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v. t. To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste. [ 1913 Webster ]

Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Benzoin. ] (Chem.) A volatile, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from which it is separated by fractional distillation. The name is sometimes applied also to the impure commercial product or benzole, and also, but rarely, to a similar mixed product of petroleum. [ 1913 Webster ]

Benzene nucleus,
Benzene ring (Chem.), a closed chain or ring, consisting of six carbon atoms, each with one hydrogen atom attached, regarded as the type from which the aromatic compounds are derived. This ring formula is provisionally accepted as representing the probable constitution of the benzene molecule, C6H6, and as the type on which its derivatives are formed. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Chem.) similar to benzene in structure or linkage; having an aromatic ring system. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a.[ OE. brasen, AS. bræsen. See Brass. ] 1. Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brazen age. (a) (Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded the silver age. (b) (Archæol.) See under Bronze. --
Brazen sea (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Brazened p. pr. & vb. n. Brazening. ] To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sabina brazened it out before Mrs. Wygram, but inwardly she was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect. W. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shamelessly impudent. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An impudent or shameless person. “Well said, brazenface; hold it out.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Impudent; shameless. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a bold, impudent manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being brazen. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. citisein, OF. citeain, F. citoyen, fr. cité city. See City, and cf. Cit. ] 1. One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises. [ 1913 Webster ]

That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An inhabitant of a city; a townsman. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This protection is . . . national protection, recognition of the individual, in the face of foreign nations, as a member of the state, and assertion of his security and rights abroad as well as at home. Abbot [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One who is domiciled in a country, and who is a citizen, though neither native nor naturalized, in such a sense that he takes his legal status from such country. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I am not well,
But not so citizen a wanton as
To seem to die ere sick. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female citizen. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. that portion of the radio frequency spectrum allocated by the FCC for the use of individual citizens for short-distance personal or business use, from either fixed or mobile stations. Abreviated CB. Called also Citizens Radio Service. [ PJC ]

n. The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cozened p. pr. & vb. n. Cozening ] [ From cousin, hence, literally, to deceive through pretext of relationship, F. cousiner. ] To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had cozened the world by fine phrases. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Goring loved no man so well but that he would cozen him,
and expose him to public mirth for having been cozened. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some cogging, cozening slave. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Cozen, and cf. Cousinage. ] The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who cheats or defrauds. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of the rights of citizenship. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We have no law -- as the French have -- to decitizenize a citizen. Edw. Bates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. denzein, deinzein, prop., one living (a city or country); opposed to forain foreign, and fr. denz within, F. dans, fr. L. de intus, prop., from within, intus being from in in. See In, and cf. Foreign. ] 1. A dweller; an inhabitant. “Denizens of air.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Denizens of their own free, independent state. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is admitted by favor to all or a part of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One admitted to residence in a foreign country. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye gods,
Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges. [ 1913 Webster ]

As soon as denizened, they domineer. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants. [ 1913 Webster ]

There [ islets ] were at once denizened by various weeds. J. D. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Denization; denizening. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To constitute (one) a denizen; to denizen. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being a denizen. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dizened p. pr. & vb. n. Dizening. ] [ Perh. orig., to dress in a foolish manner, and allied to dizzy: but cf. also OE. dysyn (Palsgrave) to put tow or flax on a distaff, i. e., to dress it. Cf. Distaff. ] 1. To dress; to attire. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dress gaudily; to overdress; to bedizen; to deck out. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like a tragedy queen, he has dizened her out. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

To-morrow when the masks shall fall
That dizen Nature's carnival. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Dozen (before another noun), Dozens [ OE. doseine, dosein, OF. doseine, F. douzaine, fr. douze twelve, fr. L. duodecim; duo two + decem ten. See Two, Ten, and cf. Duodecimal. ] 1. A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows. “Some six or seven dozen of Scots.” “A dozen of shirts to your back.” “A dozen sons.” “Half a dozen friends.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An indefinite small number. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A baker's dozen, thirteen; -- called also a long dozen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Twelfth. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + denizen. Cf. Indenizen. ] To admit to the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value; -- used of foods.
Syn. -- quick-frozen, frozen. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To make free. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook. [ 1913 Webster ]

They warmed their frozen feet. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Subject to frost, or to long and severe cold; chilly; as, the frozen north; the frozen zones. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Be not ever frozen, coy. T. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of being frozen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furzy; gorsy. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. glæsen. ] Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Indenizened p. pr. & vb. n. Indenizening. ] To invest with the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Words indenizened, and commonly used as English. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The mutual right to civic privileges, in the different States. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. lozange, losange; perh. the same as OF. losengef flattery, praise, the heraldic sense being the oldest (cf. E. hatchment, blazon). Cf. Losenger, Laudable. ] 1. (Her.) (a) A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil. (b) A form of the escutcheon used by women instead of the shield which is used by men. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything in the form of lozenge. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Specifically: A small cake of sugar and starch, flavored, and often medicated. -- originally in the form of a lozenge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lozenge coach, the coach of a dowager, having her coat of arms painted on a lozenge. [ Obs. ] Walpole. --
Lozenge-molding (Arch.), a kind of molding, used in Norman architecture, characterized by lozenge-shaped ornaments. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. Having the form of a lozenge or rhomb. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lozenged panes of a very small latticed window. C. Bronté. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. losangé. See Lozenge. ] (Her.) Divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, as the field or a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A battle in the Thirty Years' War (1632) at which the Swedes under King Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Imperialists under Wallenstein, and in which Adolphus was killed.
Syn. -- battle of Lutzen. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. mizzenmast.
Syn. -- mizzen, mizen. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Naut.) The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ It. mezzana, fr. mezzano middle, fr. mezzo middle, half: cf. F. misaine foresail. See Mezzo. ] (Naut.) Hindmost; nearest the stern; as, the mizzen shrouds, sails, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) the third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy. The definition varies slightly with the dictionary; in some dictionaries it is the last mast of a three-masted vessel; in others, it is the mast after the mainmast of a vessel of three or more masts. PJC. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Nitro- + benzene. ] (Chem.) A yellow aromatic liquid (C6H5.NO2), produced by the action of nitric acid on benzene, and called from its odor imitation oil of bitter almonds, or essence of mirbane. It is used in perfumery, and is manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. Fornerly called also nitrobenzol. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bear down with a brazen face; to surpass in impudence. T. Brown. [ 1913 Webster ]