n. [ NL. acromegalia, fr. Gr. 'a`kron point, peak + me`gas, mega`loy, big. ] (Med.) Chronic enlargement of many bones of the skeleton, especially bones of hands, feet and face; the condition is due to excessive secretion of growth hormone. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

{ ‖ } n. [ Gr. 'agalakti`a; 'a priv. + ga`la, gala`ktos ] (Med.) Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Lacking milk to suckle with. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. Same as Agar-agar. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ Gr. a`ga`llochon, of Eastern origin: cf. Skr. aguru, Heb. pl. ahālīm. ] A soft, resinous wood (Aquilaria Agallocha) of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'a`galma, 'a`galmatos, image, statue + -lite: cf. F. agalmatolithe. ] (Min.) A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a., (Bot.) Pertaining to, or like, algæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of chiefly Old World herbs.
Syn. -- genus Anagallis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Analogous. [ Obs. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. anti- + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, milk. ] Causing a diminution or a suppression of the secretion of milk. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Opposed to what is Gallic or French. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Crude tartar. See Argol. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. A ludicrous corruption of the Latin word ergo, therefore. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) The adjutant bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖‖ } n. [ Mongolian. ] (Zool.) A species of wild sheep (Ovis ammon, or Ovis argali), remarkable for its large horns. It inhabits the mountains of Siberia and central Asia. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The bearded argali is the aoudad. See Aoudad. The name is also applied to the bighorn sheep of the Rocky Mountains. See Bighorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. astragalus, Gr. &unr_; the ankle bone, a molding in the capital of the Ionic column. ] 1. (Arch.) A convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gun.) A round molding encircling a cannon near the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the astragalus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Astragalus + -oid. ] (Anat.) Resembling the astragalus in form. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; ankle bone, die + -mancy. ] Divination by means of small bones or dice. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. See Astragal. ] 1. (Anat.) The ankle bone, or hock bone; the bone of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia at the ankle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A genus of papilionaceous plants, of the tribe Galegeæ, containing numerous species, two of which are called, in English, milk vetch and licorice vetch. Gum tragacanth is obtained from different oriental species, particularly the Astragalus gummifer and Astragalus verus. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) See Astragal, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aurigalis. ] Of or pertaining to a chariot. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Ar. “fem. of baghl a mule.” Balfour. ] (Naut.) A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in the Indian Ocean. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Base, n.+ L. fugere to flee. ] (Bot.) Tending or proceeding away from the base; as, a basifugal growth. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bengal light, a firework containing niter, sulphur, and antimony, and producing a sustained and vivid colored light, used in making signals and in pyrotechnics; -- called also blue light. --
Bengal stripes, a kind of cotton cloth woven with colored stripes. See Bengal, 3. --
Bengal tiger. (Zool.). See Tiger. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. Of or pertaining to Bengal. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Bengal. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } prop. n. The language spoken in Bengal. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. adj. 1. Of or pertaining to the Bengali language; as, Bengali poetry. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bangladesh (formerly Bengal) or its inhabitants; as, Bengali hills. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a small wrasse (Tautogolabrus adspersus), common in north Atantic coastal waters of the U. S.; -- also called the cunner.
Syn. -- cunner. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; gill + &unr_; to cover: cf. F. branchiostège. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes. -- n. (Anat.) A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This term was formerly applied to a group of fishes having boneless branchiæ. But the arrangement was artificial, and has been rejected. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to a bungalow; similar to a bungalow. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having many bungalows. the bungaloid suburbs [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Bengalee bānglā ] A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda. [ India ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small marine fish; -- also called cunner. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L., tail of a cock. ] (Paleon.) A plume-shaped fossil, supposed to be a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cauda galli epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the begining of the Devonian age in eastern America, so named from the characteristic gritty sandstone marked with impressions of Cauda galli. See the Diagram under Geology. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. centrum center + fugere to flee. ] 1. Tending, or causing, to recede from the center. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) (a) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster. (b) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos. [ 1913 Webster ]

Centrifugal force (Mech.), a force whose direction is from a center. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ When a body moves in a circle with uniform velocity, a force must act on the body to keep it in the circle without change of velocity. The direction of this force is towards the center of the circle. If this force is applied by means of a string to the body, the string will be in a state of tension. To a person holding the other end of the string, this tension will appear to be directed toward the body as if the body had a tendency to move away from the center of the circle which it is describing. Hence this latter force is often called centrifugal force. The force which really acts on the body being directed towards the center of the circle is called centripetal force, and in some popular treatises the centripetal and centrifugal forces are described as opposing and balancing each other. But they are merely the different aspects of the same stress. Clerk Maxwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Centrifugal impression (Physiol.), an impression (motor) sent from a nerve center outwards to a muscle or muscles by which motion is produced. --
Centrifugal machine, A machine for expelling water or other fluids from moist substances, or for separating liquids of different densities by centrifugal action; a whirling table. --
Centrifugal pump, a machine in which water or other fluid is lifted and discharged through a pipe by the energy imparted by a wheel or blades revolving in a fixed case. Some of the largest and most powerful pumps are of this kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A centrifugal machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A filter, as for sugar, in which a cylinder with a porous or foraminous periphery is rapidly rotated so as to drive off liquid by centrifugal action. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Cerebrum + L. fugere to flee. ] (Physiol.) Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the brain to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal impressions) outwards. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. [ Cf. F. Cingalais. ] A native or natives of Ceylon descended from its primitive inhabitants; also (sing.), the language of the Cingalese. -- a. Of or pertaining to the Cingalese. [ Written also Singhalese. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Ceylonese is applied to the inhabitants of the island in general. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. circum- + esophagal. ] (Anat.) Surrounding the esophagus; -- in (Zool.) said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. conjugalis, fr. conjux husband, wife, consort, fr. conjungere to unite, join in marriage. See Conjoin. ] Belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial. “Conjugal affection.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The conjugal state; sexual intercourse. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a conjugal manner; matrimonially; connubially. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. same as corticoefferent; as, corticofugal discharges.
Syn. -- corticoefferent, corticifugal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A kind of oak-leaf gall. See Gall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating or belonging to a diphthong; having the nature of a diphthong. -- Diph*thon"gal*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

v. t. To make into a diphthong; to pronounce as a diphthong. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of gallantry. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. dogalis for ducalis. See Doge. ] Of or pertaining to a doge.[ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. égal. See Equal. ] Equal; impartial. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. egalite, F. égalité. ] Equality. Chaucer. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]