The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yellows \Yel"lows\, n.
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(Far.) A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice.
His horse . . . sped with spavins, rayed with the yellows.
--Shak. (Bot.) A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus.
(Zo["o]l.) A group of butterflies in which the predominating color is yellow. It includes the common small yellow butterflies. Called also redhorns, and sulphurs. See Sulphur.
Reformade \Ref`or*made"\ (r?f`?r*m?d"), n. A reformado. [Obs.]
Fract \Fract\ (fr[a^]kt), v. t. [L. fractus, p. p. of frangere
to break.]
To break; to violate. [Obs.]
--Shak.
bonelet \bonelet\ n. a small bone; especially one in the middle ear.
Syn: ossicle, ossiculum.
Fabricate \Fab"ri*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fabricated; p. pr. & vb. n. Fabricating.] [L. fabricatus, p. p. of fabricari, fabricare, to frame, build, forge, fr. fabrica. See Fabric, Farge.]
To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.
To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens.
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To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story.
Our books were not fabricated with an accomodation to prevailing usages.
--Paley.
papooseroot \papooseroot\, papoose root \papoose root\n. (Bot.) A tall herb ( Caulophyllum thalictroides) of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally; the Cohosh. See also Cohosh.
Syn: blue cohosh, blueberry root, papoose root, squawroot, squaw root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides.
Cohosh \Co"hosh\, n. (Bot.) A perennial American herb ( Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Act[ae]a, plants of the Crowfoot family.
Divertise \Di*vert"ise\, v. t. [F. divertir, p. pr.
divertissant.]
To divert; to entertain. [Obs.]
--Dryden.
Sportule \Spor"tule\ (-t[=u]l), n. [L. sportula a little basket,
a gift, dim. of sporta a basket: cf. F. sportule.]
A charitable gift or contribution; a gift; an alms; a dole; a
largess; a sportula. [Obs.]
--Ayliffe.
Stoor \Stoor\, v. i. [Cf. D. storen to disturb. Cf. Stir.] To rise in clouds, as dust. [Prov. Eng.]
Stoor \Stoor\, Stor \Stor\, a. [AS. st[=o]r; akin to LG. stur, Icel. st[=o]rr.] Strong; powerful; hardy; bold; audacious. [Obs. or Scot.]
O stronge lady stoor, what doest thou?
--Chaucer.
Automaton \Au*tom"a*ton\, n.; pl. L. Automata, E. Automatons. [L. fr. Gr. ?, neut. of ? self-moving; ? self + a root ma, man, to strive, think, cf. ? to strive. See Mean, v. i.]
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Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action.
--Huxley.So great and admirable an automaton as the world.
--Boyle.These living automata, human bodies.
--Boyle. A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.
Printing out \Printing out\ (Photog.) A method of printing, in which the image is fully brought out by the direct actinic action of light without subsequent development by means of chemicals.
Peccantly \Pec"cant*ly\, adv. In a peccant manner.
Wiktionary
n. (blue mussel English)
n. 1 (plural of yellow English) 2 (context archaic English) A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes. 3 (context archaic English) A disease of plants, especially peach trees, in which the leaf turn a yellowish colour. vb. (en-third-person singular of: yellow)
a. (alternative form of clusterized English)
n. (plural of adoptability English)
vb. (en-simple past of: go to bed)
n. (diving mask English)
n. (context obsolete English) A reformado.
a. cryptanalytic
n. (plural of planeful English)
a. energetic; pushy. (from 19th c.)
vb. (context obsolete English) To break; to violate.
n. (plural of puerperal fever English)
n. (leading rein English)
n. (context chiefly Internet slang English) An intimidatingly large block of writing, particularly one with few or no paragraph breaks.
n. Any of the wasps of the subfamily Polistinae.
n. (plural of phytoreovirus English)
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build. 2 (context transitive English) To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce. 3 (context transitive English) To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely. 4 (context transitive cooking English) To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to fowl.
n. (context slang derogatory English) A cigarette.
vb. (context obsolete transitive English) To divert; to entertain.
a. (alternative spelling of alveolopalatal English)
n. (context obsolete English) A charitable gift or contribution; alms; a sportula.
