n. The quality of being acquirable; attainableness. [ R. ] Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being acquired. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. admirabilitac. ] Admirableness. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. admirabilis: cf. F. admirable. ] 1. Fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In man there is nothing admirable but his ignorance and weakness. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having qualities to excite wonder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent; -- used of persons or things. “An admirable machine.” “Admirable fortitude.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Wonderful; marvelous; surprising; excellent; delightful; praiseworthy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an admirable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. amiral, admiral, OF. amiral, ultimately fr. Ar. amīr-al-bahr commander of the sea; Ar. amīr is commander, al is the Ar. article, and amīr-al, heard in different titles, was taken as one word. Early forms of the word show confusion with L. admirabilis admirable, fr. admirari to admire. It is said to have been introduced into Europe by the Genoese or Venetians, in the 12th or 13th century. Cf. Ameer, Emir. ] 1. A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like some mighty admiral, dark and terrible, bearing down upon his antagonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. E. Everett. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A handsome butterfly (Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Admiral shell (Zool.), the popular name of an ornamental cone shell (Conus admiralis). [ 1913 Webster ]

Lord High Admiral, a great officer of state, who (when this rare dignity is conferred) is at the head of the naval administration of Great Britain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Admiralties [ F. amirauté, for an older amiralté, office of admiral, fr. LL. admiralitas. See Admiral. ] 1. The office or jurisdiction of an admiral. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In England, admiralty jurisdiction was formerly vested in the High Court of Admiralty, which was held before the Lord High Admiral, or his deputy, styled the Judge of the Admiralty; but admiralty jurisdiction is now vested in the probate, divorce, and admiralty division of the High Justice. In America, there are no admiralty courts distinct from others, but admiralty jurisdiction is vested in the district courts of the United States, subject to revision by the circuit courts and the Supreme Court of the United States. Admiralty jurisprudence has cognizance of maritime contracts and torts, collisions at sea, cases of prize in war, etc., and in America, admiralty jurisdiction is extended to such matters, arising out of the navigation of any of the public waters, as the Great Lakes and rivers. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. admirance. ] Admiration. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. admiratio. See Admire. ] 1. Wonder; astonishment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Season your admiration for a while. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise; a prodigy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now, good Lafeu, bring in the admiration. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Note of admiration, the mark (!), called also exclamation point. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Wonder; approval; appreciation; adoration; reverence; worship. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to or expressing admiration or wonder. [ R. ] Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An obsolete form of admiral. “The mast of some great ammiral.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and West Africa.
Syn. -- genus Andira. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Med.) Good against the rickets. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. aspirant, p. pr. of aspirer. See Aspire. ] Aspiring. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. aspirant. ] One who aspires; one who eagerly seeks some high position or object of attainment. [ 1913 Webster ]

In consequence of the resignations . . . the way to greatness was left clear to a new set of aspirants. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Aspirated p. pr. & vb. n. Aspirating ] [ L. aspiratus, p. p. of aspirare to breathe toward or upon, to add the breathing h; ad + spirare to breathe, blow. Cf. Aspire. ] To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A sound consisting of, or characterized by, a breath like the sound of h; the breathing h or a character representing such a sound; an aspirated sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mark of aspiration (&asper_;) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An elementary sound produced by the breath alone; a surd, or nonvocal consonant; as, f, th in thin, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. aspiratus, p. p. ] Pronounced with the h sound or with audible breath. [ 1913 Webster ]

But yet they are not aspirate, i. e., with such an aspiration as h. Holder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. aspiratio, fr. aspirare: cf. F. aspiration. ] 1. The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

If aspiration be defined to be an impetus of breathing. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of breathing; a breath; an inspiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of aspiring of a ardently desiring; strong wish; high desire. “Aspirations after virtue.” Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vague aspiration after military renown. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Chem.) An apparatus for passing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) An instrument for the evacuation of the fluid contents of tumors or collections of blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to breathing; suited to the inhaling of air [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of large important East Indian trees: the neem trees.
Syn. -- genus Azadirachta. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a triterpenoid (C35H44O16) isolated from the seeds of the neem tree (Azadirachta indica), used as an insecticide. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ Turk. baïrām. ] Either of two Muslim festivals, of which one (the Lesser Bairam) is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other (the Greater Bairam) seventy days after the fast. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. consisting of, combining two races. a biracial committee [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. showing both bilateral and radial symmetry. some sea anemones are biradial. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ Pref. bi- + radiate. ] Having two rays; as, a biradiate fin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + ramous. ] (Biol.) Having, or consisting of, two branches. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. bully, n. & v., and rag to scold, rail. Cf. Ballarag. ] To intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to badger. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F. ça ira, ça ira, les aristocrates à la lanterne, it shall go on, it shall go on, [ hang ]the arictocrats to the lantern (lamp-post). ] The refrain of a famous song of the French Revolution. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions; as, cardiopulmonary resuscitation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. centumvitalis. ] Of or pertaining to the centumviri, or to a centumvir. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. centumvirat. ] The office of a centumvir, or of the centumviri. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; hand + &unr_; seizure. ] (Med.) Gout in the hand. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the gout in the hand, or subject to that disease. Sir. T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ]

n. A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells. Agassiz. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Conspiracies [ See Conspiration. ] 1. A combination of people for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot. [ 1913 Webster ]

When shapen was all his conspiracy
From point to point. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

They made a conspiracy against [ Amaziah ]. 2 Kings xiv. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

I had forgot that foul conspiracy Of the beast Caliban and his confederates. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

A conspiracy in all heavenly and earthly things. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy.

Syn. -- Combination; plot; cabal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. conspirans, p. pr. of conspirare: cf. F. conspirant. ] Engaging in a plot to commit a crime; conspiring. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. conspiration, L. conspiratio. ] Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose; conspiracy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

As soon as it was day, certain Jews made a conspiration. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

In our natural body every part has a nacassary sympathy with every other, and all together form, by their harmonious onspiration, a healthy whole. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who engages in a conspiracy; a plotter. 2 Sam. xv. 31. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators; as, a conspiratorial whisper.
Syn. -- conspirative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Cuirasses(-&ebreve_;z). [ F.cuirasse, orig., a breastplate of leather, for OF. cuirée, cuirie influenced by It. corazza, or Sp. coraza, fr. an assumed LL. coriacea, fr. L. coriaceus, adj., of leather, fr. corium leather, hide; akin to Gr. cho`rion intestinal membrane, OSlav. skora hide, Lith. skura hide, leather. Cf. Coriaceous. ] 1. (a) A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle. (b) The breastplate taken by itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The cuirass covered the body before and behind. It consisted of two parts, a breast- and backpiece of iron fastened together by means of straps and buckles or other like contrivances. It was originally, as the name imports, made of leather, but afterward of metal. Grose. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool) An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Wearing a cuirass. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool) Having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass; -- said of certain fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cuirassier. See Curass. ] (Mil.) A soldier armed with a cuirass; especially, a soldier of the heaviest cavalry, wearing a cuirass only when in full dress. Milton. [ 1913 Webster Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ Turk. daire circuit, department, fr. Ar. daïrah circle. ] Any of several valuable estates of the Egyptian khedive or his family. The most important are the Da"i*ra Sa"ni*eh or Da"i*ra Sa"ni*yeh, and the Da"i*ra Khas"sa, administered by the khedive's European bondholders, and known collectively as the Daira, or the Daira estates. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]