1. The action of joining or uniting one thing to another or others, or two or more things together, so as to form one whole or complete body; the state or condition of being so joined or united. 2. The joining of one person to another in matrimony; an instance or occasion of this, a marriage. union"s.
1. The state of being one; oneness. 2. A whole or totality, as combining all its parts into one. 3. The state or fact of being united or combined into one, as of the parts of a whole; unification. Unity, unity"s, unities.
1. To combine or join (one or more things) to or with another or others, to bring or put together (separate or divided things), so as to form one connected or contiguous whole; to form or incorporate into one body or mass; to make or cause to be one. 2. To make one in feeling or thought; to cause to agree; to combine or join (persons) together in action or interest, or for some special purpose. unites, united.
1. To put or bring together so as to make continuous or form a unit. 2. To bring together in a particular relation or for a specific purpose, action, etc.; unite. 3. To become united, associated, or combined; associate or ally oneself (with). 4. Be or become joined or united or linked. 5. To take part with others. 6. To enlist in one of the armed forces. joins, joined, joining.
abbreviation ::: n. --> The act of shortening, or reducing.
The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.
One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or
academy ::: n. --> A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.
An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.
A place of training; a school.
A society of learned men united for the advancement of the
accorporate ::: v. t. --> To unite; to attach; to incorporate.
acre ::: n. --> Any field of arable or pasture land.
A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.
acrodont ::: n. --> One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge. ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the acrodonts.
add ::: v. t. --> To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).
To join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column.
To append, as a statement; to say further.
adherent ::: a. --> Sticking; clinging; adhering.
Attached as an attribute or circumstance.
Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals. ::: n. --> One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a
adhere ::: v. i. --> To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.
To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.
To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.
adhesion ::: n. --> The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as, the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like.
Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, to a policy.
Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent.
The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.
adjoin ::: v. t. --> To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append. ::: v. i. --> To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin.
To join one&
admirable ::: a. --> Fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous.
Having qualities to excite wonder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent; -- used of persons or things.
adopter ::: n. --> One who adopts.
A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters.
affiliate ::: v. t. --> To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.
To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; --
affix ::: v. t. --> To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one&
agglutinate ::: v. t. --> To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances. ::: a. --> United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc.
agglutination ::: n. --> The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2.
agglutinative ::: a. --> Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.
Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound.
aggregate ::: v. t. --> To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil."
To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels. ::: a.
agree ::: adv. --> In good part; kindly. ::: v. i. --> To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law.
To yield assent; to accede; -- followed by to; as, to
alunite ::: n. --> Alum stone.
allied ::: a. --> United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally. ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Ally
alligate ::: v. t. --> To tie; to unite by some tie.
alligator ::: n. --> A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.
Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator
a form of squeezer for the puddle ball
ally ::: v. t. --> To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with.
To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love. ::: v.
alum stone ::: --> A subsulphate of alumina and potash; alunite.
amalgamated ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Amalgamate ::: a. --> Coalesced; united; combined.
amalgamate ::: v. t. --> To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.
To mix, so as to make a uniform compound; to unite or combine; as, to amalgamate two races; to amalgamate one race with another. ::: v. i.
Amal: “These words apply to what is mentioned as ‘Knowledge’ two lines earlier and is differentiated from ‘creative Power’ in whose ‘high home’ Knowledge seizes this entity and unites it to itself—or, in the terms used, joins her to his own being.”
amblypoda ::: n. pl. --> A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States.
american ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.
Of or pertaining to the United States. ::: n. --> A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans
americanism ::: n. --> Attachment to the United States.
A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea.
A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
amphiuma ::: n. --> A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.
anchylose ::: v. t. & i. --> To affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one.
anglo-saxondom ::: n. --> The Anglo-Saxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and the United States, etc.); the Anglo-Saxon race.
anhinga ::: n. --> An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.
annexation ::: v. t. --> The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold.
The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture. Bouvier. (b) (Scots Law) The appropriation of lands or rents to the crown.
anomaliped ::: a. --> Alt. of Anomalipede ::: n. --> One of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones.
anti-federalist ::: n. --> One of party opposed to a federative government; -- applied particularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution of the United States.
aphrodite ::: n. --> The Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans.
A large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setae; the sea mouse.
A beautiful butterfly (Argunnis Aphrodite) of the United States.
apodeme ::: n. --> One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea.
appalachian ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains.
approvement ::: n. --> Approbation.
a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king&
army worm ::: --> A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and other crops. The common army worm of the northern United States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm.
The larva of a small two-winged fly (Sciara), which marches in large companies, in regular order. See Cotton worm, under Cotton.
articulata ::: v. --> One of the four subkingdoms in the classification of Cuvier. It has been much modified by later writers.
One of the subdivisions of the Brachiopoda, including those that have the shells united by a hinge.
A subdivision of the Crinoidea.
articulate ::: a. --> Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants.
Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words.
articulated ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Articulate ::: a. --> United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton.
Produced, as a letter, syllable, or word, by the organs of speech; pronounced.
ascidiarium ::: n. --> The structure which unites together the ascidiozooids in a compound ascidian.
ashler ::: n. --> Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone.
In the United States especially, a thin facing of squared and dressed stone upon a wall of rubble or brick.
attend ::: v. t. --> To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard.
To care for; to look after; to take charge of; to watch over.
To go or stay with, as a companion, nurse, or servant; to visit professionally, as a physician; to accompany or follow in order to do service; to escort; to wait on; to serve.
To be present with; to accompany; to be united or
aunty ::: n. --> A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.
axle guard ::: --> The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England.
azedarach ::: n. --> A handsome Asiatic tree (Melia azedarach), common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree.
The bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a cathartic and emetic.
backwoodsman ::: n. --> A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States.
bad lands ::: --> Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by caons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).
banded ::: united, allied as a group.
barn ::: n. --> A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables.
A child. [Obs.] See Bairn. ::: v. t. --> To lay up in a barn.
basicity ::: n. --> The quality or state of being a base.
