{ } n. pl. [ See Ann. ] (Eccl. Law) The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or dignity of an autocrat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Crazy; insane; loony; demented; batty. [ PJC ]

n.; pl. Batsmen The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.; in baseball, the batsman is usually called the batter. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A boatman. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Boat + swain. ] 1. (Naut.) An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) The jager gull. (b) The tropic bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

Boatswain's mate, an assistant of the boatswain. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G., fr. It. viola da braccio viola held on the arm. ] The tenor viola, or viola. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Geol.) The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Catsos [ It. cazzo. ] A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat or tipcat. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Needlework) To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag stitch. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Probably of East Indian origin, because it was originally a kind of East Indian pickles. Cf. also Malay k&ebreve_;chap fish sauce. MW10. ] A pureed table sauce made predominantly from tomatoes, flavored with onions, sugar, salt and spices; called also tomato ketchup. The term is also applied to pureed sauces containing mushrooms, walnuts, etc., being called in such cases mushroom ketchup, walnut ketchup, etc. [ Written also ketchup. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Catchup, and Ketchup. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a former political party in the US; formed in 1948 by Southern Democrats opposed to the candidacy of Harry S. Truman.
Syn. -- States' Rights Democratic Party. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a rotund, obese individual.
Syn. -- fatty, fat person, roly-poly. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.), A weedy European annual with yellow flowers, of the genus Tragopogon; -- so named from the long silky beard of the seeds. One species is the salsify or oyster plant; it is naturalized in US.
Syn. -- meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensis. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A short-stemmed South African plant (Oxalis caprina) with bluish flowers.
Syn. -- goat's foot, Oxalis caprina. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The skin of a goat, or leather made from it. -- a. Made of the skin of a goat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europæus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ OE. grot, AS. grātan; akin to Icel. grautr porridge, and to E. gritt, grout. See Grout. ] Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits. [ 1913 Webster ]

Embden groats, crushed oats. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stand of wood or iron, with hooks or pegs upon which to hang hats, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A physiological disturbance caused by exposure to excessive heat, resulting in rapid pulse, hot dry skin, and fever, leading to loss of consciousness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl. The edible viscera of animals, as the heart, liver, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of fish which in some classifications is considered a separate family comprising the oceanic bonitos.
Syn. -- family Kasuwonidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A genus of oceanic bonitos; in some classifications it is placed in its own family Katsuwonidae.
Syn. -- genus Katsuwonus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>n. Two cats fabled, in an Irish story, to have fought till nothing was left but their tails. It is probably a parable of a local contest between Kilkenny and Irishtown, which impoverished both towns. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. An informal group that gathers more or less frequently, especially for conversation; as, a coffee klatsch; a sewing klatsch. [ PJC ]

n. [ Rat + bane. ] Rat poison; white arsenic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Poisoned by ratsbane. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Fine Arts) A kind of ornamental hard-glazed pottery made at Satsuma in Kiushu, one of the Japanese islands. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Shortened form of statistics{ 2 } (b). [ Slang ] [ PJC ]

indef. pron. Whatsoever; whosoever; whatever; anything that. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Whatso he were, of high or low estate. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whatso the heaven in his wide vault contains. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

pron. A contraction of whatsoever; -- used in poetry. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

pron. & a. Whatever. “In whatsoever shape he lurk.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do. Gen. xxxi. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word is sometimes divided by tmesis. “What things soever ye desire.” Mark xi. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) The male of the chaffinch. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

(Elec.) See under Bridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Acoustics) Flexible rods the period of vibration of which in two planes at right angles are in some exact ratio to one another. When one end of such a rod is fixed, the free end describes in vibrating the corresponding Lissajous figure. So called because devised by Sir Charles Wheatstone. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ AS. wlatian to disgust, irk, wl&unr_;tta loathing. ] Loathsome; disgusting; hateful. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Murder is . . . wlatsom and abhominable to God. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]