n. A westerly wind which blows nearly continuously between 30° and 50° of latitude in both the northern and the southern hemisphere. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + straddle. ] In a straddling position; astride; bestriding; as, to sit astraddle a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an expressway in an Italian-speaking country. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. balustrade, It. balaustrata fr. balaustro. See Baluster. ] (Arch.) A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, or the eaves of a building, or as a guard railing on a staircase; -- it serves as a guard to prevent people from falling.
Syn. -- bannister, banister, balusters, handrail, guard rail. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. To bestride. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. contra- + dance: cf. F. contrdance. Cf. Country-dance. ] A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Contradicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Contradicting. ] [ L. contradictus, p. p. of contradicere to speak against; contra + dicere to speak. See Diction. ] 1. To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself,
And say it is not so. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The future can not contradict the past. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

No truth can contradict another truth. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

A greater power than we can contradict
Hath thwarted our intents. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To oppose in words; to gainsay; to deny, or assert the contrary of, something. [ 1913 Webster ]

They . . . spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Acts xiii. 45. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being contradicted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. one who contradicts. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. contradictio answer, objection: cf. F. contradiction. ] 1. An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying. [ 1913 Webster ]

His fair demands
Shall be accomplished without contradiction. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent. [ 1913 Webster ]

can he make deathless death? That were to make
Strange contradiction. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

We state our experience and then we come to a manly resolution of acting in contradiction to it. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be true. Hobbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of contradictions infinite the slave. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Principle of contradiction (Logic), the axiom or law of thought that a thing cannot be and not be at the same time, or a thing must either be or not be, or the same attribute can not at the same time be affirmed and and denied of the same subject; also called the law of the excluded middle. It develops itself in three specific forms which have been called the “Three Logical Axioms.” First, “A is A.” Second, “A is not Not-A” Third, “Everything is either A or Not-A.” [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Contradictory; inconsistent; opposing. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Filled with contradictions; inconsistent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inclined to contradict or cavil [ Obs. ] Sharp.

-- Con`tra*dic"tious*ness, n. Norris. [1913 Webster]

a. Contradictory; inconsistent. -- Con`tra*dict"ive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. ] A contradicter. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a contradictory manner. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being contradictory; opposition; inconsistency. J. Whitaker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. contradictorius: cf. F. contradictoire. ] 1. Affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; also, mutually contradicting; inconsistent. “Contradictory assertions.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Opposing or opposed; repugnant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Schemes . . . contradictory to common sense. Addisn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Contradictories 1. A proposition or thing which denies or opposes another; contrariety. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is common with princes to will contradictories. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Logic) propositions with the same terms, but opposed to each other both in quality and quantity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Distinguished by opposite qualities. J. Goodwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Distinction by contrast. [ 1913 Webster ]

That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. having the quality of contradistinction; distinguishing by contrast. -- Con`tra*dis*tinc"tive, n. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Contradistinguished p. pr. & vb. n. Contradistinguishing. ] To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. [ 1913 Webster ]

These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ L. dextra the right hand + ad to. ] (Anat.) Toward the right side; dextrally. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. Sp. estrado, orig., a carpet on the floor of a room, also, a carpeted platform, fr. L. stratum bed covering. See Stratum. ] (Arch.) A portion of the floor of a room raised above the general level, as a place for a bed or a throne; a platform; a dais. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ the teacher ] himself should have his desk on a mounted estrade or platform. J. G. Fitch. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. extra- + L. dictio a saying. See Diction. ] Consisting not in words, but in realities. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Of these extradictionary and real fallacies, Aristotle and logicians make in number six. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Making liable to extradition; as, extraditable offenses. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Extradited p. pr. & vb. n. Extraditing ] To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ex out + traditio a delivering up: cf. F. extradition. See Tradition. ] The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F.; pref. extra- outside + dos (L. dorsum) the back. ] (Arch.) The exterior curve of an arch; esp., the upper curved face of the whole body of voussoirs. See Intrados. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. extra- + dotal. ] Forming no part of the dowry; as, extradotal property. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. to negotiate with much give and take. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. negotiation accompanied by mutual concessions and shrewd bargaining. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. relating to areas between the layers of the skin. an intradermal injection
Syn. -- intradermic, intracutaneous. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as intradermal.
Syn. -- intradermal, intracutaneous. [ PJC ]

n. [ F., fr. L. intra within + F. dos the back, L. dorsum. Cf. Extrados. ] (Arch.) The interior curve of an arch; esp., the inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together. See Extrados. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A wrong tradition. “Monsters of mistradition.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or selling them; to overstock the market. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or practice of buying goods beyond the means of payment; a glutting of the market. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., p.p. of reconcentrar to inclose, to reconcentrate. ] Lit., one who has been reconcentrated; specif., in Cuba, the Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The act of contradicting one's self or itself; repugnancy in conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two members, one of which contradicts the other; as, to be and not to be at the same time is a self-contradiction. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Contradicting one's self or itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ L. sinistra the left hand + ad to. ] (Anat. & Zool.) Toward the left side; sinistrally. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A feme sole trader. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Straddled p. pr. & vb. n. Straddling ] [ Freq. from the root of stride. ] 1. To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of; as, to straddle a fence or a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The position, or the distance between the feet, of one who straddles; as, a wide straddle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a “put” and a “call, ” i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities. [ Broker's Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in two circles in the hub. See Straddle, v. i., and Straddle, v. t., 3. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ It. strada street or road + E. metrical. ] Of, or relating to, the measuring of streets or roads. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. tetras, -adis, Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;: cf. F. tétrade. ] 1. The number four; a collection of four things; a quaternion. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) A tetravalent or quadrivalent atom or radical; as, carbon is a tetrad. [ 1913 Webster ]