n. 1. a genus of Orthopteran insects consisting of common house and field crickets.
Syn. -- genus Acheta [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; one who perceives. ] One who makes much or overmuch of æsthetics. [ Recent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or Pertaining to æsthetics; versed in æsthetics; as, æsthetic studies, emotions, ideas, persons, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Æs*thet"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. One versed in æsthetics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrine of æsthetics; æsthetic principles; devotion to the beautiful in nature and art. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; + &unr_; to set. appoint. ] [ Antiq. ] An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Pertaining to the office of an agonothete. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ a. (Med.) (a) Capable of causing anesthesia; as, anæsthetic agents. (b) Characterized by, or connected with, anesthesia; as, an anæsthetic effect or operation. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

‖ AS, n. (Med.) A substance which produces anesthesia, as chloroform, ether, etc. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

n. The process of anæsthetizing; also, the condition of the nervous system induced by anæsthetics. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ , v. t. (Med.) To produce anesthesia by an anæsthetic. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

adj. 1. rendered insensible by means of anesthesia. [ Also spelled anesthetized. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n., /mhw>, a. Same as Anæsthesia, Anæsthetic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A medical specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before the patient is treated. [ Also spelled anaesthetist. ]
Syn. -- anesthesiologist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To cause to become unconscious by administration of an anaesthetic agent. [ Also spelled anaesthetize. ]
Syn. -- put to sleep, put under, put out. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. rendered insensible by anesthetizing. Same as anaesthetized. [ Also spelled anaesthetized. ] [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

{ } a. Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. antitheton, fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, antithetic. ] An antithetic or contrasted statement. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By way antithesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. [ See Apathy. ] Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless. a woman who became active rather than apathetic as she grew older [ 1913 Webster ]

2. showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent. an apathetic audience
Syn. -- indifferent [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In an apathetic manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; letting go, fr. &unr_; to let go. ] Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form. -- A*phet"ic*al*ly, adv. New Eng. Dict. [1913 Webster]

n. An aphetized form of a word. New Eng. Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To shorten by aphesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

These words . . . have been aphetized. New Eng. Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original. “One archetypal mind.” Gudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Among Platonists, the archetypal world is the world as it existed as an idea of God before the creation. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With reference to the archetype; originally. “Parts archetypally distinct.” Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. archetypum, Gr. 'arche`typon, fr. 'arche`typos stamped first and as model; 'arche = 'archi + ty`pos stamp, figure, pattern, ty`ptein to strike: cf. F. archétype. See Arch-, pref. ] 1. The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed. [ 1913 Webster ]

The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which now meet. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Types and shadows of that glorious archetype that was to come into the world. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Coinage) The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Biol.) The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to an archetype; archetypal. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Athetized p. pr. & vb. n. Athetizing ] [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; set aside, not fixed; &unr_; not + &unr_; to place. ] To set aside or reject as spurious, as by marking with an obelus. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; not fixed; 'a priv. + &unr_; to set. ] (Med.) A variety of chorea, marked by peculiar tremors of the fingers and toes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of light barouche. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the character of bathos. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Behight. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to biosynthesis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A modest girl. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as bratchet. [ Century Dict. 1906 ]

n. [ Sc. also bratchart; fr. ME. brachet, fr. OF. brachet; ML. brachetus, dim. of brache a hound. See brach. ] a kind of hound; a brach; -- applied contemptuously to a child. See also brach. [ Also spelled brachet. ] [ Century Dict. 1906 ]

The bratchet's bay
From the dark covert drove the prey. Scott, (Marmion, ii. int.). [ Century Dict. 1906 ]

To be plagued with a bratchet whelp -- Whence came ye, my fair-favoured little gossip? . Scott, (Kenilworth, II. xxi). [ Century Dict. 1906 ]

‖n. [ F., dim. of broche. See Broach, n. ] (Cookery) A small spit or skewer. [ 1913 Webster ]

--
En bro`chette" ety>[F.], on a brochette; skewered. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. [ See Bosket. ] A small bush. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. fr. cacher to hide. ] A seal, as of a letter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lettre de cachet [ F. ], a sealed letter, especially a letter or missive emanating from the sovereign; -- much used in France before the Revolution as an arbitrary order of imprisonment. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;. See Catechise. ] Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching. [ 1913 Webster ]

Socrates introduced a catechetical method of arguing. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a catechetical manner; by question and answer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The science or practice of instructing by questions and answers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; a thing let down or put in, catheter, fr. &unr_; to send down, to let down; &unr_; + &unr_; to send. ] (Med.) The name of various instruments for passing along mucous canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Eustachian catheter. See under Eustachian. --
Prostatic catheter, one adapted for passing an enlarged prostate. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Med.) The operation of introducing a catheter. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Catheterized p. pr. & vb. n. Catheterizing. ] (Med.) To operate on with a catheter. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Gr. &unr_; vertical height + -meter. ] An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces, and the differences in vertical height are thus shown on the graduated standard. [ Written also kathetometer. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. catheti [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; a perpendicular line, fr. &unr_; let down, fr. &unr_;. See Catheter. ] (Geom.) One line or radius falling perpendicularly on another; as, the catheti of a right-angled triangle, that is, the two sides that include the right angle. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Cheetah. [ 1913 Webster ]