n. The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Abortion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being absent; withdrawal. [ R. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. State of abutting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That on or against which a body abuts or presses; as (a) (Arch.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut. Gwilt. (b) (Mech.) A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc. (c) In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. aquitement. ] Acquittal. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. ajustement. See Adjust. ] 1. The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling. Bispham. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The operation of bringing all the parts of an instrument, as a microscope or telescope, into their proper relative position for use; the condition of being thus adjusted; as, to get a good adjustment; to be in or out of adjustment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Suiting; fitting; arrangement; regulation; settlement; adaptation; disposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. affrétement. ] The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) Nearest the stern. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. agistement. See Agist. ] (Law) (a) Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests. (b) The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate. Mozley & W. (c) The price paid for such feeding. (d) A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. OF. alotement, F. allotement. ] 1. The act of allotting; assignment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is allotted; a share, part, or portion granted or distributed; that which is assigned by lot, or by the act of God; anything set apart for a special use or to a distinct party. [ 1913 Webster ]

The alloments of God and nature. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

A vineyard and an allotment for olives and herbs. Broome. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (law) The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cottage allotment, an allotment of a small portion of land to a country laborer for garden cultivation. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of anointing, or state of being anointed; also, an ointment. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. appartement; cf. It. appartamento, fr. appartare to separate, set apart; all fr. L. ad + pars, partis, part. See Apart. ] 1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A set or suite of rooms. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A compartment. [ Obs. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A room or suite of rooms in a building comprising a dwelling unit separate from others in the building, and typically having its own separate bath, sanitary, and kitchen facilities. Such apartments are in most cases rented from the owner by those dwelling in them. [ PJC ]

efficiency apartment, a small apartment{ 4 }, sometimes furnished, with minimal kitchen and bath facilities. The unit may comprise a single room plus a bathroom, and the kitchen facilities are often open to the main room, or may form a small niche in a corner. There are many variations of efficiency apartment, including some in which furnishings such as a bed may be pull out from a wall recess and stored there again when not in use. Also called an efficiency. [ PJC ]

. A building comprising a number of lving units (apartments{ 4 }) designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; contrasted to a detached dwelling. Sometimes distinguished in the United States from a flat house, in which each living unit comprises one entire floor, whereas in an apartment house a floor may be partitioned into any number of apartments{ 4 }. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. Apportionment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. appointement. ] 1. The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being appointed to som&unr_; service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appointment to meet at six. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments. [ 1913 Webster ]

According to the appointment of the priests. Ezra vi. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) The exercise of the power of designating (under a “power of appointment”) a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cavaliers emulated their chief in the richness of their appointments. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll prove it in my shackles, with these hands
Void of appointment, that thou liest. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An expense proportioned to his appointments and fortune is necessary. Chesterfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Designation; command; order; direction; establishment; equipment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. arrestement. ] 1. (Scots Law) The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stoppage or check. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_; rhythm. ] Want of rhythm. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Assent; agreement. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. assortiment. ] 1. Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collection or quantity of things distributed into kinds or sorts; a number of things assorted. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A collection containing a variety of sorts or kinds adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes; as, an assortment of goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Skr. ātman. ] (Hinduism) (a) The life principle, soul, or individual essence. (b) The universal ego from whom all individual atmans arise. This sense is a European excrescence on the East Indian thought. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; vapor + &unr_; medical treatment, healing. ] Treatment of disease by vapors or gases, as by inhalation. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, smoke, vapor + -meter; cf. F. atmidomètre. ] An instrument for measuring the evaporation from water, ice, or snow. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Contr. fr. atmosphere. ] (Physics) The standard atmospheric pressure used in certain physical measurements calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the barometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0° Centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of Paris. Sir W. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to atmology. “Atmological laws of heat.” Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is versed in atmology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; vapor + -logy. ] (Physics) That branch of science which treats of the laws and phenomena of aqueous vapor. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; vapor + &unr_; a loosing, &unr_; to loose. ] (Chem.) The act or process of separating mingled gases of unequal diffusibility by transmission through porous substances. See also gaseous diffusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) Separation by atmolysis. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Chem.) To subject to atmolysis; to separate by atmolysis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An apparatus for effecting atmolysis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; smoke, vapor + -meter: cf. F. atmomètre. ] An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer. Huxley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; vapor (akin to Skr. ātman breath, soul, G. athem breath) + &unr_; sphere: cf. F. atmosphère. See Sphere. ] 1. (Physics) (a) The whole mass of aëriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars. (b) Any gaseous envelope or medium. [ 1913 Webster ]

An atmosphere of cold oxygen. Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies. Franklin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The pressure or weight of the air at the sea level, on a unit of surface, or about 14.7 lbs. to the sq. inch. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hydrogen was liquefied under a pressure of 650 atmospheres. Lubbock. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Any surrounding or pervading influence or condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

The chillest of social atmospheres. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The portion of air in any locality, or affected by a special physical or sanitary condition; as, the atmosphere of the room; a moist or noxious atmosphere. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. atmosphérique. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the atmosphere; of the nature of, or resembling, the atmosphere; as, atmospheric air; the atmospheric envelope of the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Existing or occurring in the atmosphere. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lower atmospheric current. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Caused, or operated on, by the atmosphere; as, an atmospheric effect; an atmospheric engine. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Dependent on the atmosphere. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In am so atmospherical a creature. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Atmospheric engine, a steam engine whose piston descends by the pressure of the atmosphere, when the steam which raised it is condensed within the cylinder. Tomlinson. --
Atmospheric line (Steam Engin.), the equilibrium line of an indicator card. Steam is expanded “down to the atmosphere” when its pressure is equal to that of the atmosphere. (See Indicator card.) --
Atmospheric pressure, the pressure exerted by the atmosphere, not merely downwards, but in every direction. In amounts to about 14.7 Ibs. on each square inch. --
Atmospheric railway, one in which pneumatic power, obtained from compressed air or the creation of a vacuum, is the propelling force. --
Atmospheric tides. See under Tide. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In relation to the atmosphere. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Atmosphere + -logy. ] The science or a treatise on the atmosphere. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Attainder; attainture; conviction. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Turk. ba&tsdot_;man. ] A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Batmen [ F. bât packsaddle + E. man. Cf. Bathorse. ] A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition of being benighted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin. “Fearing a besetment.” Kane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted. [ Obs. ] Chipman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Boatmen 1. A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

As late the boatman hies him home. Percival. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A boat bug. See Boat bug. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art of managing a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Abbreviation of Abutment. ] 1. (Arch.) A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Masonry) The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported. [ 1913 Webster ]

Butment cheek (Carp.), the part of a mortised timber surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders of the tenon bear. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture. [ 1913 Webster ]