n. The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. almageste, LL. almageste, Ar. al-majistī, fr. Gr. &unr_; (sc. &unr_;), the greatest composition. ] The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL.; pref. archi- + L. magus, Gr. ma`gos, a Magian. ] 1. The high priest of the Persian Magi, or worshipers of fire. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A great magician, wizard, or enchanter. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the final, decisive battle between the forces of good and evil, as foretold in the Apocolypse of Saint John. Also, the site of that battle. Used metaphorically for a vast and decisive conflict, attended by cataclysmic destruction. [ PJC ]

a. [ Birmingham (formerly Bromwycham), Eng., “the great mart and manufactory of gilt toys, cheap jewelry, ” etc. ] Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham. [ Slang ] “These Brummagem gentry.” Lady D. Hardy. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. chomage. ] 1. Stoppage; cessation (of labor). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A standing still or idle (of mills, factories, etc.). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OF. damage, domage, F. dommage, fr. assumed LL. damnaticum, from L. damnum damage. See Damn. ] 1. Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage. Prov. xxvi. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Law) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In common-law actions, the jury are the proper judges of damages. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consequential damage. See under Consequential. --
Exemplary damages (Law), damages imposed by way of example to others. Similar in purpose to vindictive damages, below. --
Nominal damages (Law), those given for a violation of a right where no actual loss has accrued. --
vindictive damages or
punitive damages, those given specially for the punishment of the wrongdoer.

Syn. -- Mischief; injury; harm; hurt; detriment; evil; ill. See Mischief. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Damaged p. pr. & vb. n. Damaging ] [ Cf. OF. damagier, domagier. See Damage, n. ] To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soundness or value; as, some colors in cloth damage in sunlight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OF. damageable, F. dommageable for sense 2. ] 1. Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hurtful; pernicious. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That it be not damageable unto your royal majesty. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. changed so as to reduce value, function, or other desirable trait; -- usually not used of persons. Opposite of undamaged. [ Narrower terms: battered, beat-up, beaten-up, bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound; bent, crumpled, dented; blasted, rent, ripped, torn; broken-backed; burned-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate), burnt-out(prenominal), burnt out(predicate); burst, ruptured; corroded; cracked, crackled, crazed; defaced, marred; hurt, weakened; knocked-out(prenominal), knocked out; mangled, mutilated; peeling; scraped, scratched; storm-beaten ] Also See blemished, broken, damaged, destroyed, impaired, injured, unsound. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Rendered imperfect by impairing the integrity of some part, or by breaking. Opposite of unbroken. [ Narrower terms: busted; chipped; cracked; crumbled, fragmented; crushed, ground; dissolved; fractured; shattered, smashed, splintered; split; unkept, violated ] Also See: damaged, imperfect, injured, unsound.
Syn. -- broken. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. being unjustly brought into disrepute; as, her damaged reputation.
Syn. -- discredited. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. made to appear imperfect; -- especially of reputation; as, the senator's seriously damaged reputation.
Syn. -- besmirched, flyblown, spotted, stained, sullied, tainted, tarnished. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

[ OF. damage + F. faisant doing, p. pr. See Feasible. ] (Law) Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) a sum of money paid in compensation for an injury or wrong.
Syn. -- amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redress. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Damage. ] 1. Damage; hurt. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Subjugation. [ Obs. ] Hobbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A penalty or fine for neglect. [ Local, New England ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Endamaged p. pr. & vb. n. Endamaging ] [ Pref. en- + damage: cf. F. endommager. ] To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The trial hath endamaged thee no way. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being damaged, or injured; damageable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. endommagement. ] Damage; injury; harm. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. fumage, fumaige, fr. L. fumus smoke. ] Hearth money. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fumage, or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Guidance; direction. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. homage, homenage, F. hommage, LL. hominaticum, homenaticum, from L. homo a man, LL. also, a client, servant, vassal; akin to L. humus earth, Gr.&unr_; on the ground, and E. groom in bridegroom. Cf. Bridegroom, Human. ] 1. (Feud. Law) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external action; obeisance. [ 1913 Webster ]

All things in heaven and earth do her [ Law ] homage. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

I sought no homage from the race that write. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Reverence directed to the Supreme Being; reverential worship; devout affection. Chaucer.

