The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peristaltic \Per`i*stal"tic\, a. [Gr. ? clasping and compressing, fr. ? to surround, wrap up; ? round + ? to place, arrange: cf. F. p['e]ristaltique.] (Physiol.) Applied to the peculiar wormlike wave motion of the intestines and other similar structures, produced by the successive contraction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their contents onwards; as, peristaltic movement. -- Per`i*stal"tic*al*ly, adv.
Quintet \Quin*tet"\, Quintette \Quin*tette"\, n. [It. quintetto, dim. of quinto the fifth, a fifth part, from L. quintus the fifth: cf. F. quintette. See Quint.] (Mus.) A composition for five voices or instruments; also, the set of five persons who sing or play five-part music.
Ommateum \Om`ma*te"um\, n.; pl. Ommatea. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, ?, the eye.] (Zo["o]l.) A compound eye, as of insects and crustaceans.
Requisite \Req"ui*site\, a. [L. requisitus, p. p. requirere; pref. re- re- + quaerere to ask. See Require.] Required by the nature of things, or by circumstances; so needful that it can not be dispensed with; necessary; indispensable.
All truth requisite for men to know.
--Milton.
Syn: Necessary; needful; indispensable; essential. [1913 Webster] -- Req"ui*site*ly, adv. -- Req"ui*site*ness, n.
Anim'e \A"ni*m['e]`\, a. [F., animated.] (Her.)
Of a different tincture from the animal itself; -- said of
the eyes of a rapacious animal.
--Brande & C.
[1913 Webster] ||
Anim'e \A"ni*m['e]\, n. [F. anim['e] animated (from the insects
that are entrapped in it); or native name.]
A resin exuding from a tropical American tree ( Hymen[ae]a
courbaril), and much used by varnish makers.
--Ure.
Leadman \Lead"man\, n.; pl. Leadmen.
One who leads a dance. [Obs.]
--B. Jonson.
Pine \Pine\, n. [AS. p[=i]n, L. pinus.]
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(Bot.) Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus. See Pinus.
Note: There are about twenty-eight species in the United States, of which the white pine ( Pinus Strobus), the Georgia pine ( Pinus australis), the red pine ( Pinus resinosa), and the great West Coast sugar pine ( Pinus Lambertiana) are among the most valuable. The Scotch pine or fir, also called Norway or Riga pine ( Pinus sylvestris), is the only British species. The nut pine is any pine tree, or species of pine, which bears large edible seeds. See Pinon. [1913 Webster] The spruces, firs, larches, and true cedars, though formerly considered pines, are now commonly assigned to other genera.
The wood of the pine tree.
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A pineapple. Ground pine. (Bot.) See under Ground. Norfolk Island pine (Bot.), a beautiful coniferous tree, the Araucaria excelsa. Pine barren, a tract of infertile land which is covered with pines. [Southern U.S.] Pine borer (Zo["o]l.), any beetle whose larv[ae] bore into pine trees. Pine finch. (Zo["o]l.) See Pinefinch, in the Vocabulary. Pine grosbeak (Zo["o]l.), a large grosbeak ( Pinicola enucleator), which inhabits the northern parts of both hemispheres. The adult male is more or less tinged with red. Pine lizard (Zo["o]l.), a small, very active, mottled gray lizard ( Sceloporus undulatus), native of the Middle States; -- called also swift, brown scorpion, and alligator. Pine marten. (Zo["o]l.)
A European weasel ( Mustela martes), called also sweet marten, and yellow-breasted marten.
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The American sable. See Sable.
Pine moth (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of small tortricid moths of the genus Retinia, whose larv[ae] burrow in the ends of the branchlets of pine trees, often doing great damage.
Pine mouse (Zo["o]l.), an American wild mouse ( Arvicola pinetorum), native of the Middle States. It lives in pine forests.
Pine needle (Bot.), one of the slender needle-shaped leaves of a pine tree. See Pinus.
