n. 1. same as adamancy.
Syn. -- obstinacy, obduracy, unyieldingness, adamancy [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. 1. obstinacy.
Syn. -- obstinacy, obduracy, unyieldingness, adamance [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ OE. adamaunt, adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant, L. adamas, adamantis, the hardest metal, fr. Gr. 'ada`mas, -antos; 'a priv. + dama^, n to tame, subdue. In OE., from confusion with L. adamare to love, be attached to, the word meant also magnet, as in OF. and LL. See Diamond, Tame. ] 1. A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Opposed the rocky orb
Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lodestone; magnet. [ Obs. ] “A great adamant of acquaintance.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

As true to thee as steel to adamant. Greene. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adamantēus. ] Of adamant; hard as adamant. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adamantinus, Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Min.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From L. adhamare to catch; ad + hamus hook. ] Clinging, as by hooks. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A native or resident of Alabama.
Syn. -- Alabamian [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. amande almond. See Almond. ] 1. The vegetable casein of almonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of cold cream prepared from almonds, for chapped hands, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Amanitine. ] (Bot.) A genus of poisonous fungi of the family Agaricaceæ, characterized by having a volva, an annulus, and white spores. The species resemble edible mushrooms, and are frequently mistaken for them. Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius, is the fly amanita, or fly agaric; and Agaricus phalloides is the death cup (or death cap). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a sort of fungus. ] The poisonous principle of some fungi. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Amanuenses [ L., fr. a, ab + manus hand. ] A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Russ. ataman': cf. Pol. hetman, G. hauptmann headman, chieftain. Cf. Hetman. ] A hetman, or chief of the Cossacks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. calamancus, calamacus; cf. camelaucum; a head covering made of camel's hair, NGr. kamelay`kion, and F. calmande a woolen stuff. ] A glossy woolen stuff, plain, striped, or checked. “A gay calamanco waistcoat.” Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros quæsita. Called also Coromandel wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Chinamen A native of China; a Chinese. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. clamans, p. pr. of clamare to call. Cf. Claimant. ] Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorously. “Clamant children.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is Hyrax Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. diamant diamond + -ferous. ] Yielding diamonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adamantine. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }. (Bot.) A poisonous mushroom (Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius), having usually a bright red or yellowish cap covered with irregular white spots. It has a distinct volva at the base, generally an upper ring on the stalk, and white spores. Called also fly agaric, deadly amanita. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Indiamen A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. lamantin, lamentin, prob. from the name of the animal in the Antilles. Cf. Manater. ] (Zool.) The manatee. [ Written also lamentin, and lamantine. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Militiamen One who belongs to the militia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Monothalamous. ] (Zool.) A foraminifer having but one chamber. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pert. to Panama. -- n. A native or citizen of Panama. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Of or pertaining to Rhadamanthus; rigorously just; as, a Rhadamanthine judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;. ] (Greek Mythol.) One of the three judges of the infernal regions; figuratively, a strictly just judge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. salamandre, L. salamandra, Gr. &unr_;; cf. Per. samander, samandel. ] 1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of Urodela, belonging to Salamandra, Amblystoma, Plethodon, and various allied genera, especially those that are more or less terrestrial in their habits. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The salamanders have, like lizards, an elongated body, four feet, and a long tail, but are destitute of scales. They are true Amphibia, related to the frogs. Formerly, it was a superstition that the salamander could live in fire without harm, and even extinguish it by the natural coldness of its body. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have maintained that salamander of yours with fire any time this two and thirty years. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whereas it is commonly said that a salamander extinguisheth fire, we have found by experience that on hot coals, it dieth immediately. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The pouched gopher (Geomys tuza) of the Southern United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A culinary utensil of metal with a plate or disk which is heated, and held over pastry, etc., to brown it. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A large poker. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Metal.) Solidified material in a furnace hearth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Giant salamander. (Zool.) See under Giant. --
Salamander's hair or
Salamander's wool (Min.), a species of asbestos or mineral flax. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) A suborder of Urodela, comprising salamanders. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Salamander + -oid. ] (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the salamanders. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) A division of Amphibia including the Salamanders and allied groups; the Urodela. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Seamen A merman; the male of the mermaid. [ R. ] “Not to mention mermaids or seamen.” Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Seamen [ AS. saeman. ] One whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and common mariners, but especially to the latter. Opposed to landman, or landsman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Able seaman, a sailor who is practically conversant with all the duties of common seamanship. --
Ordinary seaman. See Ordinary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The skill of a good seaman; the art, or skill in the art, of working a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the native name. ] A priest of Shamanism; a wizard among the Shamanists. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Shamanism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The type of religion which once prevalied among all the Ural-Altaic peoples (Tungusic, Mongol, and Turkish), and which still survives in various parts of Northern Asia. The Shaman, or wizard priest, deals with good as well as with evil spirits, especially the good spirits of ancestors. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An adherent of Shamanism. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Malay siāmang. ] (Zool.) A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp., from the native name: cf. F. tamandua. ] (Zool.) A small ant-eater (Tamandua tetradactyla) native of the tropical parts of South America. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It has five toes on the fore feet, an elongated snout, small ears, and short woolly hair. Its tail is stout and hairy at the base, tapering, and covered with minute scales, and is somewhat prehensile at the end. Called also tamandua, little ant-bear, fourmilier, and cagouare. The collared, or striped, tamandu (Tamandua bivittata) is considered a distinct species by some writers, but by others is regarded as only a variety. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The ant-bear. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; ashes + -mancy. ] Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A large ornamental tropical American tree (Albizia saman) with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
Syn. -- rain tree, saman, monkeypod, monkey pod, zamang. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. (Bot.) An immense leguminous tree (Pithecolobium Saman) of Venezuela. Its branches form a hemispherical mass, often one hundred and eighty feet across. The sweet pulpy pods are used commonly for feeding cattle. Also called rain tree. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). [ 1913 Webster ]