n. Lofty speech; pompous language. [ R. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. altus (adv. alte) high + loquens, p. pr. of loqui to speak. ] High-sounding; pompous in speech. [ R. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. altimeter; altus high + metrum, Gr. &unr_;, measure: cf. F. altimètre. ] An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. altimétrie. ] The art of measuring altitudes, or heights. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Tincal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. altus high + Gr. &unr_; to view. ] An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects. Since the early 1900's, most commonly called periscope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. altus high + sonans, p. pr. of sonare to sound. ] High-sounding; lofty or pompous. Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. altisonus. ] Altisonant. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It.; superl. of alto. ] (Mus.) The part or notes situated above F in alt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. altitudo, fr. altus high. Cf. Altar, Haughty, Enhance. ] 1. Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon, apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Geom.) The perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Height of degree; highest point or degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is [ proud ] even to the altitude of his virtue. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Height of rank or excellence; superiority. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. pl. Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs. [ Colloq. ] Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

The man of law began to get into his altitude. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Meridian altitude, an arc of the meridian intercepted between the south point on the horizon and any point on the meridian. See Meridian, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to height; as, altitudinal measurements. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. altivolans. See Volant. ] Flying high. [ Obs. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. [ Gr. 'anastaltiko`s fitted for checking, fr. 'ana` + ste`llein to send. ] (Med.) Styptic. [ Obs. ] Coxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ L. antepaenultima (sc. syllaba) antepenultimate; ante before + paenultimus the last but one; paene almost + ultimus last. ] (Pros.) The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl- in monosyllable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two. -- n. The antepenult. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. anti- + Gr. &unr_; nightmare. ] (Med.) Good against nightmare. -- n. A remedy nightmare. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. (Med.) Same as Antephialtic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing, asphalt; bituminous. “Asphaltic pool.” “Asphaltic slime.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Asphaltic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Asphaltic. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. making an assault.
Syn. -- attacking(prenominal). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ NL. mare Balticum, fr. L. balteus belt, from certain straits or channels surrounding its isles, called belts. See Belt. ] Of or pertaining to the sea which separates Norway and Sweden from Jutland, Denmark, and Germany; situated on the Baltic Sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } (Zool.) A common bird (Icterus galbula) of eastern and central America and Canada, named after Lord Baltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin. It winters in the American tropics. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. basaltique. ] Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as basaltic lava. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Basalt + -form. ] In the form of basalt; columnar. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. See Beltane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A darting away; a starting off or aside. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A sifting, as of flour or meal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Bolting cloth, wire, hair, silk, or other sieve cloth of different degrees of fineness; -- used by millers for sifting flour. McElrath. --
Bolting hutch, a bin or tub for the bolted flour or meal; (fig.) a receptacle. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Arch.) (a) A molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo. (b) One of the shafts of a clustered column. [ Written also bowtel, boltel, boultell, etc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Same as Bolty. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a catapult. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to check; kata` down, wholy + &unr_; to set. ] (Med.) Checking evacuations through astringent or styptic qualities. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Celtiber, Celtibericus. ] Of or pertaining to the ancient Celtiberia (a district in Spain lying between the Ebro and the Tagus) or its inhabitants the Celtiberi (Celts of the river Iberus). -- n. An inhabitant of Celtiberia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Celticus, Gr. Keltiko`s. See Celt. ] Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue. [ Written also Keltic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The language of the Celts. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The remains of the old Celtic language are found in the Gaelic, the Erse or Irish; the Manx, and the Welsh and its cognate dialects Cornish and Bas Breton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A custom of the Celts, or an idiom of their language. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To render Celtic; to assimilate to the Celts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. ] (Chem.) The first proposed name for a supposed new element of the rare-earth group, accompanying lutecium and scandium in the gadolinite earths. It is now considered identical to Lutetium. The proposed symbol was Ct (no period), but this name and symbol are no longer used. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; center + &unr_; checking. ] (Physiol.) A term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center. Marshall Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or } n. (Zool.) A small European titmouse (Parus ater), so named from its black color; -- called also coalmouse and colemouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. cobaltique. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said especially of those compounds in which cobalt has higher valence; as, cobaltic oxide. [ 1913 Webster ]

Luteo-cobaltic compounds (Chem.), an extensive series of complex yellow compounds of ammonia and cobaltic salts. --
Roseo-cobaltic compounds (Chem.), an extensive series of complex red compounds of cobalt and ammonia. Modifications of these are the purpureo-cobaltic compounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cobalt + -ferous. ] (Min.) Containing cobalt. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. (Min.) A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a colt; wanton; frisky. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was all coltish, full of ragery. Chaucer.

-- Colt"ish*ly, adv. -- Colt"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That consults. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consulting physician (Med.), a physician who consults with the attending practitioner regarding any case of disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Determined by, or pertaining to, consultation; deliberate; consultative. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that remains in the grace of God sins not by any deliberative, consultive, knowing act. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults. [ 1913 Webster ]