‖n. pl. [ NL. See Acetabuliferous. ] (Zool.) The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acetablum a little cup + -ferous. ] Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acidus sour + -ferous. ] Containing or yielding an acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adfectus or affectus. See Affect, v. ] (Alg.) See Affected, 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aër air + -ferous: cf. F. aérifère. ] Conveying or containing air; air-bearing; as, the windpipe is an aëriferous tube. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. [ OE. afered, AS. āf&aemacr_;red, p. p. of āf&aemacr_;ran to frighten; ā- (cf. Goth. us-, Ger. er-, orig. meaning out) + f&aemacr_;ran to frighten. See Fear. ] Afraid. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] The southwest wind. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. aferen, AS. āf&unr_;ran. See Afeard. ] To frighten. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Affected; p. pr. & vb. n. Affecting. ] [ L. affectus, p. p. of afficere to affect by active agency; ad + facere to make: cf. F. affectere, L. affectare, freq. of afficere. See Fact. ] 1. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

As might affect the earth with cold heat. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The climate affected their health and spirits. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch. [ 1913 Webster ]

A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To love; to regard with affection. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected, rather honored than loved, her. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually. [ 1913 Webster ]

For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for it, indeed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great. Hazlitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To dispose or incline. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To aim at; to aspire; to covet. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This proud man affects imperial &unr_;way. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To tend to by affinity or disposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

The drops of every fluid affect a round figure. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Careless she is with artful care,
Affecting to seem unaffected. Congreve. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou dost affect my manners. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. To assign; to appoint. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

One of the domestics was affected to his special service. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To influence; operate; act on; concern; move; melt; soften; subdue; overcome; pretend; assume. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. affectus. ] 1. Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Psychotherapy) The emotional complex associated with an idea or mental state. In hysteria, the affect is sometimes entirely dissociated, sometimes transferred to another than the original idea. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. affectatio: cf. F. affectation. ] 1. An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show. “An affectation of contempt.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural what is natural. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A striving after. [ Obs. ] Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fondness; affection. [ Obs. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who exhibits affectation. [ R. ] Fitzed. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. 1. Regarded with affection; beloved. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His affected Hercules. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inclined; disposed; attached. [ 1913 Webster ]

How stand you affected to his wish? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is . . . too spruce, too affected, too odd. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Assumed artificially; not natural. [ 1913 Webster ]

Affected coldness and indifference. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Alg.) Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lovingly; with tender care. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Affectation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. “Affecters of wit.” Abp. Secker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being affectible. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be affected. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Lay aside the absolute, and, by union with the creaturely, become affectible. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight. [ 1913 Webster ]

The most affecting music is generally the most simple. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Affected; given to false show. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A drawling; affecting rouge. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an affecting manner; is a manner to excite emotions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. affection, L. affectio, fr. afficere. See Affect. ] 1. The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Philosophy) An attribute, especially a contingent or alterable quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies. “The affections of quantity.” Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less,
An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc.; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency. [ 1913 Webster ]

Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind, when impressed by any object or quality. Cogan. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; -- often in the pl. Formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children. [ 1913 Webster ]

All his affections are set on his own country. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Prejudice; bias. [ Obs. ] Bp. Aylmer. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Med.) Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Affectation. [ Obs. ] “Spruce affection.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Passion; violent emotion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Most wretched man,
That to affections does the bridle lend. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Attachment; passion; tenderness; fondness; kindness; love; liking; good will. See Attachment; Disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. affectionné. ] 1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Kindly inclined; zealous. [ Obs. ] Johson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender; as, the affectionate care of a parent; affectionate countenance, message, language. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Strongly inclined; -- with to. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Tender; attached; loving; devoted; warm; fond; earnest; ardent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Disposed; inclined. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Affectionated to the people. Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Disposed. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Affected; conceited. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. affectif. ] 1. Tending to affect; affecting. [ Obs. ] Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. affectuous: cf. F. affectueux. See Affect. ] Full of passion or emotion; earnest. [ Obs. ] -- Af*fec"tu*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.] Fabyan. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ OF. aforer, afeurer, to tax, appraise, assess, fr. L. ad + forum market, court of justice, in LL. also meaning price. ] 1. To confirm; to assure. [ Obs. ] “The title is affeered.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Old Law) To assess or reduce, as an arbitrary penalty or amercement, to a certain and reasonable sum. [ 1913 Webster ]

Amercements . . . were affeered by the judges. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. aforement. ] (Old Law) The act of affeering. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OF. aforeur, LL. afforator. ] (Old Law) One who affeers. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. afferens, p. pr. of afferre; ad + ferre to bear. ] (Physiol.) Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖adv. [ It. ] (Mus.) With feeling. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Agate + -ferous. ] Containing or producing agates. Craig. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. agrafe, formerly agraffe, OF. agrappe. See Agrappes. ] 1. A hook or clasp. [ 1913 Webster ]

The feather of an ostrich, fastened in her turban by an agraffe set with brilliants. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. albumen + -ferous. ] Supplying albumen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ For allerliefest dearest of all. See Lief. ] Most beloved. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Alewives A woman who keeps an alehouse. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Alewives. [ This word is properly aloof, the Indian name of a fish. See Winthrop on the culture of maize in America, “Phil Trans.” No. 142, p. 1065, and Baddam's “Memoirs, ” vol. ii. p. 131. ] (Zool.) A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Metal.) An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., fr. Ar. al-fārs knight. ] An ensign; a standard bearer. [ Obs. ] J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. alfetum, fr. AS. ālfæt a pot to boil in; āl burning + fæt vat. ] A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Cf. lief dear. ] On my life; dearly. [ Obs. ] “I love that sport alife.” Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ala wing + -ferous. ] Having wings, winged; aligerous. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alumen alum + -ferous: cf. F. aluminifère. ] Containing alum. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. used in some classification systems for plants that bear catkins.
Syn. -- group Amentiferae [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. amentum + -ferous. ] (Bot.) Bearing catkins. Balfour. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Any fermentation process by which ammonia is formed, as that by which urea is converted into ammonium carbonate when urine is exposed to the air. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]