n. [ OE. apprentice, prentice, OF. aprentis, nom. of aprentif, fr. apprendare to learn, L. apprendere, equiv. to apprehendere, to take hold of (by the mind), to comprehend. See Apprehend, Prentice. ] 1. One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.
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3. (Old law) A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant. [ Obs. ] Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Apprenticed; p. pr. & vb. n. Apprenticing. ] To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. apprentissage. ] Apprenticeship. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Apprenticeship. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. armistice, fr. (an assumed word) L. armistitium; arma arms + stare, statum (combining form, -stitum), to stand still. ] A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement; a truce. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Brettice. ] (Mining) (a) A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation. (b) Planking to support a roof or wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Brettices [ OE. bretasce, bretage, parapet, OF. bretesche wooden tower, F. bretèche, LL. breteschia, bertresca, prob. fr. OHG. bret, G. brett board; akin to E. board. See Board, n., and cf. Bartizan. ] The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice. [ 1913 Webster ]

The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lord Chief Justice of England, The presiding judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. The highest judicial officer of the realm is the Lord High Chancellor. --
Chief Justice of the United States, the presiding judge of the Supreme Court, and Highest judicial officer of the republic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of chief justice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jay selected the chief-justiceship as most in accordance with his tastes. The Century. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. conticens, p. pr. of conticere; con- + tacere to be silent. ] Silent. [ R. ] “The guests sit conticent.” Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ NL. cysticercus, fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; bladder + ke`rkos tail: cf. F. cysticerque. ] (Zool.) The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle). [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ These larvae live in the tissues of various living animals, and, when swallowed by a suitable carnivorous animal, develop into adult tapeworms in the intestine. See Measles, 4, Tapeworm. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. dens, dentis, tooth + cetus, pl. cete, whale, Gr. &unr_;. ] (Zool.) The division of Cetacea in which the teeth are developed, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enticed p. pr. & vb. n. Enticing ] [ OE. entisen, enticen, OF. enticier, entichier; pref. en- (L. in) + a word of uncertain origin, cf. OF. atisier to stir a fire, provoke, L. titio firebrand, or MHG. zicken to push. ] To draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract; as, the bait enticed the fishes. Often in a bad sense: To lead astray; to induce to evil; to tempt; as, the sirens enticed them to listen. [ 1913 Webster ]

Roses blushing as they blow,
And enticing men to pull. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Prov. i. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

Go, and thine erring brother gain,
Entice him home to be forgiven. Keble.

Syn. -- To allure; lure; coax; decoy; seduce; tempt; inveigle; incite; persuade; prevail on. See Allure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being enticed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. enticement. ] 1. The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin.

Syn. -- Allurement; attraction; temptation; seduction; inveiglement; persuasion; inducement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who entices; one who incites or allures to evil. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Notice or information of an event before it happens; forewarning. [ R. ] Rymer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. injustice, L. injustitia. See In- not, and Justice, and cf. Unjust. ] 1. Lack of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

If this people [ the Athenians ] resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An unjust act or deed; a sin; a crime; a wrong. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cunning men can be guilty of a thousand injustices without being discovered, or at least without being punished. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Interstices [ L. interstitium a pause, interval; inter between + sistere to set, fr. stare to stand: cf. F. interstice. See Stand. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. That which intervenes between one thing and another; especially, a space between things closely set, or between the parts which compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; a hole; an interval; as, the interstices of a wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An interval of time; specifically (R. C. Ch.), in the plural, the intervals which the canon law requires between the reception of the various degrees of orders. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nonobservance of the interstices . . . is a sin. Addis & Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Provided with interstices; having interstices between; situated at intervals. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Entice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. justitia, fr. justus just. See Just, a. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Justice and judgment are the haditation of thy throne. Ps. ixxxix. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king-becoming graces,
As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, . . .
I have no relish of them. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Conformity to truth and reality in expressing opinions and in conduct; fair representation of facts respecting merit or demerit; honesty; fidelity; impartiality; as, the justice of a description or of a judgment; historical justice. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The rendering to every one his due or right; just treatment; requital of desert; merited reward or punishment; that which is due to one's conduct or motives. [ 1913 Webster ]

This even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Agreeableness to right; equity; justness; as, the justice of a claim. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This title is given to the judges of the common law courts in England and in the United States, and extends to judicial officers and magistrates of every grade. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bed of justice. See under Bed. --
Chief justice. See in the Vocabulary. --
Justice of the peace (Law), a judicial officer or subordinate magistrate appointed for the conservation of the peace in a specified district, with other incidental powers specified in his commission. In the United States a justice of the peace has jurisdiction to adjudicate certain minor cases, commit offenders, officiate at marriages, etc.; abbreviated JP.

