n.; pl. Blisses [ OE. blis, blisse, AS. blis, blīðs, fr. blīðe blithe. See Blithe. ] Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy. [ 1913 Webster ]

An then at last our bliss
Full and perfect is. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Blessedness; felicity; beatitude; happiness; joy; enjoyment. See Happiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree. “Blissful solitude.” Milton. -- Bliss"ful*ly, adv. -- Bliss"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of bliss. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ For blithesome: but cf. also Icel. bl&unr_;sma of a goat at heat. ] To be lustful; to be lascivious. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Lascivious; also, in heat; -- said of ewes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus comprising the chinch bugs. See chinch, 2.
Syn. -- genus Blissus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ F., fr. couler to flow, glide. ] 1. A piece of timber having a groove in which something glides. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of the side scenes of the stage in a theater, or the space included between the side scenes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A fluting in a sword blade. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. The outside stock exchange, or “curb market, ” of Paris. [ French Use ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ It., superl. of generale general. See General, a. ] The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. glisser to slip. ] 1. A sliding, as down a snow slope. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dance step consisting of a glide or slide to one side. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. & a. [ As if It. = Fr. glissant sliding. ] (Mus.) A gliding effect; gliding. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. glisser to slip. ] (Math.) The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. liss. ] Release; remission; ease; relief. [ Obs. ] “Of penance had a lisse.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ AS. lissan. ] To free, as from care or pain; to relieve. [ Obs. ] “Lissed of his care.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. lisso`s smooth + 'egke`falos the brain. ] (Zool.) A general name for all those placental mammals that have a brain with few or no cerebral convolutions, as Rodentia, Insectivora, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ For lithesome. ] 1. Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome. [ 1913 Webster ]

Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Light; nimble; active. Halliwell.

-- Lis"some*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. me`lissa a bee, honey. ] (Bot.) A genus of labiate herbs, including the balm, or bee balm (Melissa officinalis). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. me`lissa a bee, honey. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax; specif., denoting an acid obtained by oxidation of myricin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Melissic +yl. ] (Chem.) See Myricyl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Melissic + -yl + -ene. ] (Chem.) See Melene. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. palissandre. ] (Bot.) (a) Violet wood. (b) Rosewood. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Designating, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Palissy ware, glazed pottery like that made by Bernard Palissy; especially, that having figures of fishes, reptiles, etc., in high relief. See Palissy, below. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. Bernard Pallissy, the great French potter, was born in Agen, in 1509, and wandered as a glass and portrait painter until he married and settled in Saintes in 1538. While working here as a surveyor his attention was attracted by an enameled cup, and he determined to discover the process and after 16 years of continuous labor and experiment in which he used all his resources and burned the tables and floors for fuel, he succeeded, and though imprisoned in 1562 as a Huguenot he was released by royal edict and appointed "inventor of figulines" to the king. He removed to Paris in 1564, and through the aid of Catherine de Medici was saved from the massacre of St. Bartholomew. From 1575 to 1584 he gave a course of lectures on physics and natural history, demonstrating the origin of springs, the formation of fossil shell, and the best method of purifying water. In 1585, however, he was again arrested as a Huguenot and imprisoned in the Bastille, where he died in 1589. See H. Morley's Palissy the Potter. Student's Cyclopedia, 1897. [ PJC ]

n. [ F., fr. L. pelliceus, pellicius, made of skins, fr. pellis a skin. Cf. Pelt skin, Pilch, and see 2d Pell. ] An outer garment for men or women, originally of fur, or lined with fur; a lady's or child's long outer garment, made of silk or other fabric. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] 1. A polishing or grinding implement or instrument. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Glass Making) A tool consisting of a flat wooden block with a long iron handle, used for flattening out split cylinders of blown glass. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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n. [ From the native name. ] (Zool.) The diadem indris. See Indris. [ 1913 Webster ]