n. 1. any orchid of the genus Aerides. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a cock. ] (Zool.) A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Anhydrous. ] (Chem.) An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. arridere; ad + ridere to laugh. ] To please; to gratify. [ Archaic ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me are thy repositories of moldering learning. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖‖ } n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'asteri`as + -oid. See Asterias. ] (Zool.) A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is star-shaped or pentagonal. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + stride. ] With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Aurum + chloride. ] (Chem.) The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Bestrode (Obs. or R.) Bestrid p. p. Bestridden Bestrid, Bestrode; p. pr. & vb. n. Bestriding. ] [ AS. bestrīdan; pref. be- + strīdan to stride. ] 1. To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over [ 1913 Webster ]

That horse that thou so often hast bestrid. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. bi- + chloride. ] (Chem.) A compound consisting of two atoms of chlorine with one or more atoms of another element; -- called also dichloride. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bichloride of mercury, mercuric chloride; -- sometimes called corrosive sublimate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic element or radical; -- formerly called boruret. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Boron + fluoride. ] (Chem.) A double fluoride of boron and hydrogen, or some other positive element, or radical; -- called also fluoboride, and formerly fluoborate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Boron + glyceride. ] (Chem.) A compound of boric acid and glycerin, used as an antiseptic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bride, brid, brude, brud, burd, AS. br&ymacr_;d; akin to OFries. breid, OSax. brūd, D. bruid, OHG. prūt, brūt, G. braut, Icel. brūðr, Sw. & Dan. brud, Goth. brūþs; cf. Armor. pried spouse, W. priawd a married person. ] 1. A woman newly married, or about to be married. [ 1913 Webster ]

Has by his own experience tried
How much the wife is dearer than the bride. Lyttleton. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. Rev. xxi. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: An object ardently loved. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bride of the sea, the city of Venice. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make a bride of. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Bridal. ] A rustic wedding feast; a bridal. See Ale. [ 1913 Webster ]

The man that 's bid to bride-ale, if he ha' cake,
And drink enough, he need not fear his stake. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The marriage bed. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The nuptial apartment. Matt. ix. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bridegome, brudgume, AS. br&ymacr_;dguma (akin to OS. brūdigumo, D. bruidegom, bruigom, OHG. prūtigomo, MHG. briutegome, G. bräutigam); AS. br&ymacr_;d bride + guma man, akin to Goth. guma, Icel. gumi, OHG. gomo, L. homo; the insertion of r being caused by confusion with groom. See Bride, and cf. Groom, Homage. ] A man newly married, or just about to be married. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A knot of ribbons worn by a guest at a wedding; a wedding favor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n., n. See Bridesmaid, Bridesman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Bridesmen A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the “best man.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divide the broad bridecake
Round about the bridestake. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Cantharis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Carbon + hydrogen. ] (Chem.) A hydrocarbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt). [ 1913 Webster ]

Chloride of ammonium, sal ammoniac. --
Chloride of lime, bleaching powder; a grayish white substance, CaOCl2, used in bleaching and disinfecting; -- called more properly calcium hypochlorite. See Hypochlorous acid, under Hypochlorous. --
Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. to remove (e. g., dead tissue) surgically from a wound. [ PJC ]

n. the surgical excision of dead, contaminated, or damaged tissue, and foreign matter, especially from a wound. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Derided; p. pr. & vb. n. Deriding. ] [ L. deridere, derisum; de- + rid&unr_;re to laugh. See Ridicule. ] To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at. [ 1913 Webster ]

And the Pharisees, also, . . . derided him. Luke xvi. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sport that wrinkled Care derides.
And Laughter holding both his sides. Milton.

Syn. -- To mock; laugh at; ridicule; insult; taunt; jeer; banter; rally. -- To Deride, Ridicule, Mock, Taunt. A man may ridicule without any unkindness of feeling; his object may be to correct; as, to ridicule the follies of the age. He who derides is actuated by a severe a contemptuous spirit; as, to deride one for his religious principles. To mock is stronger, and denotes open and scornful derision; as, to mock at sin. To taunt is to reproach with the keenest insult; as, to taunt one for his misfortunes. Ridicule consists more in words than in actions; derision and mockery evince themselves in actions as well as words; taunts are always expressed in words of extreme bitterness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. di- + chloride. ] (Chem.) Same as Bichloride. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ NL., from L. flos, floris, a flower. ] (Bot.) A subclass of algæ including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeæ of many authors; -- so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the species. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) See Borofluoride.

n. [ Cf. F. fluoride. ] (Chem.) A binary compound of fluorine with another element or radical. [ 1913 Webster ]

Calcium fluoride (Min.), fluorite, CaF2. See Fluorite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Glycerin. ] (Chem.) A compound ether (formed from glycerin). Some glycerides exist ready formed as natural fats, others are produced artificially.

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Grided; p. pr. & vb. n. Griding. ] [ For gird, properly, to strike with a rod. See Yard a measure, and cf. Grid to strike, sneer. ] To cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as, the griding sword. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

That through his thigh the mortal steel did gride. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gride of hatchets fiercely thrown.
On wigwam log, and tree, and stone. Whittier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gris de lin gray of flax, flax gray. ] A color mixed of white, and red, or a gray violet. [ Written also gredaline, grizelin. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to the islands called Hebrides, west of Scotland. -- n. A native or inhabitant of the Hebrides. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Hesperidium. ] (Chem.) An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Class. Myth.) The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The garden producing the golden apples. [ 1913 Webster ]

It not love a Hercules,
Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hydrargyrum + chloride. ] (Chem.) A compound of the bichloride of mercury with another chloride. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hydr- + ide. ] (Chem.) A compound of the binary type, in which hydrogen is united with some other element.

lith"i*um hy"dride n. (Chem.) A hydride of lithium, LiH, commonly used as a powerful reducing agent in organic chemistry. [ PJC ]

n. (Chem.) A compound of hydrochloric acid with a base; -- distinguished from a chloride, where only chlorine unites with the base. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, iris + &unr_; cutting out; &unr_; out + te`mnein to cut. ] (Surg.) The act or process of cutting out a portion of the iris in order to form an artificial pupil. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ From NL. Iris, Iridis, the Iris. ] (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a large natural order of endogenous plants (Iridaceæ), which includes the genera Iris, Ixia, Crocus, Gladiolus, and many others. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Iridescent. ] Exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow, especially a surface reflection which changes color with the angle at which the object is viewed; the quality or state of being iridescent; a prismatic play of color; as, the iridescence of mother-of-pearl. It is due to interference of light waves reflected from the front and back surfaces of a thin layer transpatrent or semitransparent film. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. iris, iridis, the rainbow: cf. F. iridescent. ] Having colors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass. See iridescence. [ 1913 Webster ]