n. [ Skr. ārya excellent, honorable; akin to the name of the country Iran, and perh. to Erin, Ireland, and the early name of this people, at least in Asia. ] 1. One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindu Kush and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindu, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The language of the original Aryans. [ Written also Arian. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Nazism) a non-Jewish caucasian of Nordic stock; -- a classification used by Nazis, having no anthropological basis. [ Written also Arian. ] [ PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make Aryan (a language, or in language). K. Johnston. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrupted fr. cariole. ] A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to a caryatid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Caryatids [ See Caryatides. ] (Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; (&unr_;) priestesses in the temple of Diana (the Greek Artemis) at Caryæ (Gr. &unr_;), a village in Laconia; as an architectural term, caryatids. ] (Arch) Caryatids. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Corresponding male figures were called Atlantes, Telamones, and Persians. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small genus of tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic orchids.
Syn. -- genus Coryanthes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. W. creyr, cryr, crychydd. Cf. Cruer a hawk. ] The heron [ Obs. ] Ainsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house.

n. [ L. dryas, pl. dryades, Gr. &unr_;, pl. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; oak, tree. See Tree. ] (Class. Myth.) A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of plants comprising tropical American species usually placed in the genus Masdevallia; they are very dwarf plants having short tufted and usually unifoliate stems with usually solitary flowers.
Syn. -- genus Dryadella. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL. Named after J. Dryander. ] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Dryades [ L. See Dryad. ] (Class. Myth.) A dryad. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an order of mosses with perennial erect gametophores and stems with rows of leaves and drooping capsules.
Syn. -- order Eubryales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. quandong trees.
Syn. -- genus Eucarya, Fusanus, genus Fusanus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Euryale, one of the Gorgons. ] 1. (Bot.) A genus of water lilies, growing in India and China. The only species (Euryale ferox) is very prickly on the peduncles and calyx. The rootstocks and seeds are used as food. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zoöl.) A genus of ophiurans with much-branched arms. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zoöl.) A tribe of Ophiuroidea, including the genera Euryale, Astrophyton, etc. They generally have the arms branched. See Astrophyton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. (Zool.) The cold-blooded vertebrates. Same as Hematocrya. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Cold-blooded. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. E. Hamadryads L. Hamadryades [ L. Hamadryas, -adis, Gr. "Amadrya`s; "a`ma together + dry^s oak, tree: cf. F. hamadryade. See Same, and Tree. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Class. Myth.) A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A large venomous East Indian snake (Ophiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., a hamadryad. See Hamadryad. ] (Zool.) The sacred baboon of Egypt (Cynocephalus Hamadryas). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood + kry`os cold. ] (Zool.) The cold-blooded vertebrates, that is, all but the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to Hematotherma. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the Indo-Aryans, or designating, or of, the Aryan languages of India. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A member of one of the native races of India of Aryan speech and blood, characterized by tall stature, dolichocephaly, fair complexion with dark hair and eyes, plentiful beard, and narrow and prominent nose. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. meshmbri`a midday + 'a`nqos flower. ] (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous or suffruticose plants, chiefly natives of South Africa. The leaves are opposite, thick, and fleshy. The flowers usually open about midday, whence the name. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also myriachit. ] [ Yakoot merjäk epileptic, fr. imerek jerk, rage. ] (Med.) A nervous disease in which the patient involuntarily imitates the words or action of another. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ , n. See Oriel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) See Prian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Royal. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Rial, an old English coin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Wariangle. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. xy`lon wood + &unr_; to rub, wear out. ] (Zool.) A genus of marine bivalves closely allied to Teredo, and equally destructive to timber. One species (Xylotrya fimbriata) is very common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]