The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid.
bearing rein ::: --> A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse&
bee ::: --> p. p. of Be; -- used for been. ::: n. --> An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidae (the honeybees), or family Andrenidae (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee.
A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a
benedictine ::: a. --> Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet. ::: n. --> One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846.
benne ::: n. --> The name of two plants (Sesamum orientale and S. indicum), originally Asiatic; -- also called oil plant. From their seeds an oil is expressed, called benne oil, used mostly for making soap. In the southern United States the seeds are used in candy.
bermuda grass ::: --> A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass.
bignonia ::: n. --> A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.
black bass ::: --> An edible, fresh-water fish of the United States, of the genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei; the large-mouthed is M. salmoides.
The sea bass. See Blackfish, 3.
blackberry ::: n. --> The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds.
blackburnian warbler ::: --> A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniae). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.
blackpoll ::: n. --> A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata).
blacksnake ::: n. --> A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long.
bloody hand ::: --> A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man&
blouse ::: n. --> A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.
bluebird ::: n. --> A small song bird (Sialia sialis), very common in the United States, and, in the north, one of the earliest to arrive in spring. The male is blue, with the breast reddish. It is related to the European robin.
blue book ::: --> A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers.
The United States official "Biennial Register."
blue jay ::: --> The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is bright blue.
bluestone ::: n. --> Blue vitriol.
A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States.
boat-tail ::: n. --> A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.
bodily ::: a. --> Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter.
Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind.
Real; actual; put in execution. ::: adv. --> Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or
bonito ::: n. --> A large tropical fish (Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the American coast.
The skipjack (Sarda Mediterranea) of the Atlantic, an important and abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and (S. Chilensis) of the Pacific, and other related species. They are large and active fishes, of a blue color with black oblique stripes.
The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the
bowfin ::: n. --> A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.
bowie knife ::: --> A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie. Also, by extension, any large sheath knife.
braunite ::: n. --> A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha.
brandy ::: n. --> A strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. The name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europe, it is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain.
breakdown ::: n. --> The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.
A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.
Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet,
breasthook ::: n. --> A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side.
breccia ::: n. --> A rock composed of angular fragments either of the same mineral or of different minerals, etc., united by a cement, and commonly presenting a variety of colors.
broadbill ::: n. --> A wild duck (Aythya, / Fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; -- called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck.
The shoveler. See Shoveler.
brother ::: n. --> A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood.
One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc.
One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive
bullhead ::: n. --> A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller&
bungo ::: n. --> A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States.
united :::
unite :::
bur fish ::: --> A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish.
burgomaster ::: n. --> A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster.
An aquatic bird, the glaucous gull (Larus glaucus), common in arctic regions.
butt joint ::: --> A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8.
buttonwood ::: n. --> The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa.
buttweld ::: v. t. --> To unite by a butt weld.
cabal ::: n. --> Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala
A secret.
A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto.
The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue.
callosum ::: n. --> The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
callus ::: n. --> Same as Callosity
The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.
calypso ::: n. --> A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part of the United States. The Calypso borealis is the only orchid which reaches 68¡ N.
canna ::: n. --> A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet. See Cane, 4.
A genus of tropical plants, with large leaves and often with showy flowers. The Indian shot (C. Indica) is found in gardens of the northern United States.
canvasback ::: n. --> A Species of duck (Aythya vallisneria), esteemed for the delicacy of its flesh. It visits the United States in autumn; particularly Chesapeake Bay and adjoining waters; -- so named from the markings of the plumage on its back.
capitol ::: --> The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus, where the Senate met.
The edifice at Washington occupied by the Congress of the United States; also, the building in which the legislature of State holds its sessions; a statehouse.
captain ::: n. --> A head, or chief officer
The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service.
An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the army.
By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel,
carbohydrate ::: n. --> One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose, C6H12O6.
carbon ::: n. --> An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another modification is graphite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagonal prisms or tables. When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide,
carina ::: n. --> A keel
That part of a papilionaceous flower, consisting of two petals, commonly united, which incloses the organs of fructification
A longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat.
The keel of the breastbone of birds.
carpetbagger ::: n. --> An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).
catallacta ::: n. pl. --> A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphaera is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies.
catamount ::: n. --> The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx.
catfish ::: n. --> A name given in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat (Gronias nigrilabrus); the mud cat (Pilodictic oilwaris), the stone cat (Noturus flavus); the sea cat (Arius felis), etc. This name is also sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See Bullhrad.
cat ::: n. --> An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat.
A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.
A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a
cement ::: n. --> Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.
A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.
The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n., 2.
Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society.
The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth;
cental ::: n. --> A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in many parts of the United States a Hundredweight.
Relating to a hundred.
cent ::: n. --> A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.
A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.
An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game.
centreboard ::: n. --> A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States
cephalothorax ::: n. --> The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.
ceratosaurus ::: n. --> A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.
cerinthian ::: n. --> One of an ancient religious sect, so called from Cerinthus, a Jew, who attempted to unite the doctrines of Christ with the opinions of the Jews and Gnostics.
cero ::: n. --> A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United States, -- the common cero (Scomberomorus caballa), called also kingfish, and spotted, or king, cero (S. regalis).
chancellor ::: n. --> A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.
chancery ::: n. --> In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity.
In the Unites States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity.
charr ::: n. --> One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char.
See 1st Char.
chart ::: n. --> A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.
A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.
A written deed; a charter.
chelonia ::: n. pl. --> An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix.
chemiloon ::: n. --> A garment for women, consisting of chemise and drawers united in one.
chemism ::: n. --> The force exerted between the atoms of elementary substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical attaction; affinity; -- sometimes used as a general expression for chemical activity or relationship.
chersonese ::: n. --> A peninsula; a tract of land nearly surrounded by water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Chersonese, or Jutland; the Tauric Chersonese, or Crimea.
chinch ::: n. --> The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).
