n. The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n. The quality of being absent-minded. H. Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being abstract. “The abstractness of the ideas.” Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Adaptedness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being adept; skill. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity. [ 1913 Webster ]
Adroitness was as requisite as courage. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being adult. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Great plenty. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of standing apart. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Openness; frankness. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Plainness to the eye or the mind; visibleness; obviousness. [ R. ] Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
The aptness of his quotations. J. R. Green. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Ardency. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Arrogance. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a member of the Beat Generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n.
The multitude of elements and bluntness of angles. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ AS. beorhines. See Bright. ]
A sudden brightness in his face appear. Crabbe. [ 1913 Webster ]
The brightness of his parts . . . distinguished him. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Brilliancy; splendor; glitter. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. G. centner a hundred-weight, fr. L. centenarius of a hundred, fr. centum a hundred. ]
☞ The metallurgists use a weight divided into a hundred equal parts, each one pound; the whole they call a centner: the pound is divided into thirty-two parts, or half ounces; the half ounce into two quarters; and each of these into two drams. But the assayers use different weights. With them a centner is one dram, to which the other parts are proportioned. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining of a chestnut; of a reddish brown color;
n. [ For chesten-nut; OE. chestein, chesten, chastein, chestnut, fr. AS. cisten in cistenbeám chestnut tree, influenced by OF. chastaigne, F. châtaigne, both the AS. and the F. words coming from L. castanea a chestnut, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; a city of Pontus, where chestnut trees grew in abundance, and whence they were introduced into Europe. Cf. Castanets. ]
Chestnut tree,
n. Vigilance in guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. [ 1913 Webster ]
[ Travel ] forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state or quality of being compact; close union of parts; density. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. See Copartner. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state or quality of being concurrent; concurrence. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being confident. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being conjoint. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or condition of being consonant, agreeable, or consistent. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being contingent; fortuitousness. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who is jointly concerned with one or more persons in business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer. [ 1913 Webster ]
the associates and copartners of our loss. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n.;
n. The state or quality of being correct;
n. The quality of being corrupt. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Secrecy; privacy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
When currentness [ combineth ] with staidness, how can the language . . . sound other than most full of sweetness? Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of bing curt. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being daft. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Decrepitude. [ R. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being deft. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A deserted condition. [ R. ] “The desertness of the country.” Udall.
n. Quality or state of being devout. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Difficulty. [ R. ] Golding. [ 1913 Webster ]