n. (Chem.) A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An agate. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. achat purchase. See Cates. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Purchase; bargaining. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Provisions. Same as Cates. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Shortened forms of Alcoholate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. bi- + sulphate. ] (Chem.) A sulphate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal sulphates; an acid sulphate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. califat. ] The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Chateux [ F. château a castle. See Castle. ] 1. A castle or a fortress in France. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The distinctive, French term for a fortified castle of the middle ages is château-fort. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a double-thick center cut of beef tenderloin, broiled and served with a sauce and potatoes. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖Chateau en Espagne ety>[ F. ], a castle in Spain, that is, a castle in the air, Spain being the region of romance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918.
Syn. -- battle of the Marne, Belleau Wood, Marne River. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. châtelaine the wife of a castellan, the mistress of a chateau, a chatelaine chain. ] An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. châtelet, dim. of château. See Castle. ] A little castle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. châtellenie. ] Same as Castellany. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. debacchatus, p. p. of debacchari to rage; de- + bacchari to rage like a bacchant. ] To rave as a bacchanal. [ R. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dendrachates; Gr. de`ndron a tree + &unr_; agate: cf. F. dendrachate, dendragate. ] (Min.) Arborescent or dendritic agate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. di- + sulphate. ] (Chem.) (a) A salt of disulphuric or pyrosulphuric acid; a pyrosulphate. (b) An acid salt of sulphuric acid, having only one equivalent of base to two of the acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. [ L. eunuchare. ] To make a eunuch of; to castrate. as a man. Creech. Sir. T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. exarchatus, fr. L. exarchus: cf. F. exarchat. ] The office or the province of an exarch. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Fluo- + phosphate. ] (Chem.) A double salt of fluoric and phosphoric acids. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hate, hete, AS. hete; akin to D. haat, G. hass, Icel. hatr, SW. hat, Dan. had, Goth. hatis. Cf. Hate, v. ] Strong aversion coupled with desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; as exercised toward things, intense dislike; hatred; detestation; -- opposed to love. [ 1913 Webster ]

For in a wink the false love turns to hate. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hated; p. pr. & vb. n. Hating. ] [ OE. haten, hatien, AS. hatian; akin to OS. hatan, hatōn to be hostile to, D. haten to hate, OHG. hazzēn, hazzōn, G. hassen, Icel. & Sw. hata, Dan. hade, Goth. hatan, hatjan. √36. Cf. Hate, n., Heinous. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. 1 John iii. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be very unwilling; followed by an infinitive, or a substantive clause with that; as, to hate to get into debt; to hate that anything should be wasted. [ 1913 Webster ]

I hate that he should linger here. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Script.) To love less, relatively. Luke xiv. 26.

Syn. -- To Hate, Abhor, Detest, Abominate, Loathe. Hate is the generic word, and implies that one is inflamed with extreme dislike. We abhor what is deeply repugnant to our sensibilities or feelings. We detest what contradicts so utterly our principles and moral sentiments that we feel bound to lift up our voice against it. What we abominate does equal violence to our moral and religious sentiments. What we loathe is offensive to our own nature, and excites unmingled disgust. Our Savior is said to have hated the deeds of the Nicolaitanes; his language shows that he loathed the lukewarmness of the Laodiceans; he detested the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees; he abhorred the suggestions of the tempter in the wilderness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent. [ Archaic or R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes
His rival's conquest. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unhappy, wretched, hateful day! Shak.

Syn. -- Odious; detestable; abominable; execrable; loathsome; abhorrent; repugnant; malevolent.

-- Hate"ful*ly, adv. -- Hate"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Hateful; detestable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. one who arouses hatred for others by speech or writing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who hates. [ 1913 Webster ]

An enemy to God, and a hater of all good. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. haemachates; Gr. a"i^ma blood + 'acha`ths agate.] (Min.) A species of agate, sprinkled with spots of red jasper. [1913 Webster]

n. (Chem.) Same as Hydrosulphurent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of hypophosphoric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of hyposulphuric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. iaspachates, Gr. &unr_;. ] (Min.) Agate jasper. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A naturally occurring colorless glass made of almost pure silica, and found in fulgurites, which are produced by lightning striking sand.
Syn. -- quartz glass, vitreous silica, crystal. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. (Old Med. Chem.) A salt of lithic or uric acid; a urate. [ Obs. ] [ Written also lithiate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. lymphatus, p. p. of lymphare to water, dilute with water, to drive out of one's senses, to make mad. ] Frightened into madness; raving. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of metaphosphoric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; musk: cf. F. moscatelline. See Muscadel, Musk. ] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Adoxa (Adoxa moschatellina), the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is called also hollow root and musk crowfoot. Loudon. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. A kind of soft sweet-milk cheese; -- so called from Neufchâtel-en-Bray in France. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Chem.) A salt or ester of oenanthic acid; as, testosterone oenanthate is sold as an anabolic steroid; also called enanthate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. patriarcat. ] 1. The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The residence of an ecclesiastic patriarch. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Ethnol.) A patriarchal form of government or society. See Patriarchal, a., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A sulphate of the peroxide of any base. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; the wood pigeon + &unr_; the agate. ] (Min.) The lead-colored agate; -- so called in reference to its color. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. philosophatus, p. p. of philosophari to philosophize. ] To play the philosopher; to moralize. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of phosphoric acid or a compound containing the phosphate radical group -PO4; as, trisodium phosphate (Na3PO4); triethyl phosphate ((C2H5)3PO4). [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of pyrophosphoric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of pyrosulphuric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sardachates: cf. F. sardachate. See Sard, and Agate. ] (Min.) A variety of agate containing sard. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ it>or ‖. [ F. hâtelet skewer. ] A sauce (such as egg and bread crumbs) used for covering bits of meat, small birds, or fish, strung on skewers for frying. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A salt well known as a catharic under the name of Glauber's salt, which term is properly applied to the hydrate, Na2SO4.10H2O. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Chem.) A sulphate with an excess of the base. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. sulphas, sulphatis, fr. L. sulphur, sulfur, brimstone, sulphur: cf. F. sulfate. ] (Chem.) A salt of sulphuric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of sulphophosphoric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]