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Syrt \Syrt\, n. [L. syrtis a sand bank in the sea, Gr. ?: cf. F. syrte.] A quicksand; a bog. [R.]
--Young.

Allocatur \Al`lo*ca"tur\, n. [LL., it is allowed, fr. allocare to allow.] (Law) ``Allowed.'' The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.

Metacetone \Me*tac"e*tone\, n. [Pref. met- + acetone.] (Chem.) A colorless liquid of an agreeable odor, C6H10O, obtained by distilling a mixture of sugar and lime; -- so called because formerly regarded as a polymeric modification of acetone.

Fabulous \Fab"u*lous\ (f[a^]b"[-u]*l[u^]s), a. [L. fabulosus; cf. F. fabuleux. See Fable.]

1. Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero.

   The fabulous birth of Minerva.
   --Chesterfield.

2. beyond belief; exceedingly great; as, a fabulous price.
   --Macaulay.

   Fabulous age, that period in the history of a nation of which the only accounts are myths and unverified legends; as, the fabulous age of Greece and Rome. -- Fab"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Fab"u*lous*ness, n.

Crab \Crab\ (kr[a^]b), n. [AS. crabba; akin to D. krab, G. krabbe, krebs, Icel. krabbi, Sw. krabba, Dan. krabbe, and perh. to E. cramp. Cf. Crawfish.]

1. (Zo["o]l.) One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.

   Note: The name is applied to all the Brachyura, and to certain Anomura, as the hermit crabs. Formerly, it was sometimes applied to Crustacea in general. Many species are edible, the blue crab of the Atlantic coast being one of the most esteemed. The large European edible crab is Cancer padurus. Soft-shelled crabs are blue crabs that have recently cast their shells. See Cancer; also, Box crab, Fiddler crab, Hermit crab, Spider crab, etc., under Box, Fiddler. etc.

2. The zodiacal constellation Cancer.

3. [See Crab, a.] (Bot.) A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.

   When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl.
   --Shak.

4. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick. [Obs.]
   --Garrick.

5. (Mech.)

   1. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.

   2. A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.

   3. A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.

   4. A claw for anchoring a portable machine. Calling crab. (Zo["o]l.) See Fiddler., n., 2. Crab apple, a small, sour apple, of several kinds; also, the tree which bears it; as, the European crab apple ( Pyrus Malus var. sylvestris); the Siberian crab apple ( Pyrus baccata); and the American ( Pyrus coronaria). Crab grass. (Bot.)

      1. A grass ( Digitaria sanguinalis syn. Panicum sanguinalis); -- called also finger grass.

      2. A grass of the genus Eleusine ( Eleusine Indica); -- called also dog's-tail grass, wire grass, etc. Crab louse (Zo["o]l.), a species of louse ( Phthirius pubis), sometimes infesting the human body. Crab plover (Zo["o]l.), an Asiatic plover ( Dromas ardeola). Crab's eyes, or Crab's stones, masses of calcareous matter found, at certain seasons of the year, on either side of the stomach of the European crawfishes, and formerly used in medicine for absorbent and antacid purposes; the gastroliths. Crab spider (Zo["o]l.), one of a group of spiders ( Laterigrad[ae]); -- called because they can run backwards or sideways like a crab. Crab tree, the tree that bears crab applies. Crab wood, a light cabinet wood obtained in Guiana, which takes a high polish. --McElrath. To catch a crab (Naut.), a phrase used of a rower:

         1. when he fails to raise his oar clear of the water;

         2. when he misses the water altogether in making a stroke.

Watch \Watch\ (w[o^]ch), n. [OE. wacche, AS. w[ae]cce, fr. wacian to wake; akin to D. wacht, waak, G. wacht, wache.

1. The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night.

   Shepherds keeping watch by night.
   --Milton.

   All the long night their mournful watch they keep.
   --Addison.

   Note: Watch was formerly distinguished from ward, the former signifying a watching or guarding by night, and the latter a watching, guarding, or protecting by day Hence, they were not unfrequently used together, especially in the phrase to keep watch and ward, to denote continuous and uninterrupted vigilance or protection, or both watching and guarding. This distinction is now rarely recognized, watch being used to signify a watching or guarding both by night and by day, and ward, which is now rarely used, having simply the meaning of guard, or protection, without reference to time.

   Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward.
   --Spenser.

   Ward, guard, or custodia, is chiefly applied to the daytime, in order to apprehend rioters, and robbers on the highway . . . Watch, is properly applicable to the night only, . . . and it begins when ward ends, and ends when that begins.
   --Blackstone.

2. One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard.

   Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can.
   --Matt. xxvii. 65.

3. The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.

   He upbraids Iago, that he made him Brave me upon the watch.
   --Shak.

4. The period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night.

   I did stand my watch upon the hill.
   --Shak.

   Might we but hear . . . Or whistle from the lodge, or village cock Count the night watches to his feathery dames.
   --Milton.

5. A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.

   Note: Watches are often distinguished by the kind of escapement used, as an anchor watch, a lever watch, a chronometer watch, etc. (see the Note under Escapement, n., 3); also, by the kind of case, as a gold or silver watch, an open-faced watch, a hunting watch, or hunter, etc.

6. (Naut.)

   1. An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch.

   2. That part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. The watches are designated as the port watch, and the starboard watch. Anchor watch (Naut.), a detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck when a vessel is at anchor. To be on the watch, to be looking steadily for some event. Watch and ward (Law), the charge or care of certain officers to keep a watch by night and a guard by day in towns, cities, and other districts, for the preservation of the public peace. --Wharton. --Burrill. Watch and watch (Naut.), the regular alternation in being on watch and off watch of the two watches into which a ship's crew is commonly divided. Watch barrel, the brass box in a watch, containing the mainspring. Watch bell (Naut.), a bell struck when the half-hour glass is run out, or at the end of each half hour. --Craig. Watch bill (Naut.), a list of the officers and crew of a ship as divided into watches, with their stations. --Totten. Watch case, the case, or outside covering, of a watch; also, a case for holding a watch, or in which it is kept. Watch chain. Same as watch guard, below. Watch clock, a watchman's clock; see under Watchman. Watch fire, a fire lighted at night, as a signal, or for the use of a watch or guard. Watch glass.

      1. A concavo-convex glass for covering the face, or dial, of a watch; -- also called watch crystal.

      2. (Naut.) A half-hour glass used to measure the time of a watch on deck.

         Watch guard, a chain or cord by which a watch is attached to the person.

         Watch gun (Naut.), a gun sometimes fired on shipboard at 8 p. m., when the night watch begins.

         Watch light, a low-burning lamp used by watchers at night; formerly, a candle having a rush wick.

         Watch night, The last night of the year; -- so called by the Methodists, Moravians, and others, who observe it by holding religious meetings lasting until after midnight.

         Watch paper, an old-fashioned ornament for the inside of a watch case, made of paper cut in some fanciful design, as a vase with flowers, etc.

         Watch tackle (Naut.), a small, handy purchase, consisting of a tailed double block, and a single block with a hook.

Lynde \Lynde\, Lynden \Lyn"den\, n. See Linden.

guilt-ridden \guilt-ridden\ adj. mentally anguished due to feelings of guilt[3].

Syn: guilt-sick.

face-harden \face-harden\ v. t. to harden (steel) by adding carbon.

Misteach \Mis*teach"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mistaught; p. pr. & vb. n. Misteaching.] [AS. mist[=ae]can.] To teach wrongly; to instruct erroneously.

Satisfiable \Sat"is*fi`a*ble\, a. That may be satisfied.

Alloo \Al*loo"\, v. t. & i. [See Halloo.] To incite dogs by a call; to halloo. [Obs.]

Further \Fur"ther"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Furthered; p. pr. & vb. n. Furthering.] [OE. furthren, forthren, AS. fyr[eth]ran, fyr[eth]rian. See Further, adv.] To help forward; to promote; to advance; to forward; to help or assist.

This binds thee, then, to further my design.
--Dryden.

I should nothing further the weal public.
--Robynsom (More's Utopia).

