‖n. [ F. ] Savage fierceness; ferocity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Alignment. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ The Eng. form alinement is preferable to alignment, a bad spelling of the French ]. New Eng. Dict. (Murray). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Literally, a setting at one.) Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; agreement; concord. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By whom we have now received the atonement. Rom. v. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

He desires to make atonement
Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; expiation; amends; -- with for. Specifically, in theology: The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal suffering, and death of Christ. [ 1913 Webster ]

When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement be can make for it is, to warn others. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense. Potter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Day of Atonement (Jewish Antiq.), the only fast day of the Mosaic ritual, celebrated on the tenth day of the seventh month (Tishri), according to the rites described in Leviticus xvi. Also called Yom Kippur. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ AS. ben&unr_;man. Cf. Benim. ] To deprive (of), or take away (from). [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. ground bones, used as a fertilizer or as a component in animal feed; -- it is high in phosphate content. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. 1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. con- + tenement. ] (Law) That which is held together with another thing; that which is connected with a tenement, or thing holden, as a certain quantity of land adjacent to a dwelling, and necessary to the reputable enjoyment of the dwelling; appurtenance. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of defining; definition; description. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. détrônement. ] Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Divination. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Ecphonema. ] A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation. G. Brown. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of enthroning, or state of being enthroned. [ Recent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A twining or twisting together or round; union. Bp. Hacket. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Epiphonema. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of intwining, or the state of being intwined. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. lineman. the football players who line up on the line of scrimmage. WN hypen is odd for this def. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. Nemeus, fr. Nemea, Gr. Neme`h. ] Of or pertaining to Nemea, in Argolis, where the ancient Greeks celebrated games, and Hercules killed a lion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Nemertina. -- n. One of the Nemertina. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. nhmerth`s unerring. ] (Zool.) A genus of Nemertina. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. (Zool.) Nemertean. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. (Zool.) Nemertean. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) Nemertina. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ NL. See Nemrtes. ] (Zool.) An order of helminths usually having a long, slender, smooth, often bright-colored body, covered with minute vibrating cilia; -- called also Nemertea, Nemertida, and Rhynchocoela. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The mouth is beneath the head, and the straight intestine at the posterior end. They have a very singular long tubular proboscis, which can be everted from a pore in the front of the head. Their nervous system and blood vessels are well developed. Some of the species become over one hundred feet long. They are mostly marine and seldom parasitic; a few inhabit fresh water. The two principal divisions are Anopla and Enopla. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Any of an order (Nemertina) of soft unsegmented marine worms having an eversible threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract.
Syn. -- ribbon worm, nemertean, proboscis worm. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. [ L., fr. Gr. Ne`mesis, orig., distribution, fr. ne`mein to distribute. See Nomad. ] (Class. Myth.) The goddess of retribution or vengeance; hence, retributive justice personified; divine vengeance. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is that ancient doctrine of nemesis who keeps watch in the universe, and lets no offense go unchastised. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ointment. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being at one or reconciled. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Excessive refinement. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Linguistics) One of a small set of speech sounds that are used by and distinguished by the speakers of a particular language. They are combined into morphemes, words, and sentences. [ WordNet 1.5 + PJC ]

n. [ Poly- + Gr. &unr_; thread. ] (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of tropical food fishes of the family Polynemidæ. They have several slender filaments, often very long, below the pectoral fin. Some of them yield isinglass of good quality. Called also threadfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A second enthroning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. raffinement. ] 1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. [ 1913 Webster ]

The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. [ 1913 Webster ]

From the civil war to this time, I doubt whether the corruptions in our language have not equaled its refinements. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is refined, elaborated, or polished to excess; an affected subtilty; as, refinements of logic. “The refinements of irregular cunning.” Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Purification; polish; politeness; gentility; elegance; cultivation; civilization. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Schizo-, and Nemertes. ] (Zool.) A group of nemerteans comprising those having a deep slit along each side of the head. See Illust. in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. tenement a holding, a fief, F. tènement, LL. tenementum, fr. L. tenere to hold. See Tenant. ] 1. (Feud. Law) That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Common Law) Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free tenements or frank tenements. [ 1913 Webster ]

The thing held is a tenement, the possessor of it a “tenant, ” and the manner of possession is called “tenure.” Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece? Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A tenement house. [ PJC ]

Tenement house, commonly, a dwelling house erected for the purpose of being rented, and divided into separate apartments or tenements for families. The term is often applied to apartment houses occupied by poor families, often overcrowded and in poor condition. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Syn. -- House; dwelling; habitation. -- Tenement, House. There may be many houses under one roof, but they are completely separated from each other by party walls. A tenement may be detached by itself, or it may be part of a house divided off for the use of a family. In modern usage, a tenement or tenement house most commonly refers to the meaning given for tenement house, above. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being leased; held by tenants. Spelman. [ 1913 Webster ]