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n. [ F. amunition, for munition, prob. caused by taking la munition as l'amunition. See Munition. ] 1. Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ammunition bread,
shoes, etc., such as are contracted for by government, and supplied to the soldiers. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ammunitioned p. pr. & vb. n. Ammunitioning. ] To provide with ammunition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Autun, France, its locality. ] (Min.) A lemon-yellow phosphate of uranium and calcium occurring in tabular crystals with basal cleavage, and in micalike scales. H., 2-2.5. Sp. gr., 3.05-3.19. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Min.) A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. co- + pref. ad- + unition. ] Coadunation. [ R. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Communities [ L. communitas: cf. OF. communité. Cf. Commonalty, and see Common. ] 1. Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

The original community of all things. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

An unreserved community of thought and feeling. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as, a community of monks. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests. [ 1913 Webster ]

Creatures that in communities exist. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this sense, the term should be used with the definite article; as, the interests of the community. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Common character; likeness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Commonness; frequency. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To unite. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. United closely with another. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship. [ 1913 Webster ]

Community of embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity of embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disunited; p. pr. & vb. n. Disuniting. ] 1. To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To alienate in spirit; to break the concord of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Go on both in hand, O nations, never be disunited, be the praise . . . of all posterity! Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To part; to fall asunder; to become separated. [ 1913 Webster ]

The joints of the body politic do separate and disunite. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, disjoins or causes disunion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of separation or disunion; want of unity. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Fahlun, a place in Sweden. ] (Min.) A hydrated silica of alumina, resulting from the alteration of iolite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Immunities [ L. immunitas, fr. immunis free from a public service; pref. im- not + munis complaisant, obliging, cf. munus service, duty: cf. F. immunité. See Common, and cf. Mean, a. ] 1. Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The state of being insusceptible to disease, certain poisons, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Importunities [ L. importunitas unsuitableness, rudeness: cf. F. importunité. ] The quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent application; troublesome pertinacity. [ 1913 Webster ]

O'ercome with importunity and tears. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. impunitas, fr. impunis without punishment; pref. im- not + poena punishment: cf. F. impunité. See Pain. ] Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss. [ 1913 Webster ]

Heaven, though slow to wrath,
Is never with impunity defied. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

The impunity and also the recompense. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of opportunity; unseasonableness; inconvenience. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Intercommunication; community of possessions, religion, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

In consequence of that intercommunity of paganism . . . one nation adopted the gods of another. Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being jejune; jejuneness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to tidal movements dependent on the moon. Bache. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lunitidal interval. See Retard, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. munitus, p. p. of munire to wall, fortify. ] To fortify; to strengthen. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., munition of war, L. munitio a fortifying, fortification, fr. munire to fortify, defend with a wall; cf. moenia walls, murus (for moirus) a wall, and Skr. mi to fix, make firm. Cf. Ammunition. ] 1. Fortification; stronghold. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks. Is. xxxiii. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Whatever materials are used in war for defense or for annoying an enemy; ammunition; also, stores and provisions; military stores of all kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Immunity. ] Freedom; security; immunity. [ Obs. ] W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Opportunities [ F. opportunité, L. opportunitas. See Opportune. ] 1. Fit or convenient time or situation; a time or place permitting or favorable for the execution of a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Convenience of situation; fitness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Hull, a town of great strength and opportunity, both to sea and land affairs. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Importunity; earnestness. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Occasion; convenience; occurrence. -- Opportunity, Occasion. An occasion is that which falls in our way, or presents itself in the course of events; an opportunity is a convenience or fitness of time, place, etc., for the doing of a thing. Hence, occasions often make opportunities. The occasion of sickness may give opportunity for reflection. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Premunitory. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. praemunitus, p. p. of praemunire to fortify in front; prae before + munire to fortify. ] To fortify beforehand; to guard against objection. [ Obs. ] Fotherby. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. praemunitio: cf. F. prémunition. ] The act of fortifying or guarding against objections. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a premunire; as, a premunitory process. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. punitio: cf. F. punition. See Punish. ] Punishment. [ R. ] Mir. for Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice. [ 1913 Webster ]

If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity imposed upon man of toiling for his subsistence. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

We shall dread a blow from the punitive hand. Bagehot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Punishing; tending to punishment; punitive. [ 1913 Webster ]

God . . . may make moral evil, as well as natural, at the same time both prudential and punitory. A. Tucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To unite again; to join after separation or variance. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a reunited manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A second uniting. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. tribunicius, tribunitius: cf. F. tribunitien. ] Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is recognized to be wrong. Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tribunician; tribunitial. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Trinity, and Unity. ] Triunity; trinity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

As for terms of trinity, triniunity, . . . and the like, they reject them as scholastic notions. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being triune; trinity. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Abbrev. from unity. ] 1. A single thing or person. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arith.) The least whole number; one. [ 1913 Webster ]

Units are the integral parts of any large number. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Math.) A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded as an undivided whole. [ 1913 Webster ]

