adj. 1. 1 growing well in an acid medium; said of some bacteria
Syn. -- aciduric [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Adopted; p. pr. & vb. n. Adopting. ] [ L. adoptare; ad + optare to choose, desire: cf. F. adopter. See Option. ] 1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being adopted. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. -- A*dopt"ed*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. One who adopts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [ Written also adapter. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adoptio, allied to adoptare to adopt: cf. F. adoption. ] 1. The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adopted. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adoptivus: cf. F. adoptif. ] Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language. -- A*dopt"ive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. [ Aphis + Gr. &unr_; to eat. ] (Zool.) Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus comprising the alligatorfishes.
Syn. -- genus Aspidophoroides. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Music) a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a sprout + &unr_; a leaf. ] (Bot.) A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a class or subdivision of plants comprising palmlike gymnosperms: it includes the surviving order Cycadales and several extinct orders; possibly not a natural group; in some systems considered a class (Cycadopsida) and in others a subdivision (Cycadophytina or Cycadophyta).
Syn. -- class Cycadopsida, subdivision Cycadophytina, subdivision Cycadophyta. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. Dap, Dip. ] To dip. [ Obs. ] Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dip; a low courtesy. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a foreign substance added to a material to alter its properties; -- a process used. e.g., in making semiconductors from pure silicon in the manufacture of semiconductor chips and integrated circuits. [ PJC ]

n. [ D. doop a dipping, fr. doopen to dip. Cf. Dip. ] 1. Any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as of opium for medicinal purposes, of grease for a lubricant, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Any preparation, as of opium, used to stupefy or, in the case of a race horse, to stimulate. [ Slang or Cant ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. An absorbent material; esp., in high explosives, the sawdust, infusorial earth, mica, etc., mixed with nitroglycerin to make a damp powder (dynamite, etc.) less dangerous to transport, and ordinarily explosive only by suitable fulminating caps. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. Information concerning the previous performances of race horses, or other facts concerning them which may be of assistance in judging of their chances of winning future races; similar information concerning other sports; by extension, any information not generally known, especially when coming from an inside source; as, the inside dope. [ Sporting Slang ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

5. an ignorant or stupid person. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ]

get the dope on learn the true story; get the inside information.

v. t. 1. To treat or affect with dope; as, to dope nitroglycerin; specif.: (a) To give stupefying drugs to; to drug. [ Slang ] (b) To administer a stimulant to (a horse) to increase his speed. It is a serious offense against the laws of racing. [ Race-track Slang ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. To judge or guess; to predict the result of, as by the aid of dope. [ Slang ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. to impregnate with a dopant. [ PJC ]

n. A chart of previous performances, etc., of race horses; a racing form. [ Race-track Slang ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ G. ] A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ D. dooper. ] [ Written also doper. ] An Anabaptist or Baptist. [ Contemptuous ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after the physicist and mathematician Christian Doppler. ] (Min.) A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. stupid; as, a dopy kid. [ Colloq. ]
Syn. -- cloddish, doltish. [ PJC ]

2. [ affected by dope{ 2 }. ] dulled or stupefied by alcohol or narcotics; sluggish or dull as though under the influence of a narcotic. [ Slang ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

3. revealing stupidity; as, a dopey answer. [ wns=2 ]
Syn. -- anserine, dopey, fool(prenominal), foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Endo- + parasite. ] (Zoöl.) Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozoön. -- En`do*par`a*sit"ic a. [1913 Webster]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'e`ndon within + floio`s bark. ] (Bot.) The inner layer of the bark of trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'e`ndon + fra`gma a fence. ] (Zoöl.) A chitinous structure above the nervous cord in the thorax of certain Crustacea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the endophragma. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Endo- + Gr. fy`llon leaf. ] (Bot.) Wrapped up within a leaf or sheath. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Endo- + Gr. &unr_; anything formed or molded. ] (Biol.) The protoplasm in the interior of a cell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Endoplasm. ] (Biol.) Same as Entoplasm and Endosarc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Endo- + Gr. &unr_; to form. ] (Biol.) See Nucleus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; within + &unr_; plastic. ] (Zoöl.) A group of Rhizopoda having a distinct nucleus, as the amœba. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A dim. fr. endo- + Gr. &unr_; to mold. ] (Biol.) See Nucleolus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; within + &unr_; rib, side. See Pleura. ] (Bot.) The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Endo- + Gr. &unr_; a rib. ] (Zoöl.) The portion of each apodeme developed from the interepimeral membrane in certain crustaceans. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Endo- + Gr. poy`s, podo`s, a foot. ] (Zoöl.) The internal or principal branch of the locomotive appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilliped. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Indigo + phenol. ] (Chem.) Any one of a series of artificial blue dyestuffs, resembling indigo in appearance, and obtained by the action of phenol on certain nitrogenous derivatives of quinone. Simple indophenol proper, the parent compound of the dye series, is a quinonimine derivative with the formula C12H9NO2. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

{ } [ Gr. &unr_; beautiful + &unr_; appearance, form + &unr_; sound. ] (Physics.) An instrument invented by Professor Wheatstone, consisting of a reflecting knob at the end of a vibrating rod or thin plate, for making visible, in the motion of a point of light reflected from the knob, the paths or curves corresponding with the musical notes produced by the vibrations. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. lépidoptère. ] (Zool.) One of the Lepidoptera. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. lepi`s -i`dos, a scale + ptero`n a feather, wing. ] (Zool.) An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ They have a tubular proboscis, or haustellum, formed by the two slender maxillæ. The labial palpi are usually large, and the proboscis, when not in use, can be coiled up spirally between them. The mandibles are rudimentary. The larvæ, called caterpillars, are often brightly colored, and they commonly feed on leaves. The adults feed chiefly on the honey of flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as lepidopterous. [ PJC ]

n. An insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales; a lepidopterous insect.
Syn. -- lepidopterous insect, lepidopteron. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) One who studies the Lepidoptera. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales.
Syn. -- lepidopterous insect, lepidopteran. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Lepidoptera. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See lepidopteral. [ PJC ]

a. [ Levo- + DOPA, dihydroxyphenylalanine. ] (Chem. & Biochem.) A substance used as a therapy for Parkinson's Disease; the L form of Dopa; L-dihydroxyphenylalanine; L-hydroxytyrosine (C9H11NO4); also called L-dopa. In the body it is converted by the enzyme dopa-decarboxylase into dopamine, the form in which it is active in the brain, affecting neural impulse transmission. [ PJC ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Micro-, and Lepidoptera. ] (Zool.) A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]