{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_; stalk or L. caulis stalk. See Cole. ] (Bot.) Same as Acaulescent. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_; joint. ] (Nat. Hist.) Being without joints; jointless. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] (Zool.) Without tongue; tongueless. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. abnormally high alkalinity in the blood and other body fluids. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the genus comprising the most common varieties of shad. It replaces the older term Clupea. See also shad.
Syn. -- genus Alosa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ OE. aloser. ] To praise. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. alosa or alausa. ] (Zool.) The European shad (Alosa alosa formerly Clupea alosa); -- called also allice shad or allis shad. The name is sometimes applied to the American shad (Alosa sapidissima formerly Clupea sapidissima). See Shad. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) One of the starch group (C6H10O5)n of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; + &unr_; to double, &unr_;, &unr_;, twofold, double. ] (Rhet.) A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, “He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent.” [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Anchylosed p. pr. & vb. n. Anchylosing. ] [ Cf. F. ankyloser. ] To affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [ Spelt also ankylose. ] Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'agky`lwsis, fr. 'agkyloy^n to crook, stiffen, fr. 'agky`los crooked: cf. F. ankylose. ] 1. (Med.) The process of formation of a stiff joint; also, the abnormal adhesion and rigidity of the bones of a joint which has become stiff. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

2. (Anat.) The union of two or more separate bones to from a single bone; the close union of bones or other structures in various animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Angulous. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of being angulous or angular. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Anhelous; panting. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. Same as Anchylose. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. Same as Anchylosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ NL., fr. Ankylostoma, var. of Agchylostoma, generic name of one genus of the parasitic nematodes. ] (Med.) A disease caused by the hookworm parasites of the genus Ancylostoma (especially Ancylostoma duodenale), and Necator americanus. Typically, infection in humans occurs in the small intestine. In the small intestine they suck the blood from the wall and, when present in large numbers, produce a severe anaemia. Called also miner's anaemia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's anaemia, Egyptian chlorosis. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + AS ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) A division of the Invertebrata, nearly equivalent to the Articulata. It includes the Arthoropoda and Anarthropoda. By some Zoologists it is applied to the former only. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Annulosa. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. annulus ring. ] 1. Furnished with, or composed of, rings or ringlike segments; ringed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Annulosa. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of plants including the bearberry; manzanita.
Syn. -- genus Arctostaphylos. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. 'arthri`a + -logy. ] (Med.) a form of arteriosclerosis which affects predominantly the arterioles, found especially in people with chronic hypertension. Stedman [ PJC ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. ba`lanos acorn + glw^ssa tongue. ] (Zool.) A peculiar marine worm. See Enteropneusta, and Tornaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Pref. bi- + callose, callous. ] (Bot.) Having two callosities or hard spots. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Blossomy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. blosme, blostme, AS. blōsma, blōstma, blossom; akin to D. bloesem, L. fios, and E. flower; from the root of E. blow to blossom. See Blow to blossom, and cf. Bloom a blossom. ] 1. The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term has been applied by some botanists, and is also applied in common usage, to the corolla. It is more commonly used than flower or bloom, when we have reference to the fruit which is to succeed. Thus we use flowers when we speak of plants cultivated for ornament, and bloom in a more general sense, as of flowers in general, or in reference to the beauty of flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the blossom of my youth. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The color of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; -- otherwise called peach color. [ 1913 Webster ]

In blossom, having the blossoms open; in bloom. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Blossomed p. pr. & vb. n. Blossoming. ] [ AS. bl&unr_;stmian. See Blossom, n. ] 1. To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower. [ 1913 Webster ]

The moving whisper of huge trees that branched
And blossomed. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To flourish and prosper; to develop into a superior type. [ 1913 Webster ]

Israel shall blossom and bud, and full the face of the world with fruit. Isa. xxvii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. to appear or grow as if by blossoming; to spread out rapidly. [ PJC ]

n. the process of budding and unfolding of blossoms.
Syn. -- flowering, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Without blossoms. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of blossoms; flowery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Buglosses [ F. buglosse, L. buglossa, buglossus, fr. Gr. &unr_; oxtongue &unr_; ox + &unr_; tongue. ] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the Anchusa officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

Small wild bugloss, the Asperugo procumbens and the Lycopsis arvensis. --
Viper's bugloss, a species of Echium. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of the callosum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Callous. ] (Bot.) Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Callosities [ L. callasitas; cf. F. calosté. ] A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. callosus callous, hard. ] (Anat.) The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; curved + &unr_; seed. ] (Bot.) Having seeds grooved lengthwise on the inner face, as in sweet cicely. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature; -- called commonly cotton candy.
Syn. -- spun sugar. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

That which blasts a blossom as a canker does. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

O me! you juggler! you canker blossom!
You thief of Love! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. capillosus. ] Having much hair; hairy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of, or containing, cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) The substance which constitutes the essential part of the solid framework of plants, of ordinary wood, cotton, linen, paper, etc. It is also found to a slight extent in certain animals, as the tunicates. It is a carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, isomeric with starch, and is convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unsized, well bleached linen paper is merely pure cellulose. Goodale. [ 1913 Webster ]

Starch cellulose, the delicate framework which remains when the soluble part (granulose) of starch is removed by saliva or pepsin. Goodale. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or containing or made from cellulose.
Syn. -- cellulosic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genus of annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa.
Syn. -- genus Celosia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cephalo- + -some body. ] (Zool.) The anterior region or head of insects and other arthropods. Packard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ from Cephalosporium, a fungus producing the first of the series discovered. ] (Chem.) any of a class of chemical substances, some of which have therapeutically useful antibacterial activity, whose structure contains a beta-lactam ring fused to a six-membered ring containing a sulfur and a nitrogen atom. The first of the series, cephalosporin C, was discovered by G. Brotzu in 1955 in the culture broth of a Cephalosporium species found off the coast of Sardinia. Other cephalosporins have been found to be produced by species of soil bacteria (actinomycetes). Many semisynthetic analogs have been tested for antibacterial effect, and several of them have found use as important clinically useful antibacterial agents, some of which may be taken orally for treatment of bacterial infections. The cephalosporins are the second class of beta-lactam antibiotic to be discovered, the first being the penicillins and more recent classes being the thienamycins and sulfazecins. The cephamycins are a variant of cephalosporins with a methoxyl group on the beta-lactam ring, rendering them more resistant to penicillinases. Among the cephalosporins which have been found clinically useful are cephalexin, cephaloridine, and cephalothin. [ PJC ]

n. [ Cephalo- + Gr. sty^los a pillar. ] (Anat.) The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; + &unr_;, &unr_;, outh. ] (Zool.) An extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells. [ Also written Chillostomata. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Chilostoma. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. cilium eyelid. ] (Med.) A spasmodic trembling of the upper eyelid. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a close manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Secretly; darkly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A wondrous vision which did close imply
The course of all her fortune and posterity. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]