n. [ Abbot + -ship. ] The state or office of an abbot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Accountant + -ship. ] The office or employment of an accountant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Agency. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or dignity of an autocrat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The position, rank, or commission of a cadet; as, to get a cadetship.

n. Condition of a client; state of being under the protection of a patron. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of paying court, with the intent to solicit a favor. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of wooing in love; solicitation of woman to marriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

This method of courtship, [ by which ] both sides are prepared for all the matrimonial adventures that are to follow. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Courtliness; elegance of manners; courtesy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Trim gallants, full of courtship and of state. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Court policy; the character of a courtier; artifice of a court; court-craft; finesse. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She [ the Queen ] being composed of courtship and Popery. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of courtesy. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state, personality, or character, of a giant; -- a compellation for a giant. [ 1913 Webster ]

His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Spirits of hartshorn (see below); volatile salts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hartshorn plantain (Bot.), an annual species of plantain (Plantago Coronopus); -- called also buck's-horn. Booth. --
Hartshorn shavings, originally taken from the horns of harts, are now obtained chiefly by planing down the bones of calves. They afford a kind of jelly. Hebert. --
Salt of hartshorn (Chem.), an impure solid carbonate of ammonia, obtained by the destructive distillation of hartshorn, or any kind of bone; volatile salts. Brande & C.--
Spirits of hartshorn (Chem.), a solution of ammonia in water; -- so called because formerly obtained from hartshorn shavings by destructive distillation. Similar ammoniacal solutions from other sources have received the same name. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the shape of a heart; cordate; -- of a leaf shape. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. High-priesthood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a successful, self-confident person who is regarded by others as highly skilled; -- sometimes used ironically in reference to aggressive persons whose opinion of their own talents is considered exaggerated. [ PJC ]

a. 1. highly talented, self-confident and successful. [ PJC ]

2. flamboyantly displaying one's skills. [ PJC ]

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

n. (Naut.) A vessel equipped like a lighthouse, carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable, to serve as a guide for mariners; as, the Ambrose lightship off New York was rammed and damaged in 1950 by the Santa Monica. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ AS. nichtscadu. ] (Bot.) A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna (a). --
Enchanter's nightshade. See under Enchanter. --
Stinking nightshade. See Henbane. --
Three-leaved nightshade. See Trillium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of nightgown for men. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A shell of the genus Nucula. [ 1913 Webster ]

in a nutshell in a summarized and very abbreviated form; -- of statments, descriptions, reports, and other communications; as, to describe the convention in a nutshell. --
To be in a nutshell or
To lie in a nutshell,
, to be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement. “The remedy lay in a nutshell.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. i. To shine forth. “Bright, outshining beams.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To surpass in splendor, excellence, or achievement. [ 1913 Webster ]

A throne of royal state, which far
Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To shine more brightly than. [ PJC ]

v. t. To exceed or excel in shooting; to shoot beyond. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men are resolved never to outshoot their forefathers' mark. Norris. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To shut out. [ R. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or personality of a poet. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A potsherd. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pot + sherd or shard. ] A piece or fragment of a broken pot. Job ii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or jurisdiction of a prefect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office and dignity of president; presidency. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A shop where prints are sold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a provost. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a regent; regency. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or condition of a resident. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The character or qualities of a saint. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of sergeant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a student. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The conduct of a truant; neglect of employment; idleness; truancy. Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. vicomté. ] The quality, rank, or office of a viscount. [ 1913 Webster ]