Syn. -- Fealty; submission; reverence; honor; respect. -- Homage, Fealty. Homage was originally the act of a feudal tenant by which he declared himself, on his knees, to be the hommage or bondman of the lord; hence the term is used to denote reverential submission or respect. Fealty was originally the fidelity of such a tenant to his lord, and hence the term denotes a faithful and solemn adherence to the obligations we owe to superior power or authority. We pay our homage to men of preëminent usefulness and virtue, and profess our fealty to the principles by which they have been guided. [ 1913 Webster ]

Go, go with homage yon proud victors meet !
Go, lie like dogs beneath your masters' feet ! Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Man, disobeying,
Disloyal, breaks his fealty, and sins
Against the high supremacy of heaven. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Homaged p. pr. & vb. n. Homaging. ] [ Cf. OF. hommager. ] 1. To pay reverence to by external action. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to pay homage. [ Obs. ] Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OF. hommageable. ] Subject to homage. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Homage: cf. F. hommager. ] One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage; a vassal. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. imago, imaginis, from the root of imitari to imitate. See Imitate, and cf. Imagine. ] 1. An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even like a stony image, cold and numb. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose is this image and superscription? Matt. xxii. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And God created man in his own image. Gen. i. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, . . . thou shalt not bow down thyself to them. Ex. xx. 4, 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Show; appearance; cast. [ 1913 Webster ]

The face of things a frightful image bears. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea. [ 1913 Webster ]

Can we conceive
Image of aught delightful, soft, or great? Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Rhet.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Opt.) The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror. [ 1913 Webster ]

Electrical image. See under Electrical. --
Image breaker, one who destroys images; an iconoclast. --
Image graver,
Image maker, a sculptor. --
Image worship, the worship of images as symbols; iconolatry distinguished from idolatry; the worship of images themselves. --
Image Purkinje (Physics), the image of the retinal blood vessels projected in, not merely on, that membrane. --
Virtual image (Optics), a point or system of points, on one side of a mirror or lens, which, if it existed, would emit the system of rays which actually exists on the other side of the mirror or lens. Clerk Maxwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Imaged p. pr. & vb. n. Imaging ] 1. To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure. “Shrines of imaged saints.” J. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore,
And image charms he must behold no more. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be imaged. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no image. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Praxiteles was ennobled for a rare imager. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. imagerie, F. imagerie. ] 1. The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. “Painted imagery.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

In those oratories might you see
Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

What can thy imagery of sorrow mean? Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms. [ 1913 Webster ]

The imagery of a melancholic fancy. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

I wish there may be in this poem any instance of good imagery. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Endamage. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not damaged. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. mage. See Magi. ] A magician. [ Archaic ] Spenser. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to, or named from, Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), the navigator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Astron.) Either of two conspicuous celestial nebulae near the south celestial pole, resembling thin white clouds, each of which is a galaxy{ 2 } smaller than but separate from the Milky Way galaxy, and together they are the galactic formations nearest to our galaxy. They are not visible from the northern hemisphere, and are named after Ferdinand Magellan, who saw them in his expedition, which passed through the Strait of Magellan in South America, and one ship of which completed the first circumnavigation of the globe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hebrew, shield of David. ] A hexagram{ 1a }, when used as the symbol of Judaism; called also Mogen David and Star of David. It is included on the flag of Israel
Syn. -- Star of David, Mogen David. [ PJC ]

n. (Chem.) An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsin, fuchsine, roseine, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The purplish-red color of magenta. [ PJC ]

n. [ OE. pilgrimage, pelgrinage; cf. F. pèlerinage. ] 1. The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The days of the years of my pilgrimage. Gen. xlvii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tedious and wearisome time. [ 1913 Webster ]

In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Journey; tour; excursion. See Journey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., from plume a feather. ] (Zool.) The entire clothing of a bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It consist of the contour feathers, or the ordinary feathers covering the head, neck, and body; the tail feathers, with their upper and lower coverts; the wing feathers, including primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries, with their coverts; and the down which lies beneath the contour feathers. See Illust. under Bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Pomage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Com.) A charge in addition to the freight; originally, a gratuity to the captain for his particular care of the goods (sometimes called hat money), but now belonging to the owners or freighters of the vessel, unless by special agreement the whole or part is assigned to the captain. Homans. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. ramus a branch. ] 1. Boughs or branches. [ Obs. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Warbling of birds in trees. [ Obs. ] Drummond. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wild; untamed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. See Rummage. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Room. CF. Rummage. ] Space; place; room. [ Obs. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For roomage, fr. room; hence originally, a making room, a packing away closely. See Room. ] 1. (Naut.) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; -- formerly written romage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over. [ 1913 Webster ]

He has made such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rummage sale, a clearance sale of unclaimed goods in a public store, or of odds and ends which have accumulated in a shop. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Rummaged p. pr. & vb. n. Rummaging ] 1. (Naut.) To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo; to move about, as packages, ballast, so as to permit close stowage; to stow closely; to pack; -- formerly written roomage, and romage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They might bring away a great deal more than they do, if they would take pain in the romaging. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . searcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account! M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To search a place narrowly. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have often rummaged for old books in Little Britain and Duck Lane. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ His house ] was haunted with a jolly ghost, that . . .
. . . rummaged like a rat. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who rummages. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) A person on shipboard whose business was to take charge of stowing the cargo; -- formerly written roomager, and romager. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The master must provide a perfect mariner, called a romager, to range and bestow all merchandise. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A slight contest; a skirmish. See Skirmish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Such cruel game my scarmoges disarms. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]