n. [ Gr. &unr_; true + &unr_; to view. ] An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Anamorphosis + -scope. ] An instrument for restoring a picture or image distorted by anamorphosis to its normal proportions. It usually consists of a cylindrical mirror. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to form anew; &unr_; again + &unr_; to form;
n. Same as Anamorphosis. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr.
n. [ F. anorthose triclinic feldspar (fr. Gr.
n. Transformation into the form of a human being. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Gr. &unr_;;
n. [ Gr.
‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr.
n.
‖n. A sweet wine. See Calcavella. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a native or inhabitant of Czechoslovakia; a Czechoslovakian.
‖n.;
Chose in action,
Chose in possession,
Chose local,
Chose transitory,
imp. & p. p. of Choose. [ 1913 Webster ]
p. p.
Seven hundred chosen men left-handed. Judg. xx. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Same as Cirrose. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; orange-colored: cf. F. cirrhose. So called from the yellowish appearance which the diseased liver often presents when cut. ] (Med.) A disease of the liver in which it usually becomes smaller in size and more dense and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimes applied to similar changes in other organs, caused by increase in the fibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance of the organ. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Bot.) A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called
prop. adj. Of or pertaining to Czechoslovakia. Since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech republic and Slovakia in January 1993, this term no longer refers to any current country.
prop. n. a native or inhabitant of Czechoslovakia. Since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech republic and Slovakia in January 1993, this term no longer refers to a citizen of any current country. The natives of the former Czechoslovakia are now Czechs or Slovaks.
n. The act of freeing from phosphorous. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, sound + -scope. ] (Med.) An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. an extinct heavy-bodied reptile of the late Paleozoic having a dorsal sail or crest. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;;
n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; character. See Ethic. ]
n. [ Fluo- + phosphate. ] (Chem.) A double salt of fluoric and phosphoric acids. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Chosen beforehand. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. gāst breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. gēst spirit, soul, D. geest, G. geist, and prob. to E. gaze, ghastly. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
I thought that I had died in sleep,
And was a blessed ghost. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Poe. [ 1913 Webster ]
Ghost moth (Zool.),
Holy Ghost,
To give up the ghost
To yield up the ghost
And he gave up the ghost full softly. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. Gen. xlix. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To die; to expire. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
. A religious dance of the North American Indians, participated in by both sexes, and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is, through trance and vision, to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends. The dance is the chief rite of the
Ghost-dance, or
Messiah,
religion, which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka, the Indian Messiah, who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race, the dead with the living, should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth. The religion inculcates peace, righteousness, and work, and holds that in good time, without warlike intervention, the oppressive white rule will be removed by the higher powers. The religion spread through a majority of the western tribes of the United States, only in the case of the Sioux, owing to local causes, leading to an outbreak. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. (Zool.) A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Without life or spirit. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Like a ghost; ghastly. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being ghostly. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ OE. gastlich, gostlich, AS. gāstlic. See Ghost. ]
Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. Book of Common Prayer [ Ch. of Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
One of the gostly children of St. Jerome. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Spiritually; mystically. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Ghost lore. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr.
‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr.
‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, prop., a bolting together, fr. &unr_; to fasten with bolts or nails, &unr_; bolt, nail: cf. F. gomphose. ] (Anat.) A form of union or immovable articulation where a hard part is received into the cavity of a bone, as the teeth into the jaws. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr.
n.;
Hosanna to the Son of David. Matt. xxi. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
These men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments. Dan. iii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Hose carriage,
Hose cart,
Hose truck
Hose company,
Hose coupling,
Hose wrench,
n. pl. See Hose. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]