A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.
chipmunk ::: n. --> A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus.
choriambus ::: n. --> A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united.
chthonophagy ::: n. --> A disease characterized by an irresistible desire to eat earth, observed in some parts of the southern United States, the West Indies, etc.
city ::: n. --> A large town.
A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see.
The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.
clam ::: v. t. --> A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
Strong pinchers or forceps.
A kind of vise, usually of wood.
To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
clan ::: n. --> A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald.
A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
clannish ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a clan; closely united, like a clan; disposed to associate only with one&
clanship ::: n. --> A state of being united together as in a clan; an association under a chieftain.
claret ::: n. --> The name first given in England to the red wines of Medoc, in France, and afterwards extended to all the red Bordeaux wines. The name is also given to similar wines made in the United States.
clavicle ::: n. --> The collar bone, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter /, and is situated just above the first rib on either side of the neck. In birds the two clavicles are united ventrally, forming the merrythought, or wishbone.
cleave ::: v. i. --> To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.
To unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment.
To fit; to be adapted; to assimilate. ::: v. t. --> To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut.
clitellus ::: n. --> A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.
close-banded ::: a. --> Closely united.
coachwhip snake ::: --> A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis).
coactive ::: a. --> Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.
Acting in concurrence; united in action.
coact ::: v. t. --> To force; to compel; to drive. ::: v. i. --> To act together; to work in concert; to unite.
coadunate ::: a. --> United at the base, as contiguous lobes of a leaf.
coalescence ::: n. --> The act or state of growing together, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.
coalesce ::: n. --> To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.
To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce.
coalite ::: v. i. --> To unite or coalesce. ::: v. t. --> To cause to unite or coalesce.
co-unite ::: v. t. --> To unite. ::: a. --> United closely with another.
coefficient ::: a. --> Cooperating; acting together to produce an effect. ::: n. --> That which unites in action with something else to produce the same effect.
A number or letter put before a letter or quantity, known or unknown, to show how many times the latter is to be taken; as,
coenenchyma ::: n. --> The common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or more or less ossified. See Coral.
coenoecium ::: n. --> The common tissue which unites the various zooids of a bryozoan.
coenosarc ::: n. --> The common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. See Hydroidea.
cohere ::: a. --> To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.
To be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent.
To suit; to agree; to fit.
cohesion ::: n. --> The act or state of sticking together; close union.
That from of attraction by which the particles of a body are united throughout the mass, whether like or unlike; -- distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces.
Logical agreement and dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas.
collaboration ::: n. --> The act of working together; united labor.
colleague ::: n. --> A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures. ::: v.t & i. --> To unite or associate with another or with others.
collectively ::: adv. --> In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
colleterium ::: n. --> An organ of female insects, containing a cement to unite the ejected ova.
colonizationist ::: n. --> A friend to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States.
columbia ::: n. --> America; the United States; -- a poetical appellation given in honor of Columbus, the discoverer.
columbian ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the United States, or to America.
comanches ::: n. pl. --> A warlike, savage, and nomadic tribe of the Shoshone family of Indians, inhabiting Mexico and the adjacent parts of the United States; -- called also Paducahs. They are noted for plundering and cruelty.
combinate ::: a. --> United; joined; betrothed.
combination ::: n. --> The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things.
The result of combining or uniting; union of persons or things; esp. a union or alliance of persons or states to effect some purpose; -- usually in a bad sense.
The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds.
combined ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Combine ::: a. --> United closely; confederated; chemically united.
combine ::: v. t. --> To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous substance, as by chemical union.
To bind; to hold by a moral tie. ::: v. i. --> To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate.
commissure ::: n. --> A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.
The point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc.
A collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma.
The line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc.
commonwealth ::: n. --> A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws.
The whole body of people in a state; the public.
Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659.
commutual ::: a. --> Mutual; reciprocal; united.
compacted ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Compact ::: a. --> Compact; pressed close; concentrated; firmly united.
compact ::: p. p. & a --> Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
Composed or made; -- with of.
Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.
Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse. ::: v. t.
compages ::: v. t. --> A system or structure of many parts united.
compaginate ::: v. t. --> To unite or hold together; as, the side pieces compaginate the frame.
company ::: 1. A number of people gathered together; assembly. 2. A number of persons united or incorporated for joint action. companies.
compel ::: v. t. --> To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.
To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.
To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
To call forth; to summon.
complicate ::: a. --> Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.
Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise. ::: v. t. --> To fold or twist together; to combine intricately;
compositae ::: n. pl. --> A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.
concatenate ::: v. t. --> To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another.
concatenation ::: n. --> A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
concentrate ::: v. t. --> To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention.
To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense; as, to concentrate acid by evaporation; to concentrate by washing; -- opposed to dilute.
CONCENTRATION ::: Fixing the consciousness in one place or on one object and in a single condition.
A gathering together of the consciousness and either centralising at one point or turning on a single object, e.g. the Divine; there can also be a gathered condition throughout the whole being, not at a point.
Concentration is necessary, first to turn the whole will and mind from the discursive divagation natural to them, following a dispersed movement of the thoughts, running after many-branching desires, led away in the track of the senses and the outward mental response to phenomena; we have to fix the will and the thought on the eternal and real behind all, and this demands an immense effort, a one-pointed concentration. Secondly, it is necessary in order to break down the veil which is erected by our ordinary mentality between ourselves and the truth; for outer knowledge can be picked up by the way, by ordinary attention and reception, but the inner, hidden and higher truth can only be seized by an absolute concentration of the mind on its object, an absolute concentration of the will to attain it and, once attained, to hold it habitually and securely unite oneself with it.
Centre of Concentration: The two main places where one can centre the consciousness for yoga are in the head and in the heart - the mind-centre and the soul-centre.
Brain concentration is always a tapasyā and necessarily brings a strain. It is only if one is lifted out of the brain mind altogether that the strain of mental concentration disappears.
At the top of the head or above it is the right place for yogic concentration in reading or thinking.