Further \Fur"ther\, adv. [A comparative of forth; OE. further, forther, AS. fur?or, far?ur; akin to G. f["u]rder. See Forth, adv.] To a greater distance; in addition; moreover. See Farther.

Carries us, I know not how much further, into familiar company.
--M. Arnold.

They sdvanced us far as Eleusis and Thria; but no further.
--Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Further off, not so near; apart by a greater distance.

Further \Fur"ther\, a. compar. [Positive wanting; superl. Furthest.]

1. More remote; at a greater distance; more in advance; farther; as, the further end of the field. See Farther.

2. Beyond; additional; as, a further reason for this opinion; nothing further to suggest.

   Note: The forms further and farther are in general not differentiated by writers, but further is preferred by many when application to quantity or degree is implied.

Corporal \Cor"po*ral\ (k[^o]r"p[-o]*ral), ||Corporale \Cor`po*ra"le\ (-r?"l?), n. [LL. corporale: cf. F. corporal. See Corporal,a.] A fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth.

Corporal oath, a solemn oath; -- so called from the fact that it was the ancient usage for the party taking it to touch the corporal, or cloth that covered the consecrated elements.

Semilogical \Sem`i*log"ic*al\, a. Half logical; partly logical; said of fallacies.
--Whately.

Couch \Couch\ (kouch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Couched (koucht); p. pr. & vb. n. Couching.] [F. coucher to lay down, lie down, OF. colchier, fr. L. collocare to lay, put, place; col- + locare to place, fr. locus place. See Locus.]

1. To lay upon a bed or other resting place.

   Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
   --Shak.

2. To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.

   The waters couch themselves as may be to the center of this globe, in a spherical convexity.
   --T. Burnet.

3. To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.

   It is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls.
   --Bacon.

4. (Paper Making) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.

5. To conceal; to include or involve darkly.

   There is all this, and more, that lies naturally couched under this allegory.
   --L'Estrange.

6. To arrange; to place; to inlay. [Obs.]
   --Chaucer.

7. To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under.

   A well-couched invective.
   --Milton.

   I had received a letter from Flora couched in rather cool terms.
   --Blackw. Mag.

8. (Med.) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.

   To couch a spear or To couch a lance, to lower to the position of attack; to place in rest.

   He stooped his head, and couched his spear, And spurred his steed to full career.
   --Sir W. Scott.

   To couch malt, to spread malt on a floor.
   --Mortimer.

Sinopia \Si*no"pi*a\, Sinopis \Si*no"pis\, n. A red pigment made from sinopite.

a. (context zoology English) Resembling ''Trebouxia'' algae.

a. flavour with hot spices. n. An unglazed earthenware casserole dish.

Etymology 1 n. A kind of elevated flatland in Russia and Central Asia. Etymology 2

n. A quicksand or bog.

n. (context mathematics English) A point in the domain of a mathematical function at which the second derivative of the function is either zero or undefined.

n. (context legal English) The allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.

n. (plural of phoenicopterid English)

n. An antiparkinsonian agent of the anticholinergic type.

n. (context chemistry English) C₆H₁₀O, a colourless liquid obtained by distilling a mixture of sugar and lime.

adv. 1 In a fabulous manner. 2 In fables.

n. A set of intercommunicating community

n. A hardy British grass ((taxlink Cynosurus cristatus species)); goldseed.

n. (plural of eristic English)

n. (obsolete form of inventor English)

n. (plural of fuseway English)

vb. (present participle of freck English)

n. An electronic device used to open a garage door.

alt. (context medicine English) An abnormally high level of cholesterol in the blood n. (context medicine English) An abnormally high level of cholesterol in the blood

n. (alternative spelling of hyperlipidemia English)

a. Having a strong sense of guilt.

n. (context mineral English) potassium fluoride, a rare, soft, colourless cubic mineral.

n. (collateral science English)

alt. An excess of ketones in the blood, sometimes associated with lipolysis. n. An excess of ketones in the blood, sometimes associated with lipolysis.

n. A particular histamine 2 receptor antagonist.

n. The third largest city in Ecuador, capital of Azuay province.

n. (plural of betacism English)

vb. To teach incorrectly.

