What is "silently"

Choler \Chol"er\, n. [OE. coler, F. col[`e]re anger, L. cholera a bilious complaint, fr. Gr. ? cholera, fr. ?, ?, bile. See Gall, and cf. Cholera.]

1. The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility. [Obs.]

   His [Richard Hooker's] complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow.
   --I. Warton.

2. Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath.

   He is rash and very sudden in choler.
   --Shak.

Male \Male\, a. [F. m[^a]le, OF. masle, mascle, fr. L. masculus male, masculine, dim. of mas a male; possibly akin to E. man. Cf. Masculine, Marry, v. t.]

1. Of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs.

2. (Bot.) Capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; -- said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them.

3. Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage.

4. Consisting of males; as, a male choir.

5. (Mech.) Adapted for entering another corresponding piece (the female piece) which is hollow and which it fits; as, a male gauge, for gauging the size or shape of a hole; a male screw, etc.

   Male fern (Bot.), a fern of the genus Aspidium ( Aspidium Filixmas), used in medicine as an anthelmintic, esp. against the tapeworm. Aspidium marginale in America, and Aspidium athamanticum in South Africa, are used as good substitutes for the male fern in medical practice. See Female fern, under Female.

   Male rhyme, a rhyme in which only the last syllables agree, as laid, afraid, dismayed. See Female rhyme, under Female.

   Male screw (Mech.), a screw having threads upon its exterior which enter the grooves upon the inside of a corresponding nut or female screw.

   Male thread, the thread of a male screw.

Male \Male\, n.

1. An animal of the male sex.

2. (Bot.) A plant bearing only staminate flowers.

Male \Male\ (m[=a]l), a. [L. malus. See Malice.] Evil; wicked; bad. [Obs.]
--Marston.

Male \Male\, n. Same as Mail, a bag. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

Monochromic \Mon`o*chro"mic\, a. Made, or done, with a single color; as, a monochromic picture. Called also, monochromatic and monochrome.

black-and-white \black-and-white\, black and white \black and white\adj. (Photography, Imaging; Printing) depicted only in black and white colors, or in shades of gray; also called monochromatic and monochrome; -- of images. Opposite of color or in color, and contrasting with polychrome technicolor three-color; as, a black-and-white TV; black-and-white film; the movie ``Schindler's List'' was shot in black and white.

Syn: black and white, monochromatic, monochrome.

Dice \Dice\ (d[imac]s), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Diced (d[imac]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Dicing.] To play games with dice.

I . . . diced not above seven times a week.
--Shak.

Dice \Dice\ (d[imac]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diced (d[imac]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Dicing.]

1. (Cooking) To cut into small cubes; as, to slice and dice carrots.

2. To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.

Dice \Dice\ (d[imac]s), n.; pl. of Die. Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n.

Dice coal, a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments.
--Brande & C.

Die \Die\, n.; pl. in 1 and (usually) in 2, Dice (d[=i]s); in 4 & 5, Dies (d[=i]z). [OE. dee, die, F. d['e], fr. L. datus given, thrown, p. p. of dare to give, throw. See Date a point of time.]

1. A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.

2. Any small cubical or square body.

   Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies.
   --Watts.

3. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.

   Such is the die of war.
   --Spenser.

4. (Arch.) That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.

5. (Mach.)

   1. A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc.

   2. A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.

   3. A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool.

      Cutting die (Mech.), a thin, deep steel frame, sharpened to a cutting edge, for cutting out articles from leather, cloth, paper, etc.

      The die is cast, the hazard must be run; the step is taken, and it is too late to draw back; the last chance is taken.

Resilition \Res`i*li"tion\ (r?z`?-l?sh"?n), n. Resilience. [R.]

pathology \pa*thol"o*gy\ (-j[y^]), n.; pl. pathologies (-j[i^]z). [Gr. pa`qos a suffering, disease + -logy: cf. F. pathologie.]

1. (Med.) The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.

   Note: Pathology is general or special, according as it treats of disease or morbid processes in general, or of particular diseases; it is also subdivided into internal and external, or medical and surgical pathology. Its departments are nosology, [ae]tiology, morbid anatomy, symptomatology, and therapeutics, which treat respectively of the classification, causation, organic changes, symptoms, and cure of diseases.

2. (Med.) The condition of an organ, tissue, or fluid produced by disease.

   Celluar pathology, a theory that gives prominence to the vital action of cells in the healthy and diseased function of the body.
   --Virchow.

Love \Love\ (l[u^]v), n. [OE. love, luve, AS. lufe, lufu; akin to E. lief, believe, L. lubet, libet, it pleases, Skr. lubh to be lustful. See Lief.]

1. A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; pre["e]minent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.

   Of all the dearest bonds we prove Thou countest sons' and mothers' love Most sacred, most Thine own.
   --Keble.

2. Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.

   He on his side Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamored.
   --Milton.

3. Courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.

   Demetrius . . . Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena, And won her soul.
   --Shak.

4. Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to hate; often with of and an object.

   Love, and health to all.
   --Shak.

   Smit with the love of sacred song.
   --Milton.

   The love of science faintly warmed his breast.
   --Fenton.

5. Due gratitude and reverence to God.

   Keep yourselves in the love of God.
   --Jude 21.

6. The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing address; as, he held his love in his arms; his greatest love was reading. ``Trust me, love.''
   --Dryden.

   Open the temple gates unto my love.
   --Spenser.

7. Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.

   Such was his form as painters, when they show Their utmost art, on naked Lores bestow.
   --Dryden.

   Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love.
   --Shak.

8. A thin silk stuff. [Obs.]
   --Boyle.

9. (Bot.) A climbing species of C lematis ( Clematis Vitalba).

10. Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc.

    He won the match by three sets to love.
    --The Field.

11. Sexual intercourse; -- a euphemism. Note: Love is often used in the formation of compounds, in most of which the meaning is very obvious; as, love-cracked, love-darting, love-killing, love-linked, love-taught, etc. A labor of love, a labor undertaken on account of regard for some person, or through pleasure in the work itself, without expectation of reward. Free love, the doctrine or practice of consorting with one of the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage. See Free love. Free lover, one who avows or practices free love. In love, in the act of loving; -- said esp. of the love of the sexes; as, to be in love; to fall in love. Love apple (Bot.), the tomato. Love bird (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of small, short-tailed parrots, or parrakeets, of the genus Agapornis, and allied genera. They are mostly from Africa. Some species are often kept as cage birds, and are celebrated for the affection which they show for their mates. Love broker, a person who for pay acts as agent between lovers, or as a go-between in a sexual intrigue. --Shak. Love charm, a charm for exciting love. --Ld. Lytton. Love child. an illegitimate child. --Jane Austen. Love day, a day formerly appointed for an amicable adjustment of differences. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. --Chaucer. Love drink, a love potion; a philter. --Chaucer. Love favor, something given to be worn in token of love. Love feast, a religious festival, held quarterly by some religious denominations, as the Moravians and Methodists, in imitation of the agap[ae] of the early Christians. Love feat, the gallant act of a lover. --Shak. Love game, a game, as in tennis, in which the vanquished person or party does not score a point. Love grass. [G. liebesgras.] (Bot.) Any grass of the genus Eragrostis. Love-in-a-mist. (Bot.)

    1. An herb of the Buttercup family ( Nigella Damascena) having the flowers hidden in a maze of finely cut bracts.

    2. The West Indian Passiflora f[oe]tida, which has similar bracts.

       Love-in-idleness (Bot.), a kind of violet; the small pansy.

       A little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound; And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
       --Shak.

       Love juice, juice of a plant supposed to produce love.
       --Shak.

       Love knot, a knot or bow, as of ribbon; -- so called from being used as a token of love, or as a pledge of mutual affection.
       --Milman.

       Love lass, a sweetheart.

       Love letter, a letter of courtship.
       --Shak.

       Love-lies-bleeding (Bot.), a species of amaranth ( Amarantus melancholicus).

       Love match, a marriage brought about by love alone.

       Love potion, a compounded draught intended to excite love, or venereal desire.

       Love rites, sexual intercourse.
       --Pope

       Love scene, an exhibition of love, as between lovers on the stage.

       Love suit, courtship.
       --Shak.

       Of all loves, for the sake of all love; by all means. [Obs.] ``Mrs. Arden desired him of all loves to come back again.''
       --Holinshed.

       The god of love, or The Love god, Cupid.

       To make love, to engage in sexual intercourse; -- a euphemism.

       To make love to, to express affection for; to woo. ``If you will marry, make your loves to me.''
       --Shak.

       To play for love, to play a game, as at cards, without stakes. ``A game at piquet for love.''
       --Lamb.

       Syn: Affection; friendship; kindness; tenderness; fondness; delight.

Cacodoxy \Cac"o*dox`y\, n. [Gr. ????????? perverted opinion; kako`s bad + ????? opinion.] Erroneous doctrine; heresy; heterodoxy. [R.]

Heterodoxy, or what Luther calls cacodoxy.
--R. Turnbull.

Provexity \Pro*vex"i*ty\, n. [L. provehere to advance. Cf. Provect.] Great advance in age. [Obs.]

Owch \Owch\ (ouch), n. See Ouch. [Obs.]
--Speser.

