n. [ Fr., fr. L. adolescentia. ] The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A youth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adolescens, p. pr. of adolescere to grow up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See Adult. ] Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong,
Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. bandoulière (cf. It. bandoliera, Sp. bandolera), fr. F. bande band, Sp. & It. banda. See Band, n. ] 1. A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of the leather or wooden cases in which the charges of powder were carried. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Condoled p. pr. & vb. n. Condoling. ] [ L. condolere; con- + dolere to feel pain, grieve. See Doleful. ] To express sympathetic sorrow; to grieve in sympathy; -- followed by with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To lament or grieve over. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I come not, Samson, to condole thy chance. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Condolence. “A pitiful condolement.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sorrow; mourning; lamentation. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. condoléance. ] Expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their congratulations and their condolences. Steele. [ 1913 Webster ]

A special mission of condolence. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who condoles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dedolens, p. pr. of dedolere to give over grieving; de- + dolere to grieve. ] Feeling no compunction; apathetic. [ R. ] Hallywell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. deol, doel, dol, OF. doel, fr. doloir to suffer, fr. L. dolere; perh. akin to dolare to hew. ] grief; sorrow; lamentation. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And she died.
So that day there was dole in Astolat. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dolus: cf. F. dol. ] (Scots Law) See Dolus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. dāl portion; same word as d&aemacr_;l. See Deal. ] 1. Distribution; dealing; apportionment. [ 1913 Webster ]

At her general dole,
Each receives his ancient soul. Cleveland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is dealt out; a part, share, or portion also, a scanty share or allowance. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Alms; charitable gratuity or portion. [ 1913 Webster ]

So sure the dole, so ready at their call,
They stood prepared to see the manna fall. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Heaven has in store a precious dole. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A boundary; a landmark. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A void space left in tillage. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Dole beer, beer bestowed as alms. [ Obs. ] --
Dole bread, bread bestowed as alms. [ Obs. ] --
Dole meadow, a meadow in which several persons have a common right or share. --
on the dole, receiving financial assistance from a governmental agency, such as a welfare agency; as, after his unemployment benefits ran out, his family was on the dole for a year. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Doled p. pr. & vb. n. Doling. ] To deal out in small portions; to distribute, as a dole; to deal out scantily or grudgingly. [ 1913 Webster ]

The supercilious condescension with which even his reputed friends doled out their praises to him. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal. [ 1913 Webster ]

With screwed face and doleful whine. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Regions of sorrow, doleful shades. Milton.

Syn. -- Piteous; rueful; sorrowful; woeful; melancholy; sad gloomy; dismal; dolorous; woe-begone.

-- Dole"ful*ly, adv. -- Dole"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dolens, p. pr. of dolere: cf. F. dolent. See Dole sorrow. ] Sorrowful. [ Obs. ] Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. & adv. [ It. ] (Mus.) Plaintively. See Doloroso. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. dolero`s deceptive, because it was easily confounded with diorite. ] (Petrography) (a) A dark, crystalline, igneous rock, chiefly pyroxene with labradorite. (b) Coarse-grained basalt. (c) Diabase. (d) Any dark, igneous rock composed chiefly of silicates of iron and magnesium with some feldspar. -- Dol`er*it"ic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

a. Of the nature of dolerite; as, much lava is doleritic lava. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Doleful; dismal; gloomy; sorrowful. -- Dole"some*ly, adv. -- Dole"some*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. farandole, Pr. farandoulo. ] A rapid dance in six-eight time in which a large number join hands and dance in various figures, sometimes moving from room to room. It originated in Provence.

I have pictured them dancing a sort of farandole. W. D. Howells. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. See Gyrate. ] 1. An ornate ornamental branched candlestick, often with a mirror at the back. [ wns=1 ] [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A flower stand, fountain, or the like, of branching form. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Pyrotechny) A kind of revolving firework. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Fort.) A series of chambers in defensive mines. Farrow.

n. [ It. gondoletta, dim. of gondola. ] A small gondola. T. Moore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Indigo + -ol of phenol. ] (Chem., Physiol. Chem.) A white, crystalline substance, C8H7N, obtained from blue indigo, and almost all indigo derivatives, by a process of reduction; chemically, it is 2, 3-benzopyrrole, a bicyclic heterocyclic compound, having a benzene ring fused to a pyrrole ring. It is also formed from proteinaceous matter, together with skatol, by putrefaction, and by fusion with caustic potash, and is present in human excrement, as well as in the intestinal canal of some herbivora. It is produced in rich growth media by the intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. (Chem., Bot.) A plant hormone (C10H9NO2) recognized as the principle growth regulator in higher plants; called also heteroauxin. Abbreviated IAA. Chemically it is 1H-indole-3-acetic acid. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. indolentia freedom from pain: cf. F. indolence. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I have ease, if it may not rather be called indolence. Bp. Hough. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality or condition of being indolent; inaction, or lack of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness; indisposition to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Life spent in indolence, and therefore sad. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

As there is a great truth wrapped up in “diligence, ” what a lie, on the other hand, lurks at the root of our present use of the word “indolence”! This is from “in” and “doleo, ” not to grieve; and indolence is thus a state in which we have no grief or pain; so that the word, as we now employ it, seems to affirm that indulgence in sloth and ease is that which would constitute for us the absence of all pain. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Indolence. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + L. dolens, -entis, p. pr. of dolere to feel pain: cf. F. indolent. See Dolorous. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Free from toil, pain, or trouble. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man. [ 1913 Webster ]

To waste long nights in indolent repose. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an indolent tumor.

Syn. -- Idle; lazy; slothful; sluggish; listless; inactive; inert. See Idle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an indolent manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Calm and serene you indolently sit. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. Cf. Adolescence. ] Natural disposition; natural quality or abilities. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. mendol, mendole. ] (Zool.) The cackerel. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The quality of being redolent; sweetness of scent; pleasant odor; fragrance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. redolens, -entis, p. pr. of redolere to emit a scent, diffuse an odor; pref. red-, re-, re- + olere to emit a smell. See Odor. ] Diffusing odor or fragrance; spreading sweet scent; scented; odorous; smelling; -- usually followed by of. “Honey redolent of spring.” Dryden. -- Red"o*lent*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Gales . . . redolent of joy and youth. Gray. [1913 Webster]