n. 1. 1 a genus of birds comprising the mynas.
Syn. -- genus Acridotheres. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Aero- + therapeutics. ] (Med.) Treatment of disease by the use of air or other gases. AS [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖ n. [ From Gr. 'a`noplos unarmed ('an priv. + 'o`plon an implement, weapon) + qhri`on beast. ] (Paleon.) A genus of extinct quadrupeds of the order Ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name). [ 1913 Webster ]

pron. & a. [ An a, one + other. ] 1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. [ 1913 Webster ]

Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not the same; different. [ 1913 Webster ]

He winks, and turns his lips another way. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth. Prov. xxvii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

While I am coming, another steppeth down before me. John v. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ As a pronoun another may have a possessive another's, pl. others, poss. pl. other'. It is much used in opposition to one; as, one went one way, another another. It is also used with one, in a reciprocal sense; as, “love one another, ” that is, let each love the other or others. “These two imparadised in one another's arms.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Corrupted fr. another-gates. ] Of another kind. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Another + gate, or gait, way. Cf. Algates. ] Of another sort. [ Obs. ] “Another-gates adventure.” Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Corrupted fr. another-gates. ] Of another sort. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. balneum bath + Gr. qerapey`ein to heal. ] The treatment of disease by baths. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; weight + thermograph. ] An instrument for recording both pressure and temperature, as of the atmosphere. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bothered (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bothering. ] [ Cf. Ir. buaidhirt trouble, buaidhrim I vex. ] To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The imperative is sometimes used as an exclamation mildly imprecatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome. [ 1913 Webster ]

Without bothering about it. H. James. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who bothers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; thunder + &unr_; beast. ] (Paleon.) A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Brothers r Brethren See Brethren. [ OE. brother, AS. brōðor; akin to OS. brothar, D. broeder, OHG. pruodar, G. bruder, Icel. brōðir, Sw. & Dan. broder, Goth. brōþar, Ir. brathair, W. brawd, pl. brodyr, Lith. brolis, Lett. brahlis, Russ. brat', Pol. & Serv. brat, OSlav. bratrŭ, L. frater, Skr. bhrāt&rsdot_;, Zend bratar brother, Gr. fra`thr, fra`twr, a clansman. The common plural is Brothers; in the solemn style, Brethren, OE. pl. brether, bretheren, AS. dative sing. brēðer, nom. pl. brōðor, brōðru. √258. Cf. Friar, Fraternal. ] 1. A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood. A brother having the same mother but different fathers is called a uterine brother, and one having the same father but a different mother is called an agnate brother, or in (Law) a consanguine brother. A brother having the same father and mother is called a brother-german or full brother. The same modifying terms are applied to sister or sibling. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Two of us in the churchyard lie,
My sister and my brother. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc. “A brother of your order.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers,
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character. [ 1913 Webster ]

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

That April morn
Of this the very brother. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In Scripture, the term brother is applied to a kinsman by blood more remote than a son of the same parents, as in the case of Abraham and Lot, Jacob and Laban. In a more general sense, brother or brethren is used for fellow-man or fellow-men. [ 1913 Webster ]

For of whom such massacre
Make they but of their brethren, men of men? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brother Jonathan, a humorous designation for the people of the United States collectively. The phrase is said to have originated from Washington's referring to the patriotic Jonathan Trumbull, governor of Connecticut, as “Brother Jonathan.” --
Blood brother. See under Blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Brothered ] To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Law) A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Brother + -hood. ] 1. The state of being brothers or a brother. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

A brotherhood of venerable trees. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Fraternity; association; fellowship; sodality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Brothers-in-law The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being brotherly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate; as, brotherly love. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Fraternal; kind; affectionate; tender. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Like a brother; affectionately; kindly. “I speak but brotherly of him.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ NL., fr. Gr. chei`r hand + qhri`on beast. ] (Poleon.) A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to chemotherapy; using chemotherapy; having properties beneficial for chemotherapy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness); -- also used especially in reference to the use of chemicals to treat cancer. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Paleon.) See Dinotherium. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL. dinotherium, fr. Gr. deino`s terrible + qhri`on beast. ] (Paleon.) A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable for a pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zoöl.) The eelpout. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. endo- + thermic. ] (Chem.) Designating, or pert. to, a reaction which occurs with absorption of heat; formed by such a reaction; as, an endothermic substance; -- opposed to exothermic. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Pref. exo- + thermic. ] (Chem.) Characterized by, or formed with, evolution of heat; as, an exothermic reaction; -- opposed to endothermic. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A female ancestor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. fother, foder, AS. fō&unr_;er a cartload; akin to G. fuder a cartload, a unit of measure, OHG. fuodar, D. voeder, and perh. to E. fathom, or cf. Skr. pātrā vessel, dish. Cf. Fodder a fother. ] 1. A wagonload; a load of any sort. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Of dung full many a fother. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. See Fodder, a unit of weight. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fothered p. pr. & vb. n. Fothering. ] [ Cf. Fodder food, and G. füttern, futtern, to cover within or without, to line. √75. ] To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + E. thermometer. ] (Physics) A thermometer specially constructed for measuring temperetures at a depth below the surface of the ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. godmōdor. ] A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See Godfather [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The mother of one's father or mother. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a grandmother in age or manner; kind; indulgent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. (Zool.) Same as Hematotherma. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Warm-blooded; homoiothermal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A brother by one parent, but not by both. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood + thermo`s warm. ] (Zool.) The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematocrya. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Warm-blooded. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A local Orkney name; cf. Icel. hār. ] (Zool.) The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) A homoiothermal animal.
Syn. -- homoiotherm. [ PJC ]

adj. (Biol.) having constant and relatively high body temperature; warm-blooded; same as homoiothermal; -- of birds and mammals. Contrasted to poikilothermal.
Syn. -- homoiothermic, homoiothermal, homothermic, homothermal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Biol.) The process or state of being homoiothermal.
Syn. -- homoiothermism, homoiothermy. [ PJC ]

a. See Homoiothermal. [ 1913 Webster ]