n. [ L. abditorium. ] A place for hiding or preserving articles of value. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Acclivous. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who acquires. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; undistinguishable; 'a priv. + &unr_; to separate, distinguish + &unr_; color. ] Color blindness; achromatopsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to add; making some addition. [ R. ] Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] Admonisher; monitor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Admonitory. [ R. ] “An admonitorial tone.” Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. admonitorius. ] That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. -- Ad*mon"i*to*ri*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; barley meal + -mancy: cf. F. alphitomancie. ] Divination by means of barley meal. Knowles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ambagious. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See A- not, and Mitosis. ] (Biol.) Cell division in which there is first a simple cleavage of the nucleus without change in its structure (such as the formation of chromosomes), followed by the division of the cytoplasm; direct cell division; -- opposed to mitosis. It is not the usual mode of division, and is believed by many to occur chiefly in highly specialized cells which are incapable of long-continued multiplication, in transitory structures, and in those in early stages of degeneration. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to amitosis; karyostenotic; -- opposed to mitotic. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Ammonite + -oid. ] (Zool.) An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. anceps, ancipitis, two-headed, double; an- for amb- on both sides + caput head. ] (Bot.) Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. -tos /plu>. [ Sp. ] In Guam and the Philippines, an idol, fetich, or spirit. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. [ Pref. anti- + toxin. ] A substance (sometimes the product of a specific micro-organism and sometimes naturally present in the blood or tissues of an animal), capable of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. apparere. See Appear. ] 1. Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. arch- + traitor. ] A chief or transcendent traitor. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. auditor, fr. audire. See Audible, a. ] 1. A hearer or listener. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person appointed and authorized to audit or examine an account or accounts, compare the charges with the vouchers, examine the parties and witnesses, allow or reject charges, and state the balance. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who hears judicially, as in an audience court. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the United States government, and in the State governments, there are auditors of the treasury and of the public accounts. The name is also applied to persons employed to check the accounts of courts, corporations, companies, societies, and partnerships. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Auditory. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. See Auditory, n. ] 1. The part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In ancient churches the auditorium was the nave, where hearers stood to be instructed; in monasteries it was an apartment for the reception of strangers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a building, or a room within a building, containing a large open space for public gatherings, and often having a raised stage where speakers or presentations may be easily viewed by the audience. The students assembled to hear the president speak in the auditorium. [ PJC ]

n. The office or function of auditor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. auditorius. ] Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

Auditory canal (Anat.), the tube from the auditory meatus or opening of the ear to the tympanic membrane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. auditorium. ] 1. An assembly of hearers; an audience. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An auditorium. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. ba`rbiton. ] (Mus.) An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. See Barytone. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. bary`tonos; bary`s heavy + to`nos tone. ] 1. (Mus.) Grave and deep, as a kind of male voice. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Greek Gram.) Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. [ F. baryton: cf. It. baritono. ] 1. (Mus.) (a) A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other. (b) A person having a voice of such range. (c) The viola di gamba, now entirely disused. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Greek Gram.) A word which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ It. beneplacito pleasure, fr. L. bene well + placitus pleasing. ] 1. At or during pleasure. [ 1913 Webster ]

For our English judges there never was . . . any bene placito as their tenure. F. Harrison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) At pleasure; ad libitum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having two heads; bicipital. “Bicipitous serpents.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. The second largest city of the Republic of Macedonia (the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), population 84, 002 (2000). It is also known as city of consuls. The city of Bitola is situated in Pelagonian flat, at the foot of Baba mountain. It was established by Slavs and it was given the slavic name Obitel - Bitola. It is assumed that the city got this name because of the many monasteries being built there. Later, during the rule of Turks, the Turks called it Monastir and it was a significant administrative and military center with 12 consulates. It managed to preserve the primacy of a leading city, especially in the XIX century when it rapidly grew to about 40.000 inhabitants. Bitola developed trading relations with Vienna, Paris, Leipzig, London and Thessalonika to the south. In that time Bitola exceeded Skopje, both in wealth and beauty. During World War II it was destroyed by heavy bombing. Bitola started to grow and develop economically only after liberation in 1945. See also Macedonia{ 2 }. Goce Vasilevski [ PJC ]

{ n., }. [ Etym. uncertain. ] (Bot.) A small scrubby tree (Balanites Ægyptiaca) growing in dry regions of tropical Africa and Asia. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The hard yellowish white wood is made into plows in Abyssinia; the bark is used in Farther India to stupefy fish; the ripe fruit is edible, when green it is an anthelmintic; the fermented juice is used as a beverage; the seeds yield a medicinal oil called zachun. The African name of the tree is hajilij. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Bonitoes [ Sp. & Pg. bonito, fr. Ar. bainīt and bainīth. ] [ Often incorrectly written bonita. ] (Zool.) 1. A large tropical fish (Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the American coast. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. any of a variety of scombroid fishes of the genera Sarda or Euthynnus, with a size intermediate between those of the smaller mackerels and the tunas. It is applied especially to the skipjack tuna (Euthynnus pelamis, syn. Katsuwonus pelamis, formerly Sarda Mediterranea, also called skipjack) of the Atlantic, an important and abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and (Sarda Chilensis) of the Pacific, and other related species. These are large and active fishes, of a blue color above and silver below, with black oblique stripes. MW10 [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern part of the United States and the West Indies. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The cobia or crab eater (Elacate canada), an edible fish of the Middle and Southern United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. bryten Britain. ] British. [ Obs. ] Spenser. -- n. A native of Great Britain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mexico) a flour tortilla folded around a filling. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Same as Cespitose. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Calamitosus; cf. F. calamiteux. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Ten thousands of calamitous persons. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy. “This sad and calamitous condition.” South. “A calamitous prison” Milton.

Syn. -- Miserable; deplorable; distressful; afflictive; wretched; grievous; baleful; disastrous; adverse; unhappy; severe; sad; unfortunate.

-- Ca*lam"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Ca*lam"i*tous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A Welshman. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Amer. Sp. dim. See cañon. ] [ Southwestern U. S. ] 1. A small cañon. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A narrow passage or lane through chaparral or a forest. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a device used in electronic circuits to hold electrical charge, consisting of two conducting plates separated by a nonconducting (dielectric) medium; it is characterized by its capacitance.
Syn. -- condenser, electrical condenser. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

[ L. capitolium, fr. caput head: cf. F. capitole. See Chief. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus, where the Senate met. [ 1913 Webster ]

Comes Cæsar to the Capitol to-morrow? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The edifice at Washington occupied by the Congress of the United States; also, the building in which the legislature of a State holds its sessions; a statehouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. capitolinus: cf. F. capitolin. ] Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome. “Capitolian Jove.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Capitoline games (Antiq.), annual games instituted at Rome by Camillus, in honor of Jupiter Capitolinus, on account of the preservation of the Capitol from the Gauls; when reinstituted by Domitian, after a period of neglect, they were held every fifth year. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) Checking or arresting the heart's action. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. centiceps, -cipitis; centum a hunder + caput head. ] Hundred-headed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. caespes turf. ] (Bot.) Having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots. [ Written also cæspitose. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Cespitose. ] Pertaining to, consisting, of resembling, turf; turfy. [ 1913 Webster ]

A cespitous or turfy plant has many stems from the same root, usually forming a close, thick carpet of matting. Martyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_; a chiton (in sense 1). ] 1. An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. circuitosus. ] Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n.

Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. citole, fr. L. cithara. See Cittern. ] (Mus.) A musical instrument; a kind of dulcimer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]