a. [ F., p. pr. of administrer. See Administer. ] Executive; acting; managing affairs. -- n. One who administers. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + strand. ] Stranded. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Auto- + transformer. ] (Elec.) A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. calcitrans, p. pr. of calcitrare to kick, fr. calx, calcis , heel. ] Kicking. Hence: Stubborn; refractory. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A telephone transmitter in which a carbon contact is used. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a genus of southern European herbs and subshrubs.
Syn. -- genus Centranthus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Citrus + orange. ] A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange (Citrus trifoliata). It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Cf. Counternatural. ] Opposed to or against nature; unnatural. [ R. ] Bp. Rust. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who remonstrates in opposition or answer to a remonstrant. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They did the synod wrong to make this distinction of contraremonstrants and remonstrants. Hales. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. demonstrance. ] Demonstration; proof. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To awaken from a trance or an enchantment. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. entrance, fr. OF. & F. entrant, p. pr. of entrer to enter. See Enter. ] 1. The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The passage, door, or gate, for entering. [ 1913 Webster ]

Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city. Judg. i. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business. “Beware of entrance to a quarrel.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Naut.) (a) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line. Ham. Nav. Encyc. (b) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Entranced p. pr. & vb. n. Entrancing ] [ Pref. en- + trance. ] 1. To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Him, still entranced and in a litter laid,
They bore from field and to the bed conveyed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm. [ 1913 Webster ]

And I so ravished with her heavenly note,
I stood entranced, and had no room for thought. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. filled with wonder and delight.
Syn. -- beguiled, captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy. Otway. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a passage allowing entry or exit; an entryway.
Syn. -- entrance, entryway. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as enthralling.
Syn. -- bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, fascinating. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Entrance, n. ] 1. One who enters; a beginner. “The entrant upon life.” Bp. Terrot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An applicant for admission. Stormonth. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or }. same as Advancing edge. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Estranged p. pr. & vb. n. Estranging. ] [ OF. estrangier to remove, F. étranger, L. extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See Strange. ] 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. [ 1913 Webster ]

We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate. [ 1913 Webster ]

They . . . have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods. Jer. xix. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do not know, to this hour, what it is that has estranged him from me. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . had pretended to be estranged from the Whigs, and had promised to act as a spy upon them. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. estrangement. ] The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation. [ 1913 Webster ]

An estrangement from God. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

A long estrangement from better things. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who estranges. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To strangle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being without or beyond a thing; foreignness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. extraneus, from extra. See Extra-, Strange. ] Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nothing is admitted extraneous from the indictment. Landor.

-- Ex*tra"ne*ous*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. (Computers) [ Formula Translation. ] a higher programming language with an instruction set designed for ease of expression of mathematical functions, much used in programming of scientific and mathematical problems. [ PJC ]

a. [ See Frustrate, a. ] Vain; useless; unprofitable. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. [ L. pref. im- not + pertransire to go through. See Per- and Transient. ] Incapable of being passed through. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Transpicuous within or between. [ R. ] Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Between the transverse processes of the vertebræ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Unquietness; restlessness. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Impervious to heat; adiathermic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. intragressibilis that can not be crossed. See In- not, and Transgress. ] Incapable of being transgressed; not to be passed over or crossed. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not transient; remaining; permanent. Killingbeck. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. intransigeant (cf. Sp. intransigente); pref. in- not + L. transigere to come to an agreement; trans across + agere to lead, act. ] Refusing compromise; uncompromising; inflexible; irreconcilable. Lond. Sat. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ Sp. ] (Spanish Politics) The extreme radicals; the party of the irreconcilables. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. intransitivus: cf. F. intransitif. See In- not, and Transitive. ] 1. Not passing farther; kept; detained. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And then it is for the image's sake and so far is intransitive; but whatever is paid more to the image is transitive and passes further. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) Not transitive; not passing over to an object; expressing an action or state that is limited to the agent or subject, or, in other words, an action which does not require an object to complete the sense; as, an intransitive verb, e. g., the bird flies; the dog runs. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Intransitive verbs have no passive form. Some verbs which appear at first sight to be intransitive are in reality, or were originally, transitive verbs with a reflexive or other object omitted; as, he keeps (i. e., himself) aloof from danger. Intransitive verbs may take a noun of kindred signification for a cognate object; as, he died the death of a hero; he dreamed a dream. Some intransitive verbs, by the addition of a preposition, become transitive, and so admit of a passive voice; as, the man laughed at; he was laughed at by the man. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. (Gram.) Without an object following; in the manner of an intransitive verb. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. ] (Law) In transit; during passage; as, goods in transitu. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not capable of being transmitted; as, an intransmissable illness. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. The quality of being intransmutable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not capable of being transmuted or changed into another substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. intrans, p. pr. of intrare to enter. See Enter. ] Entering; penetrating. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who enters; especially, a person entering upon some office or station. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to, or located on the inside of a nucleus; taking place within a nucleus; referring especially to the nucleus of a cell; as, the intranuclear network of fibrils, seen in the first stages of karyokinesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. latrans, p. pr. of latrare. See Latrate. ] Barking. [ Obs. ] Tickell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. li`tra + -meter. See Liter ] An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of liquids. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Computers) The translation of human language from one language to another by a computer; -- a branch of artificial intelligence.
Syn. -- computer translation, automatic translation. [ PJC ]