a. Provided with an abatis. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } pos>n. [ F. abatis, abattis, mass of things beaten or cut down, fr. abattre. See Abate. ] (Fort.) A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. abbatialis : cf. F. abbatial. ] Belonging to an abbey; as, abbatial rights. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abbatial. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. accubatio, for accubitio, fr. accubare to recline; ad + cubare to lie down. See Accumb. ] The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. acrobatique. ] Pertaining to an acrobat. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Ac`ro*bat"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. Feats of the acrobat; daring gymnastic feats; high vaulting. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'adia`batos not passable; 'a priv. + dia` through + bai`nein to go. ] (Physics) Not giving out or receiving heat. -- Ad`i*a*bat`ic*al*ly, adv. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

☞The adiabatic expansion of carbon dioxide from a compressed container causes the temperature of the gas to decrease rapidly below its freezing point, resulting in the familiar carbon dioxide “snow” emitted by carbon dioxide fire extinguishers. [ PJC. ]

Adiabatic line or
curve, a curve exhibiting the variations of pressure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat. Rankine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Pertaining to anabasis; as, an anabatic fever. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. andabata a kind of Roman gladiator, who fought hoodwinked. ] Doubt; uncertainty. [ Obs. ] Shelford. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. approbatio: cf. F. approbation. See Approve to prove. ] 1. Proof; attestation. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of approving; an assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval; sanction; commendation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many . . . joined in a loud hum of approbation. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

The silent approbation of one's own breast. Melmoth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Animals . . . love approbation or praise. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Probation or novitiate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This day my sister should the cloister enter,
And there receive her approbation. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Approval; liking; sanction; consent; concurrence. -- Approbation, Approval. Approbation and approval have the same general meaning, assenting to or declaring as good, sanction, commendation; but approbation is stronger and more positive. “We may be anxious for the approbation of our friends; but we should be still more anxious for the approval of our own consciences.” “He who is desirous to obtain universal approbation will learn a good lesson from the fable of the old man and his ass.” “The work has been examined by several excellent judges, who have expressed their unqualified approval of its plan and execution.” [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. approbatif. ] Approving, or implying approbation. Milner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality of being approbative. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Phren.) Love of approbation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family coextensive with genus Batis; the saltworts.
Syn. -- family Batidaceae, saltwort family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A dyed fabric with designs drawn on by applying a removable wax where the dye is not wanted. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The method used to create a batik{ 1 }; using wax to allow drawing or printing of designs on a fabric. [ PJC ]

prep. [ Strictly p. pr. of Bate to abate. ] With the exception of; excepting. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have little reason to think that they bring many ideas with them, bating some faint ideas of hunger and thirst. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small genus of plants constituting the family Batidaceae: low straggling dioecious shrubs.
Syn. -- genus Batis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. batiste, from the name of the alleged first maker, Baptiste of Cambrai. Littré. ] Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who lives unmarried. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cibatio, fr. cibare to feed. ] 1. The act of taking food. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Alchemy) The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. cohobation. ] (Anc. Chem.) The process of cohobating. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Phren.) A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. comprobatio. ] 1. Joint attestation; proof. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Approbation. [ Obs. ] Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. conglobatio: cf. F. conglobation. ] 1. The act or process of forming into a ball. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A round body. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cubatio, fr. cubare to lie down. ] The act of lying down; a reclining. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dealbatio: cf. F. déalbation. ] Act of bleaching; a whitening. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of discussing or arguing; discussion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Debating society or
Debating club, a society or club for the purpose of debate and improvement in extemporaneous speaking. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of a debate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From L. decubare; de- + cubare. See Decumbent. ] Act of lying down; decumbence. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. delibatio: cf. F. délibation. ] Act of tasting; a slight trial. [ Obs. ] Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of deturbating. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Physics) involving a transfer of heat. a diabatic process adiabatic [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Pref. dis- + approbation: cf. F. désapprobation. Cf. Disapprove. ] The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure. We have ever expressed the most unqualified disapprobation of all the steps. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. disturbatio. ] Act of disturbing; disturbance. [ Obs. ] Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Ecbasis. ] (Gram.) Denoting a mere result or consequence, as distinguished from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase "i`na plhrw`qh, if rendered “so that it was fulfilled,” is ecbatic; if rendered “in order that it might be.” etc., is telic. [1913 Webster]

adj. Making worse.
Syn. -- aggravating, exasperating. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>n. [ Cf. F. exacerbation. ] 1. The act of rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continuous fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ L. excubatio, fr. excubare to lie out on guard; ex out on guard; ex out + cubare to lie down. ] A keeping watch. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. humus the ground + cubare to lie down. ] The act or practice of lying on the ground. [ Obs. ] Abp. Bramhall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to an hyperbaton; transposed; inverted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. imperturbatio. ] Freedom from agitation of mind; calmness; quietude. W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. improbatio. ] 1. The act of disapproving; disapprobation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Scots Law) The act by which falsehood and forgery are proved; an action brought for the purpose of having some instrument declared false or forged. Bell.

{ , a. Implying, or tending to, improbation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. incubatio: cf. F. incubation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.) [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The maintenance (of a living organism, such as microorganisms or a premature baby) in appropriate conditions, such as of temperature, humidity, or atmospheric composition, for growth. [ PJC ]

5. The gradual development in some interior environment, until fully formed; as, the incubation time for developing a new drug may be longer than ten years from its first discovery. [ PJC ]

Period of incubation, or
Stage of incubation (Med.), the period which elapses between exposure to the causes of an infectious disease and the attack resulting from it; the time during which an infective agent must grow in the body before producing overt symptoms of disease. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to incubation, or to the period of incubation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. in- in + tube. ] (Med.) The introduction of a tube into an organ to keep it open, as into the larynx in croup. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Iso- + Gr. &unr_; to pass through. ] (Physics) Pertaining to the reception or the giving out of equal quantities of heat by a substance. Rankine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Isodiabatic lines or
Isodiabatic curves, a pair of lines or curves exhibiting, on a diagram of energy, the law of variation of the pressure and density of a fluid, the one during the lowering, and the other during the raising, of its temperature, when the quantity of heat given out by the fluid during any given stage of the one process is equal to the quantity received during the corresponding stage of the other. Such lines are said to be isodiabatic with respect to each other. Compare Adiabatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prov. E. job to scold, to reprove, perh. fr. Job, the proper name. ] A scolding; a hand, tedious reproof. [ Law ] Grose. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. lambere to lick. See Lambent. ] Taken by licking with the tongue. “Sirups and lambative medicines.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]