n. [ F. accolade, It. accolata, fr. accollare to embrace; L. ad + collum neck. ] 1. A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting of an embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) A brace used to join two or more staves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Ballad, n. ] A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A writer of ballads. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. An independent Asian country on teh Bay of Bengal that was once part of India and then part of Pakistan (called East Pakistan).
Syn. -- Bangla Desh, East Pakistan. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A native or inhabitant of Bangladesh. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bangladesh. Bangladeshi dialects
Syn. -- East Pakistani. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ D. baar, OD. baer, naked, bare + kleed garment, i. e., cloth undressed or without nap. ] A home-made woolen blanket without nap. [ Local, New York ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. blade, blad, AS. blæd leaf; akin to OS., D., Dan., & Sw. blad, Icel. blað, OHG. blat, G. blatt, and perh. to L. folium, Gr. fy`llon. The root is prob. the same as that of AS. blōwan, E. blow, to blossom. See Blow to blossom, and cf. Foil leaf of metal. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses. [ 1913 Webster ]

The crimson dulse . . . with its waving blade. Percival. [ 1913 Webster ]

First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear. Mark iv. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The scapula or shoulder blade. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. pl. (Arch.) The principal rafters of a roof. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. pl. (Com.) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell. De Colange. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning. [ 1913 Webster ]

He saw a turnkey in a trice
Fetter a troublesome blade. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. The flat part of the tongue immediately behind the tip, or point. [ 1913 Webster ]

“Lower blade” implies, of course, the lower instead of the upper surface of the tongue. H. Sweet. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To furnish with a blade. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To put forth or have a blade. [ 1913 Webster ]

As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded
As ever in the Muses' garden bladed. P. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The scapula. See Blade, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having a blade or blades; as, a two-bladed knife. [ 1913 Webster ]

Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Divested of blades; as, bladed corn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Min.) Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A long, thin, marine fish of Europe (Trichiurus lepturus); the ribbon fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sword cutler. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any of various orchids of the genus Caladenia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. burdened by cares.
Syn. -- heavy-laden. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. the pre-Mycenaean civilization on the Cyclades islands in the S Aegean sea.
Syn. -- Cycladic civilization, Cycladic culture. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. an archipelago consisting of over 200 islands in the southern Aegean sea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Defiladed; p. pr. & vb. n. Defilading. ] [ Cf. F. défiler to defile, and défilade act of defiling. See 1st Defile. ] (Mil.) To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To unlade. [ Obs. ] Heywood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Man.) A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. enfiler to thread, go trough a street or square, rake with shot; pref. en- (L. in) + fil thread. See File a row. ] 1. A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enfiladed; p. pr. & vb. n. Enfilading. ] (Mil.) To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops. Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., Sp. escalada (cf. It. scalata), fr. Sp. escalar to scale, LL. scalare, fr. L. scala ladder. See Scale, v. t. ] (Mil.) A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sin enters, not by escalade, but by cunning or treachery. Buckminster. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Escaladed; p. pr. & vb. n. Escalading. ] (Mil.) To mount and pass or enter by means of ladders; to scale; as, to escalate a wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ When used in the United States without qualification, the word Everglades is understood to refer to the Everglades of southern Florida. [ PJC ]

n. [ F. fusillade, cf. It. fucilata. See Fusil a firelock. ] (Mil.) A simultaneous discharge of firearms. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fusillader; p. pr. & vb. n. Fusillading. ] To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. of Scand. origin, and akin to glad, a.; cf. also W. golead, goleuad, a lighting, illumination, fr. goleu light, clear, bright, goleu fwlch glade, lit., a light or clear defile. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. [ 1913 Webster ]

There interspersed in lawns and opening glades. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An everglade. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, smooth ice. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Bottom glade. See under Bottom. --
Glade net, in England, a net used for catching woodcock and other birds in forest glades. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. glædene, cf. L. gladius a sword. Cf. Gladiole. ] (Bot.) Sword grass; any plant with sword-shaped leaves, especially the European Iris fœtidissima. [ Written also gladwyn, gladdon, and glader. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The European yellow-hammer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Metal.) Iron ore in coarse powder, prepared for reduction by the Catalan process. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Grill, v. t. ] The act of grilling; also, that which is grilled. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. burdened by cares.
Syn. -- care-laden. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. bearing a heavy load; as, the heavy-laden trucks wore deep ruts in the unpaved road.
Syn. -- burdened, laden, weighed down. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. Laded; p. p. Laded, Laden p. pr. & vb. n. Lading. ] [ AS. hladan to heap, load, draw (water); akin to D. & G. laden to load, OHG. hladan, ladan, Icel. hlaða, Sw. ladda, Dan. lade, Goth. afhlaþan. Cf. Load, Ladle, Lathe for turning, Last a load. ] 1. To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object. [ 1913 Webster ]

And they laded their asses with the corn. Gen. xlii. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To throw in or out, with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern. [ 1913 Webster ]

And chides the sea that sunders him from thence,
Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Plate Glass Manuf.) To transfer (the molten glass) from the pot to the forming table. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ See Lade, v. t. ] 1. To draw water. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prov. E., a ditch or drain. Cf. Lode, Lead to conduct. ] 1. The mouth of a river. [ Obs. ] Bp. Gibson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A passage for water; a ditch or drain. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who leads a pack horse; a miller's servant. [ Obs. or Local ] [ 1913 Webster ]

p. & a. Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity. Is. i. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

A ship laden with gold. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. marmelade, Pg. marmelada, fr. marmélo a quince, fr. L. melimelum honey apple, Gr. meli`mhlon a sweet apple, an apple grafted on a quince; me`li honey + mh^lon apple. Cf. Mellifluous, Melon. ] A preserve or confection made of the pulp of fruit, as the quince, pear, apple, orange, etc., boiled with sugar, and brought to a jamlike consistency. [ 1913 Webster ]

Marmalade tree (Bot.), a sapotaceous tree (Lucuma mammosa) of the West Indies and Tropical America. It has large obovate leaves and an egg-shaped fruit from three to five inches long, containing a pleasant-flavored pulp and a single large seed. The fruit is called marmalade, or natural marmalade, from its consistency and flavor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The bright reflection of the moon's light on an expanse of water. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ F. oeillade, fr. oeel eye. See Eyelent. ] A glance of the eye; an amorous look. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She gave strange oeillades and most speaking looks. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Overladed; p. p. Overladen p. pr. & vb. n. Overlading. ] [ Cf. Overload. ] To load with too great a cargo; to overburden; to overload. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

A lawyer knowledgeable about the most detailed and minute points of law, especially one with an exceptional propensity and ability to exploit fine technical points of law for the client's advantage. [ U. S. ] [ PJC ]

a. [ Gr. filadelfia brotherly love, from fila`delfos brotherly; fi`los loved, loving, friendly + 'adelfo`s brother. ] Of or pertaining to Ptolemy Philadelphus, or to one of the cities named Philadelphia, esp. the modern city in Pennsylvania. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A native or an inhabitant of Philadelphia. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a society of mystics of the seventeenth century, -- called also the Family of Love. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Any of various chiefly deciduous ornamental shrubs of the genus Philadelphus having white sweet-scented flowers, single or in clusters; it is widely grown in temperate regions. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) Pholad. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n.; pl. Phyllocladia [ NL., fr. Gr. fy`llon a leaf + kla`dos a sprout. ] (Bot.) A flattened stem or branch which more or less resembles a leaf, and performs the function of a leaf as regards respiration and assimilation.
Syn. -- cladode, cladophyll, phylloclad. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. ] A pistol shot. [ 1913 Webster ]