a. [ L. adultus, p. p. of adolescere, akin to alere to nourish: cf. F. adulte. See Adolescent, Old. ] Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the common law, the term is applied to a person who has attained full age or legal majority; in the civil law, to males after the age of fourteen, and to females after twelve. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To be guilty of; to offend; to sin against; to wrong. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. [ See Alto. ] (Mus.) The higher part of the scale. See Alto. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be in alt, to be in an exalted state of mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ L. antepaenultima (sc. syllaba) antepenultimate; ante before + paenultimus the last but one; paene almost + ultimus last. ] (Pros.) The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl- in monosyllable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. archivolte, fr. It. archivolto; pref. archi- + volto vault, arch. See Vault. ] (Arch.) (a) The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening. (b) More commonly, the molding or other ornaments with which the wall face of the voussoirs of an arch is charged. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cover with asphalt; as, to asphalt a roof; asphalted streets. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_;, of eastern origin: cf. F. asphalte. ] 1. Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fracture; it melts and burns when heated, leaving no residue. It occurs on the surface and shores of the Dead Sea, which is therefore called Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A composition of bitumen, pitch, lime, and gravel, used for forming pavements, and as a water-proof cement for bridges, roofs, etc.; asphaltic cement. Artificial asphalt is prepared from coal tar, lime, sand, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Asphalt stone,
Asphalt rock, a limestone found impregnated with asphalt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. asaut, assaut, OF. assaut, asalt, F. assaut, LL. assaltus; L. ad + saltus a leaping, a springing, salire to leap. See Assail. ] 1. A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Spanish general prepared to renew the assault. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unshaken bears the assault
Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; as, to make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery. Blackstone. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Practically, however, the word assault is used to include the battery. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Attack; invasion; incursion; descent; onset; onslaught; charge; storm. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Assaulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Assaulting. ] [ From Assault, n.: cf. OF. assaulter, LL. assaltare. ] 1. To make an assault upon, as by a sudden rush of armed men; to attack with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces. [ 1913 Webster ]

Insnared, assaulted, overcome, led bound. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To attack with moral means, or with a view of producing moral effects; to attack by words, arguments, or unfriendly measures; to assail; as, to assault a reputation or an administration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before the gates, the cries of babes newborn, . . .
Assault his ears. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the latter sense, assail is more common. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To attack; assail; invade; encounter; storm; charge. See Attack. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + tilt. ] 1. In the manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust. “To run atilt at men.” Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In the position of a cask tilted, or with one end raised. [ In this sense sometimes used as an adjective. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Abroach, atilt, and run
Even to the lees of honor. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. To auscultate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. basaltes (an African word), a dark and hard species of marble found in Ethiopia: cf. F. basalte. ] 1. (Geol.) A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is usually of a greenish black color, or of some dull brown shade, or black. It constitutes immense beds in some regions, and also occurs in veins or dikes cutting through other rocks. It has often a prismatic structure as at the Giant's Causeway, in Ireland, where the columns are as regular as if the work of art. It is a very tough and heavy rock, and is one of the best materials for macadamizing roads. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bolt with a barbed shank. [ 1913 Webster ]

Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large crystalline salt of commerce. Bacon. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A quilt for a bed; a coverlet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. belt; akin to Icel. belti, Sw. bälte, Dan. bælte, OHG. balz, L. balteus, Ir. & Gael. balt border, belt. ] 1. That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt. [ 1913 Webster ]

The shining belt with gold inlaid. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which restrains or confines as a girdle. [ 1913 Webster ]

He cannot buckle his distempered cause
Within the belt of rule. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Arch.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Astron.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Geog.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Her.) A token or badge of knightly rank. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Mech.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other. [ See Illust. of Pulley. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Nat. Hist.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges. [ 1913 Webster ]

Belt lacing, thongs used for lacing together the ends of machine belting. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Belted; p. pr. & vb. n. Belting. ] To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround. [ 1913 Webster ]

A coarse black robe belted round the waist. C. Reade. [ 1913 Webster ]

They belt him round with hearts undaunted. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To pelt roundly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Zool.) The Norway haddock. See Rosefish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them. Hence: Anything which smites without penetrating. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Martial arts) a comedy that treats of morbid, tragic, gloomy, or grotesque situations as a major element of the plot. [ PJC ]

n. [ AS. bolt; akin to Icel. bolti, Dan. bolt, D. bout, OHG. bolz, G. bolz, bolzen; of uncertain origin. ] 1. A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart. [ 1913 Webster ]

Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fool's bolt is soon shot. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lightning; a thunderbolt. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Away with him to prison!
lay bolts enough upon him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A bundle, as of oziers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bolt auger, an auger of large size; an auger to make holes for the bolts used by shipwrights. --
Bolt and nut, a metallic pin with a head formed upon one end, and a movable piece (the nut) screwed upon a thread cut upon the other end. See B, C, and D, in illust. above. [ 1913 Webster ]

