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n. Abeyance. [ R. ] Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being in a state of abeyance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. anoiance, anuiance. ] 1. The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. [ 1913 Webster ]

A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which annoys. [ 1913 Webster ]

A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair,
Any annoyance in that precious sense. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Anthokyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'a`nqos flower + ky`anos blue. ] (Chem.) The blue coloring matter of certain flowers. Same as Cyanin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Skr. ārya excellent, honorable; akin to the name of the country Iran, and perh. to Erin, Ireland, and the early name of this people, at least in Asia. ] 1. One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindu Kush and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindu, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The language of the original Aryans. [ Written also Arian. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Nazism) a non-Jewish caucasian of Nordic stock; -- a classification used by Nazis, having no anthropological basis. [ Written also Arian. ] [ PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make Aryan (a language, or in language). K. Johnston. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Aurum + cyanide. ] (Chem.) A double cyanide of gold and some other metal or radical; -- called also cyanaurate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Banian. ] (Bot.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Dicyanide. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Biscay in Spain. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Biscay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Buoyancy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Buoyancies 1. The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such are buoyancies or displacements of the different classes of her majesty's ships. Eng. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy of spirits. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Buoy, v. t. & i. ] 1. Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury. “Buoyant on the flood.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier. [ 1913 Webster ]

The water under me was buoyant. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits. -- Buoy"ant*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. (Min.) A hard stone, as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F., p. pr. of chatoyer to be chatoyant, fr. chat cat. ] (Min.) Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discerning objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F., fr. clair clear + voyant, p. pr. of voir to see. See Clear, and Vision. ] Pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while in a mesmeric state which are not present to the senses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is able, when in a mesmeric state, to discern objects not present to the senses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

The long journey was to be performed on horseback, -- the only sure mode of conveyance. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Following the river downward, there is conveyance into the countries named in the text. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The instrument or means of carrying or transporting anything from place to place; the vehicle in which, or means by which, anything is carried from one place to another; as, stagecoaches, omnibuses, etc., are conveyances; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water. [ 1913 Webster ]

These pipes and these conveyances of our blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) The act by which the title to property, esp. real estate, is transferred; transfer of ownership; an instrument in writing (as a deed or mortgage), by which the title to property is conveyed from one person to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He ] found the conveyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Dishonest management, or artifice. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

the very Jesuits themselves . . . can not possibly devise any juggling conveyance how to shift it off. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) The business of a conveyancer; the act or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one person to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small genus of tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic orchids.
Syn. -- genus Coryanthes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. cuanate. See Cyanic. ] (Chem.) A salt of cyanic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ammonium cyanate (Chem.), a remarkable white crystalline substance, NH4.O.CN, which passes, on standing, to the organic compound, urea, CO.(NH2)2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Aurocyanide. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. kya`neos dark blue. ] Having an azure color. Pennant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance: cf. F. cyanique. Cf. Kyanite. ] 1. Pertaining to, or containing, cyanogen. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to a blue color. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cyanic acid (Chem.), an acid, HOCN, derived from cyanogen, well known in its salts, but never isolated in the free state. --
Cyanic colors (Bot.), those colors (of flowers) having some tinge of blue; -- opposed to xanthic colors. A color of either series may pass into red or white, but not into the opposing color. Red and pure white are more common among flowers of cyanic tendency than in those of the other class. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. cyanide. See Cyanic. ] (Chem.) A compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element or radical. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Cyanic. ] (Chem.) The blue coloring matter of flowers; -- called also anthokyan and anthocyanin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Cyanic. ] (Min.) A mineral occuring in thin-bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium. [ Written also kyanite. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

pl. [ from the pigment phycocyanin. ] any of a group of photosynthetic autotrophic prokaryotic microorganisms possessing characteristics of both bacteria and plants. When classed as bacteria, they are assigned to the Cyanobacteria; when classed as plants, they are assigned to the Cyanophyta. They were earlier named blue-green algae, a term less used now in technical discussions. Since the chlorophyll within the cyanobacteria is diffused throughout the cell, rather than being contained in chloroplasts, they are no longer thought of as true plants. [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance + -gen: cf. F. cyanogène. So called because it produced blue dyes. ] (Chem.) A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. It is obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and soda or potash. It conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of elements, and shows a tendency to form complex compounds. The name is also applied to the univalent radical, CN (the half molecule of cyanogen proper), which was one of the first compound radicals recognized. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Cyanogen is found in the commercial substances, potassium cyanide, or prussiate of potash, yellow prussiate of potash, Prussian blue, Turnbull's blue, prussic acid, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance + -meter: cf. F. cyanomètre. ] An instrument for measuring degress of blueness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance + pa`qos affection. ] (Med.) A disease in which the body is colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance + fy`llon leaf. ] (Bot.) A blue coloring matter supposed by some to be one of the component parts of chlorophyll. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Cyanic. ] Rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or deficient aëration of the blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Cyanic. ] (Med.) A condition in which, from insufficient aëration of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue. See Cyanopathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Cyanic. ] (Min.) Native sulphate of copper. Cf. Blue vitriol, under Blue. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Relating to cyanosis; affected with cyanosis; as, a cyanotic patient; having the hue caused by cyanosis; as, a cyanotic skin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cyanide + -type. ] A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of cyanuric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A cyanide. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cyanic + uric: Cf. F. cyanurique. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cyanic and uric acids. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Chem.), an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic acid. It is a white crystalline substance, odorless and almost tasteless; -- called also tricarbimide. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. adj. of or pertaining to Dewey. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Pref. di- + cyanogen. ] (Chem.) A compound of a binary type containing two cyanogen groups or radicals; -- called also bicyanide. [ 1913 Webster ]