n. An almoner. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. fem.; pl. Alumnæ /plu> . [ L. See Alumnus. ] A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Alumni [ L., fr. alere to nourish. ] A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'amnhsi`a; 'a priv. + mna^sqai to remember. ] 1. (Med.) Forgetfulness; loss of long-term memory. Quian. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

2. (Med.) A defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. [ Obs. ] Quian. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

adj. def>Having lost memories, especially due to brain injury or mental shock; suffering from amnesia.
Syn. -- amnesic [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Med.) A patient suffering from amnesia. [ AS ]

a. (Med.) 1. 1. Of or pertaining to amnesia. “Amnesic or coordinate defects.” Quian. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Suffering from amnesia; same as amnesiac. [ PJC ]

a. 1. Causing loss of memory. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to amnesia. [ PJC ]

n. A drug causing loss of memory. Stedman. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Amnestied p. pr. & vb. n. Amnestying. ] To grant amnesty to. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. amnestia, Gr. 'amnhsti`a, a forgetting, fr. 'a`mnhstos forgotten, forgetful; 'a priv. + mna^sqai to remember: cf. F. amnistie, earlier amnestie. See Mean, v. ] 1. Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. amnicola, amnis a river + colere to dwell. ] One who lives near a river. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. amnigena; amnis a river + root gen of gignere to beget. ] Born or bred in, of, or near a river. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; the membrane round the fetus, dim. of &unr_; lamb. ] (Anat.) A thin membrane surrounding the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Amnion. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Amnion. ] (Zool.) That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. any member of the Amniota. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. F. amniotique. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the amnion; characterized by an amnion; as, the amniotic fluid; the amniotic sac. [ 1913 Webster ]

Amniotic acid. (Chem.) [ R. ] See Allantoin. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. 'ana`mnhsis, fr. &unr_; to remind, recall to memory; &unr_; + &unr_; to put in mind. ] (Rhet.) A recalling to mind; recollection. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Aiding the memory; as, anamnestic remedies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Without, or not developing, an amnion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. auctumnus, autumnus, perh. fr. a root av to satisfy one's self: cf. F. automne. See Avarice. ] 1. The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called “the fall.” Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In England, according to Johnson, autumn popularly comprises August, September, and October. In the southern hemisphere, the autumn corresponds to our spring. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The harvest or fruits of autumn. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dr. Preston was now entering into the autumn of the duke's favor. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. auctumnalis, autumnalis: cf. F. automnal. ] 1. Of, belonging to, or peculiar to, autumn; as, an autumnal tint; produced or gathered in autumn; as, autumnal fruits; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks
In Vallombrosa. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Past the middle of life; in the third stage. [ 1913 Webster ]

An autumnal matron. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Autumnal equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator, as it proceeds southward, or when it passes the autumnal point. --
Autumnal point, the point of the equator intersected by the ecliptic, as the sun proceeds southward; the first point of Libra. --
Autumnal signs, the signs Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius, through which the sun passes between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; dart, fr. &unr_; dart, fr. &unr_; to throw: cf. F. bélemnite. ] (Paleon.) A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages. -- Bel*em*nit"ic, a. [1913 Webster]

n. an order of extinct dibranchiate cephalopods related to the surviving spirulas.
Syn. -- order Belemnoidea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The state of quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self-repose. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gentle calmness of the flood. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hes calmness was the repose of conscious power. E. Everett.

Syn. -- Quietness; quietude; stillness; tranquillity; serenity; repose; composure; sedateness; placidity. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Calumniated; p. pr. & vb. n. calumniating. ] [ L. calumniatus, p. p. of calumniari. See Calumny, and cf. Challenge, v. t. ] To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hatred unto the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To asperse; slander; defame; vilify; traduce; belie; bespatter; blacken; libel. See Asperse. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another; to make purposely false charges of some offense or crime. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name. [ 1913 Webster ]

The calumniation of her principal counselors. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who calumniates.

