a. 1. Forsaken, deserted. “Your abandoned streams.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Profligate; dissolute; corrupt; vicious; depraved; reprobate; wicked; unprincipled; graceless; vile. -- Abandoned, Profligate, Reprobate. These adjectives agree in expressing the idea of great personal depravity. Profligate has reference to open and shameless immoralities, either in private life or political conduct; as, a profligate court, a profligate ministry. Abandoned is stronger, and has reference to the searing of conscience and hardening of heart produced by a man's giving himself wholly up to iniquity; as, a man of abandoned character. Reprobate describes the condition of one who has become insensible to reproof, and who is morally abandoned and lost beyond hope of recovery. [ 1913 Webster ]

God gave them over to a reprobate mind. Rom. i. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Unrestrainedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mentioned or named before; aforesaid; mentioned or named earlier in the same text (in written documents). [ 1913 Webster WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Furnished or loaded with acorns. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fed or filled with acorns. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Dull-witted; stupid. “The addle-brained Oberstein.” Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dull and addle-pated. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Disposed. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Affected; conceited. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. afiné related, p. p., fr. LL. affinare to join, fr. L. affinis neighboring, related to; ad + finis boundary, limit. ] Joined in affinity or by any tie. [ Obs. ] “All affined and kin.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Previously mentioned; before-mentioned. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing). [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 in or brought into line with or into proper relative position; -- of spatial position. well-aligned wheels unaligned
Syn. -- alined [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. brought into agreement or cooperation on the side of a faction, party, or cause. Opposite of nonaligned. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. brought into a straight or uniformly curved line. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Wearing an apron. [ 1913 Webster ]

A cobbler aproned, and a parson gowned. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a swoon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Vertebrate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Swelled out like a balloon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inclosed in a basin. “Basined rivers.” Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with a bastion; having bastions. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Experienced in combat, and therefore more effective at fighting; -- used mostly of infantry troops; as, battle-hardened veterans.
Syn. -- combat-hardened, combat-tested. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ L., (imperative pl., ) bless ye, praise ye. ] A canticle (the Latin version of which begins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ interj. [ See Benedicite, n. ] An exclamation corresponding to Bless you !. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ From Benedick, one of the characters in Shakespeare's play of “Much Ado about Nothing.” ] A married man, or a man newly married. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. benedictus, p. p. of benedicere to bless. See Benison, and cf. Bennet. ] Having mild and salubrious qualities. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Benedictines wear black clothing, and are sometimes called Black Monks. The name Black Fr&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;rs which belongs to the Dominicans, is also sometimes applied to the Benedictines. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. benedictio: cf. F. bénédiction. See Benison. ] 1. The act of blessing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A blessing; an expression of blessing, prayer, or kind wishes in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation of happiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

So saying, he arose; whom Adam thus
Followed with benediction. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Specifically: The short prayer which closes public worship; as, to give the benediction. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eccl.) The form of instituting an abbot, answering to the consecration of a bishop. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (R. C. Ch.) A solemn rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water, and formally dedicated to God. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A book of benedictions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A collected series of benedictions. [ 1913 Webster ]

The benedictionary of Bishop Athelwold. G. Gurton's Needle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to bless. Gauden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., blessed. See Benedict, a. ] The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Blessed. [ R. ] Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. bicornis; bis twice + cornu horn: cf. F. bicorne. Cf. Bickern. ] Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. stained with blood; as, a bloodstained shirt; a bloodstained carpet; a bloodstained sidewalk. [ PJC ]

a. Having blue veins or blue streaks. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having (such) bones; -- used in composition; as, big-boned; strong-boned. [ 1913 Webster ]

No big-boned men framed of the Cyclops' size. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Deprived of bones; as, boned turkey or codfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Manured with bone; as, boned land. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The spiny dogfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books. [ Often in a disparaging sense. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Whate'er these book-learned blockheads say,
Solon's the veriest fool in all the play. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. Supplied with brains. [ 1913 Webster ]

If th' other two be brained like us. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Brawny; strong; muscular. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having horns spreading widely. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having a tan color from exposure to the sun; -- of skin color.
Syn. -- suntanned, tanned. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. bearing a heavy load; as, a hiker burdened with a heavy backpack.
Syn. -- heavy-laden, laden, weighed down. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

p. p. & a. See Burnt. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. Burnished. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. prenom. 1. drained of energy or effectiveness; driven to apathy by overwork or prolonged stress; -- of people.
Syn. -- burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate), fagged, exhausted, fatigued, played-out(prenominal), played out(predicate), spent, washed-out(prenominal), washed out(predicate), worn-out(prenominal), worn out(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. damaged or destroyed by or as if by fire; as, barricaded the street with burned-out cars.
Syn. -- burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Wearing buskins. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her buskined virgins traced the dewy lawn. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Trodden by buskins; pertaining to tragedy. “The buskined stage.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. furnished with buttons or something buttonlike. Opposite of unbuttoned. [ Narrower terms: botonee, botonnee; button-down; closed ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. conservatively formal and businesslike in dress and manner.
Syn. -- button-down, conservative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business. Newsweek

adj. 1. taciturn. Opposite of voluble. [ British colloquial ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. conservative in professional manner; as, employers are looking for buttoned-up types. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. piled up, like a cairn. [ WordNet 1.5 ]