In whatever centre the concentration takes place, the yoga force generated extends to the others and produces concentration or workings there.
Modes of Concentration: There is no harm in concentrating sometimes in the heart and sometimes above the head. But concentration in either place does not mean keeping the attention fixed on a particular spot; you have to take your station of consciousness in either place and concentrate there not on the place, but on the Divine. This can be done with eyes shut or with eyes open, according as it best suits.
If one concentrates on a thought or a word, one has to dwell on the essential idea contained in the word with the aspiration to feel the thing which it expresses.
There is no method in this yoga except to concentrate, preferably in the heart, and call the presence and power of the Mother to take up the being and by the workings of her force to transform the consciousness; one can concentrate also in the head or between the eye-brows, but for many this is a too difficult opening. When the mind falls quiet and the concentration becomes strong and the aspiration intense, then there is a beginning of experience. The more the faith, the more rapid the result is likely to be.
Powers (three) of Concentration ::: By concentration on anything whatsoever we are able to know that thing, to make it deliver up its concealed secrets; we must use this power to know not things, but the one Thing-in-itself. By concentration again the whole will can be gathered up for the acquisition of that which is still ungrasped, still beyond us; this power, if it is sufficiently trained, sufficiently single-minded, sufficiently sincere, sure of itself, faithful to itself alone, absolute in faith, we can use for the acquisition of any object whatsoever; but we ought to use it not for the acquisition of the many objects which the world offers to us, but to grasp spiritually that one object worthy of pursuit which is also the one subject worthy of knowledge. By concentration of our whole being on one status of itself we can become whatever we choose ; we can become, for instance, even if we were before a mass of weaknesses and fears, a mass instead of strength and courage, or we can become all a great purity, holiness and peace or a single universal soul of Love ; but we ought, it is said, to use this power to become not even these things, high as they may be in comparison with what we now are, but rather to become that which is above all things and free from all action and attributes, the pure and absolute Being. All else, all other concentration can only be valuable for preparation, for previous steps, for a gradual training of the dissolute and self-dissipating thought, will and being towards their grand and unique object.
Stages in Concentration (Rajayogic) ::: that in which the object is seized, that in which it is held, that in which the mind is lost in the status which the object represents or to which the concentration leads.
Concentration and Meditation ::: Concentration means fixing the consciousness in one place or one object and in a single condition Meditation can be diffusive,e.g. thinking about the Divine, receiving impressions and discriminating, watching what goes on in the nature and acting upon it etc. Meditation is when the inner mind is looking at things to get the right knowledge.
vide Dhyāna.
concomitantly ::: adv. --> In company with others; unitedly; concurrently.
concorporate ::: v. t. & i. --> To unite in one mass or body; to incorporate. ::: a. --> United in one body; incorporated.
concrete ::: a. --> United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.
Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to abstract.
Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to general. See Abstract, 3.
concretion ::: n. --> The process of concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification.
A mass or nodule of solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lump; a calculus.
A rounded mass or nodule produced by an aggregation of the material around a center; as, the calcareous concretions common in beds of clay.
concubine ::: n. --> A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour.
A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were Hagar and Keturah, the concubines of Abraham; and such concubines were allowed by the Roman laws. Their children were not heirs of their father.
concurrently ::: adv. --> With concurrence; unitedly.
concur ::: v. i. --> To run together; to meet.
To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect.
To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to join; to act jointly; to agree; to coincide; to correspond.
To assent; to consent.
confederacy ::: n. --> A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance.
The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation.
A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy.
confederate ::: a. --> United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.
Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money. ::: n.
conferruminated ::: a. --> Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.
confluent ::: a. --> Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another.
Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction.
Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules.
Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox.
confraternity ::: n. --> A society of body of men united for some purpose, or in some profession; a brotherhood.
conglobe ::: v. t. --> To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass. ::: v. i. --> To collect, unite, or coalesce in a round mass.
conglutinate ::: a. --> Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance. ::: v. t. --> To glue together; to unite by some glutinous or tenacious substance; to cause to adhere or to grow together.
congo snake ::: --> An amphibian (Amphiuma means) of the order Urodela, found in the southern United States. See Amphiuma.
congregate ::: a. --> Collected; compact; close. ::: v. t. --> To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.
congressional ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates.
congressman ::: n. --> A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives.
conium ::: n. --> A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit ("seeds") and decompound leaves.
The common hemlock (Conium maculatum, poison hemlock, spotted hemlock, poison parsley), a roadside weed of Europe, Asia, and America, cultivated in the United States for medicinal purpose. It is an active poison. The leaves and fruit are used in medicine.
conjoint ::: a. --> United; connected; associated.
conjoin ::: v. t. --> To join together; to unite. ::: v. i. --> To unite; to join; to league.
conjugate ::: a. --> United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
In single pairs; coupled.
Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; -- said of words.
Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and applied
conjunct ::: a. --> United; conjoined; concurrent.
Same as Conjoined.
conjunction ::: n. --> The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league.
The meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter and Saturn. See the Note under Aspect, n., 6.
A connective or connecting word; an indeclinable word which serves to join together sentences, clauses of a sentence, or words; as, and, but, if.
conjunctive ::: a. --> Serving to unite; connecting together.
Closely united.
conjunctly ::: adv. --> In union; conjointly; unitedly; together.
connate ::: a. --> Born with another; being of the same birth.
Congenital; existing from birth.
Congenitally united; growing from one base, or united at their bases; united into one body; as, connate leaves or athers. See Illust. of Connate-perfoliate.
connatural ::: a. --> Connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural.
Partaking of the same nature.
connect ::: v. t. --> To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between.
To associate (a person or thing, or one&
consistency ::: n. --> The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity.
A degree of firmness, density, or spissitude.
That which stands together as a united whole; a combination.
Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.
consociate ::: n. --> An associate; an accomplice. ::: v. t. --> To bring into alliance, confederacy, or relationship; to bring together; to join; to unite.
To unite in an ecclesiastical consociation.
consociation ::: n. --> Intimate union; fellowship; alliance; companionship; confederation; association; intimacy.
