a. Acute-angled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Ajutage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Adjutant. ] 1. The office of an adjutant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Skillful arrangement in aid; assistance. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was, no doubt, disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adjutans, p. pr. of adjutare to help. See Aid. ] 1. A helper; an assistant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adjutant general (a) (Mil.), the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general. (b) (Among the Jesuits), one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Hist.) A corruption of Agitator. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Haiti. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ajutage, for ajoutage, fr. ajouter to add, LL. adjuxtare, fr. L. ad + juxta near to, nigh. Cf. Adjutage, Adjustage, Adjust. ] A tube through which water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alutacius, fr. aluta soft leather. ] 1. Leathery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of a pale brown color; leather-yellow. Brande. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Alutaceous. ] The tanning or dressing of leather. [ Obs. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Amputated; p. pr. & vb. n. Amputating. ] [ L. amputatus, p. p. of amputare: amb- + putare to prune, putus clean, akin to E. pure. See Putative. ] 1. To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Surg.) To cut off (a limb or projecting part of the body). Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. amputatio: cf. F. amputation. ] The act of amputating; esp. the operation of cutting off a limb or projecting part of the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who amputates. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Arch.) A buttress that stands apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch; same as flying buttress. Gwilt.
Syn. -- flying buttress [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. (Zool.) A genus of Cephalopoda. The shell is called paper nautilus or paper sailor. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The animal has much resemblance to an Octopus. It has eight arms, two of which are expanded at the end and clasp the shell, but are never elevated in the air for sails as was formerly supposed. The creature swims beneath the surface by means of a jet of water, like other cephalopods. The male has no shell, and is much smaller than the female. See Hectocotylus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. argutatio. See Argue. ] Caviling; subtle disputation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Errors . . . attributable to carelessness. J. D. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 any physiologically active internal secretion, especially one of uncertain classification.
Syn. -- autocoid. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an autacoid. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. 1 of or pertaining to autocracy.
Syn. -- autarchical [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; independence; a'yto`s self + 'arkei^n to be sufficient. ] 1. Self-sufficiency, especially economic self-sufficiency as applied to nations. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. same as autarky.
Syn. -- autarky. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. not relying on imports; -- of countries. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. economic independence as a national policy.
Syn. -- autarchy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) Any of several voracious pikelike marine fishes allied to the gray mullets, constituting the genus Sphyræna and family Sphyrænidæ. The great barracuda (Sphyræna barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyræna Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyræna sphyræna of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

☞ That of Europe and our Atlantic coast is Sphyræna spet (or Sphyræna vulgaris); a southern species is Sphyræna picuda; the Californian is Sphyræna argentea. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A large edible fresh-water fish of Australia and New Zealand (Thyrsites atun). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. battuta, fr. battere to beat. ] (Mus.) The measuring of time by beating. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a principality in the Himalayas northeast of India. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a native or inhabitant of Bhutan.
Syn. -- Bhutani. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bhutan. Bhutanese Buddhists
Syn. -- Bhutani. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to the Bhutani language or people. Bhutani Buddhists
Syn. -- Bhutanese. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bhutan. Bhutani mountains [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a native or inhabitant of Bhutan.
Syn. -- Bhutanese. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + scutate. ] (Bot.) Resembling two bucklers placed side by side. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. bouter to thrust. See Butt. ] An outbreak; a caprice; a whim. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., neuter pl., fr. L. brutus heavy, stupid. ] (Zool.) See Edentata. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. brutal. See Brute, a. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature. “Above the rest of brutal kind.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners. “Brutal intemperance.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. to treat brutally.
Syn. -- brutalize. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to cause to become like a brute; as, life in the concentration camp had brutalised him.
Syn. -- brutalize. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. to become brutal.
Syn. -- brutalize. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Brutish quality; brutality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Brutalities [ Cf. F. brutalité. ] 1. The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An inhuman act. [ 1913 Webster ]

The . . . brutalities exercised in war. Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Brutalized p. pr. & vb. n. Brutalizing. ] [ Cf. F. brutaliser. ] To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He mixed . . . with his countrymen, brutalized with them in their habits and manners. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a brutal manner; cruelly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a white crystalline ester (C18H30N2O2) that is applied to mucous membranes as a topical anesthetic. Chemically it is 3-(di-n-butylamino)-1-propanol 4-aminobenzoate (H2N.C6H4.CO.O.(CH2)3N(C4H9)2). It is usually used as the sulfate salt.
Syn. -- butacaine sulfate. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. a gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; -- it is used as a monomer unit in making synthetic rubbers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. butyrum butter. See Butter. ] (Chem.) An inflammable gaseous saturated hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a flammable alcohol (C4H9.OH) derived from butane and used as a solvent.
Syn. -- butyl alcohol. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Pg. ] Chamber; house; -- used in and See Legislature. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a meeting, usually held in the summer outdoors or under a temporary tent, providing public lectures combined with entertainment such as concerts and plays. It originated in the village of Chautauqua, N. Y., in 1874, and was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Also, a meeting similar to this. [ PJC ]

(of education) The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ L., the poison hemlock. ] (Bot.) a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name cicuta is sometimes erroneously applied to Conium maculatum, or officinal hemlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Pref. circum- + nutate. ] To pass through the stages of circumnutation. [ 1913 Webster ]