‖n. [ Sp. ] (Mus.) 1. A Spanish dance, or the lively music which accompanies it. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of small outer jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by women. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A flatterer; a wheedler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Cajoleries A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery. “Infamous cajoleries.” Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. coler, F. colère anger, L. cholera a bilious complaint, fr. Gr. &unr_; cholera, fr. &unr_;, cholh`, bile. See Gall, and cf. Cholera. ] 1. The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His [ Richard Hooker's ] complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow. I. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is rash and very sudden in choler. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., a bilious disease. See Choler. ] (Med.) One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera. [ 1913 Webster ]

Asiatic cholera, a malignant and rapidly fatal disease, originating in Asia and frequently epidemic in the more filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or specific poison may have been carried. It is characterized by diarrhea, rice-water evacuations, vomiting, cramps, pinched expression, and lividity, rapidly passing into a state of collapse, followed by death, or by a stage of reaction of fever. --
Cholera bacillus. See Comma bacillus. --
Cholera infantum, a dangerous summer disease, of infants, caused by hot weather, bad air, or poor milk, and especially fatal in large cities. --
Cholera morbus, a disease characterized by vomiting and purging, with gripings and cramps, usually caused by imprudence in diet or by gastrointestinal disturbance. --
Chicken cholera. See under Chicken. --
Hog cholera. See under Hog. --
Sporadic cholera, a disease somewhat resembling the Asiatic cholera, but originating where it occurs, and rarely becoming epidemic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to, or resulting from, or resembling, cholera. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cholericus, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. cholérique. ] 1. Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger. “Choleric speech.” Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

Choleric temperament, the bilious temperament. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a choleric manner; angrily. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cholera + -form. ] Resembling cholera. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) (a) The precursory symptoms of cholera. (b) The first stage of epidemic cholera. (c) A mild form of cholera. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cholera + -oid. ] Choleriform. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cholera. See Choler. ] Bile; choler. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or to his poetry or metaphysics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A controller; a public officer whose duty it is to examine certify accounts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who condoles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who gives consolation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which cools, or abates heat or excitement. [ 1913 Webster ]

If acid things were used only as coolers, they would not be so proper in this case. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An alcoholic beverage containing liquor or wine plus a carbonated beverage, usually served with ice. [ PJC ]

4. jail; -- usually used in the form the cooler. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

4. an air conditioner. [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. dolero`s deceptive, because it was easily confounded with diorite. ] (Petrography) (a) A dark, crystalline, igneous rock, chiefly pyroxene with labradorite. (b) Coarse-grained basalt. (c) Diabase. (d) Any dark, igneous rock composed chiefly of silicates of iron and magnesium with some feldspar. -- Dol`er*it"ic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

a. Of the nature of dolerite; as, much lava is doleritic lava. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl.) One of the clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Fooleries 1. The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; foolish behavior; absurdity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Folly in fools bears not so strong a note,
As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or nonsensical. [ 1913 Webster ]

That Pythagoras, Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any of these fooleries, it can not be suspected. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The keeper of a jail. Same as Jailer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being intolerable; intolerableness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. intolérable, L. intolerabilis. See In- not, and Tolerable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as, intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden. [ 1913 Webster ]

His insolence is more intolerable
Than all the princes in the land beside. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Enormous. [ 1913 Webster ]

This intolerable deal of sack. Shak.

-- In*tol"er*a*ble*ness, n. -- In*tol"er*a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. intolerantia impatience, unendurableness: cf. F. intolérance. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Lack of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of worship, and the like; lack of patience and forbearance; illiberality; bigotry; as, intolerance shown toward a religious sect. [ 1913 Webster ]

These few restrictions, I hope, are no great stretches of intolerance, no very violent exertions of despotism. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Intolerance. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. intolerans, -antis: cf. F. intolérant. See In- not, and Tolerant. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not enduring; not able to endure. [ 1913 Webster ]

The powers of human bodies being limited and intolerant of excesses. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not tolerating difference of opinion or sentiment, especially in religious matters; refusing to allow others the enjoyment of their opinions, rights, or worship; unjustly impatient of the opinion of those disagree with us; not tolerant; unforbearing; bigoted. [ 1913 Webster ]

