a. Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust. “Able-bodied vagrant.” Froude. -- A`ble-bod"ied*ness, n.. [1913 Webster]

n. [ OF. accide, accidie, LL. accidia, acedia, fr. Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_; care. ] Sloth; torpor. [ Obs. ] “The sin of accidie.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. & adv. [ OE. also adew, adewe, adue, F. &unr_; dieu, fr. L. ad to + deus God. ] Good-by; farewell; an expression of kind wishes at parting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Adieus A farewell; commendation to the care of God at parting. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., contr. of agua ardiente burning water (L. aqua water + ardens burning). ] 1. A inferior brandy of Spain and Portugal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A strong alcoholic drink, especially pulque. [ Mexico and Spanish America. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖‖ } n. [ F. almadie (cf. Sp. & Pg. almadia), fr. Ar. alma'dīyah a raft, float. ] (Naut.) (a) A bark canoe used by the Africans. (b) A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. [ Gr. 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man + E. diœcious. ] (Bot.) Having perfect and staminate flowers on different plants. -- An`dro*di*œ"cism, -di*e"cism n. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. audience, L. audientia, fr. audire to hear. See Audible, a. ] 1. The act of hearing; attention to sounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou, therefore, give due audience, and attend. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business. [ 1913 Webster ]

According to the fair play of the world,
Let me have audience: I am sent to speak. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fit audience find, though few. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

He drew his audience upward to the sky. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Court of audience, or
Audience court (Eng.), a court long since disused, belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury; also, one belonging to the Archbishop of York. Mozley & W. --
In general (or
open)
audience, publicly. --
To give audience, to listen; to admit to an interview. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. audiens, p. pr. of audire. See Audible, a. ] Listening; paying attention; as, audient souls. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hearer; especially a catechumen in the early church. [ Obs. ] Shelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Beard, n. ] (Zool.) The bearded loach (Nemachilus barbatus) of Europe. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pretty or dear little bird; -- a pet name. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Covered with blood.
Syn. -- gory, sanguinary. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied. [ 1913 Webster ]

A doe . . . not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bombardier. ] (Mil.) (a) One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner. [ Archaic ] (b) A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bombardier beetle (Zool.), a kind of beetle (Brachinus crepitans), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the Brachinus displosor, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. The common American species is Brachinus fumans. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A frequenter of a city boulevard, esp. in Paris. F. Harrison. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Mingled with brandy; made stronger by the addition of brandy; flavored or treated with brandy; as, brandied peaches. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ F. brigadier, fr. brigade. ] (Mil.) An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier. [ 1913 Webster ]

A black soldier of the United States army who served in the American west in the late 1800's, often as an indian fighter, and usually as part of an all-black troop; -- the name was given by the indians due to their their kinky hair, and the name was believed also to be a compliment on their courage. [ PJC ]

adj. intruding unasked into the affairs of others.
Syn. -- interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. a gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; -- it is used as a monomer unit in making synthetic rubbers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Written also caddy, cadie, cady, and cawdy. ] [ See Cadet. ] 1. A cadet. [ Obs. Scot. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A lad; young fellow. [ Scot. ] Burns. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. One who does errands or other odd jobs. [ Scot. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. An attendant who carries a golf player's clubs, tees his ball, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger. [ Written also cady. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From 1st Candy. ] 1. Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike substance; as, candied fruits. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (a) Converted wholly or partially into sugar or candy; as candied sirup. (b) Conted or more or less with sugar; as, candidied raisins. (c) Figuratively; Honeyed; sweet; flattering. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Covered or incrusted with that which resembles sugar or candy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Will the cold brook,
Candiedwith ice, caudle thy morning tast? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. smoothly coated with crystals of sugar; -- used especially of fruits; as, a candied apple.
Syn. -- candied, crystallized, glacé, glacéed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. clair clear + F. & E. audience a hearing. See Clear. ] Act of hearing, or the ability to hear, sounds not normally audible; -- usually claimed as a special faculty of spiritualistic mediums, or the like. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, clairaudience. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One alleged to have the power of clairaudience. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fem. of comédien. ] A women who plays in comedy. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. ] A dramatic sketch; a brief comedy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after the geologist Cordier. ] (Min.) See Iolite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. couardie. ] Cowardice. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Kauri. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. LL. custodiarus. ] A custodian. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of a breed of small terriers; -- called also Dandie Dinmont. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or }, n. 1. In Scott's “Guy Mannering”, a Border farmer of eccentric but fine character, who owns two terriers claimed to be the progenitors of the Dandie Dinmont terriers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. One of a breed of terriers with short legs, long body, and rough coat, originating in the country about the English and Scotch border. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

