a. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_;, &unr_;, a scale. ] (Zool.) Not having scales. -- n. A fish without scales. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. anti- + epileptic. ] (Med.) Good against epilepsy. -- n. A medicine for epilepsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. (Med.) Same as Antepileptic. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an archbishop. an archepiscopal see
Syn. -- archiepiscopal [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Pref. archi- + episcopacy. ] 1. That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state or dignity of an archbishop. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. archi- + episcopal. ] Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The station or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. archi- + episcopate. ] The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Gr. & L. Pros.) A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a widely distributed family of herbs and shrubs most with milky juice; examples are the milkweeds (genus Asclepias). [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. [ See Asclepias. ] (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the Milkweed family. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, named from Asclepios or Aesculapius. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties. [ 1913 Webster ]

Asclepias butterfly (Zool.), a large, handsome, red and black butterfly (Danais Archippus), found in both hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'asth`r star + &unr_; scale. ] (Paleon.) A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone. Hugh Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bepinched ] To pinch, or mark with pinches. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. damned. Used as a euphemistic emphatic adjective to express displeasure, in place of damned, goddammed or stronger (more offensive) words. [ PJC ]

n. The art of recording pecuniary or business transactions in a regular and systematic manner, so as to show their relation to each other, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bookkeeping by single entry, the method of keeping books by carrying the record of each transaction to the debit or credit of a single account. --
Bookkeeping by double entry, a mode of bookkeeping in which two entries of every transaction are carried to the ledger, one to the Dr., or left hand, side of one account, and the other to the Cr., or right hand, side of a corresponding account, in order tha&unr_; the one entry may check the other; -- sometimes called, from the place of its origin, the Italian method. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Tenpins) (a) A form of bowling pin slender and nearly straight like a candle. (b) The game played with such pins; -- in form candlepins, used as a singular. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. 1. An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: An arrangement of flowers placed in the center of a table as an ornament while dining. [ PJC ]

3. The central or most important feature of an activity, plan, or object; as, the centerpiece of her campaign was a proposal to slash taxes. [ PJC ]

n. same as centerpiece.
Syn. -- centerpiece. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his charge or authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Chorepiscopi [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; chw^ros, chw`ra, place, country + &unr_; bishop. Cf. Bishop. ] (Eccl.) A “country” or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A low stool. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin. [ 1913 Webster ]

She felt a curious, uneasy creepiness. Mrs. Alexander. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Crawling, or moving close to the ground. “Every creeping thing.” Gen. vi. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils. [ 1913 Webster ]

Casements lined with creeping herbs. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ceeping crowfoot (Bot.), a plant, the Ranunculus repens. --
Creeping snowberry, an American plant (Chiogenes hispidula) with white berries and very small round leaves having the flavor of wintergreen. [ 1913 Webster ]

. The stonecrop (Sedum acre). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adv. by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly. [ 1913 Webster ]

How slily and creepingly did he address himself to our first parents. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A genus of plants including the hawk's beard; cosmopolitan in the northern hemisphere.
Syn. -- genus Crepis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ See Crepitate. ] Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling. [ 1913 Webster ]

Crepitant rale (Med.), a peculiar crackling sound audible with inspiration in pneumonia and other lung disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Crepitated p. pr. & vb. n. Crepitating ] [ L. crepitatus, p. p. of crepitare to crackle, v. intensive of crepare to crack. Cf. Crevice. ] To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. crépitation. ] 1. The act of crepitating or crackling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) (a) A grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air. (b) A crepitant râle. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. crepare to crack. ] (Med.) (a) The noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels. (b) Same as Crepitation, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. decrepitus, perhaps orig., noised out, noiseless, applied to old people, who creep about quietly; de- + crepare to make a noise, rattle: cf. F. décrépit. See Crepitate. ] Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out. “Beggary or decrepit age.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Already decrepit with premature old age. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Sometimes incorrectly written decrepid. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decrepitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Decrepitating. ] [ Cf. F. décrépiter. ] To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To crackle, as salt in roasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. décrépitation. ] The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Decrepitude. [ R. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. décrépitude. ] The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. [ L. depictus, p. p. of depingere to depict; de- + pingere to paint. See Paint, and cf. Depaint, p. p. ] Depicted. Lydgate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Depicting. ] 1. To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray. [ 1913 Webster ]

His arms are fairly depicted in his chamber. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To represent in words; to describe vividly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cæsar's gout was then depicted in energetic language. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. represented graphically by sketch or design or lines.
Syn. -- pictured, portrayed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. depictio. ] A painting or depicting; a representation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depictured p. pr. & vb. n. Depicturing. ] To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. [ 1913 Webster ]

Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depilated; p. pr. & vb. n. Depilating. ] [ L. depilatus, p. p. of depilare to depilate; de- + pilare to put forth hairs, pilus hair. ] To strip of hair; to husk. Venner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dépilation. ] Act of pulling out or removing the hair; unhairing. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. dépilatoire. ] Having the quality or power of removing hair. -- n. An application used to take off hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. de- + pilous: cf. L. depilis. ] Hairless. Sir t. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dissaepimentum, fr. dissaepire; dis- + saepire to hedge in, inclose. ] 1. A separating tissue; a partition; a septum. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) One of the partitions which divide a compound ovary into cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) One of the transverse, calcareous partitions between the radiating septa of a coral. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pipe for forcing into the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. en- (Gr. &unr_;) + epidermic. ] (Med.) Applied to the skin without friction; -- said of medicines.