adv. Angrily. [ Obs. or Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G. erzkämmerer. See Arch-, pref. ] A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Temperately. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a decisive battle during the Napoleonic campaigns (1805); the French under Napoleon defeated the Russian and Austrian armies of Czar Alexander I and Emperor Francis II.
Syn. -- battle of Austerlitz. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Perh. for Balderlocks, fr. Balder the Scandinavian deity. ] (Bot.) A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Germany. Population (2000) = 3, 471, 418. [ PJC ]

n. [ The capital of Germany ] 1. A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool. [ 1913 Webster ]

Berlin black, a black varnish, drying with almost a dead surface; -- used for coating the better kinds of ironware. Ure. --
Berlin blue, Prussian blue. Ure. --
Berlin green, a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian blue. --
Berlin iron, a very fusible variety of cast iron, from which figures and other delicate articles are manufactured. These are often stained or lacquered in imitation of bronze. --
Berlin shop, a shop for the sale of worsted embroidery and the materials for such work. --
Berlin work, worsted embroidery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. ] (Zool.) A roachlike European fish (Rhodima amarus). [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a bitter manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. similar to a bladder.
Syn. -- bladdery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Bungling; awkward. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mean; servile. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 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 ]

n. Butchery quality. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. “The victim of a butcherly murder.” D. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]

What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,
This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. ] The papal chamberlain; the cardinal who presides over the pope's household. He has at times possessed great power. [ Written also camerlengo and camarlengo. ]

adv. In a supercilious, disdainful, or haughty manner; arrogantly. Junius. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. chamberlain, chambrelencF. chambellon, OHG. chamerling, chamarlinc, G. kämmerling, kammer chamber (fr. L. camera) + -ling. See Chamber, and -ling. ] [ Formerly written chamberlin. ] 1. An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An upper servant of an inn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An officer having the direction and management of the private chambers of a nobleman or monarch; hence, in Europe, one of the high officers of a court. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A treasurer or receiver of public money; as, the chamberlain of London, of North Wales, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lord chamberlain of England, an officer of the crown, who waits upon the sovereign on the day of coronation, and provides requisites for the palace of Westminster, and for the House of Lords during the session of Parliament. Under him are the gentleman of the black rod and other officers. His office is distinct from that of the lord chamberlain of the Household, whose functions relate to the royal housekeeping. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Office of a chamberlain. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a chandler; in a petty way. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without joy, gladness, or comfort.

-- Cheer"less*ly, adv. -- Cheer"less*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

My cheerful day is turned to cheerless night. Spenser.

Syn. -- Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; disconsolate; dejected; melancholy; forlorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Gay; cheerful. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Cheerily. [ Archaic ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See -lite. ] A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make as pliable as kid leather. [ Obs. ] Br. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The frill to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed out resembled the small entrails. See Chitterlings. [ Obs. ] Gascoigne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ Cf. AS. cwiþ womb, Icel. kvið, Goth. qiþus, belly, womb, stomach, G. kutteln chitterlings. ] (Cookery) The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a clever manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Never was man so clever absurd. C. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Clout, n. ] Clumsy; awkward. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a highway interchange between two roads in which the connecting road pattern resembles a four-leaf clover, and which allows moving from one road to another without left-hand turns. One road passes over the other, and the exit from one highway and entrance into the second highway proceeds from the right-hand lane in all directions. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. (Building) (a) A batten laid lengthwise between two rafters to afford a bearing for laths laid crosswise. (b) Any lath laid without actual measurement between two gauged laths. (c) Any of a series of laths nailed to the timbers to raise the sheet lathing above their surface to afford a key for plastering. (d) One of many laths used in preparing one side of a partition or framed wall, when the other side has been covered in and finished. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. couvre-lit; couvrir to cover + lit bed, fr. L. lectus bed. See Cover. ] The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lay her in lilies and in violets . . .
And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A coverlet. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the coverlid was cloth of gold. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. a tributary of the Ohio River.
Syn. -- . [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Free from danger. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dwarf; a dandiprat. [ r. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Becoming a daughter; filial. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him. Cavendish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Deer + - let. ] (Zool.) A chevrotain. See Kanchil, and Napu. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Actively; quickly; nimbly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Swim with your bodies,
And carry it sweetly and deliverly. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no dinner; as, the naughty child was sent to bed dinnerless. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to dinner. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The dinnerly officer. Copley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Disastrously. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being disorderly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not in order; marked by disorder; disarranged; immethodical; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly state. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not complying with the restraints of order and law; tumultuous; unruly; lawless; turbulent; as, disorderly people; disorderly assemblies. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house.

Syn. -- Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous; inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a disorderly manner; without law or order; irregularly; confusedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly. 2 Thess. iii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

Savages fighting disorderly with stones. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]