Religion, harsh, intolerant, austere,
Parent of manners like herself severe. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An intolerant person; a bigot. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an intolerant manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not tolerated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Intolerant. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Intolerance; lack of toleration; refusal to tolerate a difference of opinion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A physiological condition in which lactose cannot be hydrolyzed in the intestine, leading to uncomfortable gaseousness, cramps, or diarrhea after eating a lactose-containing food such as milk or ice cream. The symptoms may be prevented by ingesting a preparation of beta-galactosidase before or together with dairy products. [ PJC ]

n. A monopolist. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. oleraceus, from olus, oleris, garden or pot herbs, vegetables. ] Pertaining to pot herbs; of the nature or having the qualities of herbs for cookery; esculent. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who poles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An extortioner. See Poller. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stick for stirring a tan vat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Something taught; precepts; schooling. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OE. See Solar, n. ] A loft or garret. See Solar, n. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. solers, sollers, -ertis, clever, skillful. ] Skillful; clever; crafty. [ Obs. ] Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being solert. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hacket. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, spools. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being tolerable. [ R. ] Fuller. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. tolerabilis: cf. F. tolérable. See Tolerate. ] 1. Capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally. [ 1913 Webster ]

As may affect the earth with cold and heat
Scarce tolerable. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Moderately good or agreeable; not contemptible; not very excellent or pleasing, but such as can be borne or received without disgust, resentment, or opposition; passable; as, a tolerable administration; a tolerable entertainment; a tolerable translation. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Tol"er*a*ble*ness, n. -- Tol"er*a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. tolerantia: cf. F. tolérance. ] 1. The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Diogenes, one frosty morning, came into the market place, shaking, to show his tolerance. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The endurance of the presence or actions of objectionable persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions; toleration. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) The power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Forestry) Capability of growth in more or less shade. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

5. the allowed amount of variation from the standard or from exact conformity to the specified dimensions, weight, hardness, voltage etc., in various mechanical or electrical devices or operations; -- caklled also allowance specif.: (Coinage) The amount which coins, either singly or in lots, are legally allowed to vary above or below the standard of weight or fineness. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

6. (Biochemistry) the capacity to resist the deleterious action of a chemical agent normally harmful to the organism; as, the acquired tolerance of bacteria to anitbiotics. [ PJC ]

7. (Immunology) the acquired inability to respond with an immune reaction to an antigen to which the organism normally responds; -- called also immunotolerance, immunological tolerance, or immune tolerance. Such tolerance may be induced by exposing an animal to the antigen at a very early stage of life, prior to maturation of the immune system, or, in adults, by exposing the animal to repeated low doses of a weak protein antigen (low-zone tolerance), or to a large amount of an antigen (high-zone tolerance). [ PJC ]

Tolerance of the mint. (Coinage) Same as Remedy of the mint. See under Remedy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. tolerans, p. pr. of tolerare to tolerate: cf. F. tolérant. See Tolerate. ] Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; indulgent. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tolerated p. pr. & vb. n. Tolerating. ] [ L. toleratus, p. p. of tolerare, fr. the same root as tollere to lift up, tuli, used as perfect of ferre to bear, latus (for tlatus), used as p. p. of ferre to bear, and E. thole. See Thole, and cf. Atlas, Collation, Delay, Elate, Extol, Legislate, Oblate, Prelate, Relate, Superlative, Talent, Toll to take away, Translate. ] To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices. [ 1913 Webster ]

Crying should not be tolerated in children. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

We tolerate them because property and liberty, to a degree, require that toleration. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Permit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. toleratio: cf. OF. toleration. ] 1. The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically, the allowance of religious opinions and modes of worship in a state when contrary to, or different from, those of the established church or belief. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence, freedom from bigotry and severity in judgment of the opinions or belief of others, especially in respect to religious matters. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Trifling or silly behavior done mostly for amusement; foolishness; fooling around.
Syn. -- tomfoolishness. [ 1913 Webster ]