a. Alabastrine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to an atrium. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Austria, or to its inhabitants. -- n. A native or an inhabitant of Austria. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia. -- n. A native of Bactria. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bactrian camel, the two-humped camel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bimestris; bis twice + mensis month. ] Continuing two months. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. campester, fr. campus field. ] Relating to an open field; growing in a field, or open ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ L. de- + patria one's country. ] To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A subject born in any state
May, if he please, depatriate. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Finance) an index of certain stock prices on the New York Stock Exchange, computed by the Dow Jones publishing company as a weighted average of the prices of the common stocks of 30 specific companies classified as "industrial". The Dow Jones Industrial Average is often taken as an indicator of the movement of American stock prices generally, though other indices are maintained, averaging the prices of other stocks, and these often change in opposite directions from those of the DJIA.
Syn. -- DJI, DJIA, Dow, Dow Jones, Dow-Jones Average. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Elutriated p. pr. & vb. n. Elutriating ] [ L. elutriatus, p. p. of elutriare. ] To wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process of elutriating; a decanting or racking off by means of water, as finer particles from heavier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Epigastric. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who rides on horseback; a horseman; a rider. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. equester, from eques horseman, fr. equus horse: cf. F. équestre. See Equine. ] 1. Of or pertaining to horses or horsemen, or to horsemanship; as, equestrian feats, or games. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Being or riding on horseback; mounted; as, an equestrian statue. [ 1913 Webster ]

An equestrian lady appeared upon the plains. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Belonging to, or composed of, the ancient Roman equities or knights; as, the equestrian order. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art of riding on horseback; performance on horseback; horsemanship; as, feats equestrianism. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Expatriated p. pr. & vb. n. Expatriating ] [ LL. expatriatus, p. p. of expatriare; L. ex out + patria fatherland, native land, fr. pater father. See Patriot. ] 1. To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of. [ 1913 Webster ]

The expatriated landed interest of France. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Reflexively, as To expatriate one's self: To withdraw from one's native country; to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a citizen of another country. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. expatriation. ] The act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Expatriation was a heavy ransom to pay for the rights of their minds and souls. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. originating or located or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere; as, there is no clear evidence for extraterrestrial life. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a hypothetical form of life existing outside the Earth or its atmosphere, especially intelligent life on other planets or in other solar systems; as, what would you say to an extraterrestrial?.
Syn. -- extraterrestrial being, alien. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A genus of moths whose larvae are called fall webworms.
Syn. -- genus Hyphantria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. F. industriel, LL. industrialis. See Industry. ] Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights. [ 1913 Webster ]

The great ideas of industrial development and economic social amelioration. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

Industrial exhibition, a public exhibition of the various industrial products of a country, or of various countries. --
Industrial school, a school for teaching one or more branches of industry; also, a school for educating neglected children, and training them to habits of industry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Devotion to industrial pursuits; labor; industry. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The principles or policy applicable to industrial pursuits or organized labor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Industrialism must not confounded with industriousness. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To make industrial; to develop so that most of the working population is engaged in non-agricultural labor; to develop economically; -- of nations or geographical areas; as, to industrialize underdeveloped nations. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. made industrial; converted to industrialism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. With reference to industry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An area designated in zoning regulations to be used by industry, often located in a suburban area, and having some park-like sections. [ PJC ]

n. The changes in the methods of production as well as the resulting changes in economic and social organization accompanying the replacement of hand labor by power-driven machinery. It started in England in about 1760, and spread to other countries with very varying time lags. The introduction of powered machinery such as the steam engine and power loom led to the concentration of large areas of manufacturing in large companies, and made some goods more plentiful and cheaper by mechanical production and economies of scale. [ PJC ]

n. [ NL. ] See Yttria. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Geol.) A term applied to many American Mesozoic strata, in which the characteristics of the Jurassic and Triassic periods appear to be blended. -- Ju`ra-tri*as"sic a. [1913 Webster]

prop. a. 1. Of or pertaining to Lancaster{ 2 }; as, Lancastrian royalty. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Of or pertaining to the city of Lancaster{ 1 }; as, Lancastrian city center. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. Of or pertaining to the members of the house of Lancaster; as, Lancastrian members. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Lancaster; as, the Lancastrian population. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. 1. A member (or supporter) of the house of Lancaster. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A resident of Lancaster{ 1 }. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. latrei`a, fr. latrey`ein to serve, fr. la`tris servant. ] The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God; -- distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to saints. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. mater mother + -arch. ] 1. The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A woman who dominates or is the most important member of a group or organization; in businesses, often the founder or owner of the largest interest. [ PJC ]

3. A venerated old woman. [ PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to a matriarch; governed by a matriarch or matriarchs; as, a matriarchal society. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) A false or erroneous trial; a trial which has no result; a trial which comes to no conclusion, such as a criminal trial which does not produce a unanimous verdict of the jurors. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. [ Multi- + striate. ] Having many streaks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Niter. ] An artificial bed of animal matter for the manufacture of niter by nitrification. See Nitrification, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. not industrial; -- used of societies. Opposite of industrial and industrialized. [ Narrower terms: developing, underdeveloped; unindustrialized ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Nat. Hist.) Without striations; unstriped; as, nonstriated muscle fibers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. nutria an otter, fr. L. lutra, lytra. ] The fur of the coypu. See Coypu. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the gadflies. -- n. A gadfly. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. palaestricus, Gr. &unr_;. ] Of or pertaining to the palestra, or to wrestling. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. patria fatherland, country, fr. pater father. ] (Lat. Gram.) Derived from the name of a country, and designating an inhabitant of the country; gentile; -- said of a noun. -- n. A patrial noun. Thus Romanus, a Roman, and Troas, a woman of Troy, are patrial nouns, or patrials. Andrews. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. patriarche, L. patriarcha, Gr. paria`rchhs, fr. paria` lineage, especially on the father's side, race; path`r father + 'archo`s a leader, chief, fr. 'a`rchein to lead, rule. See Father, Archaic. ] 1. The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (R. C. Ch. & Gr. Ch.) A dignitary superior to the order of archbishops; as, the patriarch of Constantinople, of Alexandria, or of Antioch. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

The patriarch hoary, the sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

The monarch oak, the partiarch of trees. Dryde. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. patriarcal. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a patriarchal church. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable. [ 1913 Webster ]

About whose patriarchal knee
Late the little children clung. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Ethnol.) Having an organization of society and government in which the head of the family exercises authority over all its generations. [ 1913 Webster ]

Patriarchal cross (Her.), a cross, the shaft of which is intersected by two transverse beams, the upper one being the smaller. See Illust. (2) of Cross. --
Patriarchal dispensation, the divine dispensation under which the patriarchs lived before the law given by Moses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. patriarcat. ] 1. The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The residence of an ecclesiastic patriarch. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Ethnol.) A patriarchal form of government or society. See Patriarchal, a., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. patriarchicus, Gr. patriarchiko`s. ] Patriarchal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Government by a patriarch, or the head of a family. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A patriarchate. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]