A voluntary and permanent council or union of neighboring Congregational churches, for mutual advice and cooperation in ecclesiastical matters; a meeting of pastors and delegates from churches thus united.
consolidant ::: a. --> Serving to unite or consolidate; having the quality of consolidating or making firm.
consolidate ::: a. --> Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated. ::: v. t. --> To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm.
To unite, as various particulars, into one mass or body; to bring together in close union; to combine; as, to consolidate
consolidated ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Consolidate ::: p. p. & a. --> Made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified.
Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus.
constellate ::: v. i. --> To join luster; to shine with united radiance, or one general light. ::: v. t. --> To unite in one luster or radiance, as stars.
To set or adorn with stars or constellations; as, constellated heavens.
constructionist ::: n. --> One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist.
consubstantiate ::: v. t. --> To cause to unite, or to regard as united, in one common substance or nature. ::: v. i. --> To profess or belive the doctrine of consubstantion.
continuate ::: a. --> Immediately united together; intimately connected.
Uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; continued.
CONTRADICTIONS. ::: Every man is full of contradictions because he is one person, no doubt, but made up of different personalities. So long as one does not aim at unity in a single dominant intention, like that of seeking and self-dedication to the Divine, they get on somehow together, alternating or quar- relling or muddling through or else one taking the lead and compelling the others to take a minor part — but once you try to unite them in one aim, then the trouble becomes evident.
convene ::: v. i. --> To come together; to meet; to unite.
To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble. ::: v. t. --> To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
To summon judicially to meet or appear.
coot ::: n. --> A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica.
The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of (/demia are called coots. See Scoter.
A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot.
cope ::: n. --> A covering for the head.
Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.
An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions.
An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the
coplatry ::: a. --> Pertaining to copulation; tending or serving to unite; copulative.
Used in sexual union; as, the copulatory organs of insects.
copula ::: n. --> The word which unites the subject and predicate.
The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also coupler.
copulate ::: a. --> Joined; associated; coupled.
Joining subject and predicate; copulative. ::: v. i. --> To unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation.
copulative ::: a. --> Serving to couple, unite, or connect; as, a copulative conjunction like "and". ::: n. --> Connection.
A copulative conjunction.
coquina ::: n. --> A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.
corporal ::: n. --> A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels. ::: a. --> Belonging or relating to the body; bodily.
Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In
corporate ::: a. --> Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town.
Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body.
United; general; collectively one. ::: v. t.
corvette ::: n. --> A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.
Cosmic Divine to get some work done, but the self within remains calm and free and united with the Divine.
cotter ::: n. --> Alt. of Cottar
A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [See Illust.] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key.
A toggle. ::: v. t.
cottonwood ::: n. --> An American tree of the genus Populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.
coulee ::: n. --> A stream
a stream of lava. Also, in the Western United States, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distinguished from a caon, which has precipitous sides.
co-une ::: v. t. --> To combine or unite.
cowbane ::: n. --> A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. See Water hemlock.
cowboy ::: n. --> A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.
One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.
cowpea ::: n. --> The seed of one or more leguminous plants of the genus Dolichos; also, the plant itself. Many varieties are cultivated in the southern part of the United States. html{color:
cowslip ::: n. --> A common flower in England (Primula veris) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the United States.
In the United States, the marsh marigold (Caltha palustris), appearing in wet places in early spring and often used as a pot herb. It is nearer to a buttercup than to a true cowslip. See Illust. of Marsh marigold.
crabeater ::: n. --> The cobia.
An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus).
A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species).
cradling ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Cradle ::: n. --> The act of using a cradle.
Cutting a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterward united and rehooped.
crappie ::: n. --> A kind of fresh-water bass of the genus Pomoxys, found in the rivers of the Southern United States and Mississippi valley. There are several species.
crasis ::: n. --> A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament.
A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong; synaeresis; as, cogo for coago.
culvertailed ::: a. --> United or fastened by a dovetailed joint.
decentralize ::: v. t. --> To prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); -- esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs.
desk ::: n. --> A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for "the clerical profession."
desmognathous ::: a. --> Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognathae), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.
detach ::: v. t. --> To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party.
To separate for a special object or use; -- used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment. ::: v. i.
deutohydroguret ::: n. --> A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of hydrogen united with some other element or radical.
deutoxide ::: n. --> A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of oxygen united with some other element or radical; -- usually called dioxide, or less frequently, binoxide.
diadelphia ::: n. pl. --> A Linnaean class of plants whose stamens are united into two bodies or bundles by their filaments.
diadelphous ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); grouped into two bundles or sets by coalescence of the filaments (said of stamens).
diamide ::: n. --> Any compound containing two amido groups united with one or more acid or negative radicals, -- as distinguished from a diamine. Cf. Amido acid, under Amido, and Acid amide, under Amide.
diamine ::: n. --> A compound containing two amido groups united with one or more basic or positive radicals, -- as contrasted with a diamide.
diazo- ::: --> A combining form (also used adjectively), meaning pertaining to, or derived from, a series of compounds containing a radical of two nitrogen atoms, united usually to an aromatic radical; as, diazo-benzene, C6H5.N2.OH.
dihexagonal ::: a. --> Consisting of two hexagonal parts united; thus, a dihexagonal pyramid is composed of two hexagonal pyramids placed base to base.
Having twelve similar faces; as, a dihexagonal prism.
dime ::: n. --> A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar.
diodon ::: n. --> A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs.
A genus of whales.
diphenyl ::: n. --> A white crystalline substance, C6H5.C6H5, obtained by leading benzene through a heated iron tube. It consists of two benzene or phenyl radicals united.
diplococcus ::: n. --> A form of micrococcus in which cocci are united in a binary manner. See Micrococcus.
disannex ::: v. t. --> To disunite; to undo or repeal the annexation of.
disassociate ::: v. t. --> To disconnect from things associated; to disunite; to dissociate.
disband ::: v. t. --> To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military service; as, to disband an army.
