n. [ From Alsike, in Sweden. ] A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Good against convulsions. J. Floyer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A driving or striking against; an appulse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Striking against; impinging; as, the appulsive influence of the planets. P. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By appulsion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. avulsio. ] 1. A tearing asunder; a forcible separation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The avulsion of two polished superficies. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fragment torn off. J. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change in the course of a river by which a part of the estate of one man is cut off and joined to the estate of another. The property in the part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the original owner. Wharton. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. bel- + sire. Cf. Beldam. ] A grandfather, or ancestor. “His great belsire Brute.” [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. celstudo, from celsus high: cf. celsitude. ] Height; altitude. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. compulsio. See Compel. ] The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force. [ 1913 Webster ]

If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

With what compulsion and laborious flight
We sunk thus low. Milton.

Syn. -- See Constraint. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Religion is . . . inconsistent with all compulsive motives. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By compulsion; by force. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. convulsio: cf. F. convulsion. ] 1. (Med.) An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any violent and irregular motion or agitation; a violent shaking; a tumult; a commotion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those two massy pillars,
With horrible convulsion, to and fro
He tugged, he shook, till down they came. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Times of violence and convulsion. Ames.

Syn. -- Agitation; commotion; tumult; disturbance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or having, convulsions; convulsionary. [ R. ] Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. convulsionnaire. ] Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive. “Convulsionary struggles.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A convulsionist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of fanatics in France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into convulsions under the influence of religious emotion; as, the Convulsionists of St. Médard. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. convulsif. ] Producing, or attended with, convulsions or spasms; characterized by convulsions; convulsionary. [ 1913 Webster ]

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. in a convulsive manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of soothing; that which soothes. Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. depulsio. ] A driving or thrusting away. [ R. ] Speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to pull asunder, tear, or rend; distracting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A shoemaker's awl. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or produced from, emulsin; as, emulsic acid. Hoblyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Emulsion + -fy. ] To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to reduce from an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat globules are in a very finely divided state, giving it the semblance of solution; as, the pancreatic juice emulsifies the oily part of food. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Emulsion, Emulge. ] (Chem.) (a) The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds. [ R. ] (b) An unorganized ferment (contained in this extract and in other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition of certain glucosides. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From L. emulgere, emulsum: cf. F. émulsion. See Emulge. ] Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. émulsif. ] 1. Softening; milklike. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Yielding oil by expression; as, emulsive seeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Producing or yielding a milklike substance; as, emulsive acids. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. evulsio, fr. evellere, evulsum, to pluck out; e out + vellere to pluck; cf. F. évulsion. ] The act of plucking out; a rooting out. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ a. [ L., compar. of excelsus elevated, lofty, p. p. of excellere. See Excel, v. t. ] More lofty; still higher; ever upward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. expulsio, fr. expellere: cf. F. expulsion. See Expel. ] 1. The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The expulsion of the Tarquins. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being expelled or driven out. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. expulsif. ] Having the power of driving out or away; serving to expel. [ 1913 Webster ]

The expulsive power of a new affection. Chalmers. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. ] (Civ. Law) The crime of falsifying. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This term in the Roman law included not only forgery, but every species of fraud and deceit. It never has been used in so extensive a sense in modern common law, in which its predominant significance is forgery, though it also includes perjury and offenses of a like character. Burrill. Greenleaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OF. falsifiable. ] 1. Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. able to be proven false, and therefore testable; as, most religious beliefs are not falsifiable, and are therefor outside the scope of experimental science. [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. falsification. ] 1. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not. [ 1913 Webster ]

To counterfeit the living image of king in his person exceedeth all falsifications. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Willful misstatement or misrepresentation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Extreme necessity . . . forced him upon this bold and violent falsification of the doctrine of the alliance. Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Equity) The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong. Story. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. falsificateur. ] A falsifier. Bp. Morton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Falsified p. pr. & vb. n. Falsifying. ] [ L. falsus false + -ly: cf. F. falsifier. See False, a. ] 1. To make false; to represent falsely. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false. [ 1913 Webster ]

By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men's hope. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow. Butler. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Law) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Equity) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong. Story. Daniell. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To tell lies; to violate the truth. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify. [ 1913 Webster ]

South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; -- opposed to truism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.;pl. Falsities [ L. falsitas: cf. F. fausseté, OF. also, falsité. See False, a. ] 1. The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men often swallow falsities for truths. Sir T. Brown.

Syn. -- Falsehood; lie; deceit. -- Falsity, Falsehood, Lie. Falsity denotes the state or quality of being false. A falsehood is a false declaration designedly made. A lie is a gross, unblushing falsehood. The falsity of a person's assertion may be proved by the evidence of others and thus the charge of falsehood be fastened upon him. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Feldspar. ] (Min.) A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. relating to, composed of, or containing, felsite.

n. The side or declivity of a hill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Idio- + repulsive. ] Repulsive by itself; as, the idiorepulsive power of heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. impulsio: cf. F. impulsion. See Impel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of impelling or driving onward, or the state of being impelled; the sudden or momentary agency of a body in motion on another body; also, the impelling force, or impulse. “The impulsion of the air.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Influence acting unexpectedly or temporarily on the mind; sudden motive or influence; impulse. “The impulsion of conscience.” Clarendon. “Divine impulsion prompting.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. impulsif. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Poor men! poor papers! We and they
Do some impulsive force obey. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Actuated by impulse or by transient feelings. [ 1913 Webster ]

My heart, impulsive and wayward. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mech.) Acting momentarily, or by impulse; not continuous; -- said of forces. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which impels or gives an impulse; an impelling agent. Sir W. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an impulsive manner. [ 1913 Webster ]