n. Behavior. [ Obs. ] Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. the state or condition of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc.
Syn. -- aberrance, aberration, deviance [ 1913 Webster WordNet 1.5 ]

Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a circular form. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. admirance. ] Admiration. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Allurement. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. apparence, L. apparentia, fr. apparere. See Appear. ] 1. The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an appearance in the sky. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Personal presence; exhibition of the person; look; aspect; mien. [ 1913 Webster ]

And now am come to see . . .
It thy appearance answer loud report. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. pl. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him. [ 1913 Webster ]

There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire. Num. ix. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

For man looketh on the outward appearance. 1 Sam. xvi. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

Judge not according to the appearance. John. vii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character; as, a person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator. [ 1913 Webster ]

Will he now retire,
After appearance, and again prolong
Our expectation? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Probability; likelihood. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There is that which hath no appearance. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Law) The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction. Burrill. Bouvier. Daniell. [ 1913 Webster ]

To put in an appearance, to be present; to appear in person. --
To save appearances, to preserve a fair outward show. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Coming; arrival; presence; semblance; pretense; air; look; manner; mien; figure; aspect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. assuraunce, F. assurance, fr. assurer. See Assure. ] 1. The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. Acts xvii. 31. [ 1913 Webster ]

Assurances of support came pouring in daily. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let us draw with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. Heb. x. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brave men meet danger with assurance. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conversation with the world will give them knowledge and assurance. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Betrothal; affiance. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Recently, assurance has been used, in England, in relation to life contingencies, and insurance in relation to other contingencies. It is called temporary assurance, in the time within which the contingent event must happen is limited. See Insurance. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Law) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In England, the legal evidences of the conveyance of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. atemprance. ] Temperance; attemperament. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every ship was subject to seizure for want of stamped clearances. Durke [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Clear or net profit. Trollope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mach.) The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwheel tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clearance space (Steam engine), the space inclosed in one end of the cylinder, between the valve or valves and the piston, at the beginning of a stroke; waste room. It includes the space caused by the piston's clearance and the space in ports, passageways, etc. Its volume is often expressed as a certain proportion of the volume swept by the piston in a single stroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Co- + insurance. ] Insurance jointly with another or others; specif., that system of fire insurance in which the insurer is treated as insuring himself to the extent of that part of the risk not covered by his policy, so that any loss is apportioned between him and the insurance company on the principle of average, as in marine insurance or between other insurers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. See Commorancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. considerantia. ] Act of considering; consideration. [ Obs. ] Shak.

n. Encumbrance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools,
The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. délivrance, fr. délivrer. ] 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive. [ 1913 Webster ]

He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives. Luke iv. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

One death or one deliverance we will share. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Act of bringing forth children. [ Archaic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Act of speaking; utterance. [ Archaic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this and in the preceding sense delivery is the word more commonly used. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do desire deliverance from these officers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Metaph.) Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. demonstrance. ] Demonstration; proof. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To awaken from a trance or an enchantment. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. dessevrance. ] The act of disserving; separation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Distemperature. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. durance duration, fr. L. durans, -antis, p. pr. durare to endure, last. See Dure, and cf. Durant. ] 1. Continuance; duration. See Endurance. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Of how short durance was this new-made state! Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak. “Durance vile.” Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

In durance, exile, Bedlam or the mint. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (a) A stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where didst thou buy this buff? let me not live but I will give thee a good suit of durance. J. Webster.

(b) In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. encombrance. Cf. Incumbrance. ] 1. That which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Same as Incumbrance.

Syn. -- Burden; clog; impediment; check; hindrance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) Same as Incumbrancer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. endurance. See Endure. ] 1. A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their fortitude was most admirable in their patience and endurance of all evils, of pain and of death. Sir W. Temple.

