n. (Zool.) The European siskin (Carduelis spinus), a small green and yellow finch, related to the goldfinch. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alvus belly: cf. F. alvin. ] Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. Angevin. ] Of or pertaining to Anjou in France. -- n. A native of Anjou. [ 1913 Webster ]

A species of bindweed. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. The location where in 1214 the French under King Philip Augustus defeated a coalition formed against him in one of the greatest battles of the middle ages. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ LL. bovinus, fr. L. bos, bovis, ox, cow: cf. F. bovine. See Cow. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bovine gaze of gaping rustics. W. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cervinus, fr. cervus deer: cf. F. cervin. ] (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the deer, or to the family Cervidæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. corvinus, fr. corvus crow. ] Of or pertaining to the crow; crowlike. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. curvus bent + E. nerve. ] (Bot.) Having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; -- called also curvinervate and curve-veined. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Diviner superl. Divinest. ] [ F. divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus, dius, belonging to a deity; akin to Gr. &unr_;, and L. deus, God. See Deity. ] 1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. “The immensity of the divine nature.” Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. “Divine protection.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods. “The divine Apollo said.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir J. Davies. “The divine Desdemona.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. Prov. xvi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

But not to one in this benighted age
Is that diviner inspiration given. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill,
Misgave him. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Relating to divinity or theology. [ 1913 Webster ]

Church history and other divine learning. South.

Syn. -- Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial; pious; holy; sacred; preëminent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. divinus a soothsayer, LL., a theologian. See Divine, a. ] 1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian. “Poets were the first divines.” Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman. [ 1913 Webster ]

The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. J. Woodbridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Divined p. pr. & vb. n. Divining. ] [ L. divinare: cf. F. deviner. See Divination. ] 1. To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

A sagacity which divined the evil designs. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To foretell; to predict; to presage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Darest thou . . . divine his downfall? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To render divine; to deify. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Living on earth like angel new divined. Spenser.

Syn. -- To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate; forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications. [ 1913 Webster ]

The prophets thereof divine for money. Micah iii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have or feel a presage or foreboding. [ 1913 Webster ]

Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

Most divinely fair. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. By the agency or influence of God. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divinely set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Divination. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. [ 1913 Webster ]

The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who divines. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A yellow, crystalline, organic base, C13H12N2O, obtained artificially. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus Vitis, having small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called grapes. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The common grapevine of the Old World is Vitis vinifera, and is a native of Central Asia. Another variety is that yielding small seedless grapes commonly called Zante currants. The northern Fox grape of the United States is the V. Labrusca, from which, by cultivation, has come the Isabella variety. The southern Fox grape, or Muscadine, is the V. vulpina. The Frost grape is V. cordifolia, which has very fragrant flowers, and ripens after the early frosts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. helvus of a light bay color. ] (Min.) A mineral of a yellowish color, consisting chiefly of silica, glucina, manganese, and iron, with a little sulphur. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. fr. Sp. yerba herb, OSp., the poison of the veratrum. ] (Chem.) A poisonous alkaloid resembling veratrine, and found with it in white hellebore (Veratrum album); -- called also jervina. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Gael. cil ruddle. ] A pencil of black or red lead; -- called also keelyvine pen. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. landgräfin; cf. D. landgravin. ] The wife of a landgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Fr. Leaf. ] Leafiness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A swift hound. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A herbaceous climbing vine (Boussingaultia baselloides) very popular in cultivation, having shining entire leaves and racemes of small fragrant white flowers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ G. markgräfin: cf. F. margrafine. ] The wife of a margrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mauve-colored. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A bird related to the kite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. milvus kite. ] (Zool.) Of or resembling birds of the kite kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. [ L. nervinus made of sinews: cf.F. nervin. See Nerve. ] (Med.) Having the quality of acting upon or affecting the nerves; quieting nervous excitement. -- n. A nervine agent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. olivine. ] (Min.) A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks. It is a silicate of magnesium and iron ((Mg, Fe)SiO4). [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. [ L. ovinus, fr. ovis sheep: cf. F. ovine. ] Of or pertaining to sheep; consisting of sheep. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. paltsgravin: cf. G. pfalzgrafin. ] The consort or widow of a palsgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Any climbing species of Aristolochia; esp., the Dutchman's pipe (Aristolochia sipho). See under Dutchman. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. [ F. provingner, fr. provin a set, layer of a plant, OF. provain, from L. propago, -aginis, akin to propagare to propagate. See Propagate, Prune, v. t. ] To lay a stock or branch of a vine in the ground for propagation. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a parrot + L. fulvus yellow. ] A yellow pigment found in the feathers of certain parrots. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See 2d Raven. ] Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven. “Fowls of ravyne.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shrieked against his creed. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. & i. See Raven, v. t. & i. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., a place excavated by a torrent, a ravine, fr. ravir to snatch or tear away, L. rapere; cf. L. rapina rapine. See Ravish, and cf. Rapine, Raven prey. ] 1. A torrent of water. [ Obs. ] Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ NL. Rucervus, the genus, fr. NL. Rusa a certain genus of deer (Malay r&unr_;sa deer) + Cervus. ] (Zool.) Of, like, or pertaining to, a deer of the genus Rucervus, which includes the swamp deer of India. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OE. saveine, AS. safinae, savine, L. sabina herba. Cf. Sabine. ] [ Written also sabine. ] (Bot.) (a) A coniferous shrub (Juniperus Sabina) of Western Asia, occasionally found also in the northern parts of the United States and in British America. It is a compact bush, with dark-colored foliage, and produces small berries having a glaucous bloom. Its bitter, acrid tops are sometimes used in medicine for gout, amenorrhoea, etc. (b) The North American red cedar (Juniperus Virginiana.) [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being scurvy; vileness; meanness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Sops of wine, under Sop. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affected with spavin. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Bot.) The partridge berry (Mitchella repens). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ n. Also }. [ Stove (a translation of the name of the discoverer, Fourneau + -in, -ine. ] (Pharm.) A substance, C14H22O2NCl, the hydrochloride of an amino compound containing benzol, used, in solution with strychnine, as a local anaesthetic, esp. by injection into the sheath of the spinal cord, producing anaesthesia below the point of introduction. Called also amylocaine hydrochloride. Chemically it is the hydrochloride of the benzoyl ester of 1-(dimethylaminomethyl)-1-methyl propanol. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Partaking of divinity; divine in a partial or lower degree. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]