Syn. -- Slanderer; defamer; libeler; traducer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing calumny; slanderous. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. calumniosus. ] Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports. [ 1913 Webster ]

Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes. Shak.

. Slanderous; defamatory; scurrilous; opprobrious; derogatory; libelous; abusive.

-- Ca*lum"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Ca*lum"ni*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Calumnies [ L. calumnia, fr. calvi to devise tricks, deceive; cf. F. calomnie. Cf. Challenge, n. ] False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction. “Infamous calumnies.” Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Chimneys [ F. cheminée, LL. caminata, fr. L. caminus furnace, fireplace, Gr. &unr_; furnace, oven. ] 1. A fireplace or hearth. [ Obs. ] Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That part of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Min.) A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chimney board, a board or screen used to close a fireplace; a fireboard. --
Chimney cap, a device to improve the draught of a chimney, by presenting an exit aperture always to leeward. --
Chimney corner, the space between the sides of the fireplace and the fire; hence, the fireside. --
Chimney hook, a hook for holding pats and kettles over a fire, --
Chimney money, hearth money, a duty formerly paid in England for each chimney. --
Chimney pot (Arch.), a cylinder of earthenware or sheet metal placed at the top of a chimney which rises above the roof. --
Chimney swallow. (Zool.) (a) An American swift (Chæture pelasgica) which lives in chimneys. (b) In England, the common swallow (Hirundo rustica). --
Chimney sweep,
Chimney sweeper, one who cleans chimneys of soot; esp. a boy who climbs the flue, and brushes off the soot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) A decorative construction around the opening of a fireplace; also, the shelf that projects from wall above fireplace; mantlepiece. [ Chiefly Brit. ]
Syn. -- mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a short earthenware pipe on the top of a chimney to increase the draft. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the part of the chimney that is above the roof; it usually has several flues. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. someone who cleans soot from chimneys, usually as a profession.
Syn. -- chimneysweeper, sweep. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. chei`r hand + &unr_; trainer of athletes, gymnast. ] A mechanical contrivance for exercising the fingers of a pianist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of low branching shrubs of West North America.
Syn. -- genus Chrysothamnus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Capable of being sailed round. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Circumnavigated p. pr. & vb. n. Circumnavigating ] [ L. circumnavigatus, p. p. of circumnavigare to sail round; circum + navigare to navigate. ] To sail completely round. [ 1913 Webster ]

Having circumnavigated the whole earth. T. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sails round. W. Guthrie. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Pref. circum- + nutate. ] To pass through the stages of circumnutation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. columna, fr. columen, culmen, fr. cellere (used only in comp.), akin to E. excel, and prob. to holm. See Holm, and cf. Colonel. ] 1. (Arch.) A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendôme; the spinal column. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mil.) (a) A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy. (b) A small army. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Naut.) A number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; -- in distinction from “line”, where they are side by side. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Print.) A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Arith.) A perpendicular line of figures. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Bot.) The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Print.) one of a series of articles written in a periodical, usually under the same title and at regular intervals; it may be written and signed by one or more authors, or may appear pseudonymously or anonymously, as an editorial column. “Safire's weekly column in the is usually more interesting (and probably more accurate) than his political column.” P. Cassidy [ PJC ]

Attached column. See under Attach, v. t. --
Clustered column. See under Cluster, v. t. --
Column rule, a thin strip of brass separating columns of type in the form, and making a line between them in printing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. columnaris, fr. columna. ] Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column. [ 1913 Webster ]

Columnar epithelium (Anat.), epithelium in which the cells are prismatic in form, and set upright on the surface they cover. --
Columnar structure (Geol.), a structure consisting of more or less regular columns, usually six-sided, but sometimes with eight or more sides. The columns are often fractured transversely, with a cup joint, showing a concave surface above. This structure is characteristic of certain igneous rocks, as basalt, and is due to contraction in cooling. [ 1913 Webster ]

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