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n. [ Gr. 'aney`rysma, 'aneyrysmo`s, a widening, an opening; 'ana` up + e'yry`s wide. ] (Med.) A soft, usually pulsating, sac, containing blood or blood clot, arising from the abnormal dilation of the walls of an artery, vein or heart. The more common spelling is aneurysm. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to an aneurism; as, an aneurismal tumor; aneurismal diathesis. The more common spelling is aneurysmal. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an aneurysm.
Syn. -- aneurismal [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a sac-like widening of a blood vessel. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. 'an priv. + o'y^ron urine. ] (Med.) Nonsecretion or defective secretion of urine; ischury. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a collection of resources.
Syn. -- armory, inventory. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. all the weapons and equipment that a country has.
Syn. -- arsenal, armory. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms.
Syn. -- arsenal, armory. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. a place where arms are manufactured.
Syn. -- armory, arsenal [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Auguries [ L. aucurium. ] 1. The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. [ 1913 Webster ]

From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little augury of his future greatness. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Bistouries [ F. bistouri. ] A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 1st Borough. ] 1. A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's; -- used as a termination of names of places; as, Canterbury, Shrewsbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A manor house; a castle. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To this very day, the chief house of a manor, or the lord's seat, is called bury, in some parts of England. Miege. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Buried p. pr. & vb. n. Burying ] [ OE. burien, birien, berien, AS. byrgan; akin to beorgan to protect, OHG. bergan, G. bergen, Icel. bjarga, Sw. berga, Dan. bierge, Goth. baírgan. √95. Cf. Burrow. ] 1. To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands. [ 1913 Webster ]

And all their confidence
Under the weight of mountains buried deep. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. Matt. viii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give me a bowl of wine
In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burying beetle (Zool.), the general name of many species of beetles, of the tribe Necrophaga; the sexton beetle; -- so called from their habit of burying small dead animals by digging away the earth beneath them. The larvæ feed upon decaying flesh, and are useful scavengers. --
To bury the hatchet, to lay aside the instruments of war, and make peace; -- a phrase used in allusion to the custom observed by the North American Indians, of burying a tomahawk when they conclude a peace. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To intomb; inter; inhume; inurn; hide; cover; conceal; overwhelm; repress. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }. The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas à Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose papers, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canterbury ball (Bot.), a species of Campanula of several varieties, cultivated for its handsome bell-shaped flowers. --
Canterbury gallop, a gentle gallop such as was used by pilgrims riding to Canterbury; a canter. --
Canterbury tale, one of the tales which Chaucer puts into the mouths of certain pilgrims to Canterbury. Hence, any tale told by travelers to pass away the time. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. centaureum and centauria, Gr. kentay`rion, kentay`reion, and kentayri`h, fr. the Centaur Chiron. ] (Bot.) A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is usually given to the Erytheræa Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Centuries [ L. centuria (in senses 1 & 3), fr. centum a hundred: cf. F. centurie. See Cent. ] 1. A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things. [ Archaic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And on it said a century of prayers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Century, in the reckoning of time, although often used in a general way of any series of hundred consecutive years (as, a century of temperance work), usually signifies a division of the Christian era, consisting of a period of one hundred years ending with the hundredth year from which it is named; as, the first century (a. d. 1-100 inclusive); the seventh century (a.d. 601-700); the eighteenth century (a.d. 1701-1800). With words or phrases connecting it with some other system of chronology it is used of similar division of those eras; as, the first century of Rome (A.U.C. 1-100). [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Rom. Antiq.) (a) A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers. (b) One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Century plant (Bot.), the Agave Americana, formerly supposed to flower but once in a century; -- hence the name. See Agave. --
The Magdeburg Centuries, an ecclesiastical history of the first thirteen centuries, arranged in thirteen volumes, compiled in the 16th century by Protestant scholars at Magdeburg. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice of magic; enchantment. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. contrefleuri. ] (Her.) Counterflory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Decuries [ L. decuria, fr. decem ten. ] A set or squad of ten men under a decurion. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, allied to, or derived from, durene; as, durylic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ L. dysuria, Gr. &unr_;; dys- + &unr_; urine: cf. F. dysurie. ] (Med.) Difficult or painful discharge of urine. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Euryale, one of the Gorgons. ] 1. (Bot.) A genus of water lilies, growing in India and China. The only species (Euryale ferox) is very prickly on the peduncles and calyx. The rootstocks and seeds are used as food. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zoöl.) A genus of ophiurans with much-branched arms. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zoöl.) A tribe of Ophiuroidea, including the genera Euryale, Astrophyton, etc. They generally have the arms branched. See Astrophyton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; broad + ke`ras horn. ] (Zoöl.) Having broad horns. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Eurypterus + -oid. ] (Paleon.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Euryperus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Eurypteroid. ] (Paleont.) An extinct order of Merostomata, of which the genus Eurypterus is the type. They are found only in Paleozoic rocks. [ Written also Eurypterida. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; broad + &unr_; a wing. ] (Paleon.) A genus of extinct Merostomata, found in Silurian rocks. Some of the species are more than three feet long. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. eurythmia, Gr. &unr_;; e'y^ well + &unr_; rhythm, measure, proportion, symmetry: cf. F. eurythmie. ] 1. (Fine Arts) Just or harmonious proportion or movement, as in the composition of a poem, an edifice, a painting, or a statue. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Regularly of the pulse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. fleuri covered with flowers, p. p. of fleurir. See Flourish. ] (Her.) Finished at the ends with fleurs-de-lis; -- said esp. of a cross so decorated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. fulgur. ] Lightning. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) The mercury salt of fulminic acid (Hg(CNO)2), called also mercury fulminate. It is prepared as gray crystals, and is used primarily in detonators for detonating high explosives, such as dynamite or TNT. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. fur. ] A thief. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. J. Fleteher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Furies [ L. furia, fr. furere to rage: cf. F. furie. Cf. Furor. ] 1. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. “Fury of the wind.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do oppose my patience to his fury. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra; the Erinyes or Eumenides. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One of the Parcæ, or Fates, esp. Atropos. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.

