a. Also . (Biogeography) Pertaining to or designating the humid division of the Transition zone extending across the northern United States from New England to eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to the Allegheny Mountains, or the region where they are situated. Also . [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. [ From the Allegheny River, Pennsylvania. ] (Geol.) Pertaining to or designating a subdivision of the Pennsylvanian coal measure. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One who seceded from the Scottish Burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. G. berg mountain + geist demon, or bär a bear + geist. ] A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune. [ Also written barguest. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. given or giving freely.
Syn. -- big, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, generous, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ From burgh; akin to D. burger, G. bürger, Dan. borger, Sw. borgare. See Burgh. ] 1. A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl. Hist.) A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess “the true religion professed within the realm”), the opposite party being called antiburghers. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ These parties arose among the Presbyterians of Scotland, in 1747, and in 1820 reunited under the name of the “United Associate Synod of the Secession Church.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Burgomaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or privileges of a burgher. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or } n. See Carrageen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who coughs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Drag. ] A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher. [ Written also droger. ] Ham. Nar. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Eyes. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Eyes. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. ] (Mus.) a short, condensed fugue. Grove. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Pers. ghebr: cf. F. Guèbre. Cf. Giaour. ] A worshiper of fire; a Zoroastrian; a Parsee. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hind. ghī clarified butter, Skr. gh&rsdot_;ta. ] Butter clarified by boiling, and thus converted into a kind of oil. [ India ] Malcom. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. agurkje, a dim. akin to G. gurke, Dan. agurke; cf. Pol. ogórek, Bohem. okurka, LGr. 'aggoy`rion watermelon, Ar. al-khiyār, Per. khiyār. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Bot.) A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) See Sea gherkin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. See Guess. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. ] A quarter of a city where Jews live in greatest numbers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell. Evelyn. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. By extension: Any section of a town inhabited predominantly by members of a specific ethnic, national or racial group, such segregation usually arising from social or economic pressure. The term is commonly applied to areas in cities having a high concentration of low-income African-Americans. [ PJC ]

3. [ fig. ] Any isolated group of people. [ PJC ]

4. [ fig. ] Any group isolated by external pressures, with an implication of inferiority. [ PJC ]

n. [ from their popularity with negro inner-city (ghetto) youth ] A portable casette or compact disk player, usually having an integrated radio receiver. It typically has two (stereophonic) speakers, and can be adjusted to play at a high sound intensity, from which the name comes.
Syn. -- boom box. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. to form into a ghetto; to isolate (people) as though into a ghetto. [ PJC ]

adj. prenom. 1. advanced in complexity or elaboration; as, higher mathematics. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of or pertaining to education beyond the secondary level; as, higher education; higher learning. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. Criticism which includes the study of the contents, literary character, date, authorship, etc., of any writing; as, the higher criticism of the Pentateuch. Called also historical criticism.

The comparison of the Hebrew and Greek texts . . . introduces us to a series of questions affecting the composition, the editing, and the collection of the sacred books. This class of questions forms the special subject of the branch of critical science which is usually distinguished from the verbal criticism of the text by the name of higher, or historical, criticism. W. Robertson Smith. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Rising higher; ascending. [ 1913 Webster ]

In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Education) A certificate awarded for completing a course of vocational education beyond secondary school, preparing the student for a career in business or certain practical arts. It is a term used in the United Kingdom. [ United Kingdom ] [ PJC ]

n. (Computers) A computer programming language with an instruction set allowing one instruction to code for several assembly language instructions. The aggregation of several assembly-language instructions into one instruction allows much greater efficiency in writing computer programs. Most programs are now written in some higher programming language, such as BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, C, C++, PROLOG, or JAVA. [ PJC ]

adj. having a rank above that of another.
Syn. -- ranking(prenominal), superior. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. See New thought, below. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A superior officer or official; a person having greater rank or station or quality than others; -- used chiefly in pl. [ Slang ]
Syn. -- superior, superordinate. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A swineherd. W. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or invented by, Christian Huyghens, a Dutch astronomer of the seventeenth century; as, the Huyghenian telescope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Huyghenian eyepieceSee under Eyepiece. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who inveighs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as jaggery.
Syn. -- jaggery, jaggary. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖a. & adv. [ It., dim. of largo largo. ] (Mus.) Somewhat slow or slowly, but not so slowly as largo, and rather more so than andante. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

2. A variety of the domestic pigeon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A contest in which one side wins easily; a lopsided victory. [ Informal ] [ PJC ]

4. A blatantly false statement, especially a self-serving one. [ Slang ] [ PJC ]

a. 1. Having unusual foresight or sagacity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75. Opposite of brachycephalic.
Syn. -- dolichocephalic, dolichocranal, dolichocranic. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

-- Long"-head`ed*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Cf. Fl. maghet maid. ] (Bot.) A name for daisies and camomiles of several kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖n.; It. pl. -ghi /plu>. Also etc. } [ It. dial. (Sardinia) nuraghe). ] One of the prehistoric towerlike structures found in Sardinia.

The so-called nuraghi, conical monuments with truncated summits, 30-60 ft. in height, 35-100 ft. in diameter at the base, constructed sometimes of hewn, and sometimes of unhewn blocks of stone without mortar. They are situated either on isolated eminences or on the slopes of the mountains, seldom on the plains, and usually occur in groups. They generally contain two (in some rare instances three) conically vaulted chambers, one above the other, and a spiral staircase constructed in the thick walls ascends to the upper stories. Baedeker. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. One who plows; a plowman; a cultivator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the native name. ] A Buddhist priest of the higher orders in Burmah. Malcom. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Cloth Manuf.) An instrument used for stretching woolen cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Roughened p. pr. & vb. n. Roughening. ] [ From Rough. ] To make rough. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow or become rough. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Shipbuilding) The upper end of a floor timber in a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or . (Zool.) Any small holothurian resembling in form a gherkin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sighs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The three-bearded rockling, or whistlefish. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. ] A variety or macaroni made in tubes of small diameter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fountain or source. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. [ imp. & p. p. Toughened p. pr. & vb. n. Toughening. ] To grow or make tough, or tougher. [ 1913 Webster ]