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‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; priv. + &unr_; a talking; cf. &unr_; speechless. ] (Med.) Inability to utter articulate sounds, due either to paralysis of the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; priv. + &unr_; a talking; cf. &unr_; speechless. ] (Med.) Impairment of articulate speech, or inability to speak, usually due to impairment of control of muscles in the articulatory apparatus. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + AS ]

adv. [ L., fr. alius. See Else. ] (Law) (a) Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson. (b) At another time. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Aliases [ L., otherwise, at another time. ] (Law) (a) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect. (b) Another name; an assumed name. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. any of various plants of the genus Aralia; often aromatic plants having compound leaves and small umbellate flowers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 a family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: ginseng; hedera.
Syn. -- family Araliaceae, ivy family [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ From L. Terra Australis southern land. ] Of or pertaining to Australia. -- n. A native or an inhabitant of Australia. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Law) A system of balloting or voting in public elections, originally used in South Australia, in which there is such an arrangement for polling votes that secrecy is compulsorily maintained, and the ballot used is an official ballot printed and distributed by the government. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. pl. [ L. Bacchanal a place devoted to Bacchus; in the pl. Bacchanalia a feast of Bacchus, fr. Bacchus the god of wine, Gr. Ba`kchos. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Myth.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A drunken feast; drunken revels; an orgy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bacchanal; a drunken reveler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. battalia battle, a body of troops. See Battle, n. ] 1. Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action. [ 1913 Webster ]

A drawing up the armies in battalia. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of herbs or woody vines of mainly American tropics and subtropics.
Syn. -- genus Canavalia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. Castalius ] Of or pertaining to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mt. Parnassus sacred to the Muses. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L. See Cereal. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 1. (Antiq.) Public festivals in honor of Ceres. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The cereals. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. [ L. daedalus cunningly wrought, fr. Gr. &unr_;; cf. &unr_; to work cunningly. The word also alludes to the mythical Dædalus (Gr. &unr_;, lit., the cunning worker). ] 1. Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful; artistic; ingenious. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our bodies decked in our dædalian arms. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dædal hand of Nature. J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

The doth the dædal earth throw forth to thee,
Out of her fruitful, abundant flowers. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Crafty; deceitful. [ R. ] Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Dædalian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to bishops, or government by bishops; episcopal; specifically, of or relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who belongs to an episcopal church, or adheres to the episcopal form of church government and discipline; a churchman; specifically, in the United States, a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrine and usages of Episcopalians; episcopacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ Neut. pl., fr. L. generalis. ] Generalities; general terms. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The sex organs, especially the external sex organs, called the external genitalia; the genitals.
Syn. -- genital, genitals, private parts, privates, crotch. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; tongue + &unr_; talk: cf. F. glossolalie. ] The gift of tongues. Farrar. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Idalium, a mountain city in Cyprus, or to Venus, to whom it was sacred. “Idalian Aphrodité.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See In- not, and Placental. ] (Zool.) A primary division of the Mammalia, including the monotremes and marsupials, in which no placenta is formed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. italien, It. italiano. Cf. Italic. ] Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language. [ 1913 Webster ]

Italian cloth a light material of cotton and worsted; -- called also farmer's satin. --
Italian iron, a heater for fluting frills. --
Italian juice, Calabrian liquorice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Italy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The language used in Italy, or by the Italians. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. It. italianare. ] To render Italian, or conformable to Italian customs; to Italianize. [ R. ] Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Italianized; Italianated. “Apish, childish, and Italianate.” Marlowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A word, phrase, or idiom, peculiar to the Italians; an Italicism. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Attachment to, or sympathy for, Italy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Italianized p. pr. & vb. n. Italianizing ] [ Cf. F. italianiser, It. italianizzare. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To play the Italian; to speak Italian. Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To render Italian in any respect; to Italianate. “An Englishman Italianized.” Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water. See also hookah.
Syn. -- hookah, hubble-bubble, narghile, water pipe. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ NL. See Larval. ] (Zool.) An order of Tunicata, including Appendicularia, and allied genera; -- so called because certain larval features are retained by them through life. Called also Copelata. See Appendicularia. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L. luperealis, fr. Lupercus the Lycean Pan, so called fr. lupus a wolf, because he kept off the wolves. ] (Rom. Antiq.) A feast of the Romans in honor of Lupercus, or Pan. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. 1. Of or pertaining to Mali; as, Malian deserts. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Mali; as, Malian nomads. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A native or inhabitant of Mali. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from L. mammalis. See Mammal. ] (Zool.) The highest class of Vertebrata. The young are nourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Mammalia are divided into three subclasses; -- [ 1913 Webster ] I. Placentalia. This subclass embraces all the higher orders, including man. In these the fetus is attached to the uterus by a placenta. [ 1913 Webster ] II. Marsupialia. In these no placenta is formed, and the young, which are born at an early state of development, are carried for a time attached to the teats, and usually protected by a marsupial pouch. The opossum, kangaroo, wombat, and koala are examples. [ 1913 Webster ] III. Monotremata. In this group, which includes the genera Echidna and Ornithorhynchus, the female lays large eggs resembling those of a bird or lizard, and the young, which are hatched like those of birds, are nourished by a watery secretion from the imperfectly developed mammae. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the Mammalia or mammals. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] Marginal notes. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. marsupium a pouch, bag, purse, Gr. marsy`pion, dim. of ma`rsypos, ma`rsipos. ] (Zool.) A subclass of Mammalia, including nearly all the mammals of Australia and the adjacent islands, together with the opossums of America. They differ from ordinary mammals in having the corpus callosum very small, in being implacental, and in having their young born while very immature. The female generally carries the young for some time after birth in an external pouch, or marsupium. Called also Marsupiata. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Zool.) One of the Marsupialia. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖, n. [ NL. megalocephalia, fr. Gr. &unr_; having a large head. ] (Med.) The condition of having an abnormally large head; called also megacephaly. -- Meg`a*lo*ce*phal"ic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

adj. same as Neanderthal{ 1 }.
Syn. -- Neanderthal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., of uncertain origin. ] (Zool.) A genus of small marine Crustacea, considered the type of a distinct order (Nebaloidea, or Phyllocarida.) [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. ordalium. ] Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Having or showing undue valor or boldness; as, they stepped with overvaliant airs. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. pa`ralos near the sea; para` beside + "a`ls the sea.] A dweller by the sea. [R.] [1913 Webster]