Pine-needle wool. See Pine wool (below).
Pine oil, an oil resembling turpentine, obtained from fir and pine trees, and used in making varnishes and colors.
Pine snake (Zo["o]l.), a large harmless North American snake ( Pituophis melanoleucus). It is whitish, covered with brown blotches having black margins. Called also bull snake. The Western pine snake ( Pituophis Sayi) is chestnut-brown, mottled with black and orange.
Pine tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Pinus; pine.
Pine-tree money, money coined in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, and so called from its bearing a figure of a pine tree. The most noted variety is the pine tree shilling.
Pine weevil (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of weevils whose larv[ae] bore in the wood of pine trees. Several species are known in both Europe and America, belonging to the genera Pissodes, Hylobius, etc.
Pine wool, a fiber obtained from pine needles by steaming them. It is prepared on a large scale in some of the Southern United States, and has many uses in the economic arts; -- called also pine-needle wool, and pine-wood wool.
Seawife \Sea"wife`\, n.; pl. Seawives. (Zo["o]l.) A European wrasse ( Labrus vetula).
Foehn \Foehn\, n. [G. dial. (Swiss), fr. L. Favonius west wind. Cf. Favonian.] (Meteor.)
A warm dry wind that often blows in the northern valleys of the Alps, due to the indraught of a storm center passing over Central Europe. The wind, heated by compression in its descent from the mountains, reaches the base, particularly in winter, dry and warm.
Any similar wind, as the chinook, in other parts of the world.
Augustinian \Au`gus*tin"i*an\,
Of or pertaining to St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo in Northern Africa (
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354 -- d. 430), or to his doctrines.
Augustinian canons, an order of monks once popular in England and Ireland; -- called also regular canons of St. Austin, and black canons.
Augustinian hermits or Austin friars, an order of friars established in 1265 by Pope Alexander IV. It was introduced into the United States from Ireland in 1790.
Augustinian nuns, an order of nuns following the rule of St. Augustine.
Augustinian rule, a rule for religious communities based upon the 109th letter of St. Augustine, and adopted by the Augustinian orders.
canon \can"on\ (k[a^]n"[u^]n), n. [OE. canon, canoun, AS. canon rule (cf. F. canon, LL. canon, and, for sense 7, F. chanoine, LL. canonicus), fr. L. canon a measuring line, rule, model, fr. Gr. kanw`n rule, rod, fr. ka`nh, ka`nnh, reed. See Cane, and cf. Canonical.]
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A law or rule.
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter.
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(Eccl.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority.
Various canons which were made in councils held in the second centry.
--Hook. The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a.
In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
(Mus.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.
(Print.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.
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The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.
Note: [See Illust. of Bell.]
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(Billiards) See Carom.
Apostolical canons. See under Apostolical.
Augustinian canons, Black canons. See under Augustinian.
Canon capitular, Canon residentiary, a resident member of a cathedral chapter (during a part or the whole of the year).
Canon law. See under Law.
Canon of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), that part of the mass, following the Sanctus, which never changes.
Honorary canon, a canon[6] who neither lived in a monastery, nor kept the canonical hours.
Minor canon (Ch. of Eng.), one who has been admitted to a chapter, but has not yet received a prebend.
Regular canon (R. C. Ch.), one who lived in a conventual community and followed the rule of St. Austin; a Black canon.
Secular canon (R. C. Ch.), one who did not live in a monastery, but kept the hours. [1913 Webster] ||
Conferrable \Con*fer"ra*ble\a. Capable of being conferred.
