a. Capable of being acclimated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. acclimation. See Acclimate. ] Acclimatization. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Acclimated p. pr. & vb. n. Acclimating. ] [ F. acclimater; à (l. ad) + climat climate. See Climate. ] To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Acclimation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being acclimatized. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Acclimatized p. pr. & vb. n. Acclimatizing ] To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated. [ R. ] Caldwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Rhet.) A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect. Example: Next comes Dalhousie, the great god of war,
Lieutenant-colonel to the Earl of Mar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, prop., round of a ladder, fr. &unr_; ladder: cf. F. climactère. See Climax. ] See Climacteric, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. climactericus, Gr. &unr_;. See Climacter. ] Relating to a climacteric; critical. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any critical period. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one of the grand climacterics of the world. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. See Climacteric. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a climax; forming, or of the nature of, a climax, or ascending series.

A fourth kind of parallelism . . . is still sufficiently marked to be noticed by the side of those described by Lowth, viz., climactic parallelism (sometimes called “ascending rhythm”). S. R. Driver. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Climatic. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Climate + Gr. &unr_; to rule. ] Presiding over, or regulating, climates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. climat, L. clima, -atis, fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, slope, the supposed slope of the earth (from the equator toward the pole), hence a region or zone of the earth, fr. &unr_; to slope, incline, akin to E. lean, v. i. See Lean, v. i., and cf. Clime. ] 1. (Anc. Geog.) One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To dwell. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Climatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Climatized p. pr. & vb. n. Climatizing. ] To acclimate or become acclimated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Climate + -graphy. ] A description of climates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to climatology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in, or who studies, climatology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Climate + -logy: cf. F. climatologie. ] The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. climature. ] A climate. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., from Gr. &unr_; ladder, staircase, fr. &unr_; to make to bend, to lean. See Ladder, Lean, v. i. ] 1. Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Rhet.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness. [ 1913 Webster ]

“Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope” -- a happy climax. J. D. Forbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The highest point; the greatest degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

We must look higher for the climax of earthly good. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cap the climax, to surpass everything, as in excellence or in absurdity. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Climbed Obs. or Vulgar Clomb p. pr. & vb. n. Climbing. ] [ AS. climban; akin to OHG. chlimban, G. & D. klimmen, Icel. klīfa, and E. cleave to adhere. ] 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point. [ 1913 Webster ]

Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being climbed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a retraction of a previously held position.
Syn. -- withdrawal, backdown. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

Grand climacteric or
Great climacteric, the sixty-third year of human life. [ 1913 Webster ]

I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, climbs: (a) (Bot.) A plant that climbs. (b) (Zool.) A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ From Climb; cf. Clamber. ] To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber. [ Obs. ] Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb. [ 1913 Webster ]

Climbing fern. See under Fern. --
Climbing perch. (Zool.) See Anabas, and Labyrinthici. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. clima. See Climate. ] A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Turn we to sutvey,
Where rougher climes a nobler race display. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To climb beyond; to surpass in climbing. Davenant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To climb over. Surrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To climb up; to ascend. [ 1913 Webster ]

Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]