Silently \Si"lent*ly\, adv. In a silent manner.

late 14c., "bile," as one of the humors, supposed to cause irascibility or temper, from Old French colere "bile, anger," from Late Latin cholera "bile" (see cholera).

late 14c., "male human being; male fish or land animal," from Old French masle (adj.) "masculine, male, adult," also used as a noun (12c., Modern French mâle), from Latin masculus "masculine, male, worthy of a man" (source also of Provençal mascle, Spanish macho, Italian maschio), diminutive of mas (genitive maris) "male person or animal, male."

late 14c., from Old French male, masle "male, masculine; a male" (see male (n.)). Mechanical sense of "part of an instrument that penetrates another part" is from 1660s.

1807, from mono- + chromatic, or from monochrome + -atic. Related: Monochromatically (1784).

early 14c., des, dys, plural of dy (see die (n.)), altered 14c. to dyse, dyce, and 15c. to dice. "As in pence, the plural s retains its original breath sound, probably because these words were not felt as ordinary plurals, but as collective words" [OED]. Sometimes used as singular 1400-1700.

"to cut into cubes," late 14c., from dice (n.). Meaning "to play at dice" is from early 15c. Related: Diced; dicing.

1560s, from silent (adj.) + -ly (2).

n. 1 anger or irritability. 2 One of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/four%20humours of ancient physiology, also known as yellow bile.

a. 1 Belonging to the sex which typically has testis, which in humans and most other mammals is typically the one which has XY chromosomes. (from 14th c.) 2 Belonging to the masculine (social) gender. 3 Pertaining to or associated with men, or male animals; masculine. (from 16th c.) 4 (context biology English) Inherently characteristic of the male of a species. (from 17th c.) 5 (context grammar less common than 'masculine' English) masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender. 6 (context figuratively English) Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a "female" counterpart, as in a connector or pipe fitting. (from 16th c.) n. 1 One of the male (masculine) sex or gender. 2 # A human member of the masculine sex or gender. 3 # An animal of the sex that has testes. 4 # A plant of the masculine sex.

alt. 1 (&lit white man English) 2 A Caucasian man; a European. 3 White people collectively; White culture. n. 1 (&lit white man English) 2 A Caucasian man; a European. 3 White people collectively; White culture.

a. 1 Having only one color, represented by differing hues and tints. For example shades in a black and white television. 2 perceptive of only one color; unable to distinguish colors; total color blindness. 3 (context figuratively English) plain, dull, lifeless.

n. 1 (plural of die English) 2 (context uncountable English) Gaming with one or more dice. 3 (context countable proscribed by some; standard in British English English) A die#Noun. 4 (context uncountable formerly countable cooking English) That which has been diced. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To play dice. 2 (context transitive English) To cut into small cubes. 3 (context transitive English) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.

n. resilience

n. (plural of confectioneress English)

a. (obsolete form of saucy English)

n. (context medicine English) The treatment of disease; the science of healing.

n. (context rare English) (alternative spelling of doodad English)

adv. Following or occurring after a consonant

n. A brand, usually for multiple products and usually unadvertised, for products only sold at a particular group of retail outlets.

n. Incorrect doctrine or opinions.

n. (context pathology English) inflammation of the tonsils and adenoids.

n. (plural of tubularian English)

n. cardamom bread (sweet, leavened baked good made of wheat and flavored with crushed cardamom, resembling very soft bread in consistency, eaten in Finland)

a. 1 (context idiomatic English) Having suffered net losses; in debt. 2 (context stud poker English) Of a card ("the hole card") which is dealt face down and thus unknown to all but its holder; hence (context idiomatic English) in reserve; in particular ace in the hole.

n. (obsolete form of ouch English) (a jewel)

adv. In a silent manner; making no noise.

1. n. an irritable petulant feeling [syn: irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance]

2. a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance [syn: anger, ire]

3. a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger [syn: yellow bile]

1. adj. being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation; "a male infant"; "a male holly tree" [ant: female, androgynous]

2. for or composed of men or boys; "the male lead"; "masculine attire"

3. characteristic of a man; "a deep male voice"; "manly sports" [syn: manful, manlike, manly, virile]

1. n. an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova) [ant: female]

2. a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies [syn: male person] [ant: female]

3. the capital of Maldives in the center of the islands

n. a man who is White

1. adj. of or relating to monochromatism

2. (of light or other electromagnetic radiation) having only one wavelength; "monochromatic light" [syn: homochromatic] [ant: polychromatic]

3. having or appearing to have only one color [syn: monochrome, monochromic, monochromous]

1. v. cut into cubes; "cube the cheese" [syn: cube]

2. play dice

n. small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces; used to generate random numbers [syn: die]

v. make a satisfactory profit; "The company turned a nice dime after a short time" [syn: turn a nice penny, turn a nice dollar]

n. branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of disease

n. found in western North American grasslands and open woodlands [syn: Eumeces skiltonianus]

adv. without speaking; "he sat mutely next to her" [syn: mutely, wordlessly, taciturnly]