{ } a. All-powerful; almighty. [ Obs. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With almighty power. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. ealmihtig, ælmihtig; eal (OE. al) all + mihtig mighty. ] 1. Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful; irresistible. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am the Almighty God. Gen. xvii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Great; extreme; terrible. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Poor Aroar can not live, and can not die, -- so that he is in an almighty fix. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Almighty, the omnipotent God. Rev. i. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Amigos /plu>. [ Sp., fr. L. amicus. ] A friend; -- a Spanish term applied in the Philippine Islands to friendly natives. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. armiger armor bearer; arma arms + gerere to bear. ] Formerly, an armor bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services. In later use, one next in degree to a knight, and entitled to armorial bearings. The term is now superseded by esquire. Jacob. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bearing arms. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They belonged to the armigerous part of the population, and were entitled to write themselves Esquire. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Chemical + &unr_; to engrave. ] Engraved by a voltaic battery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Chemical + -graphy. ] Any mechanical engraving process depending upon chemical action; specif., a process of zinc etching not employing photography. -- Chem`i*graph"ic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

v. i. [ L. commigrare, commigratum. ] To migrate together. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. commigratio. ] Migration together. [ R. ] Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female demigod. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. demi- gorge. ] (Fort.) Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. demigrare, demigratum, to emigrate. See De-, and Migrate. ] To emigrate. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ L. demigratio. ] Emigration. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A half groat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. emigrans, -antis, p. pr. of emigrare to emigrate: cf. F. émigrant. See Emigrate, v. i. ] 1. Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to an emigrant; used for emigrants; as, an emigrant ship or hospital. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another.

Syn. -- Emigrant, Immigrant. Emigrant and emigration have reference to the country from which the migration is made; the correlative words immigrant and immigration have reference to the country into which the migration is made, the former marking the going out from a country, the latter the coming into it. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Emigrated p. pr. & vb. n. Emigrating. ] [ L. emigratus, p. p. of emigrare to remove, emigrate; e out + migrare to migrate. See Migrate. ] To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home. [ 1913 Webster ]

Forced to emigrate in a body to America. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

They [ the Huns ] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Migratory; roving. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. emigratio: cf. F. émigration. ] 1. The act of emigrating; removal from one country or state to another, for the purpose of residence, as from Europe to America, or, in America, from the Atlantic States to the Western. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to emigration. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An advocate or promoter of emigration. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who emigrates; am emigrant. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., emigrant. ] 1. One of the natives of France who were opposed to the first Revolution, and who left their country in consequence. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Any emigrant, especially one who had fled his/her native land due to political conditions. [ PJC ]

a. [ L. fumigans, p. pr. of fumigare. See Fumigate. ] Fuming. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fumigated p. pr. & vb. n. Fumigating ] [ L. fumigate, p. p. of fumigare to fumigate, fr. fumus smoke. See Fume, n. ] 1. To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To smoke; to perfume. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. fumigation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Vapor raised in the process of fumigating. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, fumigates; an apparattus for fumigating. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. fumigatoire. ] Having the quality of purifying by smoke. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Hemi- + Gr. &unr_; marriage. ] (Bot.) Having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female; -- said of grasses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hemi- + Gr. &unr_; a carving. ] (Arch.) The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. conceited and arrogant; imperious. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. immigrans, p. pr. of immigrare to go into: cf. F. immigrant. See Immigrate. ] One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.

Syn. -- See Emigrant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Immigrated p. pr. & vb. n. Immigrating ] [ L. immigrare, immigratum, to immigrate; pref. im- in + migrare to migrate. See Migrate. ] To come into a country of which one is not a native, for the purpose of permanent residence. See Emigrate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. immigration. ] The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence. [ 1913 Webster ]

The immigrations of the Arabians into Europe. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. migration into a place.
Syn. -- immigration. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Reciprocal migration; interchange of dwelling place by migration. [ R. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Zool.) The species name for the woolly mammoth, a very hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the Northern hemisphere.
Syn. -- woolly mammoth, northern mammoth. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

imp. of May. [ AS. meahte, mihte. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. meaht, miht, from the root of magan to be able, E. may; akin to D. magt, OS. maht, G. macht, Icel. māttr, Goth. mahts. √103. See May, v. ] Force or power of any kind, whether of body or mind; energy or intensity of purpose, feeling, or action; means or resources to effect an object; strength; force; power; ability; capacity. [ 1913 Webster ]

What so strong,
But wanting rest, will also want of might? Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Deut. vi. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

With might and main. See under 2d Main. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mighty. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ From Mighty. ] 1. In a mighty manner; with might; with great earnestness; vigorously; powerfully. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. Col. i. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To a great degree; very much. [ 1913 Webster ]

Practical jokes amused us mightily. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality of being mighty; possession of might; power; greatness; high dignity. [ 1913 Webster ]

How soon this mightiness meets misery. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Highness; excellency; -- with a possessive pronoun, a title of dignity; as, their high mightinesses. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without; weak. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Mightier superl. Mightiest. ] [ AS. meahtig, mihtig; akin to G. mächtig, Goth. mahteigs. See Might, n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Possessing might; having great power or authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Job ix. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful. “His mighty works.” Matt. xi. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Denoting an extraordinary degree or quality in respect of size, character, importance, consequences, etc. “A mighty famine.” Luke xv. 14. “Giants of mighty bone.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mighty was their fuss about little matters. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Mighties A warrior of great force and courage. [ R. & Obs. ] 1 Chron. xi. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a great degree; very. [ Colloq. ] “He was mighty methodical.” Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have a mighty pleasant garden. Doddridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. mignard, akin to mignon. See Minion. ] Soft; dainty. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]