See Tap bolt, Screw bolt, and Stud bolt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bolting. ] 1. To shoot; to discharge or drive forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out. [ 1913 Webster ]

I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food; often used with down. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (U. S. Politics) To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Sporting) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let tenfold iron bolt my door. Langhorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which shackles accidents and bolts up change. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room. [ 1913 Webster ]

This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, . . .
And oft out of a bush doth bolt. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt. [ 1913 Webster ]

His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (U.S. Politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He ] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bolt upright. (a) Perfectly upright; perpendicular; straight up; unbendingly erect. Addison. (b) On the back at full length. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Bolt, v. i. ] 1. A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors. [ 1913 Webster ]

This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America -- or anywhere. Compton Reade. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (U. S. Politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bolting. ] [ OE. bolten, boulten, OF. buleter, F. bluter, fr. Ll. buletare, buratare, cf. F. bure coarse woolen stuff; fr. L. burrus red. See Borrel, and cf. Bultel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means. [ 1913 Webster ]

He now had bolted all the flour. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ill schooled in bolted language. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out. [ 1913 Webster ]

Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law. Jacob. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bolt to the bran, to examine thoroughly, so as to separate or discover everything important. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

This bolts the matter fairly to the bran. Harte. [ 1913 Webster ]

The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Corrupted form Bolt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like the generality of Genoese countrywomen, strongly built. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A birdbolt. [ Obs. ] Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a type of bolt threaded only at the end opposite the head, used mostly for fastening pieces of timber together, and inserted into pre-drilled holes. [ PJC ]

a. (Shipbuilding) Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. catapulta, Gr. &unr_;, prob. from kata` down + &unr_; to shake, hurl. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Mil. Antiq.) An engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A forked stick with elastic band for throwing small stones, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Celtae, Gr. Keltoi`, Ke`ltai, pl.: cf. W. Celtiad one that dwells in a covert, an inhabitant of the wood, a Celt, fr. celt covert, shelter, celu to hide. ] One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France. [ Written also Kelt. The letter C was pronounced hard in Celtic languages. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. celts a chisel. ] (Archæol.) A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli, or barrows, of the early Celtic nations. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Clinker-built. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

So vanished my cloud-built palace. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. kobalt, prob. fr. kobold, kobel, goblin, MHG. kobolt; perh. akin to G. koben pigsty, hut, AS. cofa room, cofgodas household gods, Icel. kofi hut. If so, the ending -old stands for older -walt, -wald, being the same as -ald in E. herald and the word would mean ruler or governor in a house, house spirit, the metal being so called by miners, because it was poisonous and troublesome. Cf. Kobold, Cove, Goblin. ] 1. (Chem.) A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol Co. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It occurs in nature in combination with arsenic, sulphur, and oxygen, and is obtained from its ores, smaltite, cobaltite, asbolite, etc. Its oxide colors glass or any flux, as borax, a fine blue, and is used in the manufacture of smalt. It is frequently associated with nickel, and both are characteristic ingredients of meteoric iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cobalt bloom. Same as Erythrite. --
Cobalt blue, a dark blue pigment consisting of some salt of cobalt, as the phosphate, ignited with alumina; -- called also cobalt ultramarine, and Thenard's blue. --
Cobalt crust, earthy arseniate of cobalt. --
Cobalt glance. (Min.) See Cobaltite. --
Cobalt green, a pigment consisting essentially of the oxides of cobalt and zinc; -- called also Rinman's green. --
Cobalt yellow (Chem.), a yellow crystalline powder, regarded as a double nitrite of cobalt and potassium. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To horse; to get with young. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To befool. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. colt a young horse, ass, or camel, AS. colt; cf. dial. Sw. kullt a boy, lad. ] 1. The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In sporting circles it is usual to reckon the age of colts from some arbitrary date, as from January 1, or May 1, next preceding the birth of the animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A young, foolish fellow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy. Ham. Nav. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Colt's tooth, an imperfect or superfluous tooth in young horses. --
To cast one's colt's tooth, to cease from youthful wantonness. “Your colt's tooth is not cast yet.” Shak. --
To have a colt's tooth, to be wanton. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They shook off their bridles and began to colt. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Consulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Consulting. ] [ L. consultare, fr. consulere to consult: cf. f. consulter. Cf. Counsel. ] To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let us consult upon to-morrow's business. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the laws of England have been made by the kings England, consulting with the nobility and commons. Hobbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men forgot, or feared, to consult nature . . . ; they were content to consult libraries. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are . . . to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To deliberate upon; to take for. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Manythings were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people. Hab. ii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The council broke;
And all grave consults dissolved in smoke. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A council; a meeting for consultation. [ Obs. ] “A consult of coquettes.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Agreement; concert [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]