n. 1. a city in Northwest Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman emperor Hadrian.
Syn. -- Edirne, Adrianopolis [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; unequal + &unr_; side. ] (Zool.) A primary division of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. anti- + apoplectic. ] (Med.) Alleviating apoplexy. -- n. A medicine used for alleviating apoplexy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

a. & n. (Med.) Same as Antapoplectic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One liable to, or affected with, apoplexy. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ #) } a. [ L. apoplecticus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_;: cf. F. apoplectique. See Apoplexy. ] Relating to apoplexy; affected with, inclined to, or symptomatic of, apoplexy; as, an apoplectic person, medicine, habit or temperament, symptom, fit, or stroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Apoplectic + -form, -oid. ] Resembling apoplexy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Apoplexy. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affected with apoplexy. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. poplexye, LL. poplexia, apoplexia, fr. Gr. 'apoplhxi`a, fr. 'apoplh`ssein to cripple by a stroke; 'apo` from + plh`ssein to strike: cf. F. apoplexie. See Plague. ] (Med.) Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term is now usually limited to cerebral apoplexy, or loss of consciousness due to effusion of blood or other lesion within the substance of the brain; but it is sometimes extended to denote an effusion of blood into the substance of any organ; as, apoplexy of the lung. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'a`rqron joint + &unr_; the side. ] (Zool.) The side or limb-bearing portion of an arthromere. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. the former capital of the Eastern Roman Empire; it was built on the site of ancient Byzantium, and the name was changed to Istanbul by the Turks.
Syn. -- Istanbul, Stambul, Stamboul. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

The name change was the subject of a humorous song in the 1950's "Istanbul (not Constantinople)":

 Artists: The Four Lads -- peak Billboard position # 10 in 1953 -- Words by Jimmy Kennedy and Music by Nat Simon -- (C) Chappell & Co. Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night Every gal in Constantinople Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople So if you've a date in Constantinople She'll be waiting in Istanbul Even old New York Was once New Amsterdam Why they changed it I can't say People just liked it better that way Take me back to Constantinople No, you can't go back to Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks' 

v. t. To depopulate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dispeopled p. pr. & vb. n. Dispeopling ] [ Pref. dis- + people: cf. F. dépeupler. ] To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Leave the land dispeopled and desolate. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A little drop; a tear. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To form into a people or community; to inhabit; to people. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We now know 't is very well empeopled. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; within + &unr_; rib, side. See Pleura. ] (Bot.) The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Endo- + Gr. &unr_; a rib. ] (Zoöl.) The portion of each apodeme developed from the interepimeral membrane in certain crustaceans. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Impeopled p. pr. & vb. n. Impeopling ] [ See Empeople. ] To people; to give a population to. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast helped to impeople hell. Beaumont. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Iso-, and Pleura. ] (Zool.) A subclass of Gastropoda, in which the body is symmetrical, the right and left sides being equal. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The intestine terminates at the posterior end of the body, and the gills and circulatory and reproductive organs are paired. It includes the chitons (Polyplacophora), together with Neomenia and Chætoderma, which are wormlike forms without a shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. mo`nos single + &unr_; a stroke. ] (Med.) Paralysis affecting a single limb. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ L. opulus a kind of maple tree. ] The witch-hazel. [ Obs. ] Ainsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To people too densely. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. peple, people, OF. pueple, F. peuple, fr. L. populus. Cf. Populage, Public, Pueblo. ] 1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before many peoples, and nations, and tongues. Rev. x. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

Earth's monarchs are her peoples. Whitter. [ 1913 Webster ]

A government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people. T. Parker. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Peopleis a collective noun, generally construed with a plural verb, and only occasionally used in the plural form (peoples), in the sense of nations or races. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity. [ 1913 Webster ]

People were tempted to lend by great premiums. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

People have lived twenty-four days upon nothing but water. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The mass of community as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people. [ 1913 Webster ]

And strive to gain his pardon from the people. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. With a possessive pronoun: (a) One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English. (b) One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers. “You slew great number of his people.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- People, Nation. When speaking of a state, we use people for the mass of the community, as distinguished from their rulers, and nation for the entire political body, including the rulers. In another sense of the term, nation describes those who are descended from the same stock; and in this sense the Germans regard themselves as one nation, though politically subject to different forms of government. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Peopled pos>p. pr. & vb. n.; Peopling ] [ Cf. OF. popler, puepler, F. puepler. Cf. Populate. ] To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate. “Peopled heaven with angels.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

As the gay motes that people the sunbeams. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. “The peopled air.” Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of people. Poe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A settler; an inhabitant. “Peoplers of the peaceful glen.” J. S. Blackie. [ 1913 Webster ]

A form of cooperative bank, such as those of Germany; -- a term loosely used for various forms of cooperative financial institutions. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (U. S. Politics) A party formed in 1891, advocating an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. périople, from Gr. peri` about + &unr_; the hoof of a horse. ] (Anat.) The external smooth horny layer of the hoof of the horse and allied animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Apoplexy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called because it props up or supports the body. ] (Zool.) Same as Proleg. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. re- + people: cf. F. repeupler. ] To people anew. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. "ra`bdos a rod + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; the side.] (Zool.) A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata [1913 Webster]

n. (Min.) Ferruginous quartz, of a blood-red or brownish red color, sometimes with a tinge of yellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. LL. sinopis. See Sinople a mineral. ] (Her.) The tincture vert; green. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. sw^ma, sw`matos, body + pleyra` side. ] (Anat.) The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchnopleure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the somatopleure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; an entrail + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; side. ] (Anat.) The inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Splanch`no*pleu"ric a. [1913 Webster]

a. Not to be stopped. Davenant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having no top, or no visble fop; hence, fig.: very lofty; supreme; unequaled. “ The topless Apennines.” “Topless fortunes.” Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. wearing no clothes above the waist, said especially of women. [ PJC ]

3. featuring entertainment by women wearing no clothes above the waist; as, a topless go-go joint. [ PJC ]

n. The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. People engaged in trade; shopkeepers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not fully peopled. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + people. ] To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]