n. [ OE. armure, fr. F. armure, OF. armeure, fr. L. armatura. See Armature. ] [ Spelt also armour. ] 1. Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In English statues, armor is used for the whole apparatus of war, including offensive as well as defensive arms. The statues of armor directed what arms every man should provide. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Steel or iron covering, whether of ships or forts, protecting them from the fire of artillery. [ 1913 Webster ]

Coat armor, the escutcheon of a person or family, with its several charges and other furniture, as mantling, crest, supporters, motto, etc. --
Submarine, a water-tight dress or covering for a diver. See under Submarine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kapno`s smoke + mo`ra, equiv. to moi^ra part. ] (Chem.) A limpid, colorless oil with a peculiar odor, obtained from beech tar. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. clamour, clamur, F. clameur, fr. L. clamor, fr. clamare to cry out. See Claim. ] 1. A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation from many people. Shak. [ Also spelled clamour. ]
Syn. -- clamor, hue and cry. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Any loud and continued noise. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry. Macaulay.

Syn. -- Outcry; exclamation; noise; uproar. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clamored p. pr. & vb. n. Clamoring. ] 1. To salute loudly. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The people with a shout
Rifted the air, clamoring their god with praise. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To stun with noise. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clamored their piteous prayer incessantly. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

To clamor bells, to repeat the strokes quickly so as to produce a loud clang. Bp. Warbur&unr_;ion. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To utter loud sounds or outcries; to vociferate; to talk in a loud voice; to complain; to make importunate demands.
Syn. -- clamor, roar, vociferate, holler, hollo. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

The obscure bird
Clamored the livelong night. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. to dispute in a loud voice.
Syn. -- brawl, wrangle, clamor. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ L. CF. Cream. ] Cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free from the captivity of love. Shelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ill humor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of humor or desire; to put out of humor. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enamored p. pr. & vb. n. Enamoring. ] [ OF. enamourer, enamorer; pref. en- (L. in) + OF. & F. amour love, L. amor. See Amour, and cf. Inamorato. ] To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science. [ Written also enamour. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Passionately enamored of this shadow of a dream. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Irish) one of a group of sea demons sometimes associated with the hostile power of nature.
Syn. -- Fomorian. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

/mhw>, n. [ Cf. Gimmal, n. ] A piece of mechanism; mechanical device or contrivance; a gimcrack. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as glamour. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. humour, OF. humor, umor, F. humeur, L. humor, umor, moisture, fluid, fr. humere, umere, to be moist. See Humid. ] [ Written also humour. ] 1. Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The ancient physicians believed that there were four humors (the blood, phlegm, yellow bile or choler, and black bile or melancholy), on the relative proportion of which the temperament and health depended. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. “A body full of humors.” Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good humor; ill humor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Examine how your humor is inclined,
And which the ruling passion of your mind. Roscommon. [ 1913 Webster ]

A prince of a pleasant humor. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

I like not the humor of lying. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims. [ 1913 Webster ]

Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not humors to be endured? South. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

For thy sake I admit
That a Scot may have humor, I'd almost said wit. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

A great deal of excellent humor was expended on the perplexities of mine host. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aqueous humor,
Crystalline humor or
Crystalline lens,
Vitreous humor. (Anat.) See Eye. --
Out of humor, dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasant frame of mind.

Syn. -- Wit; satire; pleasantry; temper; disposition; mood; frame; whim; fancy; caprice. See Wit. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Humored p. pr. & vb. n. Humoring. ] 1. To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is my part to invent, and the musician's to humor that invention. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please. [ 1913 Webster ]

You humor me when I am sick. Pope.

Syn. -- To gratify; to indulge. See Gratify. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.), Same as malignancy{ 4 }.
Syn. -- malignancy, malignance, malignant tumor, metastatic tumor. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. rumeur, L. rumor; cf. rumificare, rumitare to rumor, Skr. ru to cry. ] [ Written also rumour. ] 1. A flying or popular report; the common talk; hence, public fame; notoriety. [ 1913 Webster ]

This rumor of him went forth throughout all Judea, and throughout all the region round about. Luke vii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

Great is the rumor of this dreadful knight. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A current story passing from one person to another, without any known authority for its truth; -- in this sense often personified. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rumor next, and Chance,
And Tumult, and Confusion, all embroiled. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A prolonged, indistinct noise. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Rumored p. pr. & vb. n. Rumoring. ] To report by rumor; to tell. [ 1913 Webster ]

'T was rumored
My father 'scaped from out the citadel. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) Same as Termer, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A top railing supported by stanchions and equipped with netting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., from tremere to tremble. See Tremble, v. ] A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old. [ 1913 Webster ]

He fell into an universal tremor of all his joints. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. tumere to swell: cf. F. tumeúr. See Tumid. ] 1. (Med.) A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Better, however, to be a flippant, than, by a revolting form of tumor and perplexity, to lead men into habits of intellect such as result from the modern vice of English style. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Encysted tumor, a tumor which is inclosed in a membrane called a cyst, connected with the surrounding parts by the neighboring cellular substance. --
Fatty tumor. See under Fatty. --
Innocent tumor, or
Benign tumor, one which does not of itself threaten life, and does not usually tend to recur after extirpation; a tumor which has not metastesized. --
Malignant tumor, a tumor which tends continually to spread, to become generalized in different parts of the body, and to recur after extirpation, and which, if left to itself, causes death. [ 1913 Webster ]