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

n. [ Gr. &unr_; cock + &unr_; fight. ] Cockfighting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Alectryomancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An architect. [ Obs. ] North. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. bi- + vector. ] (Math.) A term made up of the two parts &unr_; + &unr_;1 &unr_;-1, where &unr_; and &unr_;1 are vectors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. collector one who collects: cf. F. collecteur. ] 1. One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. [ 1913 Webster ]

I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. [ 1913 Webster ]

Volumes without the collector's own reflections. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Com.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll. [ 1913 Webster ]

A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One authorized to collect debts. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. Todd. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a collector of customs or of taxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the art of making sweetmeats. [ Obs. ] Beaumont. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who guesses or conjectures. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A great conjector at other men by their writings. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, connects; as: (a) A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. (b) A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing or making correction; corrective. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mech.) That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dejector a dejecter. ] 1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., a revealer. ] One who, or that which, detects; a detecter. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A deathbed's detector of the heart. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: (a) An indicator showing the depth of the water in a boiler. (b) (Elec.) A galvanometer, usually portable, for indicating the direction of a current. (c) (Elec.) Any of various devices for detecting the presence of electric waves. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Bank-note detector, a publication containing a description of genuine and counterfeit bank notes, designed to enable persons to discriminate between them. --
Detector lock. See under Lock. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Railroads) A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train (45 to 50 feet), laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One skilled in dialectics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. directeur. ] 1. One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent. [ 1913 Webster ]

In all affairs thou sole director. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company. [ 1913 Webster ]

What made directors cheat in South-Sea year? Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mech.) A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Surg.) A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. directorat. ] The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. directorial. ] 1. Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whoever goes to the directorial presence under this passport. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition or office of a director; directorate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. directorius. ] Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Directories 1. A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. [ Cf. F. directoire. ] A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Direction; guide. [ R. ] Whitlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dissecteur. ] One who dissects; an anatomist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ect- + organism. ] (Biol.) An external parasitic organism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] An effecter. Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mech.) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That part of the mechanism of a breech-loading firearm which ejects the empty shell. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Ejector condenser (Steam Engine), a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. eligere: cf. F. électeur. ] 1. One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor of a candidate for office. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In the old German empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One of the persons chosen, by vote of the people in the United States, to elect the President and Vice President. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. électoral. ] Pertaining to an election or to electors. [ 1913 Webster ]

In favor of the electoral and other princes. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Electoral college, the body of princes formerly entitled to elect the Emperor of Germany; also, a name sometimes given, in the United States, to the body of electors chosen by the people to elect the President and Vice President. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The territory or dignity of an elector; electorate. [ R. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. électorat. ] 1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. [ 1913 Webster ]

The middle-class electorate of Great Britain. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Fem. of Elector. ] An electress. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Electoral. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or status of an elector.

n. 1. One who, or that which, erects. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) A muscle which raises any part. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Physics) An attachment to a microscope, telescope, or other optical instrument, for making the image erect instead of inverted. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. expectorans, p. pr. of expectorare to drive from the breast: cf. F. expectorant. ] (Med.) Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat. -- n. An expectorant medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Expectorated p. pr. & vb. n. Expectorating ] [ L. expecrorare to drive from the breast; ex out + pectus, pectiris, breast. See Pectoral. ] To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To discharge matter from the lungs or throat by hawking and spitting; to spit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. expectoration. ] 1. The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. Same as Expectorant. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A flexor. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Mach.) See under Injector. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A director (usually one holding a number of directorships) who serves merely or mainly for the fee (in England, often a guinea) paid for attendance. [ Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ From the Trojan warrior Hector, the son of Priam. ] A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hectored p. pr. & vb. n. Hectoring. ] To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]