a. [ Gr. &unr_; thorn + &unr_; fruit. ] (Bot.) Having the fruit covered with spines. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as Akocanthera.
Syn. -- Akocanthera, genus Acocanthera, genus Acokanthera. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; extreme, highest + &unr_; fruit. ] (Bot.) (a) Having a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk. (b) Having the fruit stalks at the end of a leafy stem, as in certain mosses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. advocatie, LL. advocatia. See Advocate. ] The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. avocat, avocet, OF. avocat, fr. L. advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See Advowee, Avowee, Vocal. ] 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the English and American Law, advocate is the same as “counsel, ” “counselor, ” or “barrister.” In the civil and ecclesiastical courts, the term signifies the same as “counsel” at the common law. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Christ, considered as an intercessor. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have an Advocate with the Father. 1 John ii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

Faculty of advocates (Scot.), the Scottish bar in Edinburgh. --
Lord advocate (Scot.), the public prosecutor of crimes, and principal crown lawyer. --
Judge advocate. See under Judge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Advocated p. pr. & vb. n. Advocating ] [ See Advocate, n., Advoke, Avow. ] To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly. [ 1913 Webster ]

To advocate the cause of thy client. Bp. Sanderson (1624). [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause. Mitford. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To act as advocate. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Office or duty of an advocate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. advocatio: cf. OF. avocation. See Advowson. ] 1. The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The holy Jesus . . . sits in heaven in a perpetual advocation for us. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Advowson. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The donations or advocations of church livings. Sanderson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Scots Law) The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court. Bell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to an advocate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 dioecious evergreen trees or shrubs; equatorial to S and SE Africa: yellowwood2; similar to trees or genus Podocarpus.
Syn. -- genus Afrocarpus [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. capable of being allocated.
Syn. -- allocable, apportionable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ LL. allocatus, p. p. of allocare, fr. L. ad + locare to place. See Allow. ] 1. To distribute or assign; to allot. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To localize. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. allocatio: cf. F. allocation. ] 1. The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company. [ 1913 Webster ]

The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants. A. R. Stanley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; -- a term used in the English exchequer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ LL., it is allowed, fr. allocare to allow. ] (Law) “Allowed.” The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 any plant of the genus Alocasia having large showy basal leaves and boat-shaped spathe and reddish berries.
Syn. -- elephant's ear, elephant ear [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. tree bearing fruit enclosed in a shell or involucre or husk. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. 1 of or pertaining to an angiocarp; angiocarpous.
Syn. -- angiocarpous [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Angio- + Gr. karpo`s fruit. ] (Bot.) (a) Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule. Brande & C. (b) Having the seeds or spores covered, as in certain lichens. Gray.
Syn. -- angiocarpic [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'a`nqos flower + karpo`s fruit. ] (Bot.) Having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. apocalypsis, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to uncover, to disclose; &unr_; from + &unr_; to cover, conceal: cf. F. apocalypse. ] 1. (Eccl.) One of a numerous class of writings proceeding from Jewish authors between 250 b. c. and 150 a. d., and designed to propagate the Jewish faith or to cheer the hearts of the Jewish people with the promise of deliverance and glory; or proceeding from Christian authors of the opening centuries and designed to portray the future. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Specifically, the revelation delivered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament (called Revelation or the Apocalypse). [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything viewed as a revelation, especially one that is highly significant for the person receiving it; a disclosure. Often used of a realization or revelation that changes a person's goals or style of life. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

The new apocalypse of Nature. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. the final battle between good and evil, as foreseen in Saint John's Apocalypse; the time when God conquers the powers of evil, attended by cataclysmic cosmic events, and sometimes thought of as the end of the world; an Armageddon. [ PJC ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a revelation, or, specifically, to the Revelation of St. John; containing, or of the nature of, a prophetic revelation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling an apocalypse, in senses 3 or 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

Apocalyptic number, the number 666, mentioned in Rev. xiii. 18., in which it is described as the number of the “beast of the earth”. It has been variously interpreted. Some fundamentalist Christians consider it to be the number of the Devil, and avoid or fear objects containing that number. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

adv. By revelation; in an apocalyptic manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

, n. The writer of the Apocalypse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. apo- + Gr. karpo`s fruit. ] (Bot.) Either entirely or partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to syncarpous. Lindley. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. 1 a genus of slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas.
Syn. -- genus Ariocarpus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_; bread + &unr_; fruit. ] (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the breadfruit, or to the genus Artocarpus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'asko`s a bladder + karpo`s fruit. ] (Bot.) In ascomycetous fungi, the spherical, discoid, or cup-shaped body within which the asci are collected, and which constitutes the mature fructification. The different forms are known in mycology under distinct names. Called also spore fruit. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. of or pertaining to an ascocarp. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a cassette for audio tape. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ Auto- + Gr. karpo`s fruit. ] (Bot.) Consisting of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Auto- + catalysis. ] (Chem.) Self-catalysis; catalysis of a substance by one of its own products, as of silver oxide by the silver formed by reduction of a small portion of it. -- Au`to*cat`a*lyt"ic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

‖n. [ Corrupted from the Mexican ahuacatl: cf. Sp. aguacate, F. aguacaté, avocat, G. avogadobaum. ] The pulpy fruit of Persea gratissima, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also avocado pear, alligator pear, midshipman's butter. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] An advocate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. avocatus, p. p. of avocare; a, ab + vocare to call. Cf. Avoke, and see Vocal, a. ] To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal. [ Obs. or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

One who avocateth his mind from other occupations. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

He, at last, . . . avocated the cause to Rome. Robertson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. avocatio. ] 1. A calling away; a diversion. [ Obs. or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Heaven is his vocation, and therefore he counts earthly employments avocations. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

By the secular cares and avocations which accompany marriage the clergy have been furnished with skill in common life. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this sense the word is applied to the smaller affairs of life, or occasional calls which summon a person to leave his ordinary or principal business. Avocation (in the singular) for vocation is usually avoided by good writers. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation. [ 1913 Webster ]

There are professions, among the men, no more favorable to these studies than the common avocations of women. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a few hours, above thirty thousand men left his standard, and returned to their ordinary avocations. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

An irregularity and instability of purpose, which makes them choose the wandering avocations of a shepherd, rather than the more fixed pursuits of agriculture. Buckle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Calling off. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which calls aside; a dissuasive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a chemical substance obtainable as a white crystalline ester (H2N.C6H4.CO.O.C2H5) used as a local anesthetic. Chemically, it is 4-aminobenzoic acid ethyl ester.
Syn. -- ethyl p-aminobenzoate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Pref. bi-+ focal. ] Having two foci, as some spectacle lenses. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Pref. bi-+ focal. ] a bifocal lens. [ PJC ]

n. pl. [ Pref. bi-+ focal. ] eyeglasses whose lenses have two foci, allowing the wearer to see both far and nearby objects clearly. The lenses are partitioned horizontally, the upper and lower parts having different focal lengths. [ PJC ]

n. [ Pref. bi- + location. ] Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a biochemical catalyst such as an enzyme. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of or pertaining to a biocatalyst. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. caused by a biocatalyst. [ PJC ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; sprout, germ + &unr_; fruit. ] (Bot.) Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Arch.) The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A mnemonic word. ] 1. (Logic) A form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative. [ 1913 Webster ]

Baroko and Bocardo have been stumbling blocks to the logicians. Bowen. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison. [ Eng. ] Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bocassin, boucassin. ] A sort of fine buckram. [ 1913 Webster ]