To divorce. ::: v. i. --> To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or
disunited ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Disunite
disuniter ::: n. --> One who, or that which, disjoins or causes disunion.
disunite ::: v. t. --> To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.
To alienate in spirit; to break the concord of. ::: v. i. --> To part; to fall asunder; to become separated.
discerptive ::: a. --> Tending to separate or disunite parts.
discerp ::: v. t. --> To tear in pieces; to rend.
To separate; to disunite.
disconnect ::: v. t. --> To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse.
disjoint ::: a. --> Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. ::: v. t. --> Difficult situation; dilemma; strait.
To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl
disjoin ::: v. t. --> To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder. ::: v. i. --> To become separated; to part.
dislink ::: v. t. --> To unlink; to disunite; to separate.
dissever ::: v. t. --> To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. ::: v. i. --> To part; to separate.
dissociate ::: v. t. --> To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.
dissoluble ::: a. --> Capable of being dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid.
Capable of being disunited.
dissolve ::: v. t. --> To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament.
To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften.
distinct ::: a. --> Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified.
Marked; variegated.
Separate in place; not conjunct; not united by growth or otherwise; -- with from.
Not identical; different; individual.
So separated as not to be confounded with any other thing; not liable to be misunderstood; not confused; well-defined;
disunionist ::: n. --> An advocate of disunion, specifically, of disunion of the United States.
disunion ::: n. --> The termination of union; separation; disjunction; as, the disunion of the body and the soul.
A breach of concord and its effect; alienation.
The termination or disruption of the union of the States forming the United States.
disuniting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Disunite
divided ::: 1. Separated; separate. 2. Disunited. 3. Being in a state of disagreement or disunity.
divided ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Divide ::: a. --> Parted; disunited; distributed.
Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; -- said of a leaf.
divorce ::: n. --> A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii.
The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband -- divorce a mensa et toro (/ thoro), "from bed board."
The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.
Separation; disunion of things closely united.
That which separates.
dixie ::: n. --> A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War.
dollardee ::: n. --> A species of sunfish (Lepomis pallidus), common in the United States; -- called also blue sunfish, and copper-nosed bream.
dollar ::: n. --> A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains.
A gold coin of the United States containing 23.22 grains of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. It is no longer coined.
A coin of the same general weight and value, though differing slightly in different countries, current in Mexico, Canada,
domine ::: n. --> A name given to a pastor of the Reformed Church. The word is also applied locally in the United States, in colloquial speech, to any clergyman.
A West Indian fish (Epinula magistralis), of the family Trichiuridae. It is a long-bodied, voracious fish.
dominican ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to St. Dominic (Dominic de Guzman), or to the religions communities named from him. ::: n. --> One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The
doob grass ::: --> A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States.
drawrod ::: n. --> A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.
dress coat ::: --> A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.
duumvir ::: n. --> One of two Roman officers or magistrates united in the same public functions.
echinoidea ::: n. pl. --> The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid.
embody ::: v. t. --> To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one&
emulsion ::: n. --> Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.
enjoin ::: v. t. --> To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.
To join or unite.
enter ::: v. t. --> To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea.
To unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army.
To engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade, etc.
epiphyllum ::: n. --> A genus of cactaceous plants having flattened, jointed stems, and petals united in a tube. The flowers are very showy, and several species are in cultivation.
ester ::: n. --> An ethereal salt, or compound ether, consisting of an organic radical united with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic or inorganic; thus the natural fats are esters of glycerin and the fatty acids, oleic, etc.
fabric ::: n. --> The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.
That which is fabricated
Framework; structure; edifice; building.
Cloth of any kind that is woven or knit from fibers, either vegetable or animal; manufactured cloth; as, silks or other fabrics.
The act of constructing; construction.
fahlunite ::: n. --> A hydration of iolite.
fallfish ::: n. --> A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); -- called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.
familistery ::: n. --> A community in which many persons unite as in one family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs.
farthing ::: n. --> The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency.
A very small quantity or value.
A division of land.
fasten ::: a. --> To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.
To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts.
To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on;
fastigiated ::: a. --> Narrowing towards the top.
Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed.
United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.
fay ::: n. --> A fairy; an elf.
Faith; as, by my fay. ::: v. t. --> To fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit together.
federal ::: a. --> Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually governments or their representatives.
Composed of states or districts which retain only a subordinate and limited sovereignty, as the Union of the United States, or the Sonderbund of Switzerland.
Consisting or pertaining to such a government; as, the
federalist ::: n. --> An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.
federalize ::: v. t. --> To unite in compact, as different States; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the Federal Constitution.
federate ::: a. --> United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations.
ferruminate ::: v. t. --> To solder or unite, as metals.
figeater ::: n. --> A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale borders.
A bird. See Figpecker.
five-twenties ::: n. pl. --> Five-twenty bonds of the United States (bearing six per cent interest), issued in 1862, &
foraminifera ::: n. pl. --> An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda.
forehook ::: n. --> A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.
forest ::: n. --> An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.
A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own.
freemason ::: n. --> One of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance.
friendship ::: n. --> The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will.
Kindly aid; help; assistance,
Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence.
furculum ::: n. --> The wishbone or merrythought of birds, formed by the united clavicles.
fuse ::: to become mixed or united by or as if by melting together. fusing.
fuse ::: v. t. --> To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.
To unite or blend, as if melted together. ::: v. i. --> To be reduced from a solid to a Quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.
To be blended, as if melted together.
gamopetalous ::: a. --> Having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup; monopetalous.
gamophyllous ::: a. --> Composed of leaves united by their edges (coalescent).
gamosepalous ::: a. --> Formed of united sepals; monosepalous.
ganoidei ::: n. pl. --> One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales.
gecko ::: n. --> Any lizard of the family Geckonidae. The geckoes are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and vertical, elliptical pupils. Their toes are generally expanded, and furnished with adhesive disks, by which they can run over walls and ceilings. They are numerous in warm countries, and a few species are found in Europe and the United States. See Wall gecko, Fanfoot.
gee ::: v. i. --> To agree; to harmonize.
