{ } n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a colorless liquid compound (H2C:CH.CN); used as raw material for acrylic fibers, and as a solvent.
Syn. -- vinyl cyanide, cyanoethylene, 2-propenenitrile [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an anticyclone; moving in the opposite direction of a cyclone. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Apollo. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. 1. Pertaining to Babylon, or made there; as, Babylonic garments, carpets, or hangings. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Tumultuous; disorderly. [ Obs. ] Sir J. Harrington. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia. “A Babylonish garment.” Josh. vii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to the Babylon of Revelation xiv. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Pertaining to Rome and papal power. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The . . . injurious nickname of Babylonish. Gage. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Confused; Babel-like. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a needle. ] (Min.) Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a tubular pasta filled with meat or cheese. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a geographical and administrative region of northeastern Spain. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. chelw`nh a tortoise. ] (Zool.) An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebræ, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to animals of the tortoise kind. -- n. One of the Chelonia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family including the green turtles; hawksbills.
Syn. -- family Cheloniidae, Chelonidae, family Chelonidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. klo`nos a violent, confused motion; cf. F. clonique. ] (Med.) Having an irregular, convulsive motion. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clonic spasm. (Med.) See under Spasm. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. colonial. ] Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state or quality of, or the relationship involved in, being colonial.

The last tie of colonialism which bound us to the mother country is broken. Brander Matthews. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A custom, idea, feature of government, or the like, characteristic of a colony. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. The colonial system of political government or extension of territory, by which one nation exerts political control over another nation, territory, or people, maintaining the colony in a state of dependence, its inhabitants not having the same full rights as those of the colonial power. The controlling power is typically extended thus by military force or the threat of force. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

4. the political or ideological system of beliefs advocating or justifying colonial control of one nation over another nation, territory, or people. [ PJC ]

n. a believer in or advocate of colonialism{ 3 }. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of or pertaining to the colon. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. colonus husbandman. ] Of or pertaining to husbandmen. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member or inhabitant of a colony. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Med.) See Colitis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. colonisation. ] The act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A friend to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Colonized p. pr. & vb. n. Colonizing. ] [ Cf. F. coloniser. ] To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

They that would thus colonize the stars with inhabitants. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To remove to, and settle in, a distant country; to make a colony. C. Buchanan. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. inhabited by people who were born in or retain strong ties to another country.
Syn. -- settled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. politically ruled by citizens of another country. [ PJC ]

3. having a population (of animals or plants) which moved in from another territory.
Syn. -- colonized. [ PJC ]

n. One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to a cyclone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as decolonization. [ mostly British ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. the action of changing from colonial to independent status.
Syn. -- decolonisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. to grant independence to (a former colony). [ Also spelled decolonise. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. to release one's colonies and free them to become independednt nations; -- of nations. [ Also spelled decolonise. ] [ PJC ]

a. Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide. [ 1913 Webster ]

O thievish Night,
Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end,
In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars? Milton.

-- Fe*lo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Fe*lo"ni*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fullonicus, from fullo a cloth fuller. ] Pertaining to a fuller of cloth. [ Obs. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gonfalonier: cf. It. gonfaloniere. ] He who bears the gonfalon; a standard bearer; as: (a) An officer at Rome who bears the standard of the Church. (b) The chief magistrate of any one of several republics in mediæveal Italy. (c) A Turkish general, and standard keeper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Cyamellone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not felonious, malignant, or criminal. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Between or among colonies; pertaining to the intercourse or mutual relations of colonies; as, intercolonial trade. -- In`ter*co*lo"ni*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. A genus of vines including the woodbine, Lonicera periclymenum.
Syn. -- genus Lonicera. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a dicarboxylic acid produced artifically as a white crystalline substance, CH2.(CO2H)2, and so called because obtained by the oxidation of malic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Mellone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures. In contrast to colonialism, in which one country controls another territory by military force. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ NL. So named after Poland, in L. form Polonia, one of the discoverers being a Pole. ] (Chem.) A radioactive chemical element, discovered by M. and MMe. Curie in pitchblende, and originally called radium F. It has atomic number 84 and an atomic weight of 210. It is a very rare natural element, having an abundance in uranium ores only 0.2% that of radium. It is closely related chemically to bismuth. It emits only alpha rays, and has a half-life of 138 days. It is thus more unstable than radium, and a milligram of polonium emits as many alpha particles as 5 grams of radium. Twenty-seven isotopes are known, with atomic masses from 192 to 218. At present a more practical method of preparation than isolation from ores is the preparation by neutron bombardment of bismuth in a nuclear reactor, and it may be obtained commercially by users having an appropriate permit. [ HBCF61 ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. A second or renewed colonization. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To colonize again. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Stolon + -ferous: cf. F. stolonifère. ] Producing stolons; putting forth suckers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Thessalonica, a city of Macedonia. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Thessalonica. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. vallonia, vallonea, fr. NGr. balania`, balanidia`, the holm oak, bala`ni, balani`di, an acorn, Gr. ba`lanos. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The acorn cup of two kinds of oak (Quercus macrolepis, and Quercus vallonea) found in Eastern Europe. It contains an abundance of tannin, and is much used by tanners and dyers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Perhaps named from its resemblance to an acorn. ] (Bot.) A genus of marine green algae, in which the whole frond consists of a single oval or cylindrical cell, often an inch in length. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Zylonite. [ 1913 Webster ]