Wiktionary
n. A blenny fish, (taxlink Obliquichthys maryannae species)
n. (roof tile English)
n. alternative form of quarter-final
n. (context informal English) An aristocrat
n. (context zoology English) Any member of the Mastigoteuthidae.
n. (plural of triyne English)
n. (plural of buzzsaw English)
a. Of, or pertaining to peristalsis. alt. Of, or pertaining to peristalsis.
a. Intermediate in size, weight, etc. between fixed and portable.
n. (context zoology English) Any member of the Labiduridae.
a. Outside the gonads.
n. 1 (context music English) A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians) 2 (context music English) A group of five musicians, fit to play such a piece of music together 3 Any group of five members
n. (plural of loxodont English)
n. (plural of counterpane English)
n. (context zoology English) A compound eye, as of insects and crustaceans.
n. (plural of microprojectile English)
adv. In a requisite way; necessarily.
a. Describing the part of a sea that lies over a continental shelf
vb. 1 (context video games of a collected item, weapon or other pickup English) To reappear at its spawn point. 2 (context video games of a character English) To re-enter play after being killed.
a. 1 of, or relating to a microaerophile 2 living and thriving in an environment low in oxygen
vb. (context rare English) = (l en straighten)
n. pasteurization of a surface by exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation.
n. (context chiefly British English) a newspaper supplement or edition concerning sport, especially football; printed on pink newsprint
n. (plural of leadman English)
n. (taxlink Pinus lambertiana species noshow=1), the largest species of pine, native to California and Oregon; particularly noted for its huge, distinctive cone.
n. (plural of yarwip English)
n. The North American pine (taxlink Pinus albicaulis species noshow=1), found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.
n. 1 A warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in Switzerland. 2 (context meteorology English) A similar katabatic wind developing on the lee side of a mountain.
init. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Overseas%20Airways%20Corporation
a. Capable of being conferred
Usage examples of "conferrable".
The three of us went first to check on the pool, and found it gratifying abrim with repulsive brown water, wide and deep enough to have submerged our truck.
The tolling of a distant clock absently spoke the midnight hour, but Cassandra was wide awake as she dreamed, consumed by better days.
The enlarged flyby surveillance photograph hanging on the wall showed in grainy black and white the cabin and its grounds, including the wide, elevated back porch on which Glenn Abies could be seen standing, small but unmistakable, giving the helicopter the finger.
This is a common way for adventuresses to look upon their daughters, and Therese was an adventuress in the widest acceptation of the term.
Almost two years ago he had upped and left Acme, Texas, to go out into the wide open world, only to find his own shrunk down to the confining cockpit of a B-17 bomber.
A single adamantine bridge, a narrow slab of metal without guardrails and wide enough for only two or three men abreast, spanned the moat.
Their substitutes for adaptability can sustain them only in the limited enclaves of civilization, not in the wide open spaces of the desert, or in the terrifying futures Paul opens himself to in his visions.
He was thinking of something so widely different, being seated, in fact, just opposite to Sara, who, fresh from her afternoon sleep, was looking adorably pensive in her black dress edged with a soft white frill that took a heart-shaped curve in front, just wide enough to show the exquisite hollow in the lower part of her throat.
This material was another strictly non-Mesklinite product, a piece of molecular architecture vaguely analogous to zeolite in structure, which adsorbed hydrogen on the inner walls of its structural channels and, within a wide temperature range, maintained an equilibrium partial pressure with the gas which was compatible with Mesklinite metabolic needs.
Frederiksen was tall, 185 centimeters, slender save for wide shoulders and the Aenean depth of chest.
The torrent of that wide and raging river Is passed, and our aereal speed suspended.
Prince was negotiating with Washington, while his detached scouts sought far and wide over the Eastern States looking for anything resembling an aeronautic park.
Plague can be grown easily in a wide range of temperatures and media, and we eventually developed a plague weapon capable of surviving in an aerosol while maintaining its killing capacity.
Pakistan has been producing and testing, on an experimental basis, a wide range of odd drugs, both amphetamines and narcotics, in pill, liquid, and aerosol form.
Had scarce burst forth, when from afar The ministers of misrule sent, Seized upon Lionel, and bore His chained limbs to a dreary tower, In the midst of a city vast and wide.