To turn to the off side, or from the driver (i.e., in the United States, to the right side); -- said of cattle, or a team; used most frequently in the imperative, often with off, by drivers of oxen, in directing their teams, and opposed to haw, or hoi. ::: v. t.
gelsemium ::: n. --> A genus of climbing plants. The yellow (false) jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens) is a native of the Southern United States. It has showy and deliciously fragrant flowers.
The root of the yellow jasmine, used in malarial fevers, etc.
georgian ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Georgia, in Asia, or to Georgia, one of the United States.
Of or relating to the reigns of the four Georges, kings of Great Britan; as, the Georgian era. ::: n. --> A native of, or dweller in, Georgia.
gin ::: n. --> Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.
A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.
Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys,
glass-snake ::: n. --> A long, footless lizard (Ophiosaurus ventralis), of the Southern United States; -- so called from its fragility, the tail easily breaking into small pieces. It grows to the length of three feet. The name is applied also to similar species found in the Old World.
globulin ::: n. --> An albuminous body, insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute solutions of salt. It is present in the red blood corpuscles united with haematin to form haemoglobin. It is also found in the crystalline lens of the eye, and in blood serum, and is sometimes called crystallin. In the plural the word is applied to a group of proteid substances such as vitellin, myosin, fibrinogen, etc., all insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute salt solutions.
glutinate ::: v. t. --> To unite with glue; to cement; to stick together.
glycocoll ::: n. --> A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, with a sweet taste, formed from hippuric acid by boiling with hydrochloric acid, and present in bile united with cholic acid. It is also formed from gelatin by decomposition with acids. Chemically, it is amido-acetic acid. Called also glycin, and glycocin.
gnome ::: n. --> An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc.
A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.
A small owl (Glaucidium gnoma) of the Western United States.
A brief reflection or maxim.
gonys ::: n. --> The keel or lower outline of a bird&
graft ::: n. --> A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
graft ::: to join or unite closely.
grama grass ::: --> The name of several kinds of pasture grasses found in the Western United States, esp. the Bouteloua oligostachya.
grasshopper ::: n. --> Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididae and Locustidae. The species and genera are very numerous. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in the region beyond the Mississippi. In the Eastern United States the red-legged (Caloptenus femurrubrum and C. atlanis) are closely related species, but their ravages are less important. They are closely related to the migratory locusts of the Old World. See Locust.
graywacke ::: n. --> A conglomerate or grit rock, consisting of rounded pebbles sand firmly united together.
greenback ::: n. --> One of the legal tender notes of the United States; -- first issued in 1862, and having the devices on the back printed with green ink, to prevent alterations and counterfeits.
grocery ::: n. --> The commodities sold by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices, etc.; -- in the United States almost always in the plural form, in this sense.
A retail grocer&
gruyere cheese ::: --> A kind of cheese made at Gruyere, Switzerland. It is a firm cheese containing numerous cells, and is known in the United States as Schweitzerkase.
guidon ::: v. t. --> A small flag or streamer, as that carried by cavalry, which is broad at one end and nearly pointed at the other, or that used to direct the movements of a body of infantry, or to make signals at sea; also, the flag of a guild or fraternity. In the United States service, each company of cavalry has a guidon.
One who carries a flag.
One of a community established at Rome, by Charlemagne, to guide pilgrims to the Holy Land.
gunroom ::: n. --> An apartment on the after end of the lower gun deck of a ship of war, usually occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers, except the captain; -- called wardroom in the United States navy.
gynandria ::: n. pl. --> A class of plants in the Linnaean system, whose stamens grow out of, or are united with, the pistil.
hackberry ::: n. --> A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States.
hall-mark ::: n. --> The official stamp of the Goldsmiths&
haloid ::: a. --> Resembling salt; -- said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides. ::: n. --> A haloid substance.
harddihood ::: n. --> Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence.
harefoot ::: n. --> A long, narrow foot, carried (that is, produced or extending) forward; -- said of dogs.
A tree (Ochroma Laqopus) of the West Indies, having the stamens united somewhat in the form of a hare&
harvest-home ::: n. --> The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest.
The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself.
A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the Church of England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
The opportunity of gathering treasure.
hectostere ::: n. --> A measure of solidity, containing one hundred cubic meters, and equivalent to 3531.66 English or 3531.05 United States cubic feet.
hematin ::: n. --> Hematoxylin.
A bluish black, amorphous substance containing iron and obtained from blood. It exists the red blood corpuscles united with globulin, and the form of hemoglobin or oxyhemoglobin gives to the blood its red color.
hermaphrodite ::: n. --> An individual which has the attributes of both male and female, or which unites in itself the two sexes; an animal or plant having the parts of generation of both sexes, as when a flower contains both the stamens and pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. In some cases reproduction may take place without the union of the distinct individuals. In the animal kingdom true hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. See Illust. in Appendix, under Helminths.
hicksite ::: n. --> A member or follower of the "liberal" party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827.
hitch ::: v. t. --> To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded.
To hit the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter.
hobblebush ::: n. --> A low bush (Viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.
hoop ::: n. --> A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.
A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.
A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies&
hornbeam ::: n. --> A tree of the genus Carpinus (C. Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is C. Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech.
hornsnake ::: n. --> A harmless snake (Farancia abacura), found in the Southern United States. The color is bluish black above, red below.
hospodar ::: n. --> A title borne by the princes or governors of Moldavia and Wallachia before those countries were united as Roumania.
hundredweight ::: n. --> A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short ton, being the legal ton.
husk ::: n. --> The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize.
