n. [ L. abecedarius. A word from the first four letters of the alphabet. ] 1. One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One engaged in teaching the alphabet. Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary. [ 1913 Webster ]

Abecedarian psalms,
hymns, etc., compositions in which (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet. Hook. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Cnida. ] (Zool.) A comprehensive group equivalent to the true Cœlenterata, i. e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. dareiko`s, of Persian origin. ] 1. (Antiq.) (a) A gold coin of ancient Persia, weighing usually a little more than 128 grains, and bearing on one side the figure of an archer. (b) A silver coin of about 86 grains, having the figure of an archer, and hence, in modern times, called a daric. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any very pure gold coin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits. -- Dar"ing*ly, adv. -- Dar"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] 1. A crustade. [ Obs. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A shell or cup of pastry filled with custard, whipped cream, crushed macaroons, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n.; pl. Frigidaria [ L., neut. of frigidarium cooling. ] The cooling room of the Roman thermæ, furnished with a cold bath. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Calendarial. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to stone; inscribed on stone; as, a lapidarian record. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. lapidarius, fr. lapis, -idis, stone. ] Consisting of stones. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pg. mandarim, from Malay mantrī minister of state, prop. a Hind. word, fr. Skr. mantrin a counselor, manira a counsel, man to think. ] 1. A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A powerful government official or bureaucrat, especially one who is pedantic and has a strong sense of his own importance and privelege. [ PJC ]

3. Hence: A member of an influential, powerful or elite group, espcially within artistic or intellectual circles; -- used especially of elder members who are traditionalist or conservative about their specialties. [ PJC ]

5. The form of the Chinese language spoken by members of the Chinese Imperial Court an officials of the empire. [ PJC ]

6. Any of several closely related dialects of the Chinese language spoken by a mojority of the population of China, the standard variety of which is spoken in the region around Beijing. [ PJC ]

7. (Bot.) A small flattish reddish-orange loose-skinned orange, with an easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus reticulata formerly Citrus nobilis); called also mandarin orange and tangerine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mandarin language, the spoken or colloquial language of educated people in China. --
Mandarin yellow (Chem.), an artificial aniline dyestuff used for coloring silk and wool, and regarded as a complex derivative of quinoline. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The collective body of officials or persons of rank in China. S. W. Williams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A showy crested Asiatic duck (Aix galericulata, formerly Dendronessa galericulata), often domesticated, and regarded by the Chinese as an emblem of conjugal affection. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Dyeing) The process of giving an orange color to goods formed of animal tissue, as silk or wool, not by coloring matter, but by producing a certain change in the fiber by the action of dilute nitric acid. Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A government by mandarins (senses 1 or 2); character or spirit of the mandarins{ 2 }. F. Lieder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A shrub or small tree (Citrus reticulata) having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to Southeast Asia.
Syn. -- mandarin orange tree. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Same as mandarin{ 7 }. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Monad. ] (Zool.) The Infusoria. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A brown, amorphous, bitter substance having a strong emetic action, extracted from the root of the mudar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Panderism. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To pander. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pedarius, fr. pedarius belonging to the foot, fr. pes, pedis, foot. ] (Rom. Antiq.) One of a class eligible to the office of senator, but not yet chosen, who could sit and speak in the senate, but could not vote; -- so called because he might indicate his opinion by walking over to the side of the party he favored when a vote was taken. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Pindaricus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; (L. Pindarus) Pindar: cf. F. pindarique. ] Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes. -- n. A Pindaric ode. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pindaric. [ 1913 Webster ]

Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Imitation of Pindar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who imitates Pindar. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a secondary manner or degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Secondly; in the second place. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers. 1 Cor. xii. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being secondary. [ 1913 Webster ]

Full of a girl's sweet sense of secondariness to the object of her love. Mrs. Oliphant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. solidarité, fr. solide. See Solid. ] An entire union or consolidation of interests and responsibilities; fellowship; community. [ 1913 Webster ]

Solidarity [ a word which we owe to the French Communists ], signifies a fellowship in gain and loss, in honor and dishonor, in victory and defeat, a being, so to speak, all in the same boat. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

The solidarity . . . of Breton and Welsh poetry. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., a handkerchief. ] (Eccl.) The handkerchief upon which the Savior is said to have impressed his own portrait miraculously, when wiping his face with it, as he passed to the crucifixion. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. The jurisdiction of a zamindar; the land possessed by a zamindar. [ Written also zemindary, zemindari. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖, n. Same as Zamindary. [ 1913 Webster ]