a. [ L. ab + sonans, p. pr. of sonare to sound. ] Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant. “Absonant to nature.” Quarles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Contiguous. [ Obs. ] Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. agglutinans, -antis, p. pr. of agglutinare. ] Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion. -- n. Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alternans, p. pr.: cf. F. alternant. See Alternate, v. t. ] (Geol.) Composed of alternate layers, as some rocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. altus high + sonans, p. pr. of sonare to sound. ] High-sounding; lofty or pompous. Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. See Amenable. ] Behavior; bearing. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. [ See Anon. ] An expression equivalent to What did you say? Sir? Eh? [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. ananas, from the native American name. ] (Bot.) The pineapple (Ananassa sativa). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'an priv. + 'andh`r a man. ] (Bot.) Destitute of stamens, as certain female flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'an priv. + E. angular. ] Containing no angle. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'an priv. + E. anther. ] (Bot.) Destitute of anthers. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'an priv. + 'a`nqos a flower. ] (Bot.) Destitute of flowers; flowerless. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Madagascar. Population (2000) = 1, 000, 000. [ PJC ]

{ } n. See Appurtenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. apurtenaunce, apartenance, F. appartenance, LL. appartenentia, from L. appertinere. See Appertain. ] That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlins. Bouvier. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances. Reid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
Syn. -- gear, paraphernalia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Something which belongs or appertains to another thing; an appurtenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mysterious appurtenants and symbols of redemption. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. appartenant, p. pr. of appartenir. See Appurtenance. ] Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Common appurtenant. (Law) See under Common, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a resident of Arizona.
Syn. -- Arizonian [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ L. armisonus; arma arms + sonare (p. pr. sonans) to sound. ] Rustling in arms; resounding with arms. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. a- not + sonant. ] Not sounding or sounded. [ R. ] C. C. Felton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. assonance. See Assonant. ] 1. Resemblance of sound. “The disagreeable assonance of ‘sheath' and ‘sheathed.'” Steevens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Pros.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary. [ 1913 Webster ]

The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Incomplete correspondence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Assonance between facts seemingly remote. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. assonans, p. pr. of assonare to sound to, to correspond to in sound; ad + sonare to sound, sonus sound: cf. F. assonant. See Sound. ] 1. Having a resemblance of sounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Pros.) Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Assonant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. banana, name of the fruit. ] (Bot.) A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The banana has a soft, herbaceous stalk, with leaves of great length and breadth. The flowers grow in bunches, covered with a sheath of a green or purple color; the fruit is five or six inches long, and over an inch in diameter; the pulp is soft, and of a luscious taste, and is eaten either raw or cooked. This plant is a native of tropical countries, and furnishes an important article of food. [ 1913 Webster ]

Banana bird (Zool.), a small American bird (Icterus leucopteryx), which feeds on the banana. --
Banana quit (Zool.), a small bird of tropical America, of the genus Certhiola, allied to the creepers. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A solution used as a vehicle in applying bronze pigments. In addition to acetote, benzine, and a little pyroxylin, it contains amyl acetate, which gives it the odor of bananas. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Benignant quality; kindliness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. benignans, p. pr. of benignare, from L. benignus. See Benign. ] Kind; gracious; favorable. -- Be*nig"nant*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Sp., prop. calm., fair weather, prosperity, fr. L. bonus good. ] In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income. [ Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. a colloidal material obtained from seaweed or Irish moss, used as an thickening or emulsifying agent and for stabilizing foods, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; empty + &unr_; a flower. ] (Bot.) The absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small genus of Asian deciduous or evergreen shrubs having fragrant flowers: winter sweet.
Syn. -- genus Chimonanthus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genus of deciduous trees or shrubs: fringe tree.
Syn. -- genus Chionanthus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; bed + &unr_; flower. ] (Bot.) The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; -- also called clinium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. complaignant, p. pr. of complaindre. ] 1. One who makes complaint. [ 1913 Webster ]

Eager complainants of the dispute. Collier. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) (a) One who commences a legal process by a complaint. (b) The party suing in equity, answering to the plaintiff at common law. [ 1913 Webster ]

He shall forfeit one moiety to the use of the town, and the other moiety to the use of the complainant. Statutes of Mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L., conglutinans, p. pr. ] Cementing together; uniting closely; causing to adhere; promoting healing, as of a wound or a broken bone, by adhesion of the parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ L. consonantia: cf. F. consonnance. ] 1. (Mus.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Friendship; concord. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By the consonancy of our youth. Shak.