interj. [ OF., a corruption of de part Dieu, lit., on the part of God. ] In God's name; certainly. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Died p. pr. & vb. n. Dying. ] [ OE. deyen, dien, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. deyja; akin to Dan. döe, Sw. dö, Goth. diwan (cf. Goth. afd&unr_;jan to harass), OFries. d&unr_;ia to kill, OS. doian to die, OHG. touwen, OSlav. daviti to choke, Lith. dovyti to torment. Cf. Dead, Death. ] 1. To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought. [ 1913 Webster ]

To die by the roadside of grief and hunger. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

She will die from want of care. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To suffer death; to lose life. [ 1913 Webster ]

In due time Christ died for the ungodly. Rom. v. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished. [ 1913 Webster ]

Letting the secret die within his own breast. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

Great deeds can not die. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

His heart died within, and he became as a stone. 1 Sam. xxv. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]

The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Arch.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. [ 1913 Webster ]

To die in the last ditch, to fight till death; to die rather than surrender. [ 1913 Webster ] “There is one certain way, ” replied the Prince [ William of Orange ] “ by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin, -- I will die in the last ditch.” Hume (Hist. of Eng. ). --
To die out, to cease gradually; as, the prejudice has died out.

Syn. -- To expire; decease; perish; depart; vanish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. in 1 and (usually) in 2, Dice in 4 & 5, Dies [ OE. dee, die, F. dé, fr. L. datus given, thrown, p. p. of dare to give, throw. See Date a point of time. ] 1. A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any small cubical or square body. [ 1913 Webster ]

Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such is the die of war. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Arch.) That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mach.) (a) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc. (b) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing. (c) A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cutting die (Mech.), a thin, deep steel frame, sharpened to a cutting edge, for cutting out articles from leather, cloth, paper, etc. --
The die is cast, the hazard must be run; the step is taken, and it is too late to draw back; the last chance is taken.

a., /mhw>, a. (Bot.) See Diœcian, and Diœcious. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. The same as Dihedral. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of evergreen perennial herbs of tropical America with lush foliage and poisonous sap; often cultivated as houseplants.
Syn. -- genus Dieffenbachia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to narrate; dia` through + &unr_; to lead. ] A narrative or history; a recital or relation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. one who stubbornly adheres to traditional and outdated views.
Syn. -- traditionalist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. one who vigorously defends an apparently hopeless position, a lost cause, etc. [ PJC ]

a. stubbornly and vigorously resisting in the face of seemingly hopeless odds; as, diehard opposition.
Syn. -- never-say-die. [ PJC ]

n. [ Pref. dia- + electric. ] (Elec.) Any substance or medium that transmits the electric force by a process different from conduction, as in the phenomena of induction; a nonconductor, separating a body electrified by induction, from the electrifying body. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Bot.) See Dicentra. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Dia-, and Encephalon. ] (Anat.) The interbrain or thalamencephalon; -- sometimes abbreviated to dien. See Thalamencephalon. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] Same as Diæresis. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n.; pl. Diæreses or Diereses [ L. diaeresis, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to divide; dia` through, asunder + &unr_; to take. See Heresy. ] 1. (Gram.) The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; -- the opposite of synæresis. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mark consisting of two dots [ ¨ ], placed over the second of two adjacent vowels, to denote that they are to be pronounced as distinct letters; as, coöperate, aërial. [ 1913 Webster ]