n. The Muslim Scriptures. Same as Alcoran and Koran. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Alcoranic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Alcoranist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a visual defect in which the shape and size of an ocular image differ in the two eyes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to aniseikonia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F ] (Petrog) A sandstone derived from the disintegration of granite or gneiss, and characterized by feldspar fragments. -- Ar*kos"ic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; bearing males; &unr_; a male + &unr_; a bringing forth. ] (Zool.) Producing males from unfertilized eggs, as certain wasps and bees. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; barren; 'a priv. + &unr_; offspring. ] (Zool.) Producing only asexual individuals, as the eggs of certain annelids. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Mali. Population (2000) = 746, 000. [ PJC ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Thailand. Population (2000) = 5, 882, 000. [ PJC ]

n. [ A mnemonic word. ] (Logic) A form or mode of syllogism of which the first proposition is a universal affirmative, and the other two are particular negatives. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Beckoned (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Beckoning. ] To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand. [ 1913 Webster ]

His distant friends, he beckons near. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

It beckons you to go away with it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sign made without words; a beck. “At the first beckon.” Bolingbroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. any darkness resulting from the extinction of lights. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. the failure of electric power for a general region sufficient to extinguish all normal lighting.
Syn. -- brownout, dimout. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. a momentary loss of consciousness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

5. partial or total loss of memory. he has a total blackout for events of the evening
Syn. -- amnesia, memory loss. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

6. a period during which artificial lighting is forbidden, as in a city as a precaution against an air raid. [ PJC ]

7. (Theater) the darkening of all stage lights, as at then end of a performance or between acts. [ PJC ]

8. suppression of information distribution; as, there was a blackout on news from the military for the first day of the Gulf War. [ PJC ]

9. the prohibition of the broadcasting of a sports event, such as a boxing match or football game, sometimes confined to one particular area. It is usually done to encourage sales of tickets to the event. [ PJC ]

n. [ Sf. Sp. banco bank, banca a sort of game at cards. Cf. Bank (in the commercial sense). ] A kind of swindling game or scheme, originally by means of cards or by a sham lottery, but now used for any swindling tactic. [ Written also bunco. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bunkoed p. pr. & vb. n. Bunkoing. ] To swindle by a bunko game or scheme; to cheat or victimize in any similar way, as by a confidence game, passing a bad check, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Bunko steerer, a person employed as a decoy in bunko. [ Slang, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the latest time for vacating a hotel room without being charged for extra time; as, the checkout here is 12 noon.
Syn. -- checkout time. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A counter in a supermarket or other retail store where one pays for one's purchases.
Syn. -- checkout counter. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A counter in a supermarket where one pays for one's purchases.
Syn. -- checkout. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a counter in a supermarket where you pay for your purchases.
Syn. -- checkout. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. the latest time for vacating a hotel room without being charged for extra time; as, the checkout here is 12 noon.
Syn. -- checkout. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an imaginary place where fantasy and illusion predominate; it is a place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ OE. kukeweld, cokewold, cokold, fr. OF. coucoul, cucuault, the last syllable being modified by the OE. suffix -wold (see Herald); cf. F. cocu a cuckold, formerly also, a cuckoo, and L. cuculus a cuckoo. The word alludes to the habit of the female cuckoo, who lays her eggs in the nests of other birds, to be hatched by them. ] 1. A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter). (b) The cowfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cuckolded; p. pr. & vb. n. Cuckolding. ] To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cuckold. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the qualities of a cuckold; mean-spirited; sneaking. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of a cuckold; cuckolds, collectively. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Naut.) A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; -- called also cuckold's neck. Ham. Nav. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. coccou, cukkow, F. coucou, prob. of imitative origin; cf. L. cuculus, Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, Skr. k&unr_;ki&unr_;a, G. kuckuk, D. koekoek. ] (Zool.) A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The European cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) builds no nest of its own, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds, to be hatched by them. The American yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus Americanus) and the black-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus erythrophthalmus) build their own nests. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cuckoo clock, a clock so constructed that at the time for striking it gives forth sounds resembling the cry of the cuckoo. --
Cuckoo dove (Zool.), a long-tailed pigeon of the genus Macropygia. Many species inhabit the East Indies. --
Cuckoo fish (Zool.), the European red gurnard (Trigla cuculus). The name probably alludes to the sound that it utters. --
Cuckoo falcon (Zool.), any falcon of the genus Baza. The genus inhabits Africa and the East Indies. --
Cuckoo maid (Zool.), the wryneck; -- called also cuckoo mate. --
Cuckoo ray (Zool.), a British ray (Raia miraletus). --
Cuckoo spit, or
Cuckoo spittle. (a) A frothy secretion found upon plants, exuded by the larvae of certain insects, for concealment; -- called also toad spittle and frog spit. (b) (Zool.) A small hemipterous insect, the larva of which, living on grass and the leaves of plants, exudes this secretion. The insects belong to Aphrophora, Helochara, and allied genera. --
Ground cuckoo, the chaparral cock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.), a bee, parasitic in the larval stage in the nests of other bees, feeding either upon their food or larvae. They belong to the genera Nomada, Melecta, Epeolus, and others. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A species of Ranunculus (Ranunculus bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a bee that is parasitic in the nests of bumblebees. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) A species of Cardamine (Cardamine pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Arum (Arum maculatum); the European wake-robin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a common European arum (Arum maculatum) with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; it emerges in early spring, and is the source of a sagolike starch called arum.
Syn. -- cuckoopint, lords and ladies, lords-and-ladies, jack-in-the-pulpit, Arum maculatum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a radish of Japan (Raphanus sativus longipinnatus) with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked.
Syn. -- Japanese radish, Raphanus sativus longipinnatus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n., n. See Dacoit, Dacoity. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Geol.) A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Dacota /sing>. (Ethnol.) An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux. [ Written also Dacotahs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) See under Dead, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. di- = di`s- twice + &unr_; a bringing forth, offspring. ] (Zool.) (a) Having two kinds of young, as certain annelids. (b) Producing only two eggs for a clutch, as certain birds do. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Zool.) See Lepidosiren. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. e'ikw`n. ] 1. An image or effigy; -- used rather in an abstract sense, and rarely for a work of art. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. an ikon. [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. e'ikw`n, e'iko`nos, image + root of gi`gnesqai to be born. ] (Photog. & Chem.) The sodium salt of a sulphonic acid of a naphthol, C10H5(OH)(NH2)SO3Na used as a developer. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. e'i`kosi. ] (Chem.) A solid hydrocarbon, C20H42, of the paraffin series, of artificial production, and also probably occurring in petroleum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. e'i`kosi twenty + acetylene. ] (Chem.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C20H38, of the acetylene series, obtained from brown coal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Geckoes [ Cf. F. & G. gecko; -- so called from the sound which the animal utters. ] (Zool.) Any lizard of the family Geckonidæ. The geckoes are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and vertical, elliptical pupils. Their toes are generally expanded, and furnished with adhesive disks, by which they can run over walls and ceilings. They are numerous in warm countries, and a few species are found in Europe and the United States. See Wall gecko, Fanfoot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A gecko. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A bird of the Heron family; the umber. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hex- + eikosane. ] (chem.) A hydrocarbon, C26H54, resembling paraffine; -- so called because each molecule has twenty-six atoms of carbon. [ Written also hexacosane. ] [ 1913 Webster ]