n. [ L. acetum vinegar, fr. acere to be sour. ] (Chem.) A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Combined with acetic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] (Rhet.) An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. arietatus, p. p. of arietare, fr. aries ram. ] To butt, as a ram. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. arietatio. ] 1. The act of butting like a ram; act of using a battering-ram. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Act of striking or conflicting. [ R. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a type of particle accelerator which accelerates a continuous beam of electrons to high speeds by means of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux.
Syn. -- induction accelerator. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. castramétation, fr. L. castra camp + metari to measure off, fr. meta limit. ] (Mil.) The art or act of encamping; the making or laying out of a camp. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F., fr. état state + L. major greater. ] (Mil.) The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers.

n [ Pref. ex- + fetation. ] (Med.) Imperfect fetation in some organ exterior to the uterus; extra-uterine fetation. Hoblyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Fetation. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Aapable of being reached or attained; as, a very getatable man; both oil and coal are there but not in getatable locations.
Syn. -- come-at-able, get-at-able. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hebetated p. pr. & vb. n. Hebetating. ] [ L. hebetatus, p. p. of hebetare to dull. See Hebete. ] To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties. Southey [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Obtuse; dull. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Having a dull or blunt and soft point. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. hebetatio: cf. F. hébétation. ] 1. The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being blunted or dulled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inquietatio : cf. F. inquielation. ] Disturbance. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Between the metatarsal bones. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. interpretatio: cf. F. interprétation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma. [ 1913 Webster ]

Look how we can, or sad or merrily,
Interpretation will misquote our looks. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The power or explaining. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Fine Arts) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Math.) The act or process of applying general principles or formulæ to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.

Syn. -- Explanation; solution; translation; version; sense; exposition; rendering; definition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. interprétatif. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory. “Interpretative lexicography.” Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. According to interpretation; constructive. [ 1913 Webster ]

An interpretative siding with heresies. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By interpretation. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the metatarsus. -- n. A metatarsal bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Anat.) Metatarsus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Metatarsi [ NL. See Meta-, and Tarsus. ] (Anat.) That part of the skeleton of the hind or lower limb between the tarsus and phalanges; metatarse. It consists, in the human foot, of five bones. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., fr. Mex. metlatl. ] A flat or somewhat hollowed stone upon which grain or other food is ground, by means of a smaller stone or pestle. [ Southwestern U. S. & Sp. Amer. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

prop. n. A subclass of pouched animals.
Syn. -- subclass Metatheria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Any of a group of primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Metatheses [ L., fr. Gr. meta`qesis, fr. metatiqe`nai to place differently, to transpose; meta` beyond, over + tiqe`nai to place, set. See Thesis. ] 1. (Gram.) Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A mere change in place of a morbid substance, without removal from the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Chem.) The act, process, or result of exchange, substitution, or replacement of atoms and radicals; thus, by metathesis an acid gives up all or part of its hydrogen, takes on an equivalent amount of a metal or base, and forms a salt. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to metathesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the metathorax. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL.: cf. F. métathorax. See Meta-, and Thorax. ] (Zool.) The last or posterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. meta- + titanic. ] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of titanium analogous to metasilicic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of metatungstic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. meta- + tungstic. ] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid known only in its salts (the metatungstates) and properly called polytungstic, or pyrotungstic, acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) a salt or ester of oxalacetic acid.
Syn. -- oxaloacetate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. To vegetate anew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An acetate containing an excess of the basic constituent. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. [ L. superfetare; super above, over + fetare to bring forth. ] To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring. [ 1913 Webster ]

The female . . . is said to superfetate. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. superfétation. ] (Physiol.) The formation of a fetus at the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation but before the birth of the offspring produced by it. This is possible only when there is a double uterus, or where menstruation persists up to the time of the second impregnation. [ 1913 Webster ]

In then became a superfetation upon, and not an ingredient in, the national character. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Superfetation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) (a) Of or pertaining to both the tarsus and metatarsus; as, the tarsometatarsal articulations. (b) Of or pertaining to the tarsometatarsus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Tarsometatarsi [ NL. ] (Anat.) The large bone next the foot in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the distal part of the tarsus with the metatarsus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F. ] The third estate, or commonalty, in France, answering to the commons in Great Britain; -- so called in distinction from, and as inferior to, the nobles and clergy. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The refusal of the clergy and nobility to give the tiers état a representation in the States-general proportioned to their actual numbers had an important influence in bringing on the French Revolution of 1789. Since that time the term has been purely historical. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. transfretatio. See Transfrete. ] The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea. [ Obs. ] Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Vegetated p. pr. & vb. n. Vegetating. ] [ L. vegetatus, p. p. of vegetare to enliven. See Vegetable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. [ 1913 Webster ]

See dying vegetables life sustain,
See life dissolving vegetate again. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To lead a life too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. végétation, L. vegetatio an enlivening. See Vegetable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vegetation of salts (Old Chem.), a crystalline growth of an arborescent form. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. végétatif. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the power to produce growth in plants; as, the vegetative properties of soil. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Biol.) Having relation to growth or nutrition; partaking of simple growth and enlargement of the systems of nutrition, apart from the sensorial or distinctively animal functions; vegetal. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Veg"e*ta*tive*ly, adv. -- Veg"e*ta*tive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]