Etymology 1 alt. 1 (context intransitive UK dialectal English) To move; stir. 2 (context intransitive UK dialectal English) To move actively; keep stirring. 3 (context intransitive UK dialectal English) To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc. 4 (context transitive UK dialectal English) To stir up, as liquor. 5 (context transitive UK dialectal English) To pour; pour leisurely out of any vessel held high. 6 (context transitive UK dialectal English) To sprinkle. n. 1 (context UK dialectal English) Stir; bustle; agitation; contention. 2 (context UK dialectal English) A gush of water. 3 (context UK dialectal English) spray. 4 (context UK dialectal English) A sufficient quanity of yeast for brewing. vb. 1 (context intransitive UK dialectal English) To move; stir. 2 (context intransitive UK dialectal English) To move actively; keep stirring. 3 (context intransitive UK dialectal English) To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc. 4 (context transitive UK dialectal English) To stir up, as liquor. 5 (context transitive UK dialectal English) To pour; pour leisurely out of any vessel held high. 6 (context transitive UK dialectal English) To sprinkle. Etymology 2
(alternative form of stour English)
vb. (en-pastfeed out of)
n. (plural of climatography English)
vb. (context transitive English) to make more shiny, attractive or elegant.
n. (plural of vergeboard English)
a. Not semisimple.
n. (plural of abortus English)
vb. 1 To vacate one's place of residence or employment. 2 To leave one's present location.
adv. In a peccant manner.
Usage examples of "peccantly".
If he refuses to return and abjure his heresy and give fitting satisfaction, he is delivered to the secular Court to be punished.
I for one think it behooves us to find a more fitting way to salute Rome and Romulus than acrimonious and ill-mannered meetings of the Senate.
Making the trip down ten flights would be the ultimate way to flip off her agoraphobia, a fitting cap to her week of desensitization and self-improvement.
I hastened to the aperture, and under the crustations of coral, covered with fungi, syphonules, alcyons, madrepores, through myriads of charming fish--girelles, glyphisidri, pompherides, diacopes, and holocentres--I recognised certain debris that the drags had not been able to tear up--iron stirrups, anchors, cannons, bullets, capstan fittings, the stem of a ship, all objects clearly proving the wreck of some vessel, and now carpeted with living flowers.
By it I request my very reverend archbishop in Christ, the father of the metropolitan church of the city of Manila, and charge the venerable and devout fathers-provincial and other superiors of all the orders in the territory of his archbishopric, to note that they are to inform my governor of the said islands whenever such cases shall occur to the prejudice of my treasury, and that the culprits be punished as is fitting.
Ingersoll, removed the prejudices that many persons formerly had against Socialism on account of the atheistic teachings of its leaders, it seems but fitting to give a short refutation of the deceptive argument and to point out the absurdity of the comparison just mentioned.
Extreme priority will be given to fitting out ships to catapult or otherwise launch fighter aircraft against bombers attacking our shipping.
It had been assembled twenty-five years previously when the first colonists arrived, and its austere fittings were showing their age.
They were the usual wireless fitments, bakelite knobs fitting snugly to the steel shafts that projected from the front panel.
Further, if others were baptized with that baptism, this was only in order that they might be prepared for the baptism of Christ: and thus it would seem fitting that the baptism of John should be conferred on all, old and young, Gentile and Jew, just as the baptism of Christ.
Much less fitting, therefore, was it for the Gentiles to be baptized by John.
It was not fitting that Christ should be baptized by John either before or after all others.
Therefore it was not fitting that Christ should be baptized in the Jordan.
Therefore it was fitting that Christ should be baptized in the Jordan.
And therefore it was fitting that Christ should be baptized in the Jordan rather than in the sea.