Syn. -- Anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage; vehemence; violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness; frenzy. See Anger. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A variety of the common hawthorn. Loudon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Imposture. [ Obs. ] Fuller.

n.; pl. Injuries [ OE. injurie, L. injuria, fr. injurius injurious, wrongful, unjust; pref. in- not + jus, juris, right, law, justice: cf. F. injure. See Just, a. ] Any damage or hurt done to a person or thing; detriment to, or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character. [ 1913 Webster ]

For he that doeth injury shall receive that that he did evil. Wyclif(Col. iii. 25). [ 1913 Webster ]

Many times we do injury to a cause by dwelling on trifling arguments. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Riot ascends above their loftiest towers,
And injury and outrage. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Injury in morals and jurisprudence is the intentional doing of wrong. Fleming.

Syn. -- Harm; hurt; damage; loss; impairment; detriment; wrong; evil; injustice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ischuria, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; to hold, check + &unr_; urine: cf. F. ischurie. ] (Med.) A retention or suppression of urine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Naut.) For temporary use; -- applied to a temporary contrivance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jury rudder, a rudder constructed for temporary use. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Juries [ OF. jurée an assize, fr. jurer to swear, L. jurare, jurari; akin to jus, juris, right, law. See Just, a., and cf. Jurat, Abjure. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Law) A body of people, selected according to law, impaneled and sworn to inquire into and try any matter of fact, and to render their true verdict according to the evidence legally adduced. In criminal trials the number of such persons is usually twelve, but in civil cases and in grand juries it may different. See Grand jury under Grand, and Inquest. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

The jury, passing on the prisoner's life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A committee for determining relative merit or awarding prizes at an exhibition or competition; as, the art jury gave him the first prize. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jury of inquest, a coroner's jury. See Inquest. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Jurymen One who is impaneled on a jury, or who serves as a juror. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (a) A temporary mast, in place of one that has been carried away, or broken. (b) (Med.) An apparatus to support the trunk and head in spinal disease. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. to rig for temporary service; to construct flimsily and in makeshift fashion. See Jury, a. [ PJC ]

a. (Naut.) Rigged for temporary service; done or made using whatever materials are available; makeshift; as, the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear. See Jury, a.
Syn. -- improvised, makeshift. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. Same as kauri.
Syn. -- kauri, Agathis australis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Love + OF. druerie. Cf. Druery. ] Affection. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Luxuries [ L. luxuria, fr. luxus: cf. F. luxure. ] 1. A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything which pleases the senses, is not necessary for life, and is also costly, or difficult to obtain; an expensive rarity; as, silks, jewels, and rare fruits are luxuries; in some countries ice is a great luxury. Contrasted to necessity. [ 1913 Webster ]

He cut the side of a rock for a garden, and, by laying on it earth, furnished out a kind of luxury for a hermit. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Lechery; lust. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Luxury is in wine and drunkenness. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Luxuriance; exuberance. [ Obs. ] Bacon.

Syn. -- Voluptuousness; epicurism; effeminacy; sensuality; lasciviousness; dainty; delicacy; gratification. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Mercurius; akin to merx wares. ] 1. (Rom. Myth.) A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called quicksilver), and is used in barometers, thermometers, etc. Specific gravity 13.6. Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight 199.8. Mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and designated by his symbol, &mercury_;. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Mercury forms alloys, called amalgams, with many metals, and is thus used in applying tin foil to the backs of mirrors, and in extracting gold and silver from their ores. It is poisonous, and is used in medicine in the free state as in blue pill, and in its compounds as calomel, corrosive sublimate, etc. It is the only metal which is liquid at ordinary temperatures, and it solidifies at about -39° Centigrade to a soft, malleable, ductile metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Astron.) One of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36, 000, 000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3, 000 miles. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper. Sir J. Stephen. “The monthly Mercuries.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He was so full of mercury that he could not fix long in any friendship, or to any design. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Bot.) A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is also applied, in the United States, to certain climbing plants, some of which are poisonous to the skin, esp. to the Rhus Toxicodendron, or poison ivy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dog's mercury (Bot.), Mercurialis perennis, a perennial plant differing from Mercurialis annua by having the leaves sessile. --
English mercury (Bot.), a kind of goosefoot formerly used as a pot herb; -- called Good King Henry. --
Horn mercury (Min.), a mineral chloride of mercury, having a semitranslucent, hornlike appearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To wash with a preparation of mercury. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the compound (HgCl2) consisting of two atoms of chlorine united with one atom of mercury. Also called bichloride of mercury, mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate, and mercury perchloride. It is used as “a topical antiseptic and disinfectant for inanimate objects”. Stedman's 25th [ PJC ]

n. (Chem.) The mercury salt of fulminic acid (Hg(CNO)2), called also fulminate of mercury. It is an explosive compound prepared as gray crystals, and is used primarily in detonators for detonating high explosives, such as dynamite or TNT. It is sensitive to shock and may be detonated by a blow. [ PJC ]