n. Existence or state of angels. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. assemblage. See Assemble. ] 1. The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association. [ 1913 Webster ]

In sweet assemblage every blooming grace. Fenton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collection of individuals, or of individuals, or of particular things; as, a political assemblage; an assemblage of ideas. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Company; group; collection; concourse; gathering; meeting; convention. Assemblage, Assembly. An assembly consists only of persons; an assemblage may be composed of things as well as persons, as, an assemblage of incoherent objects. Nor is every assemblage of persons an assembly; since the latter term denotes a body who have met, and are acting, in concert for some common end, such as to hear, to deliberate, to unite in music, dancing, etc. An assemblage of skaters on a lake, or of horse jockeys at a race course, is not an assembly, but might be turned into one by collecting into a body with a view to discuss and decide as to some object of common interest. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + flagellate. ] Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. t. & i. Same as Bilge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A duty payable on commodities by the bushel. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. carcelladium, carceragium, fr. L. carcer prison. ] Prison fees. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cartilago; cf. F. cartilage. ] (Anat.) A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Cartilage contains no vessels, and consists of a homogeneous, intercellular matrix, in which there are numerous minute cavities, or capsules, containing protoplasmic cells, the cartilage corpuscul. See Illust under Duplication. [ 1913 Webster ]

Articular cartilage, cartilage that lines the joints. --
Cartilage bone (Anat.), any bone formed by the ossification of cartilage. --
Costal cartilage, cartilage joining a rib with he sternum. See Illust. of Thorax. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Clientele, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. any picture made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs, especially in unusual or surprising ways.
Syn. -- montage. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the technique of producing a work of art that is a collage{ 1 }. [ PJC ]

3. any composite object, whether abstract or concrete, created by assembling components of varied types. [ PJC ]

4. (Cinema) a film having scenes of different types or from different locations displayed in rapid succession without transitions. [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. ko`lla glue + -gen. ] (Physiol. Chem.) The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) Containing or resembling collagen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Com.) A duty or tax paid by merchants for the protection of their commerce by means of a consul in a foreign place. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. cortillage, curtillage, fr. cortil court, courtyard, LL. cortis court. See Court. ] (Law) A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; interchange, change, fr. &unr_; to interchange. ] (Rhet.) A figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; change, alluding to the change and inequality of luster between the natural joints of the mineral. ] (Min.) A dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. and order of plankton, in some classifications it is considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista; in others it is included in the plant phylum Pyrrophyta. Its members usually have two flagella, one of which extends from its center.
Syn. -- order Dinoflagellata, Cilioflagellata, order Cilioflagellata. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. a member of the Dinoflagellata, chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella. The dinoflagellates form a chief constituent of plankton. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; an exchange, fr. &unr_; to exchange; &unr_; in + &unr_; to change. ] (Gram.) A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F.; pref. en- (L. in) + silo. See Silo. ] 1. The process of preserving fodder (such as cornstalks, rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as, the ensilage of fodder. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The fodder preserved in a silo. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ensilaged p. pr. & vb. n. Ensilaging ] To preserve in a silo; as, to ensilage cornstalks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. fibra a fiber + E. cartilage. ] (Anat.) A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure. -- Fi`bro*car`ti*lag"i*nous a. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. flagellans, p. p. of flagellare: cf.F. flagellant. See Flagellate. ] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a fanatical sect which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; -- called also disciplinant. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr.L. flagellatus, p. p. See Flagellate, v. t. ] (Zool.) An order of Infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. It includes monads. See Infusoria, and Monad. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Flagelliform. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Flagellata. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Having a flagellum or flagella. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Flagellated p. pr. & vb. n. Flagellating ] [ L. flagellatus, p. p. of flagellare to scoure, fr. flagellum whip, dim. of flagrum whip, scoure; cf. fligere to strike. Cf. Flall. ] To whip; to scourge; to flog. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. resembling a flagellum or flagella.
Syn. -- flagellate{ 1 }. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having a flagellum or flagella.
Syn. -- flagellate{ 3 }. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. flagellatio: cf. F. flagellation. ] A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging. Garth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who practices flagellation; one who whips or scourges. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. flagellum a whip + -form. ] Shaped like a whiplash; long, slender, round, flexible, and (comming) tapering. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. E. Flagellums L. Flagella [ L., a whip. See Flagellate, v. t. ] 1. (Bot.) A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) A long, whiplike cilium. See Flagellata. (b) An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail. (c) A lashlike appendage of a crustacean, esp. the terminal ortion of the antennæ and the epipodite of the maxilipeds. See Maxilliped. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. flageolet, dim. of OF. flaj&unr_;l (as if fr. a LL. flautio;us), of flaüte, flahute, F. fl&unr_;te. See Flute. ] (Mus.) A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flageolet tones (Mus.), the naturel harmonics or overtones of stringed instruments. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Fortalice. ] A little fort; a blockhouse. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The money or price paid for fulling or cleansing cloth. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. fusel spindle-shaped + -age; fr. L. fusus spindle. ] (Aëronautics) The central, approximately cylindrical portion of an airplane which carries the passengers, crew, and cargo. It usually forms the main structural portion of an airplane, and to it are typically attached the wings, tail, and sometimes the engines. In single-propeller airplanes, the propeller is typically fixed at the front of the fuselage, although variants have been produced with the propeller at the rear. Some airplanes have no fuselage, properly so called.
Syn. -- body. [ PJC ]

n. (Obs.) See Galoche. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Hydraulic Eagin.) A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of being gulled. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Had you no quirk.
To avoid gullage, sir, by such a creature? B. Jonson [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (O. Eng. Law) A fee or toll paid for goods sold in a hall.

n. Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, prop., interchange, exchange, fr, &unr_; to interchange; &unr_; under + &unr_; to change. ] (Gram.) A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to others. Thus Virgil says, “dare classibus austros, ” to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hypallage, of which Virgil is fonder than any other writer, is much the gravest fault in language. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. Turned into, or reduced to, a village. [ Obs. ] W. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. guillage, fr. guille keel; of German or Scand origin. See 3d Keel. ] The right of demanding a duty or toll for a ship entering a port; also, the duty or toll. Bouvier. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Lagenæ E. Lagenas [ L., a flask; cf. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;. ] (Anat.) The terminal part of the cochlea in birds and most reptiles; an appendage of the sacculus, corresponding to the cochlea, in fishes and amphibians. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Lagena. ] (Zool.) Like, or pertaining to, Lagena, a genus of Foraminifera having a straight, chambered shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Lagena, and -form. ] (Bot.) Shaped like a bottle or flask; flag-shaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A small genus of herbs of Australia and South America having small solidary white or purple flowers similar to true daisies of genus Bellis.
Syn. -- genus Lagenophera. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Lager beer. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ G. lager bed, storehouse + bier beer. See Lair, and Beer. ] Originally a German beer, but now also made in immense quantities in the United States; -- so called from its being laid up or stored for some months before use. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. Wine which has been kept for some time in the cellar. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Mileage. [ 1913 Webster ]