Syn. -- Equity; law; right; rectitude; honesty; integrity; uprightness; fairness; impartiality. -- Justice, Equity, Law. Justice and equity are the same; but human laws, though designed to secure justice, are of necessity imperfect, and hence what is strictly legal is at times far from being equitable or just. Here a court of equity comes in to redress the grievances. It does so, as distinguished from courts of law; and as the latter are often styled courts of justice, some have fancied that there is in this case a conflict between justice and equity. The real conflict is against the working of the law; this a court of equity brings into accordance with the claims of justice. It would be an unfortunate use of language which should lead any one to imagine he might have justice on his side while practicing iniquity (inequity). Justice, Rectitude. Rectitude, in its widest sense, is one of the most comprehensive words in our language, denoting absolute conformity to the rule of right in principle and practice. Justice refers more especially to the carrying out of law, and has been considered by moralists as of three kinds: (1) Commutative justice, which gives every man his own property, including things pledged by promise. (2) Distributive justice, which gives every man his exact deserts. (3) General justice, which carries out all the ends of law, though not in every case through the precise channels of commutative or distributive justice; as we see often done by a parent or a ruler in his dealings with those who are subject to his control. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To administer justice to. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Liable to trial in a court of justice. [ Obs. ] Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Justiceship. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Administration of justice; procedure in courts of justice. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who administers justice; a judge. [ Obs. ] “Some upright justicer.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or dignity of a justice. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. latis, F. lattis lathwork, fr. latte lath. See Latten, 1st Lath. ] 1. Any work of wood, metal, plastic, or other solid material, made by crossing a series of parallel laths, or thin strips, with another series at a diagonal angle, and forming a network with openings between the strips; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also latticework. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice. Judg. v. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) The representation of a piece of latticework used as a bearing, the bands being vertical and horizontal. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Crystallography) The arrangement of atoms or molecules in a crystal, represented as a repeating arrangement of points in space, each point representing the location of an atom or molecule; called also crystal lattice and space lattice. [ PJC ]

Lattice bridge, a bridge supported by lattice girders, or latticework trusses. --
Lattice girder (Arch.), a girder of which the wed consists of diagonal pieces crossing each other in the manner of latticework. --
Lattice plant (Bot.), an aquatic plant of Madagascar (Ouvirandra fenestralis), whose leaves have interstices between their ribs and cross veins, so as to resemble latticework. A second species is Ouvirandra Berneriana. The genus is merged in Aponogeton by recent authors. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Latticed p. pr. & vb. n. Latticing ] 1. To make a lattice of; as, to lattice timbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice; as, to lattice a window. [ 1913 Webster ]

To lattice up, to cover or inclose with a lattice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Therein it seemeth he [ Alexander ] hath latticed up Caesar. Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having a lattice.
Syn. -- fretted, interlaced, latticelike. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. same as latticed.
Syn. -- fretted, interlaced, latticed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Same as Lattice, n., 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. lenticelle, dim. fr. L. lens, lentis, a lentil. Cf. Lentil. ] (Bot.) (a) One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or roots may issue, either in the air, or more commonly when the stem or branch is covered with water or earth. (b) A small, lens-shaped gland on the under side of some leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Producing lenticels; dotted with lenticels. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Bot.) Lenticel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. luna moon + sistere to cause to stand. Cf. Solstice. ] (Astron.) The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Malpractice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Mal- + practice. ] Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results. [ Written also malepractice. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; midmost + E. cephalic. ] (Anat.) Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; neither brachycephalic nor dolichocephalic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Mesaticephalic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wrong practice. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of, or having, many cells or more than one cell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Multi- + central. ] Having many, or several, centers; as, a multicentral cell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Multicentral development (Biol.), growth, or development, from several centers. According as the insubordination to a single center is more or less pronounced, the resultant organism will be more or less irregular in form and may even become discontinuous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. my`stax the upper lip, also, the mustache + kh^tos a whale. ] (Zool.) Any right whale, or whalebone whale. See Cetacea. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A suborder including baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; and humpbacks.
Syn. -- suborder Mysticeti. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F., fr. L. notitia a being known, knowledge, fr. noscere, notum, to know. See Know. ] 1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. [ 1913 Webster ]

How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons! I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge given or received; means of knowledge; express notification; announcement; warning. [ 1913 Webster ]

I . . . have given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his duchess will be here. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An announcement, often accompanied by comments or remarks; as, book notices; theatrical notices. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A writing communicating information or warning. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Attention; respectful treatment; civility. [ 1913 Webster ]

To take notice of, to perceive especially; to observe or treat with particular attention. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Attention; regard; remark; note; heed; consideration; respect; civility; intelligence; advice; news. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Noticed p. pr. & vb. n. Noticing ] 1. To observe; to see; to mark; to take note of; to heed; to pay attention to. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To show that one has observed; to take public note of; remark upon; to make comments on; to refer to; as, to notice a book. [ 1913 Webster ]

This plant deserves to be noticed in this place. Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Another circumstance was noticed in connection with the suggestion last discussed. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To treat with attention and civility; as, to notice strangers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To remark; observe; perceive; see; mark; note; mind; regard; heed; mention. See Remark. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being observed; worthy of notice; likely to attract observation; conspicuous. [ 1913 Webster ]

A noticeable man, with large gray eyes. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]