n.; pl. Alvearies [ L. alvearium, alveare, beehive, fr. alveus a hollow vessel, beehive, from alvus belly, beehive. ] 1. A beehive, or something resembling a beehive. Barret. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) The hollow of the external ear. Quincy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alveatus hollowed out. ] Formed or vaulted like a beehive. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alveolus a small hollow or cavity: cf. F. alvéolaire. ] (Anat.) 1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, alveoli or little cells, sacs, or sockets. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Phon.) Articulated with the tip of the tongue pressing against the alveolar processes of the upper front teeth. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Alveolar processes, the processes of the maxillary bones, containing the sockets of the teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Alveolar. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alveolatus, fr. alveolus. ] (Bot.) Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Alveolus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alveolus + -form. ] Having the form of alveoli, or little sockets, cells, or cavities. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Alveoli [ L., a small hollow or cavity, dim. of alveus: cf. F. alvéole. See Alveary. ] 1. A cell in a honeycomb. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A small cavity in a coral, shell, or fossil [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Anat.) A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Alvei [ L. ] The channel of a river. Weate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bivalve; bi- (L. bis) + valve valve. ] 1. (Zool.) A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + valve. ] (Zool. & Bot.) Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods; bivalve. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Mach.) See Snifting valve. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Calved 3; p. pr. & vb. n. Calving. ] [ AS. cealfian. See Calf. ] 1. To bring forth a calf. “Their cow calveth.” Job xxi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring forth young; to produce offspring. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? Job xxxix. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

The grassy clods now calved. Molton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Phys. Geog.) To throw off fragments which become icebergs; -- said of a glacier. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. 1. To cut in slices and pickle, as salmon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

For a change, leave calvered salmon and eat sprats. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To crimp; as, calvered salmon. Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered; as, grayling's flesh will calver. Catton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Snapdragon. [ 1913 Webster ]

See under Valve. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Mech.) A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Equi- + valve. ] (Zoöl.) Having the valves equal in size and from, as in most bivalve shells. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ointment for the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Mech.) A suction valve or check valve at the lower end of a pipe; esp., such a valve in a steam-engine condenser opening to the air pump. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A half. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Halved p. pr. & vb. n. Halving. ] [ From Half. ] 1. To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple; to be or form half of. [ 1913 Webster ]

So far apart their lives are thrown
From the twin soul that halves their own. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of a hole, match, etc., to reach or play in the same number of strokes as an opponent.

a. Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., pl. of Half. [ 1913 Webster ]

By halves, by one half at once; halfway; fragmentarily; partially; incompletely. [ 1913 Webster ]

I can not believe by halves; either I have faith, or I have it not. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

To go halves. See under Go. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Zool.) Having unequal valves, as the shell of an oyster. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Between alveoli; as, the interalveolar septa between adjacent air cells in the lungs. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Marine Steam Engin.) A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water line. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. malverser to be corrupt in office, fr. L. male ill + versari to move about, to occupy one's self, vertere to turn. See Malice, and Verse. ] Evil conduct; fraudulent practices; misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Malmsey wine. See Malmsey. “ A jub of malvesye.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. multivalve. ] (Zool.) Any mollusk which has a shell composed of more than two pieces. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Multi- + valve, valvular: cf. F. multivalve. ] 1. Having many valves. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Many-valved; having more than two valves; -- said of certain shells, as the chitons. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Hydraulics) A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ D. kwakzalver; cf. kwakzalven to quack or boast of one's salves. See Quack, Salve, n. ] One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Quadri- + valve: cf. F. quadrivalve. ] (Bot.) Dehiscent into four similar parts; four-valved; as, a quadrivalve pericarp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) A door, shutter, or the like, having four folds. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Quinque- + valve, valvular: cf. F. quinquévalve. ] (Bot.) Having five valves, as a pericarp. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖interj. [ L., hail, God save you, imperat. of salvere to be well. Cf. Salvo a volley. ] Hail! [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To say “Salve” to; to greet; to salute. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By this that stranger knight in presence came,
And goodly salved them. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. sealf ointment; akin to LG. salwe, D. zalve, zalf, OHG. salba, Dan. salve, Sw. salfva, Goth. salbōn to anoint, and probably to Gr. (Hesychius) &unr_; oil, &unr_; butter, Skr. sarpis clarified butter. √155, 291. ] 1. An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A soothing remedy or antidote. [ 1913 Webster ]

Counsel or consolation we may bring.
Salve to thy sores. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Salve bug (Zool.), a large, stout isopod crustacean (Aega psora), parasitic on the halibut and codfish, -- used by fishermen in the preparation of a salve. It becomes about two inches in length. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Salved p. pr. & vb. n. Salving. ] [ AS. sealfian to anoint. See Salve, n. ] 1. To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over. [ 1913 Webster ]

But Ebranck salved both their infamies
With noble deeds. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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v. t. & i. [ See Salvage ] To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea. [ Recent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Salvage. ] A salvor. Skeat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. salva pregustation, the tasting of viands before they are served, salver, fr. salvar to save, to taste, to prove the food or drink of nobles, from L. salvare to save. See Save. ] A tray or waiter on which anything is presented. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Tubular, with a spreading border. See Hypocraterimorphous. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Mach.) A valve permitting a fluid under pressure an easier avenue of escape than normally; specif., a valve, actuated by the governor, used in one system of marine-engine governing to connect both ends of the low-pressure cylinder as a supplementary control. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. tri- + valve. ] Anything having three valves, especially a shell. [ 1913 Webster ]