‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a cock. ] (Zool.) A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; cock + &unr_; fight. ] Cockfighting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Alectryomancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Apoplectic + -form, -oid. ] Resembling apoplexy. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. } [ Appendix + Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; excision. ] (Surg.) Excision of the vermiform appendix. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. architectonique. ] 1. The science of architecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of arranging knowledge into a system. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. architectonicus, Gr. &unr_;. See Architect. ] 1. Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive. “Architectonic wisdom.” Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Relating to the systemizing of knowledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The science of architecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An architect. [ Obs. ] North. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. bi- + vector. ] (Math.) A term made up of the two parts &unr_; + &unr_;1 &unr_;-1, where &unr_; and &unr_;1 are vectors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. collector one who collects: cf. F. collecteur. ] 1. One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. [ 1913 Webster ]

I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. [ 1913 Webster ]

Volumes without the collector's own reflections. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Com.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll. [ 1913 Webster ]

A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One authorized to collect debts. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. Todd. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a collector of customs or of taxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the art of making sweetmeats. [ Obs. ] Beaumont. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who guesses or conjectures. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A great conjector at other men by their writings. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, connects; as: (a) A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. (b) A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing or making correction; corrective. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mech.) That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dejector a dejecter. ] 1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., a revealer. ] One who, or that which, detects; a detecter. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A deathbed's detector of the heart. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: (a) An indicator showing the depth of the water in a boiler. (b) (Elec.) A galvanometer, usually portable, for indicating the direction of a current. (c) (Elec.) Any of various devices for detecting the presence of electric waves. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Bank-note detector, a publication containing a description of genuine and counterfeit bank notes, designed to enable persons to discriminate between them. --
Detector lock. See under Lock. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Railroads) A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train (45 to 50 feet), laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Dialect + -logy. ] That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects. Beck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in dialectics. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Dressmaking) A style of dress prevalent at the time of the French Directory, characterized by great extravagance of design and imitating the Greek and Roman costumes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. directeur. ] 1. One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent. [ 1913 Webster ]

In all affairs thou sole director. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company. [ 1913 Webster ]

What made directors cheat in South-Sea year? Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mech.) A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Surg.) A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. directorat. ] The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. directorial. ] 1. Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whoever goes to the directorial presence under this passport. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition or office of a director; directorate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. directorius. ] Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Directories 1. A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. [ Cf. F. directoire. ] A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Direction; guide. [ R. ] Whitlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dissecteur. ] One who dissects; an anatomist. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ . [ Gr. 'ekto`s outside outside. ] A combining form signifying without, outside, external. [ 1913 Webster ]

See Ect-. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ecto- + Gr. &unr_; bud, germ. ] (Biol.) (a) The outer layer of the blastoderm; the epiblast; the ectoderm. (b) The outer envelope of a cell; the cell wall. Agassiz. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Ectobronchia [ NL. See Ecto-, and Bronchia. ] (Anat.) One of the dorsal branches of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.

{ } n. [ Ecto- + cuneiform, cuniform. ] (Anat.) One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ecto- + Gr. &unr_; bladder. ] (Zoöl.) The outside covering of the Bryozoa. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ecto- + -derm. ] (Biol.) (a) The outer layer of the blastoderm; epiblast. (b) The external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from the epiblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm.

{ } a. (Biol.) Of or relating to the ectoderm. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Ecto- + Gr. &unr_; the yolk of an egg. ] (Biol.) Having the food yolk, at the commencement of segmentation, in a peripheral position, and the cleavage process confined to the center of the egg; as, ectolecithal ova. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ecto- + -mere. ] (Biol.) The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zoöl.) Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite. -- Ec`to*par`a*sit"ic a. [1913 Webster]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'ek out + &unr_; place. ] (Med.) A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; as, ectopia of the heart, or of the bladder. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Out of place; congenitally displaced; as, an ectopic organ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ecto- + Gr. &unr_; form. ] (Biol.) (a) The outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum. (b) The outer hyaline layer of protoplasm in a vegetable cell. (c) The ectosarc of protozoan. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Ecto- + Gr. &unr_; to mold. ] Pertaining to, or composed of, ectoplasm. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'ekto`s outside outside + &unr_; the anus. ] (Zoöl.) An order of Bryozoa in which the anus lies outside the circle of tentacles. [ 1913 Webster ]