a. [ L. acinus a grape, grapestone. ] (Bot.) Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., from Gr. &unr_;. ] (Anc. Hist.) A short sword or saber. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a family of fungi that produce white blisterlike sori on certain flowering plants.
Syn. -- family Albuginaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) A group of soft-bodied Alcyonaria, of which Alcyonium is the type. See Illust. under Alcyonaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Prob. a corruption of Almain furnace, i. e., German furnace. See Almain. ] A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. Chambers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a family of chiefly tropical trees or shrubs.
Syn. -- family Annonaceae, custard-apple family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pertaining to the order of plants including the soursop, custard apple, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; dogbane; &unr_; from + &unr_; dog. ] (Bot.) Belonging to, or resembling, a family of plants, of which the dogbane (Apocynum) is the type. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. arenaceus, fr. arena sand. ] Sandy or consisting largely of sand; of the nature of sand; easily disintegrating into sand; friable; as, arenaceous limestone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of, or containing, clay and sand, as a soil. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. arundinaceus, fr. arundo reed. ] Of or pertaining to a reed; resembling the reed or cane. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>, n. A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. avenaceus, fr. avena oats. ] Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family comprising the balsams, distinguished from the family Geraniaceae by the irregular flowers.
Syn. -- family Balsaminaceae, balsam family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceæ) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., a., etc. See Borage, n., etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of plants coextensive with the genus Canna.
Syn. -- family Cannaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family used in some classification systems to include the genera Carpinus; Ostryopsis; and Ostryopsis.
Syn. -- subfamily Carpinaceae, family Carpinaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family of plants having only one genus, Casuarina.
Syn. -- family Casuarinaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of trees including the genera Aucuba; Cornus; Corokia; Curtisia; Griselinia; and Helwingia.
Syn. -- family Cornaceae, dogwood family. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. a natural family including the true hedgehogs.
Syn. -- family Erinaceidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. erinaceus hedgehog. ] (Zoöl.) Of the Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the type genus of the family Erinaceidae, composed of hedgehogs.
Syn. -- genus Erinaceus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. farinaceus. ] 1. Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Like meal; mealy; pertaining to meal; as, a farinaceous taste, smell, or appearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. fornais, forneis, OF. fornaise, F. fournaise, from L. fornax; akin to furnus oven, and prob. to E. forceps. ] 1. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Furnaces are classified as wind or air. furnaces when the fire is urged only by the natural draught; as blast furnaces, when the fire is urged by the injection artificially of a forcible current of air; and as reverberatory furnaces, when the flame, in passing to the chimney, is thrown down by a low arched roof upon the materials operated upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline. Deut. iv. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bustamente furnace, a shaft furnace for roasting quicksilver ores. --
Furnace bridge, Same as Bridge wall. See Bridge, n., 5. --
Furnace cadmiam or
Furnace cadmia, the oxide of zinc which accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting zinciferous ores. Raymond. --
Furnace hoist (Iron Manuf.), a lift for raising ore, coal, etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace. [ Obs. or R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He furnaces
The thick sighs from him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Gallinaceous. ] (Zool.) Same as Gallinae. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Gallinae or gallinaceous birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a.[ L. gallinaceus, fr. gallina hen, fr. gallus cock. ] (Zool.) Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals.
Syn. -- family Gentianaceae, gentian family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural family of plants (Gentianaceæ) of which the gentian is the type. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) See Gorgoniacea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. gramen, graminis, grass. ] Pertaining to, or resembling, the grasses; gramineous; as, graminaceous plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature, or containing, hydrocarbons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A natural family of small free-floating thalloid plants.
Syn. -- family Lemnaceae, duckweed family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. & v. Same as Menace. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. membranaceus. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Same as Membranous. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Thin and rather soft or pliable, as the leaves of the rose, peach tree, and aspen poplar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. minaciae threats, menaces, fr. minax, -acis, projecting, threatening, minae projecting points or pinnacles, threats. Cf. Amenable, Demean, Imminent, Minatory. ] The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come. [ 1913 Webster ]

His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dark menace of the distant war. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Menaced p. pr. & vb. n. Menacing ] [ OF. menacier, F. menacer. See Menace, n. ] 1. To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war. [ 1913 Webster ]

My master . . . did menace me with death. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted. [ 1913 Webster ]

By oath he menaced
Revenge upon the cardinal. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who ever knew the heavens menace so? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who menaces. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the color of minium or red lead; miniate. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. molendinarius, fr. molendinum a mill, fr. molere to grind. ] (Bot.) Resembling the sails of a windmill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] 1. A small boat. [ Obs. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. The basket suspended from a balloon; hence, the framework forming the body of a dirigible balloon, and containing the machinery, passengers, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. A streamlined enclosure on an airplane, as for the engine or for the cargo or passengers; -- formerly used to refer to the boatlike, inclosed body of an airplane which is usually now called the fuselage, and now referring mostly to the enclosure for the engine. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ NL., fr. NL. oculina the name of a typical genus. ] (Zool.) A suborder of corals including many reef-building species, having round, starlike calicles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. pana`keia fr. panakh`s all-healing; pa^s pa^n, all + 'akei^sqai to heal. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) The herb allheal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the properties of a panacea. [ R. ] “Panacean dews.” Whitehead. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of woody plants including the pandanus tree (the screw pine) and freycinetia.
Syn. -- family Pandanaceae, screw-pine family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]