a. (Zool.) Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. -- n. A spiny-finned fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; thorn + &unr_; fin, dim. fr. &unr_; wing. ] (Zool.) An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny-finned. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Adulteries [ L. adulterium. See Advoutry. ] 1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is adultery on the part of the married wrongdoer. The word has also been used to characterize the act of an unmarried participator, the other being married. In the United States the definition varies with the local statutes. Unlawful intercourse between two married persons is sometimes called double adultery; between a married and an unmarried person, single adultery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Adulteration; corruption. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Script.) (a) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment. (b) Faithlessness in religion. Jer. iii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Old Law) The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Eccl.) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Injury; degradation; ruin. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An aerie. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Air. ] Aërial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary. [ Poetic ] M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Allotment. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Ambry. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 the smallest moa (Anomalopteryx oweni); it is a slender moa about the size of a large turkey.
Syn. -- Anomalopteryx oweni. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Opposed to slavery. -- n. Opposition to slavery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Aperies. 1. A place where apes are kept. [ R. ] Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The practice of aping; an apish action. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Apteryx. ] (Zool.) An order of birds, including the genus Apteryx. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a ratite bird order: flightless ground birds having vestigial wings and long bills and small eyes: kiwis.
Syn. -- order Apterygiformes [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Gr. 'a priv. + pte`ryx wing. Cf. Aptera. ] (Zool.) A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. 'archai^os ancient + pte`ryx wing. ] (Paleon.) A fossil bird, of the Jurassic period, remarkable for having a long tapering tail of many vertebræ with feathers along each side, and jaws armed with teeth, with other reptilian characteristics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an extinct primitive toothed bird (Archaeopteryx lithographica) of the Upper Jurassic having a long feathered tail and hollow bones; usually considered the most primitive of all known birds. Same as archaeopteryx.
Syn. -- archaeopteryx. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. archerie. ] 1. The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Archers, or bowmen, collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let all our archery fall off
In wings of shot a-both sides of the van. Webster (1607). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. pref. 'archi- (E. arch-) + ptery`gion wing, fin. ] (Anat.) The primitive form of fin, like that of Ceratodus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. arch- + presbytery. ] The absolute dominion of presbytery. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Arteries [ L. arteria windpipe, artery, Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. The trachea or windpipe. [ Obs. ] “Under the artery, or windpipe, is the mouth of the stomach.” Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) One of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In man and other mammals, the arteries which contain arterialized blood receive it from the left ventricle of the heart through the aorta. See Aorta. The pulmonary artery conveys the venous blood from the right ventricle to the lungs, whence the arterialized blood is returned through the pulmonary veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: Any continuous or ramified channel of communication; as, arteries of trade or commerce. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. artilrie, OF. artillerie, arteillerie, fr. LL. artillaria, artilleria, machines and apparatus of all kinds used in war, vans laden with arms of any kind which follow camps; F. artillerie great guns, ordnance; OF. artillier to work artifice, to fortify, to arm, prob. from L. ars, artis, skill in joining something, art. See Art. ] 1. Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad. 1 Sam. xx. 40. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word is sometimes used in a more extended sense, including the powder, cartridges, matches, utensils, machines of all kinds, and horses, that belong to a train of artillery. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The science of artillery or gunnery. Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Artillery park, or
Park of artillery. (a) A collective body of siege or field artillery, including the guns, and the carriages, ammunition, appurtenances, equipments, and persons necessary for working them. (b) The place where the artillery is encamped or collected. --
Artillery train, or
Train of artillery, a number of pieces of ordnance mounted on carriages, with all their furniture, ready for marching. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. A depository for ashes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place where potash is made. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A form of Ambry, a closet; but confused with Almonry, as if a place for alms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Babble. [ Obs. ] Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. orig. for baboonery. Cf. Baboon, and also Babe. ] Finery of a kind to please a child. [ Obs. ] “Painted babery.” Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Baboonish behavior. Marryat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The trade of a baker. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place for baking bread; a bakehouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n.; pl. Baptisteries Baptistries [ L. baptisterium, Gr. baptisth`rion: cf. F. baptistère. ] (Arch.) (a) In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near. (b) A part of a church containing a font and used for baptismal services. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A tanhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Barter. [ Obs. ] Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. ba`sis a base + ptery`gion a fin. ] (Anat.) A bar of cartilage at the base of the embryonic fins of some fishes. It develops into the metapterygium. -- Ba*sip`ter*yg"i*al a. [1913 Webster]

a. & n. [ Basi- + pterygoid. ] (Anat.) Applied to a protuberance of the base of the sphenoid bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Batteries [ F. batterie, fr. battre. See Batter, v. t. ] 1. The act of battering or beating. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mil.) (a) Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense. (b) Two or more pieces of artillery in the field. (c) A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns. [ 1913 Webster ]

Barbette battery. See Barbette. --
Battery d'enfilade, or
Enfilading battery, one that sweeps the whole length of a line of troops or part of a work. --
Battery en écharpe, one that plays obliquely. --
Battery gun, a gun capable of firing a number of shots simultaneously or successively without stopping to load. --
Battery wagon, a wagon employed to transport the tools and materials for repair of the carriages, etc., of the battery. --
In battery, projecting, as a gun, into an embrasure or over a parapet in readiness for firing. --
Masked battery, a battery artificially concealed until required to open upon the enemy. --
Out of battery, or
From battery, withdrawn, as a gun, to a position for loading. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Elec.) (a) A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously. (b) An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the trough battery, copper and zinc plates, connected in pairs, divide the trough into cells, which are filled with an acid or oxidizing liquid; the effect is exhibited when wires connected with the two end-plates are brought together. In Daniell's battery, the metals are zinc and copper, the former in dilute sulphuric acid, or a solution of sulphate of zinc, the latter in a saturated solution of sulphate of copper. A modification of this is the common gravity battery, so called from the automatic action of the two fluids, which are separated by their specific gravities. In Grove's battery, platinum is the metal used with zinc; two fluids are used, one of them in a porous cell surrounded by the other. In Bunsen's or the carbon battery, the carbon of gas coke is substituted for the platinum of Grove's. In Leclanché's battery, the elements are zinc in a solution of ammonium chloride, and gas carbon surrounded with manganese dioxide in a porous cell. A secondary battery is a battery which usually has the two plates of the same kind, generally of lead, in dilute sulphuric acid, and which, when traversed by an electric current, becomes charged, and is then capable of giving a current of itself for a time, owing to chemical changes produced by the charging current. A storage battery is a kind of secondary battery used for accumulating and storing the energy of electrical charges or currents, usually by means of chemical work done by them; an accumulator. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Metallurgy) A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Baseball) The pitcher and catcher together. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Office or jurisdiction of a beadle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or resembling beer; affected by beer; maudlin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ NL. beryx, the name of the typical genus + -oid. ] (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Berycidæ, a family of marine fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. [ F. béryl, OF. beril, L. beryllus, Gr. bh`ryllos, prob. fr. Skr. vai&dsdot_;ūrya. Cf. Brilliant. ] (Min.) A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminum and beryllium. The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a beryl; of a light or bluish green color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. ] (Chem.) A metallic element found in the beryl. See Glucinum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Beryl + -oid. ] (Crystallog.) A solid consisting of a double twelve-sided pyramid; -- so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment; charm; fascination. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From Beder or Bidar a town in India. ] A kind of metallic ware made in India. The material is a composition of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened. [ Spelt also bidry, bidree, bedery, beder. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Bleacheries A place or an establishment where bleaching is done. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of blisters. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Manuf.) A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Swollen; protuberant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass. [ 1913 Webster ]