Abstract unit, the unit of numeration; one taken in the abstract; the number represented by 1. The term is used in distinction from concrete, or determinate, unit, that is, a unit in which the kind of thing is expressed; a unit of measure or value; as 1 foot, 1 dollar, 1 pound, and the like. --
Complex unit (Theory of Numbers), an imaginary number of the form a + b-1, when a2 + b2 = 1. --
Duodecimal unit, a unit in the scale of numbers increasing or decreasing by twelves. --
Fractional unit, the unit of a fraction; the reciprocal of the denominator; thus, 1/4 is the unit of the fraction 3/4. --
Integral unit, the unit of integral numbers, or 1. --
Physical unit, a value or magnitude conventionally adopted as a unit or standard in physical measurements. The various physical units are usually based on given units of length, mass, and time, and on the density or other properties of some substance, for example, water. See Dyne, Erg, Farad, Ohm, Poundal, etc. --
Unit deme (Biol.), a unit of the inferior order or orders of individuality. --
Unit jar (Elec.), a small, insulated Leyden jar, placed between the electrical machine and a larger jar or battery, so as to announce, by its repeated discharges, the amount of electricity passed into the larger jar. --
Unit of heat (Physics), a determinate quantity of heat adopted as a unit of measure; a thermal unit (see under Thermal). Water is the substance generally employed, the unit being one gram or one pound, and the temperature interval one degree of the Centigrade or Fahrenheit scale. When referred to the gram, it is called the gram degree. The British unit of heat, or thermal unit, used by engineers in England and in the United States, is the quantity of heat necessary to raise one pound of pure water at and near its temperature of greatest density (39.1° Fahr.) through one degree of the Fahrenheit scale. Rankine. --
Unit of illumination, the light of a sperm candle burning 120 grains per hour. Standard gas, burning at the rate of five cubic feet per hour, must have an illuminating power equal to that of fourteen such candles. --
Unit of measure (as of length, surface, volume, dry measure, liquid measure, money, weight, time, and the like), in general, a determinate quantity or magnitude of the kind designated, taken as a standard of comparison for others of the same kind, in assigning to them numerical values, as 1 foot, 1 yard, 1 mile, 1 square foot, 1 square yard, 1 cubic foot, 1 peck, 1 bushel, 1 gallon, 1 cent, 1 ounce, 1 pound, 1 hour, and the like; more specifically, the fundamental unit adopted in any system of weights, measures, or money, by which its several denominations are regulated, and which is itself defined by comparison with some known magnitude, either natural or empirical, as, in the United States, the dollar for money, the pound avoirdupois for weight, the yard for length, the gallon of 8.3389 pounds avoirdupois of water at 39.8° Fahr. (about 231 cubic inches) for liquid measure, etc.; in Great Britain, the pound sterling, the pound troy, the yard, or 1/108719 part of the length of a second's pendulum at London, the gallon of 277.274 cubic inches, etc.; in the metric system, the meter, the liter, the gram, etc. --
Unit of power. (Mach.) See Horse power. --
Unit of resistance. (Elec.) See Resistance, n., 4, and Ohm. --
Unit of work (Physics), the amount of work done by a unit force acting through a unit distance, or the amount required to lift a unit weight through a unit distance against gravitation. See Erg, Foot Pound, Kilogrammeter. --
Unit stress (Mech. Physics), stress per unit of area; intensity of stress. It is expressed in ounces, pounds, tons, etc., per square inch, square foot, or square yard, etc., or in atmospheres, or inches of mercury or water, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of union by growth or otherwise. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Unitarians, or their doctrines. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. unitaire, unitairien, NL. unitarius. See Unity. ] 1. (Theol.) One who denies the doctrine of the Trinity, believing that God exists only in one person; a unipersonalist; also, one of a denomination of Christians holding this belief. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who rejects the principle of dualism. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A monotheist. [ R. ] Fleming. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. unitairianisme. ] The doctrines of Unitarians. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Unitarianized p. pr. & vb. n. Unitarianizing ] To change or turn to Unitarian views. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to a unit or units; relating to unity; as, the unitary method in arithmetic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of the nature of a unit; not divided; united. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unitary theory (Chem.), the modern theory that the molecules of all complete compounds are units, whose parts are bound together in definite structure, with mutual and reciprocal influence on each other, and are not mere aggregations of more or less complex groups; -- distinguished from the dualistic theory. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. United; p. pr. & vb. n. Uniting. ] [ L. unitus, p. p. of unire to unite, from unus one. See One. ] 1. To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to unite bricks by mortar; to unite iron bars by welding; to unite two armies. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to join by a legal or moral bond, as families by marriage, nations by treaty, men by opinions; to join in interest, affection, fellowship, or the like; to cause to agree; to harmonize; to associate; to attach. [ 1913 Webster ]

Under his great vicegerent reign abide,
United as one individual soul. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king proposed nothing more than to unite his kingdom in one form of worship. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To add; join; annex; attach. See Add. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To join in an act; to concur; to act in concert; as, all parties united in signing the petition. [ 1913 Webster ]