The supporting frame of a run of millstones. ::: v. t. --> To strip off the external covering or envelope of; as, to
hydride ::: n. --> A compound of the binary type, in which hydrogen is united with some other element.
hydrobromide ::: n. --> A compound of hydrobromic acid with a base; -- distinguished from a bromide, in which only the bromine unites with the base.
hydrochloride ::: n. --> A compound of hydrochloric acid with a base; -- distinguished from a chloride, where only chlorine unites with the base.
hydroxide ::: n. --> A hydrate; a substance containing hydrogen and oxygen, made by combining water with an oxide, and yielding water by elimination. The hydroxides are regarded as compounds of hydroxyl, united usually with basic element or radical; as, calcium hydroxide ethyl hydroxide.
hyphenated ::: a. --> United by hyphens; hyphened; as, a hyphenated or hyphened word.
identify ::: v. t. --> To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider as the same in any relation.
To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property. ::: v. i.
imaum ::: n. --> Among the Mohammedans, a minister or priest who performs the regular service of the mosque.
A Mohammedan prince who, as a successor of Mohammed, unites in his person supreme spiritual and temporal power.
immingle ::: v. t. --> To mingle; to mix; to unite; to blend.
imp ::: n. --> A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft.
An offspring; progeny; child; scion.
A young or inferior devil; a little, malignant spirit; a puny demon; a contemptible evil worker.
Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, -- as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line.
To graft; to insert as a scion.
incanton ::: v. t. --> To unite to, or form into, a canton or separate community.
incarnate ::: a. --> Not in the flesh; spiritual.
Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body.
Flesh-colored; rosy; red. ::: v. t. --> To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest,
incessant ::: a. --> Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing; unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant clamors; incessant pain, etc.
incompacted ::: a. --> Not compact; not having the parts firmly united; not solid; incoherent; loose; discrete.
incorporate ::: a. --> Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as, an incorporate banking association.
Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied. ::: v. t.
incorporated ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Incorporate ::: a. --> United in one body; formed into a corporation; made a legal entity.
indusium ::: n. --> A collection of hairs united so as to form a sort of cup, and inclosing the stigma of a flower.
The immediate covering of the fruit dots or sori in many ferns, usually a very thin scale attached by the middle or side to a veinlet.
A peculiar covering found in certain fungi.
injoint ::: v. t. --> To join; to unite.
To disjoint; to separate.
inleague ::: v. t. --> To ally, or form an alliance witgh; to unite; to combine.
inosculate ::: v. i. --> To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose.
To intercommunicate; to interjoin. ::: v. t. --> To unite by apposition or contact, as two vessels in an animal body.
inseparate ::: a. --> Not separate; together; united.
interchain ::: v. t. --> To link together; to unite closely or firmly, as by a chain.
interjoin ::: v. t. --> To join mutually; to unite.
interknit ::: v. t. --> To knit together; to unite closely; to intertwine.
interlace ::: v. t. & i. --> To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave.
interlock ::: v. i. --> To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly. ::: v. t. --> To unite by locking or linking together; to secure in place by mutual fastening.
intertwined ::: united as if entwined together.
intertwine ::: v. t. --> To unite by twining one with another; to entangle; to interlace. ::: v. i. --> To be twined or twisted together; to become mutually involved or enfolded.
interventor ::: n. --> One who intervenes; a mediator; especially (Eccles. Hist.), a person designated by a church to reconcile parties, and unite them in the choice of officers.
interweave ::: v. t. --> To weave together; to intermix or unite in texture or construction; to intertwine; as, threads of silk and cotton interwoven.
To intermingle; to unite intimately; to connect closely; as, to interweave truth with falsehood.
intrapetiolar ::: a. --> Situated between the petiole and the stem; -- said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning.
isomeric ::: a. --> Having the same percentage composition; -- said of two or more different substances which contain the same ingredients in the same proportions by weight, often used with with. Specif.: (a) Polymeric; i. e., having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, but with different molecular weights; as, acetylene and benzine are isomeric (polymeric) with each other in this sense. See Polymeric. (b) Metameric; i. e., having the same elements united in the same proportions by weight, and with the same molecular
isthmus ::: n. --> A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the Isthmus of Panama; the Isthmus of Suez, etc.
jointly ::: adv. --> In a joint manner; together; unitedly; in concert; not separately.
joint ::: n. --> The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or junction; junction as, a joint between two pieces of timber; a joint in a pipe.
A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion; an articulation, whether movable or not; a hinge; as, the knee joint; a node or joint of a stem; a ball and socket joint. See Articulation.
The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes,
join ::: v. t. --> To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append.
To associate one&
jumble ::: v. t. --> To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up. ::: v. i. --> To meet or unite in a confused way; to mix confusedly. ::: n.
katydid ::: n. --> A large, green, arboreal, orthopterous insect (Cyrtophyllus concavus) of the family Locustidae, common in the United States. The males have stridulating organs at the bases of the front wings. During the summer and autumn, in the evening, the males make a peculiar, loud, shrill sound, resembling the combination Katy-did, whence the name.
kentucky ::: n. --> One of the United States.
ketone ::: n. --> One of a large class of organic substances resembling the aldehydes, obtained by the distillation of certain salts of organic acids and consisting of carbonyl (CO) united with two hydrocarbon radicals. In general the ketones are colorless volatile liquids having a pungent ethereal odor.
kilderkin ::: n. --> A small barrel; an old liquid measure containing eighteen English beer gallons, or nearly twenty-two gallons, United States measure.
kirmess ::: n. --> In Europe, particularly in Belgium and Holland, and outdoor festival and fair; in the United States, generally an indoor entertainment and fair combined.
knitted ::: to join closely; unite securely.
knitter ::: n. --> One who, or that which, knits, joins, or unites; a knitting machine.
know-nothing ::: n. --> A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office.
kuklux ::: n. --> The name adopted in the southern part of the United States by a secret political organization, active for several years after the close of the Civil War, and having for its aim the repression of the political power of the freedmen; -- called also Kuklux Klan.
labium ::: n. --> A lip, or liplike organ.
The lip of an organ pipe.
The folds of integument at the opening of the vulva.
The organ of insects which covers the mouth beneath, and serves as an under lip. It consists of the second pair of maxillae, usually closely