a. [ L. alarius, fr. ala wing: cf. F. alaire. ] 1. Pertaining to, or having, wings. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Axillary; in the fork or axil. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. alarme, It. all' arme to arms ! fr. L. arma, pl., arms. See Arms, and cf. Alarum. ] 1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Joel ii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A sudden attack; disturbance; broil. [ R. ] “These home alarms.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy palace fill with insults and alarms. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alarm and resentment spread throughout the camp. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alarm bell, a bell that gives notice on danger. --
Alarm clock or
watch, a clock or watch which can be so set as to ring or strike loudly at a prearranged hour, to wake from sleep, or excite attention. --
Alarm gauge, a contrivance attached to a steam boiler for showing when the pressure of steam is too high, or the water in the boiler too low. --
Alarm post, a place to which troops are to repair in case of an alarm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Fright; affright; terror; trepidation; apprehension; consternation; dismay; agitation; disquiet; disquietude. -- Alarm, Fright, Terror, Consternation. These words express different degrees of fear at the approach of danger. Fright is fear suddenly excited, producing confusion of the senses, and hence it is unreflecting. Alarm is the hurried agitation of feeling which springs from a sense of immediate and extreme exposure. Terror is agitating and excessive fear, which usually benumbs the faculties. Consternation is overwhelming fear, and carries a notion of powerlessness and amazement. Alarm agitates the feelings; terror disorders the understanding and affects the will; fright seizes on and confuses the sense; consternation takes possession of the soul, and subdues its faculties. See Apprehension. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Alarmed p. pr. & vb. n. Alarming. ] [ Alarm, n. Cf. F. alarmer. ] 1. To call to arms for defense; to give notice to (any one) of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To keep in excitement; to disturb. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alarmed by rumors of military preparation. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Easily alarmed or disturbed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty. [ 1913 Webster ]

The white pavilions rose and fell
On the alarmed air. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an alarmed manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehension of danger; as, an alarming crisis or report. -- A*larm"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. the act of giving, or tendency to give, needless warnings. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. alarmiste. ] One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. alarom, the same word as alarm, n. ] See Alarm. [ Now Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The variant form alarum is now commonly restricted to an alarm signal or the mechanism to sound an alarm (as in an alarm clock.) [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alarius, fr. ala wing. ] Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

The alary system of insects. Wollaston. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Good against malaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the astragalus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Crotalum. ] (Bot.) A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Crotalaria juncea furnishes the fiber called sunn or Bombay hemp. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Didascalic. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any of numerous cycads of the genus Encephalartos having stout cylindrical trunks and a terminal crown of long, often spiny pinnate leaves. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Intercalary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. intercalaris, intercalarius: cf. F. intercalaire. See Intercalate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Chron.) Inserted or introduced among others in the calendar; as, an intercalary month, day, etc.; -- now applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted in the calendar of leap year. See Bissextile, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Introduced or inserted among others; additional; supernumerary. “Intercalary spines.” Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

This intercalary line . . . is made the last of a triplet. Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

Intercalary day (Med.), one on which no paroxysm of an intermittent disease occurs. Mayne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. inter- + petal. ] (Bot.) Between the petals of a flower. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. mala the cheek: cf. F. malaire. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the region of the cheek bone, or to the malar bone; jugal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Anat.) The cheek bone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit; that arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek; also called the malar bone.
Syn. -- cheekbone, zygomatic bone, malar bone, jugal bone, os zygomaticum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as malar, n. [ PJC ]

n. [ It., contr. fr. malaaria bad air. See Malice, and Air. ] 1. Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The morbific agent in malaria is supposed by some to be a vegetable microbe or its spores, and by others to be a very minute animal blood parasite (an infusorian). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A human disease caused by infection of red blood cells by a protozoan of the genus Plasmodium, giving rise to fever and chills and many other symptoms, characterized by their tendency to recur at definite and usually uniform intervals. The protozoal infection is usually transmitted from another infected individual by the bite of an Anopheles mosquito. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A mosquito that transmits the malaria parasite; it is most commonly the Anopheles mosquito. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. Any of several minute protozoans of the genus Plasmodium (syn. Haematozoon) which in their adult condition live in the tissues of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles (which see) and when transferred to the blood of man, by the bite of the mosquito, produce malaria. The young parasites, or sporozoites, enter the red blood corpuscles, growing at their expense, undergoing sporulation, and finally destroying the corpuscles, thus liberating in the blood plasma an immense number of small spores called merozoites. An indefinite but not ultimated number of such generations may follow, but if meanwhile the host is bitten by a mosquito, the parasites develop into gametes in the stomach of the insect. These conjugate, the zygote thus produced divides, forming spores, and eventually sporozoites, which, penetrating to the salivary glands of the mosquito, may be introduced into a new host. The attacks of the disease coincide with the dissolution of the corpuscles and liberation of the spores and products of growth of the parasites into the blood plasma. Several species of the parasite are distinguished, as Plasmodium vivax, producing tertian malaria; Plasmodium malariae, quartan malaria; and Plasmodium (subgenus Laverania) falciferum, the malarial fever of summer and autumn common in the tropics. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ , a. Of or pertaining, to or infected by, malaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

Malarial fever (Med.), a fever produced by malaria, and characterized by the occurrence of chills, fever, and sweating in distinct paroxysms, At intervals of definite and often uniform duration, in which these symptoms are wholly absent (intermittent fever), or only partially so (remittent fever); fever and ague; chills and fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. falaro`s having a patch of white + poy`s, podo`s, a foot: cf. F. phalarope. ] (Zool.) Any species of Phalaropus and allied genera of small wading birds (Grallæ), having lobate toes. They are often seen far from land, swimming in large flocks. Called also sea goose. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of birds, consisting of the phalaropes.
Syn. -- family Phalaropidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. The type genus of the Phalaropidae: the phalaropes.
Syn. -- genus Phalaropus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Receiving a salary; paid by a salary; having a salary attached; as, a salaried officer; a salaried office. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. salarius. ] Saline [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Salaries [ F. salaire, L. salarium, originally, salt money, the money given to the Roman soldiers for salt, which was a part of their pay, fr. salarius belonging to salt, fr. sal salt. See Salt. ] The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is hire and salary, not revenge. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Recompense for services paid at, or reckoned by, short intervals, as a day or week, is usually called wages. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Stipend; pay; wages; hire; allowance. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Salaried p. pr. & vb. n. Salarying ] To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Math.) In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., flight of steps. ] (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Scalaria, or family Scalaridae, having elongated spiral turreted shells, with rounded whorls, usually crossed by ribs or varices. The color is generally white or pale. Called also ladder shell, and wentletrap. See Ptenoglossa, and Wentletrap. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. scalare, scalaria, staircase, ladder + -form: cf. F. scalariforme. ] 1. Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Like or pertaining to a scalaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. scalaris, fr. scalae, pl. scala, staircase, ladder. ] Resembling a ladder; formed with steps. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L., from talaris pertaining to the ankles, fr. talus ankle. ] (Class. Myth.) Small wings or winged shoes represented as fastened to the ankles, -- chiefly used as an attribute of Mercury. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the temple and the region of the malar bone; as, the temporomalar nerve. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Pertaining to typhoid fever and malaria; as, typhomalarial fever, a form of fever having symptoms both of malarial and typhoid fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]