a. [ L. Anacreonticus. ] Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A poem after the manner of Anacreon; a sprightly little poem in praise of love and wine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. arboreous, fr. arbor tree. ] 1. Having the form, constitution, or habits, of a proper tree, in distinction from a shrub. Loudon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss. Quincy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Areolæ [ L. areola, dim. of area: cf. F. aréole. See Area. ] 1. An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat. & Med.) The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

reolar tissue (Anat.), a form of fibrous connective tissue in which the fibers are loosely arranged with numerous spaces, or areolæ, between them. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. areola: cf. F. aréole. ] Divided into small spaces or areolations, as the wings of insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Division into areolæ. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any small space, bounded by some part different in color or structure, as the spaces bounded by the nervures of the wings of insects, or those by the veins of leaves; an areola. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Areola. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of L. areola. ] (Zool.) A small inclosed area; esp. one of the small spaces on the wings of insects, circumscribed by the veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'araio`s thin, rare + -meter: cf. F. aréomètre. ] (Physics) An instrument for measuring the specific gravity of fluids; a form hydrometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Pertaining to, or measured by, an areometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'araio`s thin, rare + -metry. ] The art or process of measuring the specific gravity of fluids. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Areopagite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Areopagites, Gr. &unr_;. ] A member of the Areopagus. Acts xvii. 34. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Areopagiticus, Gr. &unr_;. ] Pertaining to the Areopagus. Mitford. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, and &unr_; &unr_;, hill of Ares (Mars' Hill). ] The highest judicial court at Athens. Its sessions were held on Mars' Hill. Hence, any high court or tribunal [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. See Intercolumniation, and Aræostyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. See Intercolumniation, and Aræosystyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of, or containing, clay and calcareous earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ F. auréole, fr. L. aureola, (fem adj.) of gold (sc. corona crown), dim. of aureus. See Aureate, Oriole. ] 1. (R. C. Theol.) A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Limited to the head, it is strictly termed a nimbus; when it envelops the whole body, an aureola. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A halo, actual or figurative. [ 1913 Webster ]

The glorious aureole of light seen around the sun during total eclipses. Proctor. [ 1913 Webster ]

The aureole of young womanhood. O. W. Holmes. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Anat.) See Areola, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible from earth during a solar eclipse, or in outer space by the use of special instruments; a corona{ 5 }.
Syn. -- corona. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. 1. [ a trademark. ] a yellow crystalline antibiotic (generic name chlortetracycline) used to treat certain bacterial and rickettsial diseases.
Syn. -- chlortetracycline. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Zool.) Of a fine blue color; azure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. consisting of, or containing, calcareous and argillaceous earths. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of, or containing, lime and bitumen. Lyell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a.Consisting of, or containing, calcareous and siliceous earths. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. calcarius pertaining to lime. See Calx. ] Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

Calcareous spar. Same as Calcite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being calcareous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. capreolus wild goat, tendril, fr.caper goat: cf. F. capréolé. ] (Bot.) Having a tendril or tendrils. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. capreolus wild goat, fr. caper goat. ] (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the roebuck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of deer including the roe deer (Capreolus capreolus).
Syn. -- genus Capreolus. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. [ L. cereus, fr. cera was. ] Waxen; like wax. [ Obs. ] Gayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; dance + -graphy. ] 1. The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes; -- also called choregraphy. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. the art of composing dances for individuals or groups, including the planning of the movements and steps; also, the planning of movements and steps for figure skaters, performed on ice. [ PJC ]

3. the planning and coordination of activities for an event, especially one to be held in public. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; useful + &unr_; art. ] The science of the useful arts, esp. agriculture, manufactures, and commerce. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cinereus, fr. cinis ashes. ] Like ashes; ash-colored; grayish. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ NL., fr. Gr. ko`ris bug + 'o`psis appearance. ] (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. Coreopsis tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Zool.) Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Horny on one side and calcareous on the other. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cr&unr_;ole, Sp. criollo, from an American negro word, perh. a corruption of a Sp. criadillo, dim. of criado servant, formerly also, child, fr. L. creatus, p. p. of creare to create. Cf. Create. ] One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a person of French or Spanish descent, who is a native inhabitant of Louisiana, or one of the States adjoining, bordering on the Gulf of of Mexico. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ “The term creole negro is employed in the English West Indies to distinguish the negroes born there from the Africans imported during the time of the slave trade. The application of this term to the colored people has led to an idea common in some parts of the United States, though wholly unfounded, that it implies an admixture greater or less of African blood.” R. Hildreth. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ “The title [ Creole ] did not first belong to the descendants of Spanish, but of French, settlers, But such a meaning implied a certain excellence of origin, and so came early to include any native of French or Spanish descent by either parent, whose nonalliance with the slave race entitled him to social rank. Later, the term was adopted by, not conceded to, the natives of mixed blood, and is still so used among themselves. . . . Besides French and Spanish, there are even, for convenience of speech, 'colored' Creoles; but there are no Italian, or Sicilian, nor any English, Scotch, Irish, or 'Yankee' Creoles, unless of parentage married into, and themselves thoroughly proselyted in, Creole society.” G. W. Cable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a Creole or the Creoles. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In New Orleans the word Creole is applied to any product, or variety of manufacture, peculiar to Louisiana; as, Creole ponies, chickens, cows, shoes, eggs, wagons, baskets, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Louisiana; -- a nickname. See Creole, n. & a. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ }, a. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Creoles. -- n. A Creole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Creosote + phenol. ] (Chem.) A colorless liquid resembling phenol or carbolic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum. [ Written also creasol. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kre`as, gen. kre`ws, flesh + sw`zein to preserve. ] (Chem.) Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is remarkable as an antiseptic and deodorizer in the preservation of wood, flesh, etc., and in the prevention of putrefaction; but it is a poor germicide, and in this respect has been overrated. Smoked meat, as ham, owes its preservation and taste to a small quantity of creosote absorbed from the smoke to which it is exposed. Carbolic acid is phenol{ 1 } proper, while creosote is a mixture of several phenols. [ 1913 Webster ]

Coal-tar creosote (Chem.), a colorless or yellow, oily liquid, obtained in the distillation of coal tar, and resembling wood-tar oil, or creosote proper, in composition and properties. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Creosoted p. pr. & vb. n. Creosoting. ] To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay.

. A shrub (Covillea mexicana) found in desert regions from Colorado to California and southward through Mexico. It has yellow flowers and very resinous foliage with a strong odor of creosote. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. cupreus, fr. cuprum. ] Consisting of copper or resembling copper; coppery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Daguerre the inventor + -type. ] 1. An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The process of taking such pictures. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Daguerreotyped p. pr. & vb. n. Daguerreotyping ] 1. To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.

{ } n. One who takes daguerreotypes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art or process of producing pictures by method of Daguerre. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Electrotype. [ 1913 Webster ]