n. 1. The district or ward of an alderman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The office or rank of an alderman. [ R. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Almonries [ OF. aumosnerie, F. aumônerie, fr. OF. aumosnier. See Almoner. ] The place where an almoner resides, or where alms are distributed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Opposition to Freemasonry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The district, office, or residence of an archdeacon. See Benefice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every diocese is divided into archdeaconries. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Welsh mythology) a goddess famous for her beauty; the mother of Dylan.
Syn. -- Arianrhod. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; an older term for ballooning. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. 1. Same as Blazon, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

The principles of blazonry. Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings. [ 1913 Webster ]

The blazonry of Argyle. Lord Dufferin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Artistic representation or display. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Cannon, collectively; artillery. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ringing of bells and roaring of cannonry proclaimed his course through the country. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Canonries A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. capitainerie. ] Power, or command, over a certain district; chieftainship. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Scots Law) Suretyship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. charlatanrie, from It. ciarlataneria. See Charlatan. ] Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A body or collection of cousins; the whole number of persons who stand in the relation of cousins to a given person or persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Deaconship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Demoniacal influence or possession. J. Baillie. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Disenrolled p. pr. & vb. n. Disenrolling. ] To erase from a roll or list. [ Written also disenrol. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Plain; direct; forthright; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man of plain, downright character. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism.
Syn. -- honest-to-goodness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The downright impossibilities charged upon it. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright insanity. Prescott.

-- Down"right`ly, adv. -- Down"right`ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Straight down; perpendicularly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In plain terms; without ceremony. [ 1913 Webster ]

We shall chide downright, if I longer stay. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Without delay; at once; completely. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She fell downright into a fit. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Emblazonries The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thine ancient standard's rich emblazonry. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + race lineage. ] To enroot; to implant. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enraged p. pr. & vb. n. Enraging ] [ F. enrager to be enraged; pref. en- (L. in) + rage rage. See Rage. ] To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.

Syn. -- To irritate; incense; inflame; exasperate; provoke; anger; madden; infuriate. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. filled with or indicating extreme anger; as, an enraged bull.
Syn. -- angered, furious, infuriated, maddened, raging. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. Act of enraging or state of being enraged; excitement. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + range. Cf. Enrank, Arrange. ] 1. To range in order; to put in rank; to arrange. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rove over; to range. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + rank. ] To place in ranks or in order. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. [ Pref. en- + rapt. Cf. Enravish. ] Thrown into ecstasy; transported; enraptured. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enraptured p. pr. & vb. n. Enrapturing. ] To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To transport with delight; to enrapture; to fascinate. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to throw into ecstasy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy; rapture. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + register: cf. F. enregistrer. Cf. Inregister. ] To register; to enroll or record; to inregister. [ 1913 Webster ]

To read enregistered in every nook
His goodness, which His beauty doth declare. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Pref. en- + rheum: cf. F. s'enrhumer. ] To contract a rheum. [ Obs. ] Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enriched p. pr. & vb. n. Enriching. ] [ F. enrichir; pref. en- (L. in) + riche rich. See Rich. ] 1. To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Seeing, Lord, your great mercy
Us hath enriched so openly. Chaucer's Dream. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To supply with ornament; to adorn; as, to enrich a ceiling by frescoes. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make rich with manure; to fertilize; -- said of the soil; as, to enrich land by irrigation. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To supply with knowledge; to instruct; to store; -- said of the mind. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who enriches. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To form into ridges. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To encircle. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The Muses and the Graces, grouped in threes,
Enringed a billowing fountain in the midst. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To ripen. [ Obs. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To rive; to cleave. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + robe: cf. OF. enrober. ] To invest or adorn with a robe; to attire. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. en- + rock. ] A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enrolled p. pr. & vb. n. Enrolling. ] [ Pref. en- + roll: cf. F. enrôler; pref. en- (L. in) + rôle roll or register. See Roll, n. ] [ Written also enrol. ] 1. To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist. [ 1913 Webster ]

An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To envelop; to inwrap; to involve. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. one who is enrolled, especially a learner who enrolls in (or is enrolled in) a class or course of study. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who enrolls or registers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. enrôlement. ] [ Written also enrolment. ] 1. The act of enrolling; registration. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A writing in which anything is enrolled; a register; a record. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To fix by the root; to fix fast; to implant deep. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To surround. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. fauconnerie. See Falcon. ] 1. The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A body of felons; specifically, the convict population of a penal colony. Howitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The institutions or the practices of freemasons. [ 1913 Webster ]