n. 1. an enzyme which exists in nerve cells and hydrolyses acetylcholine into choline and acetic acid. It is essential for neurotransmission at autonomous synapses and neuromuscular junctions, and its inhibition by acetylcholinesterase inhibitors can paralyze or kill an animal.
Syn. -- ACE [ PJC ]

{ } n. [ OF. arblastere, OF. arbalestier. See Arbalest. ] A crossbowman. [ Obs. ] Speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who arrests. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Scots Law) The person at whose suit an arrestment is made. [ Also written arrestor. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. One who attests. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Beg + -ster. ] A beggar. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a davenport with upright armrests. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a fitted overcoat with a velvet collar. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See -lite. ] A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Chide + -ster. ] A female scold. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. cholestérique. ] Pertaining to cholesterin, or obtained from it; as, cholesteric acid. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; bile + &unr_; stiff fat: F. cholestérine. See Stearin. ] (Chem.) A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who detests. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who digests. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other substances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To fester. [ Obs. ] “Enfestered sores.” Davies (Holy Roode). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A word invented by L. Gmelin, a German chemist. ] (Chem.) An ethereal salt, or compound ether, consisting of an organic radical united with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic or inorganic; thus the natural fats are esters of glycerin and the fatty acids, oleic, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Festered p. pr. & vb. n. Festering. ] [ OE. festern, fr. fester, n.; or fr. OF. festrir, fr. festre, n. See Fester, n. ] 1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wounds immedicable
Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to fester or rankle. [ 1913 Webster ]

For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate,
And festered ranking malice in my breast. Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. festre, L. fistula a sort of ulcer. Cf. Fistula. ] 1. A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A festering or rankling. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fester of the chain their necks. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A festering. [ R. ] Chalmers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. forestier, LL. forestarius. ] 1. One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An inhabitant of a forest. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A forest tree. [ R. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (A. octomaculata), which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fruiteress. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Game + -ster. ] 1. A merry, frolicsome person. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games. [ 1913 Webster ]

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A prostitute; a strumpet. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A harvesting ant. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. hesternus; akin to heri yesterday. ] Pertaining to yesterday. [ Obs. ] See Yester, a. Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships. By some it is defined as “dancing (on the wave)”; by others as “opposing, ” “warlike.” T. R. Lounsbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Pester. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, infests. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Gestour. ] 1. A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool. [ 1913 Webster ]

This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk. [ 1913 Webster ]

He ambled up and down
With shallow jesters. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Pg., prob. fr. Fr. l'est the east. ] (Meteor.) A dry sirocco in the Madeira Islands. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

prop. n. A breed of short-haired black-and-tan terrier developed in Manchester England.
Syn. -- black-and-tan terrier. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Mister, a trade. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Of or pertaining to the Midwest region of the U. S., generally including Ohio; Indiana; Illinois; Iowa; Missouri; Kansas; Nebraska; and sometimes Michigan; Wisconsin; Minnesota; as, a midwestern city; midwestern accent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who molests. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A storm or gale from the northwest; a strong northwest wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Toward the northwest, or from the northwest. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or being in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Orchestra. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To pester exceedingly or excessively. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pestered p. pr. & vb. n. Pestering. ] [ Abbrev. fr. impester, fr. OF. empaistrier, empestrer, to entangle the feet or legs, to embarrass, F. empêtrer; pref. em-, en- (L. in in) + LL. pastorium, pastoria, a fetter by which horses are prevented from wandering in the pastures, fr. L. pastorius belonging to a herdsman or shepherd, pastor a herdsman. See In, and Pasture, Pastor. ] 1. To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are pestered with mice and rats. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

A multitude of scribblers daily pester the world. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To crowd together in an annoying way; to overcrowd; to infest. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

All rivers and pools . . . pestered full with fishes. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; as, the exasperation of a pestered animal.
Syn. -- annoyed, harassed, harried. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who pesters or harasses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of pestering, or the state of being pestered; vexation; worry. “The trouble and pesterment of children.” B. Franklin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inclined to pester. Also, vexatious; encumbering; burdensome. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., n., n., n., n. Same as Preoral, Prepubis, Prescapula, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, from &unr_; to kindle or burn, and &unr_; to blow up, swell out by blowing. ] 1. A meteor or exhalation formerly supposed to be thrown from the clouds with such violence that by collision it is set on fire. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. One of the veins of the neck when swollen with anger or other excitement. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. prestre. See Priest. ] A priest or presbyter; as, Prester John. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. ] (Anat.) The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium. -- Pre*ster"nal a. [1913 Webster]

n. Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in contempt. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who protests; one who utters a solemn declaration. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) One who protests a bill of exchange, or note. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who seeks; a seeker. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who requests; a petitioner. [ 1913 Webster ]