The coneflower, or yellow daisy (Rudbeckia hirta). (b) The bladder ketmie. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a genus comprising the chinch bugs. See chinch, 2.
Syn. -- genus Blissus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ L. bonasus, Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;. ] (Zool.) The aurochs or European bison. See Aurochs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of palm trees including the palmyra (Borassus flabellifer, formerly Borassus flabelliformis).
Syn. -- genus Borassus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n.; pl. E. Byssuses L. Byssi. ety>[ L. byssus fine flax, fine linen or cotton, Gr. by`ssos . ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk. [ Written also byss and byssin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain bivalve mollusks, as the Pinna and Mytilus, by which they attach themselves to rocks, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) An obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Asbestus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An emergency procedure to revive heart and lung function in persons whose heart has apparently stopped beating, involving forced respiration, periodic pressure on the heart by pushing on the chest, and sometimes electrical or mechanical equipment. It is often referred to by the acronym CPR. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ L. ] An event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of circumstances; a case; an act of God. See the Note under Accident. [ 1913 Webster ]

Casus belli, an event or combination of events which is a cause war, or may be alleged as a justification of war. --
Casus fortuitus, an accident against which due prudence could not have provided. See Act of God, under Act. --
Casus omissus, a case not provided for by the statute. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Geog.) a large region between the Black and Caspian seas.
Syn. -- Caucasia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Geog.) the mountain range located between the Black and Caspian seas. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. census, fr. censere. See Censor. ] 1. (Bot. Antiq.) A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A general census of the United States was first taken in 1790, and one has been taken at the end of every ten years since. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of small late-flowering trees or subshrubs having yellow to red flowers and leathery or woody pods; -- often used especially for those formerly included in genus Cytisus.
Syn. -- genus Chamaecytisus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ L. ] See Chrysoprase. Rev. xxi. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. L. Colossi E. Colossuses [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes. [ 1913 Webster ]

He doth bestride the narrow world
Like a colossus. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ There is no authority for the statement that the legs of the Colossus at Rhodes extended over the mouth of the harbor. Dr. Wm. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any man or beast of gigantic size. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. See Consent. ] Agreement; accord; consent. [ 1913 Webster ]

That traditional consensus of society which we call public opinion. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ L., fr. G. Kroi^sos. ] A king of Lydia who flourished in the 6th century b. c., and was renowned for his vast wealth; hence, a common appellation for a very rich man; as, he is a veritable Crœsus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. one of the genera of cypress trees, the type genus of the Cupressaceae.
Syn. -- genus Cupressus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. ] (Logic) Argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse. [ R. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disused p. pr. & vb. n. Disusing. ] 1. To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil. “Disuse me from . . . pain.” Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

The disuse of the tongue in the only . . . remedy. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Church discipline then fell into disuse. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. excurrere, excursum. See Excurrent. ] A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. exsuscitatus, p. p. of exsuscitare; ex out + suscitare. See Suscitate. ] To rouse; to excite. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exsuscitatio. ] A stirring up; a rousing. [ Obs. ] Hallywell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale buttercuplike flower.
Syn. -- parnassia, grass of Parnassus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. hyo- hyo- + Gr. glw^ssa tongue. ] (Anat.) A flat muscle on either side of the tongue, connecting it with the hyoid bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Hypotarsi [ NL. See Hypo-, and Tarsus. ] (Anat.) A process on the posterior side of the tarsometatarsus of many birds; the calcaneal process. -- Hy`po*tar"sal a.

n. Lack of susceptibility, or of capacity to feel or perceive. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + susceptible: cf. F. insusceptible. ] Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit; as, a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart insusceptible of pity; a mind insusceptible to flattery; new strains of bacteria insusceptible to penicillin. -- In`sus*cep`ti*bly adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not susceptive or susceptible. [ R. ] Rambler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. insusurratio, fr. insusurrare to whisper into. ] The act of whispering into something. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of receiving within. [ 1913 Webster ]

The person is corrupted by the introsusception of a nature which becomes evil thereby. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Same as Intussusception. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Intussusception. ] Received into some other thing or part, as a sword into a sheath; invaginated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. intus within + susception. Cf. Introsusception. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The reception of one part within another. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) The abnormal reception or slipping of a part of a tube, by inversion and descent, within a contiguous part of it; specifically, the reception or slipping of the upper part of the small intestine into the lower; introsusception; invagination. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) The interposition of new particles of formative material among those already existing, as in a cell wall, or in a starch grain. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Physiol.) The act of taking foreign matter, as food, into a living body; the process of nutrition, by which dead matter is absorbed by the living organism, and ultimately converted into the organized substance of its various tissues and organs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dead bodies increase by apposition; living bodies by intussusception. McKendrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. a battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC); Lysimachus and Seleucus defeated Antigonus and Demetrius.
Syn. -- battle of Ipsus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Incapable of being resuscitated or revived. -- Ir`re*sus"ci*ta*bly, adv. [1913 Webster]

prop. n. A battle (333 BC) in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III.
Syn. -- battle of Issus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. [ L. Jesus, Gr. &unr_;, from Heb. Yēshūa'; Yāh Jehovah + hōshīa' to help. ] The Savior; the name of the Son of God as announced by the angel to his parents; the personal name of Our Lord, in distinction from Christ, his official appellation. Luke i. 31. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins. Matt. i. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞The form Jesu is often used, esp. in the vocative. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jesu, do thou my soul receive. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Society of Jesus. The Roman Catholic order whose members are called Jesuits. See Jesuit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A genus of leaf-footed bugs.
Syn. -- genus Leptoglossus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. being the seat or source of life; performing a necessary function in the living body; as, the need for life-sustaining air and water.
Syn. -- vital. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖pos>n. [ L., fr. lusus sport + naturae, gen. of natura nature. ] Sport or freak of nature; a deformed or unnatural production. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A genus of mammals including the sloth bears; in some classifications not a separate genus from Ursus.
Syn. -- genus Melursus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Metatarsi [ NL. See Meta-, and Tarsus. ] (Anat.) That part of the skeleton of the hind or lower limb between the tarsus and phalanges; metatarse. It consists, in the human foot, of five bones. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. mésusage. ] Bad treatment; abuse. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. mésuser. See Mis-, prefix from French, and Use. ] 1. To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sweet poison of misused wine. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To abuse; to treat ill. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, she misused me past the endurance of a block. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To maltreat; abuse; misemploy; misapply. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Wrong use; misapplication; erroneous or improper use. [ 1913 Webster ]

Words little suspected for any such misuse. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Violence, or its effects. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Misuse. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who misuses. “Wretched misusers of language.” Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Unlawful use of a right; use in excess of, or varying from, one's right. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, prop., Molossian, belonging to the Molossians, a people in the eastern part of Epirus. ] (Gr. & Lat. Pros.) A foot of three long syllables. [ Written also molosse. ] [ 1913 Webster ]