v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Abbreviated; p. pr. & vb. n. Abbreviating. ] [ L. abbreviatus, p. p. of abbreviare; ad + breviare to shorten, fr. brevis short. See Abridge. ] 1. To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. abbreviatus, p. p. ] 1. Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. [ R. ] “The abbreviate form.” Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An abridgment. [ Obs. ] Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. abbreviatio: cf. F. abbréviation. ] 1. The act of shortening, or reducing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mus.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. Moore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL.: cf. F. abbréviateur. ] 1. One who abbreviates or shortens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An abridgment; a compendium or abstract. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty of a Christian. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Alleviated; p. pr. & vb. n. Alleviating. ] [ LL. alleviare, fr. L. ad + levis light. See Alegge, Levity. ] 1. To lighten or lessen the force or weight of. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Should no others join capable to alleviate the expense. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those large bladders . . . conduce much to the alleviating of the body [ of flying birds ]. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc. ; -- opposed to aggravate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The calamity of the want of the sense of hearing is much alleviated by giving the use of letters. Bp. Horsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To extenuate; to palliate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He alleviates his fault by an excuse. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To lessen; diminish; soften; mitigate; assuage; abate; relieve; nullify; allay. -- To Alleviate, Mitigate, Assuage, Allay. These words have in common the idea of relief from some painful state; and being all figurative, they differ in their application, according to the image under which this idea is presented. Alleviate supposes a load which is lightened or taken off; as, to alleviate one's cares. Mitigate supposes something fierce which is made mild; as, to mitigate one's anguish. Assuage supposes something violent which is quieted; as, to assuage one's sorrow. Allay supposes something previously excited, but now brought down; as, to allay one's suffering or one's thirst. To alleviate the distresses of life; to mitigate the fierceness of passion or the violence of grief; to assuage angry feeling; to allay wounded sensibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 made less severe or intense. unmitigated
Syn. -- eased, relieved, mitigated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ LL. alleviatio. ] 1. The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to alleviate. -- n. That which alleviates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, alleviates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Alleviative. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Alluvial soil; specif., in Australia, gold-bearing alluvial soil. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Cf. F. alluvial. See Alluvion. ] Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. ante- + diluvial. ] Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. -- n. One who lived before the Deluge. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] One who works a mine with means provided by another. [ Sp. Amer. & Southwestern U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Of or instrument to birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 1. to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Aviaries [ L. aviarium, fr. aviarius pertaining to birds, fr. avis bird, akin to Gr, &unr_;, Skr. vi. ] A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lincolnshire may be termed the aviary of England. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Aviated p. pr. & vb. n. Aviating. ] To fly, or navigate the air, in an aëroplane or heavier-than-air flying machine. [ Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. & i. 1. fly an airplane.
Syn. -- fly, pilot. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The art or science of flying. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An experimenter in aviation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A flying machine. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The driver or pilot of an aircraft, especially of an airplane. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ , n. A woman aviator (in senses 1 or 3). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to Batavia or Holland; as, a Batavian legion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Batavian Republic, the name given to Holland by the French after its conquest in 1795. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A native or inhabitant of Batavia or Holland. [ R. ] Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Baboon. ] A baboon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to the bivium. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. bloviated p. pr. & vb. n. bloviating ] To orate pompously; -- used especially of politicians and news commentators. Frank Rich (N. Y. Times Jan. 6, 1999, p. A23) -- blo"vi*a*tor, n. -- blo"vi*a*tion, n. [ PJC ]

“We've had almost three weeks of lawyers bloviating about what the facts in the case are, ” Mr. Rogan said. “Wouldn't it be easier to bring the witnesses?” Quoted by Eric Schmitt in The New York Times, Jan 22, 1999, p. A15.

a. Of or pertaining to Bolivia. -- n. A native of Bolivia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Breviaries [ F. bréviarie, L. breviarium summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis short. See Brief, and cf. Brevier. ] 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. [ 1913 Webster ]

A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. breviatus, p. p. of breviare to shorten, brevis short. ] 1. A short compend; a summary; a brief statement. [ 1913 Webster ]

I omit in this breviate to rehearse. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

The same little breviates of infidelity have . . . been published and dispersed with great activity. Bp. Porteus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A lawyer's brief. [ R. ] Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To abbreviate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An abbreviature; an abbreviation. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. caviar, fr. It. caviale, fr. Turk. Havīār. ] The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Caviare was considered a delicacy, by some, in Shakespeare's time, but was not relished by most. Hence Hamlet says of a certain play. “'T was caviare to the general, ” i. e., above the taste of the common people. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. circum- + L. Jupiter, gen. Jovis, Jove. ] One of the moons or satellites of the planet Jupiter. [ Obs. ] Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From L. convivium a feast; con- + vivere to live. See Victuals, and cf. Convive. ] Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which feasts convivial meetings we did name. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person of convivial habits. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Convivialities The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a convivial manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Cracow in Poland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an aberrant state or condition.
Syn. -- aberrance, aberrancy, aberration. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. deviate behavior.
Syn. -- deviation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Deviating. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. having behavior or characteristics differing from that which is normal or expected, especially in an undesirable or socially disapproved manner; as, deviant behavior.
Syn. -- deviate. [ PJC ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Deviated p. pr. & vb. n. Deviating ] [ L. deviare to deviate; de + viare to go, travel, via way. See Viaduct. ] To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take,
May boldly deviate from the common track. Pope.

Syn. -- To swerve; stray; wander; digress; depart; deflect; err. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to deviate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To deviate a needle. J. D. Forbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. having behavior differing from that which is normal or expected, especially in an undesirable or socially disapproved manner; as, deviate behavior.
Syn. -- deviant. [ PJC ]