a. Capable of being satisfy.

n. (plural of riding crop English)

n. an area of land that has been cleared by cutting the vegetation and burning it; slash and burn vb. to clear an area of land by cutting and burning

vb. (context Scotland English) To allow.

n. (plural of cetacean English)

n. (context poker English) A version of lowball poker where the ace is the high card and straights and flushes count, making the best hand 2-3-4-5-7 (with at least two different suits).

n. (context chiefly US English) A fictional pastime wherein a person sneaks up on a sleeping cow (at nighttime) and pushes it over.

vb. (en-third-person singular of: bleat)

1. 1 (en-comparativefar); of or pertaining to being distant, or of greater distance in degree or of extension in time. 2 more, additional. adv. 1 (en-comparative of far POS=adverb) 2 (context conjunctive English) Also; in addition to. 3 (context location English) At greater distance in space or time; farther. v

2. 1 (context transitive English) To encourage growth. 2 To support progress or growth of something.

vb. (en-third-person singular of: aestheticize)

n. (alternative form of corporal nodot=yes English) (communion cloth)

a. Only partly logical.

n. The pigment sinopia.

n. an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism [syn: reactionary, ultraconservative]

adv. in a fabulous manner; "she was a fabulously gifted player" [syn: fantastically]

n. presence of excess lipids in the blood [syn: lipemia, lipaemia, lipidemia, lipidaemia, lipoidemia, lipoidaemia, hyperlipemia, hyperlipaemia, hyperlipidemia, hyperlipoidemia, hyperlipoidaemia]

adj. feeling or revealing a sense of guilt; "so guilt-ridden he could not face his father"

v. harden steel by adding carbon

n. an abnormal increase of ketone bodies in the blood as in diabetes mellitus [syn: ketosis, acetonemia]

adj. possible to satisfy or sate; "a satiable thirst"; "a satiable appetite" [syn: satiable]

See far

1. adj. at a great distance in time or space or degree; "we come from a far country"; "far corners of the earth"; "the far future"; "a far journey"; "the far side of the road"; "far from the truth"; "far in the future" [ant: near]

2. being of a considerable distance or length; "a far trek"

3. being the animal or vehicle on the right or being on the right side of an animal or vehicle; "the horse on the right is the far horse"; "the right side is the far side of the horse"

4. beyond a norm in opinion or actions; "the far right"

5. [also: further, farther]

1. adv. to a considerable degree; very much; "a far far better thing that I do"; "felt far worse than yesterday"; "eyes far too close together"

2. at or to or from a great distance in space; "he traveled far"; "strayed far from home"; "sat far away from each other"

3. at or to a certain point or degree; "I can only go so far before I have to give up"; "how far can we get with this kind of argument?"

4. remote in time; "if we could see far into the future"; "all that happened far in the past"

5. to an advanced stage or point; "a young man who will go very far"

6. [also: further, farther]

1. adj. existing or coming by way of addition; "an additional problem"; "further information"; "there will be further delays"; "took more time" [syn: additional, further(a), more(a)]

2. more distant in especially degree; "nothing could be further from the truth"; "further from our expectations"; "farther from the truth"; "farther from our expectations" [syn: farther]

1. adv. to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (`further' is used more often than `farther' in this abstract sense); "further complicated by uncertainty about the future"; "let's not discuss it further"; "nothing could be further from the truth"; "they are further along in their research than we expected"; "the application of the law was extended farther"; "he is going no farther in his studies" [syn: farther]

2. in addition or furthermore; "if we further suppose"; "stated further that he would not cooperate with them"; "they are definitely coming; further, they should be here already"

3. to or at a greater distance in time or space (`farther' is used more frequently than `further' in this physical sense); "farther north"; "moved farther away"; "farther down the corridor"; "the practice may go back still farther to the Druids"; "went only three miles further"; "further in the future" [syn: farther]

4. v. promote the growth of; "Foster our children's well-being and education" [syn: foster]

5. contribute to the progress or growth of; "I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom" [syn: promote, advance, boost, encourage]

n. a red ocher formerly used as a pigment [syn: sinopia, sinoper]