{ } n. [ F. aiguillette point, tagged point, dim. of aiguilee needle, fr. LL. acucula for acicula, dim. of L. acus needle, pin; cf. OF. agleter to hook on. See Acute, and cf. Aiguillette. ] 1. A tag of a lace or of the points, braids, or cords formerly used in dress. They were sometimes formed into small images. Hence, “aglet baby” (Shak.), an aglet image. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Haberdashery) A round white staylace. Beck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Aglet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. See Eager. ] Sour. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. origin unknown. ] Charcoal prepared for making powder. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F., a sort of white heron, with a tuft of feathers on its head; a tuft of feathers; dim. of the same word as heron. See Heron, and cf. Egret, Egrette. ] 1. (Zool.) The small white European heron. See Egret. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A tuft like that of the egret. (Bot.) A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., a needle. See Aglet. ] 1. A needle-shaped peak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Aglet. ] 1. A point or tag at the end of a fringe or lace; an aglet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of the ornamental tags, cords, or loops on some military and naval uniforms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Aglet. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Arraigned p. pr. & vb. n. Arraigning. ] [ OE. arainen, arenen, OF. aragnier, aranier, araisnier, F. arraisonner, fr. LL. arrationare to address to call before court; L. ad + ratio reason, reasoning, LL. cause, judgment. See Reason. ] 1. (Law) To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal. [ 1913 Webster ]

They will not arraign you for want of knowledge. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To accuse; impeach; charge; censure; criminate; indict; denounce. See Accuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns. Blackstone. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ From OF. aramier, fr. LL. adhramire. ] (Old Eng. Law) To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who arraigns. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. arraynement, aresnement. ] 1. (Law) The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A calling to an account to faults; accusation. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the sixth satire, which seems only an Arraignment of the whole sex, there is a latent admonition. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. baigner to bathe, fr. L. balneum bath. ] To soak or drench. [ Obs. ] Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Written also baignoir. ] [ F., lit., bath tub. ] A box of the lowest tier in a theater. Du Maurier. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. campagne, It. campagna, fr. L. Campania the level country about Naples, fr. campus field. See Camp, and cf. Champaign, Champagne. ] 1. An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign. Grath. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) A connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field. Wilhelm. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Political operations preceding an election, by candidates, their assistants, and supporters, for the purpose of convincing voters to vote for the candidate. It usually consists of one or more methods of contacting voters including advertising, distribution or mailing of printed leaflets or letters; speeches, interviews with news media, and door-to-door visits with potential voters. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

4. Hence: Any coordinated effort to contact potential supporters or customers and solicit their support or patronage; as, an advertising campaign. [ PJC ]

5. (Metal.) The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To serve in a campaign. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. one who is campaigning, especially a politician running for elective office, or one of his/her supporters. [ PJC ]

n. The campaign of a candidate to be elected.
Syn. -- candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Flat; open; level. [ 1913 Webster ]

A wide, champaign country, filled with herds. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. champaigne; same word as campagne. ] A flat, open country. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fair champaign, with less rivers interveined. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through Apline vale or champaign wide. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Scot. craig a rock. See 1st Crag. ] (Zool.) The pole flounder. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. [ OF. deraisnier to explain, defend, to maintain in legal action by proof and reasonings, LL. derationare; de- + rationare to discourse, contend in law, fr. L. ratio reason, in LL., legal cause. Cf. Arraign, and see Reason. ] 1. To make ready to fight; to array. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Darrain your battle, for they are at hand. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fight out; to contest; to decide by combat. [ Obs. ] “To darrain the battle.” Chaucer . [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. [ See Darraign. ] (Old Law) To prove or to refute by proof; to clear (one's self). [ Obs. ]

{ } n. [ See Darraign. ] 1. The act of deraigning. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The renunciation of religious or monastic vows. [ Obs. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Fraught. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The meagre. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. See Meager. ] Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a maigre day. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

Maigre food (R. C. Ch.), food allowed to be eaten on fast days. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mountain. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Bot.) A species of Primula, either the cowslip or the primrose. [ Written also pagle, pagil, peagle, and pygil. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gael. cuach. Cf. Quaff. ] A small shallow cup or drinking vessel. [ Scot. ] [ Written also quegh. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Russ. saika. ] (Zool.) An antelope (Saiga Tartarica) native of the plains of Siberia and Eastern Russia. The male has erect annulated horns, and tufts of long hair beneath the eyes and ears. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Cookery) Soup made chiefly from vegetables or fish with a little butter and a few condiments. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To straighten. [ R. ] A Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. A variant of Strait, a. [ Obs. or R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to say, narrow. Sir J. Mandeville. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Straighter superl. Straightest. ] [ OE. strei&unr_;t, properly p. p. of strecchen to stretch, AS. streht, p. p. of streccan to stretch, to extend. See Stretch. ] 1. Right, in a mathematical sense; passing from one point to another by the nearest course; direct; not deviating or crooked; as, a straight line or course; a straight piece of timber. [ 1913 Webster ]

And the crooked shall be made straight. Isa. xl. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

There are many several sorts of crooked lines, but there is only one which is straight. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Approximately straight; not much curved; as, straight ribs are such as pass from the base of a leaf to the apex, with a small curve. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Card Playing) Composed of cards which constitute a regular sequence, as the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten-spot; as, a straight hand; a straight flush. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party; as, a straight Republican; a straight Democrat; also, containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others; as, a straight ballot. [ Political Cant, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Straight arch (Arch.), a form of arch in which the intrados is straight, but with its joints drawn radially, as in a common arch. --
A straight face, one giving no evidence of merriment or other emotion. --
A straight line. “That which lies evenly between its extreme points.” Euclid. “The shortest line between two points.” Chauvenet. “A line which has the same direction through its whole length.” Newcomb. --
Straight-way valve, a valve which, when opened widely, affords a straight passageway, as for water. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith; immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark. “Floating straight.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I know thy generous temper well;
Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it,
It straight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Everything was going on straight. W. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Poker) A hand of five cards in consecutive order as to value; a sequence. When they are of one suit, it is calles straight flush. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A board, or piece of wood or metal, having one edge perfectly straight, -- used to ascertain whether a line is straight or a surface even, and for drawing straight lines. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Straighted p. pr. & vb. n. Straighting. ] 1. To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account. [ 1913 Webster ]

To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose one's features. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. A variant of Straiten. [ Obs. or R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, straightens. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Straightway. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank. -- adv. In a straightforward manner. -- Straight`for"ward*ly, adv. -- Straight`for"ward*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Paleon.) An orthoceras. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Arch.) Having straight joints. Specifically: (a) Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. (b) In the United States, applied to planking or flooring put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having straight lines. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a right line; not crookedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. A variant of Straitly. See 1st Straight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A variant of Straitness. [ 1913 Webster ]