Syn. -- Suffering; patience; fortitude; resignation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. entrance, fr. OF. & F. entrant, p. pr. of entrer to enter. See Enter. ] 1. The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The passage, door, or gate, for entering. [ 1913 Webster ]

Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city. Judg. i. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business. “Beware of entrance to a quarrel.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Naut.) (a) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line. Ham. Nav. Encyc. (b) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Entranced p. pr. & vb. n. Entrancing ] [ Pref. en- + trance. ] 1. To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Him, still entranced and in a litter laid,
They bore from field and to the bed conveyed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm. [ 1913 Webster ]

And I so ravished with her heavenly note,
I stood entranced, and had no room for thought. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. filled with wonder and delight.
Syn. -- beguiled, captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy. Otway. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a passage allowing entry or exit; an entryway.
Syn. -- entrance, entryway. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ , n. [ Equi- + ponderance: cf. F. équipondérance. ] Equality of weight; equipoise. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. espérance, fr. L. sperans, p. pr. of sperare to hope. ] Hope. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A swelling or rising; protuberance. [ R. ] Moxon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exuberantia: cf. F. exubérance. ] The state of being exuberant; an overflowing quantity; a copious or excessive production or supply; superabundance; richness; as, an exuberance of joy, of fancy, or of foliage.

Syn. -- Abundance; superabundance; excess; plenty; copiousness; profusion; richness; overflow; overgrowth; rankness; wantonness. See Abundance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exuperantia, exsuperantia. ] Superiority; superfluity. [ Obs. ] Sir K. Digby. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Furtherance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Flagrancy. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience. [ 1913 Webster ]

He soon shall find
Forbearance no acquittance ere day end. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering. [ 1913 Webster ]

Have a continent forbearance, till the speed of his rage goes slower. Shak.

Syn. -- Abstinence; refraining; lenity; mildness. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ L. fragrantia: cf. OF. fragrance. ] The quality of being fragrant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume. [ 1913 Webster ]

Eve separate he spies,
Veiled in a cloud of fragrance. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The goblet crowned,
Breathed aromatic fragrancies around. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of furthering or helping forward; promotion; advancement; progress. [ 1913 Webster ]

I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your
furthersnce and joy of faith. Phil. i. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

Built of furtherance and pursuing, Not of spent deeds, but of doing. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Hindrance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Hinder, v. t. ] 1. The act of hindering, or the state of being hindered. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which hinders; an impediment. [ 1913 Webster ]

What various hindrances we meet. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Something between a hindrance and a help. Wordsworth.

Syn. -- Impediment; obstruction; obstacle; difficulty; interruption; check; delay; restraint. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A form of medical insurance that pays for all or part of the fees for a person's residence and treatment in a hospital. [ PJC ]

n. [ F., fr. L. ignorantia. ] 1. The condition of being ignorant; the lack of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ignorance is the curse of God,
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Theol.) A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have. Book of Common Prayer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Invincible ignorance (Theol.), ignorance beyond the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is not responsible before God. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Encumbrance. ] [ Written also encumbrance. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A burdensome and troublesome load; anything that impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; hindrance; check. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A burden or charge upon property; a claim or lien upon an estate, which may diminish its value. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One who holds an incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Endurance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Inquiry. [ Obs. ] Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Insure. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event; a contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, called premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The person who undertakes to pay in case of loss is termed the insurer; the danger against which he undertakes, the risk; the person protected, the insured; the sum which he pays for the protection, the premium; and the contract itself, when reduced to form, the policy. Johnson's Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The premium paid for insuring property or life. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The sum for which life or property is insured. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A guaranty, security, or pledge; assurance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The most acceptable insurance of the divine protection. Mickle. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Hence: Any means of assuring against loss; a precaution; as, we always use our seat belts as insurance against injury. [ PJC ]

Accident insurance, insurance against pecuniary loss by reason of accident to the person. --
Endowment insurance or
Endowment assurance, a combination of life insurance and investment such that if the person upon whose life a risk is taken dies before a certain specified time the insurance becomes due at once, and if he survives, it becomes due at the time specified. Also called whole life insurance. --
Fire insurance. See under Fire. --
Insurance broker, a broker or agent who effects insurance. --
Insurance company, a company or corporation whose business it is to insure against loss, damage, or death. --
Insurance policy, a certificate of insurance; the document containing the contract made by an insurance company with a person whose property or life is insured. --
Life insurance. See under Life. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who effects insurance; an insurer; an underwriter. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

hose bold insurancers of deathless fame. Blair. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. intempérance, L. intemperantia. See In- not, and Temperance. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of becoming, or state of being, intemperate; excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any immoderate indulgence of the appetites or passions. [ 1913 Webster ]

God is in every creature; be cruel toward none, neither abuse any by intemperance. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some, as thou sawest, by violent stroke shall die,
By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more
In meats and drinks. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: Habitual or excessive indulgence in alcoholic liquors. [ 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 ]