adv. In the manner of an accessary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being accessary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory. [ 1913 Webster ]

To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Amongst many secondary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Accessaries [ Cf. Accessory and LL. accessarius. ] (Law) One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense. [ 1913 Webster ]

Accessary before the fact (Law), one who commands or counsels an offense, not being present at its commission. --
Accessary after the fact, one who, after an offense, assists or shelters the offender, not being present at the commission of the offense. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word, as used in law, is spelt accessory by Blackstone and many others; but in this sense is spelt accessary by Bouvier, Burrill, Burns, Whishaw, Dane, and the Penny Cyclopedia; while in other senses it is spelt accessory. In recent text-books on criminal law the distinction is not preserved, the spelling being either accessary or accessory. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L. adversaria (sc. scripta), neut. pl. of adversarius. ] A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. [ 1913 Webster ]

These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria. Bp. Bull. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Hostile. [ R. ] Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic. [ Archaic ] Bp. King. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an adversary suit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Adversaries [ OE. adversarie, direct fr. the Latin, and adversaire, fr. OF. adversier, aversier, fr. L. adversarius (a.) turned toward, (n.) an adversary. See Adverse. ] One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe. [ 1913 Webster ]

His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Agree with thine adversary quickly. Matt. v. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

It may be thought that to vindicate the permanency of truth is to dispute without an adversary. Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Adversary, The Satan, or the Devil. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Adversary, Enemy, Opponent, Antagonist. Enemy is the only one of these words which necessarily implies a state of personal hostility. Men may be adversaries, antagonists, or opponents to each other in certain respects, and yet have no feelings of general animosity. An adversary may be simply one who is placed for a time in a hostile position, as in a lawsuit, an argument, in chess playing, or at fence. An opponent is one who is ranged against another (perhaps passively) on the opposing side; as a political opponent, an opponent in debate. An antagonist is one who struggles against another with active effort, either in a literal fight or in verbal debate. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. 'ana` throughout + sa`rx, sarko`s, flesh. ] (Med.) Severe generalized edema. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

a. Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Annually. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. anniversarius; annus year + vertere, versum, to turn: cf. F. anniversaire. ] Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Anniversary day (R. C. Ch.). See Anniversary, n., 2. --
Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [ Eastern U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Anniversaries [ Cf. F. anniversaire. ] 1. The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (R. C. Ch.) The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The celebration which takes place on an anniversary day. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, etc., to prevent them from wear or from being soiled by macassar or other oil from the hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of tuberous or rhizomatous perennial herbs; mainly Mediterranean area.
Syn. -- genus Arisarum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ L. asarum + bacca a berry. See Asarone. ] (Bot.) An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europæum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. asarum hazelwort, wild spikenard, Gr. 'a`saron ] (Chem.) A crystallized substance, resembling camphor, obtained from the Asarum Europæum; -- called also camphor of asarum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. essart the grubbing up of trees, fr. essarter to grub up or clear ground of bushes, shrubs, trees, etc., fr. LL. exartum, exartare, for exsaritare; L. ex + sarire, sarrire, saritum, to hoe, weed. ] 1. (Old Law) The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest. Spelman. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing. Ash. [ 1913 Webster ]

Assart land, forest land cleared of woods and brush. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees. Ashmole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Literally, bare sark or shirt. ] A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a division of mammals, in some classifications considered a separate family.
Syn. -- subfamily Bassariscidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genus comprising the cacomistles. See bassarisk.
Syn. -- genus Bassariscus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A raccoonlike omnivorous mammal (Bassariscus astutus) of Mexico and southwestern U. S. having a long bushy tail with black and white rings.
Syn. -- cacomistle, cacomixle, coon cat, raccoon fox, ringtail, ring-tailed cat, civet cat, miner's cat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an armor plate that protects the arm. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. brassard, fr. bras arm. See Brace, n. ] Armor for the arm; -- generally used for the whole arm from the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and 16th centuries, of many parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. bursarius, fr. bursa purse. See Burse, and cf. Purser. ] 1. A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a bursar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. -ries [ LL. bursaria. See Bursar. ] 1. The treasury of a college or monastery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A scholarship or charitable foundation in a university, as in Scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies. “No woman of rank or fortune but would have a bursary in her gift.” Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. Caesareus, Caesarianus. ] Of or pertaining to Cæsar or the Cæsars; imperial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] A Roman emperor, as being the successor of Augustus Cæsar. Hence, a kaiser, or emperor of Germany, or any emperor or powerful ruler. See Kaiser, Kesar, Tsar. [ 1913 Webster ]

Marlborough anticipated the day when he would be servilely flattered and courted by Cæsar on one side and by Louis the Great on the other. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as caesarean section. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Surg.), the operation of taking a child from the womb by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus; -- so called because Julius Cæsar is reported to have been brought into the world by such an operation; -- called also caesarean.
Syn. -- cesarean section, cesarian section, caesarean section, caesarian section, C-section, cesarean, cesarian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. Césarisme. ] A system of government in which unrestricted power is exercised by a single person, to whom, as Cæsar or emperor, it has been committed by the popular will; imperialism; also, advocacy or support of such a system of government. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word came into prominence in the time of Napoleon III., as an expression of the claims and political views of that emperor, and of the politicians of his court. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters.
Syn. -- Erastianism, Byzantinism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ F. ] One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Caravansaries [ F. caravansérai, fr. Per. karwānsarāï; karwān caravan + -sarāï palace, large house, inn. ] A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court. [ Written also caravanserai and caravansera. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A condiment made from the sap of the bitter cassava (Manihot utilissima) deprived of its poisonous qualities, concentrated by boiling, and flavored with aromatics. See Pepper pot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Surg.), the operation of taking a child from the womb by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus; -- so called because Julius Cæsar is reported to have been brought into the world by such an operation; -- called also caesarean.
Syn. -- caesarean section, cesarian section, caesarian section, C-section, cesarean, cesarian. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Same as Cæsarean, Cæsarian. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. same as caesarian. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Same as cesarean section.
Syn. -- cesarean section, cesarian section, caesarean section, C-section, cesarean, caesarean. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Cæsarism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. chryso`s gold + araroba a foreign name of Goa powder + -in. ] (Chem.) A bitter, yellow substance forming the essential constituent of Goa powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid proper; hence formerly called also chrysphanic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. koino`s common + &unr_;, &unr_;, flesh. ] (Zool.) The common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. See Hydroidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ F. commissariat. ] (Mil.) (a) The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries. (b) The body of officers charged with such service. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Commissaries [ LL. commissarius, fr. L. commissus, p. p. of committere to commit, intrust to. See Commit. ] 1. One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Great Destiny, the Commissary of God. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mil.) (a) An officer having charge of a special service; as, the commissary of musters. (b) An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Washington wrote to the President of Congress . . . urging the appointment of a commissary general, a quartermaster general, a commissary of musters, and a commissary of artillery. W. Irving [ 1913 Webster ]

Commissary general, an officer in charge of some special department of army service; as: (a) The officer in charge of the commissariat and transport department, or of the ordnance store department. [ Eng. ] (b) The commissary general of subsistence. [ U. S. ] --
Commissary general of subsistence (Mil. U. S.), the head of the subsistence department, who has charge of the purchase and issue of provisions for the army. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or employment of a commissary. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. confessarius. ] One who makes a confession. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. consarcinare, -natum, to patch together. ] A patching together; patchwork. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]