Syn. -- Agreement; accord; consistency; unison; harmony; congruity; suitableness; agreeableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. consonans, -antis; p. pr. of consonare to sound at the same time, agree; con- + sonare to sound: cf. F. consonnant. See Sound to make a noise. ] 1. Having agreement; congruous; consistent; according; -- usually followed by with or to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each one pretends that his opinion . . . is consonant to the words there used. Bp. Beveridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

That where much is given there shall be much required is a thing consonant with natural equity. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having like sounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consonant words and syllables. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) harmonizing together; accordant; as, consonant tones, consonant chords. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Of or pertaining to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants. [ 1913 Webster ]

No Russian whose dissonant consonant name
Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame. T. Moore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. consonans, -antis. ] An articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consonants are divided into various classes, as mutes, spirants, sibilants, nasals, semivowels, etc. All of them are sounds uttered through a closer position of the organs than that of a vowel proper, although the most open of them, as the semivowels and nasals, are capable of being used as if vowels, and forming syllables with other closer consonants, as in the English feeble taken All the consonants excepting the mutes may be indefinitely, prolonged in utterance without the help of a vowel, and even the mutes may be produced with an aspirate instead of a vocal explosion. Vowels and consonants may be regarded as the two poles in the scale of sounds produced by gradual approximation of the organ, of speech from the most open to the closest positions, the vowel being more open, the consonant closer; but there is a territory between them where the sounds produced partake of the qualities of both. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ “A consonant is the result of audible friction, squeezing, or stopping of the breath in some part of the mouth (or occasionally of the throath.) The main distinction between vowels and consonants is, that while in the former the mouth configuration merely modifies the vocalized breath, which is therefore an essential element of the vowels, in consonants the narrowing or stopping of the oral passage is the foundation of the sound, and the state of the glottis is something secondary.” H. Sweet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of a consonant; pertaining to consonants. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To change into, or use as, a consonant. “The vowel is consonantized, that is, made closer in position.” Peile. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a consonant, consistent, or congruous manner; agreeably. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or condition of being consonant, agreeable, or consistent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A container. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the same limits; ending at the same time; conterminous. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fitness, suitableness. ] That which is suitable, agreeable, or convenient. [ 1913 Webster ]

And they missed
Their wonted convenance, cheerly hid the loss. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A white pennant with red border, carried: (a) Forward on all vessels on convoy duty. (b) Alone by a senior officer present during evolutions or drills, when it commands “Silence.” (c) Over a signal number, when it refers to the signal number of an officer in the Annual Navy Register. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Joint ordinance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A tenant in common, or a joint tenant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. contenance, countenaunce, demeanor, composure, F. contenance demeanor, fr. L. continentia continence, LL. also, demeanor, fr. L. continere to hold together, repress, contain. See Contain, and cf. Continence. ] 1. Appearance or expression of the face; look; aspect; mien. [ 1913 Webster ]

So spake the Son, and into terror changed
His countenance. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The face; the features. [ 1913 Webster ]

In countenance somewhat doth resemble you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Approving or encouraging aspect of face; hence, favor, good will, support; aid; encouragement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast made him . . . glad with thy countenance. Ps. xxi. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the magistrate's peculiar province, to give countenance to piety and virtue, and to rebuke vice. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Superficial appearance; show; pretense. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The election being done, he made countenance of great discontent thereat. Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

In countenance, in an assured condition or aspect; free from shame or dismay. “It puts the learned in countenance, and gives them a place among the fashionable part of mankind.” Addison. --
Out of countenance, not bold or assured; confounded; abashed. “Their best friends were out of countenance, because they found that the imputations . . . were well grounded.” Clarendon. --
To keep the countenance, to preserve a composed or natural look, undisturbed by passion or emotion. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]