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a. & n. (Med.) Same as Antemetic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. (Med.) Same as Antephialtic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. (Med.) Same as Antepileptic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Assenting. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit.
Syn. -- government, regime. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. (Med.) The defect of stammering; also, a kind of incomplete pronunciation. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. Beautiful; embellished. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. bénir to bless. ] (R. C. Ch.) A holy-water stoup. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Written also bhistee, bhisti, etc. ] [ Per. bihishtī lit., heavenly. ] A water carrier, as to a household or a regiment. [ India ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. bis twice + partiens, p. pr. of partire to divide. ] Dividing into two parts. -- n. A number that divides another into two equal parts without a remainder. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. requiring semiformal evening clothes, e. g. a black bowtie and a tuxedo or dinner jacket for men, and a formal dress for women; contrasted with white-tie, for a fully formal occasion, and with informal, and casual. a black-tie dinner
Syn. -- semi-formal, semiformal. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖n. [ F., good Christian. ] A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. rewarded or rewardable by a bounty; as, a bountied animal pelt. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. caecutire to be blind, fr. caecus blind. ] Partial blindness, or a tendency to blindness. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Arch.) A tie consisting of a series of connected iron bars or rods. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Belonging to, or resembling, a city. “Smoky, citied towns” [ R. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Containing, or covered with, cities. [ R. ] “The citied earth.” Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Scot. & Dial. Eng.) 1. A little hoof. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. The Devil. “Satan, Nick, or Clootie.” Burns. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

In hair dressing, a loose, low coil at the back of the head, like the knot on the head of the bust of Clytie by G. F. Watts. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) A small gray and white Australian parrot (Leptolophus hollandicus, formerly Calopsitta Novæ-Hollandiæ) with a prominent crest; the male has bright yellow cheeks and crest, but the female has only a pale yellow in the face; -- it is so called from its note.
Syn. -- cockateel, cockatoo parrot, Nymphicus hollandicus. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. compatients, p. pr. of compati. See Compassion. ] Suffering or enduring together. [ Obs. ] Sir G. Buck. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Compotiers /plu>. [ F. ] A dish for holding compotes, fruit, etc.; a compote dish, or compote{ 2 }. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

‖n.; pl. Condottieri [ It., captain. ] A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. consentients, p. pr. See Consent. ] Agreeing in mind; accordant. [ 1913 Webster ]

The consentient judgment of the church. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A cycadaceous plant of Florida and the West Indies, the Zamia integrifolia, from the stems of which a kind of sago is prepared. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Perceiving together. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. cotier. See Coterie, and cf. Cotter. ] In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm. [ Written also cottar and cotter. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Court. ] 1. One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court. [ 1913 Webster ]

You know I am no courtier, nor versed in state affairs. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

This courtier got a frigate, and that a company. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters. [ 1913 Webster ]

There was not among all our princes a greater courtier of the people than Richard III. Suckling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The manners of a courtier; courtliness. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Railroad) A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. discutiens, p. pr. of discutere. See Discuss. ] (Med.) Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive; as, a discutient application. -- n. An agent (as a medicinal application) which serves to disperse morbid matter. “Foment with discutiens.” Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dissentiens, p. pr. of dissentire. See Dissent, v. i. ] Disagreeing; declaring dissent; dissenting. -- n. One who dissents. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Ditty. ] Set, sung, or composed as a ditty; -- usually in composition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who, with his soft pipe, and smooth-dittied song. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) A cramp. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Subjected to a duty. Ames. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the decade from 1980 to 1989. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the time of life between 80 and 90.
Syn. -- mid-eighties. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ From Eighty. ] 1. The next in order after seventy-ninth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Consisting of one of eighty equal parts or divisions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quotient of a unit divided by eighty; one of eighty equal parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

compar. of Empty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Entirety. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the decade from 1950 to 1959. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the time of life between 50 and 60.
Syn. -- mid-fifties. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ AS. fīftigoða. See Fifty. ] 1. Next in order after the forty-ninth; -- the ordinal of fifty. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Consisting of one of fifty equal parts or divisions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of fifty equal parts; the quotient of a unit divided by fifty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Five-twenty bonds of the United States (bearing six per cent interest), issued in 1862, '64, and '65, redeemable after five and payable in twenty years. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A buccaneer; an American pirate. See Filibuster. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See 2d Fust. ] Fusty. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a set of procedures required to make a transaction official.
Syn. -- form, formality. [ WordNet 1.5 ]