n. [ A desid. of L. agere, actum, to act. ] Tendency or impulse to act. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. recklessness in politics or foreign affairs. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to adventurism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Agriculture. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. [ 1913 Webster ]

The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a farmer who keeps bees for their honey.
Syn. -- beekeeper, apiarist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who cultivates trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Asturias in Spain. -- n. A native of Asturias. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. aventurine: cf. It. avventurino. ] 1. A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Min.) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aventurine feldspar, a variety of oligoclase with internal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL.; azote + Gr. &unr_; urine. ] (Med.) Excess of urea or other nitrogenous substances in the urine. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Chem.) A white, crystalline substance, CH2(CO.NH)2.CO, derived from alloxantin, also from malonic acid and urea, and regarded as a substituted urea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who caricatures. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. See Century. ] Of or pertaining to a century; as, a centurial sermon. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. centuriatus, p. p. of centuriare to divide (men) into centuries. ] Pertaining to, or divided into, centuries or hundreds. [ R. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See century. ] To divide into hundreds. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. centurio, fr. centuria; cf. F. centurion. See Century. ] (Rom. Hist.) A military officer who commanded a minor division of the Roman army; a captain of a century. [ 1913 Webster ]

A centurion of the hand called the Italian band. Acts x. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. centuriateur. ] An historian who distinguishes time by centuries, esp. one of those who wrote the “Magdeburg Centuries.” See under Century. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. someone who designs clothing.
Syn. -- fashion designer, clothes designer, designer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To make like a creature; to degrade [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Degrade and creaturize that mundane soul. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. krypto`s hidden + o'yra` tail. ] (Zool.) An order of flying, dromæognathous birds, including the tinamous of South America. See Tinamou. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A cultivator. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is an advocate of culture. [ 1913 Webster ]

The culturists, by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does not&unr_;) but those its exclusive advocates who recommend it as the panacea for all the ills of humanity, for its effects in cultivating the whole man. J. C. Shairp [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Datura. ] (Chem.) Atropine; -- called also daturia and daturina. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. changed in nature or natural quality.
Syn. -- denatured. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

{ , n. (Med.) See Electropuncture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Painting) 1. A movement or phase of post-impressionism (which see, below). [ PJC ]

2. A point of view that finds meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present. The philosophy of a futurist. MW10 [ PJC ]

n. 1. One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Theol.) One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to what is to come; pertaining to futurity; future. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. futurition. ] The state of being future; futurity. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Nothing . . . can have this imagined futurition, but as it is decreed. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Futurities [ 1913 Webster ]

1. State of being that is yet to come; future state. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Future time; time to come; the future. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Event to come; a future event. [ 1913 Webster ]

All futurities are naked before the All-seeing Eye. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. guttur throat. ] Pertaining to the throat. [ Obs. ] “Gutturine tumor.” Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. guttur throat. ] To make in the throat; to gutturalize. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

For which the Germans gutturize a sound. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Hema-, and Urine. ] (Med.) Passage of urine mingled with blood; blood in the urine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who practices horticulture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. immaturitas: cf. F. immaturité. ] The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the world has outgrown its intellectual immaturity. Caird. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inquisitorial. [ Obs. ] “Our inquisiturient bishops.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Leuco- + allantoic + uric. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous organic substance of the uric acid group, called leucoturic acid or oxalantin. See Oxalantin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Employed, or chiefly employed, in manufacture; as, a manufacturing community; a manufacturing town. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to manufacture; as, manufacturing projects. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A business engaged in manufacturing some product.
Syn. -- manufacturer, maker. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A factory.
Syn. -- mill, manufacturing plant, manufactory. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Approaching maturity; as, maturing fruits; maturing notes of hand. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. maturitas: cf. F. maturité. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note, etc., has to run. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. micturire to desire to make water, v. desid. fr. mingere, mictum, to make water. ] The act of voiding urine; urination; also, a morbidly frequent passing of the urine, in consequence of disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. miniaturization. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. miniaturize. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A painter of miniatures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of making on a greatly reduced scale.
Syn. -- miniaturisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To design or construct on a smaller scale.
Syn. -- miniaturise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Med.) The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who believes in, or conforms to, the theory of naturism. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]