a. Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the seige of Troy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. Achillis tendo. ] (Anat.) The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., a needle. See Aglet. ] 1. A needle-shaped peak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Aglet. ] 1. A point or tag at the end of a fringe or lace; an aglet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of the ornamental tags, cords, or loops on some military and naval uniforms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. ancelle, L. ancilla. ] A maidservant; a handmaid. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. apostille. See Postil. ] A marginal note on a letter or other paper; an annotation. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. artilrie, OF. artillerie, arteillerie, fr. LL. artillaria, artilleria, machines and apparatus of all kinds used in war, vans laden with arms of any kind which follow camps; F. artillerie great guns, ordnance; OF. artillier to work artifice, to fortify, to arm, prob. from L. ars, artis, skill in joining something, art. See Art. ] 1. Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad. 1 Sam. xx. 40. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word is sometimes used in a more extended sense, including the powder, cartridges, matches, utensils, machines of all kinds, and horses, that belong to a train of artillery. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The science of artillery or gunnery. Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Artillery park, or
Park of artillery. (a) A collective body of siege or field artillery, including the guns, and the carriages, ammunition, appurtenances, equipments, and persons necessary for working them. (b) The place where the artillery is encamped or collected. --
Artillery train, or
Train of artillery, a number of pieces of ordnance mounted on carriages, with all their furniture, ready for marching. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] One who thrusts in the banderillas in bullfighting. W. D. Howells. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F., dim. of baril barrel. ] A little cask, or something resembling one. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. bastille fortress, OF. bastir to build, F. bâtir. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Feud. Fort.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place. [ 1913 Webster ]

The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. “The Bastille”, formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Embattled. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Her.) Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; -- used in composition; as, broad-billed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. billet, dim. of an OF. bille bill. See Bill a writing. ] 1. A small paper; a note; a short letter. “I got your melancholy billet.” Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Quarters or place to which one is assigned, as by a billet or ticket; berth; position. Also used fig. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The men who cling to easy billets ashore. Harper's Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

His shafts of satire fly straight to their billet, and there they rankle. Pall Mall Mag. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Billeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Billeting. ] [ From Billet a ticket. ] (Mil.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses. [ 1913 Webster ]

Billeted in so antiquated a mansion. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. billette, bille, log; of unknown origin; a different word from bille ball. Cf. Billiards, Billot. ] 1. A small stick of wood, as for firewood. [ 1913 Webster ]

They shall beat out my brains with billets. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Metal.) A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Saddlery) (a) A strap which enters a buckle. (b) A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Her.) A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Billets-doux [ F. billet note + doux sweet, L. dulcis. ] A love letter or note. [ 1913 Webster ]

A lover chanting out a billet-doux. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon line is run out when the whale darts off. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a span of 2000 years.
Syn. -- bimillennium. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of or pertaining to the bimillennium. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a span of 2000 years.
Syn. -- bimillenary. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the year 2000 a. d. [ PJC ]

‖n. A system of printing or writing for the blind in which the characters and numerals are represented by patterns of raised tangible points or dots. It was invented by Louis Braille, a French teacher of the blind. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. 1. to transcribe in Braille. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Congo. Population (2000) = 937, 580. [ PJC ]

n. [ F. canaille (cf. It. canaglia), prop. and orig. a pack of dogs, fr. L. Canis dog. ] 1. The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Shorts or inferior flour. [ Canadian ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or } n. One who cavils. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cavilers at the style of the Scriptures. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., prop., a caterpillar. ] Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimming of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of Chenille rugs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Paint.) Having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is called “blooming.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. codile. ] A term at omber, signifying that the game is won. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] Lit., a shell; hence: (a) A shell or shell-like dish or mold in which viands are served. (b) The expansion of the guard of a sword, dagger, etc. (c) A form of ruching used as a dress trimming or for neckwear, and named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Sp., fr. OSp. cordilla, cordiella, dim. of cuerda a rope, string. See Cord. ] (Geol.) A mountain ridge or chain. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Cordillera is sometimes applied, in geology, to the system of mountain chains near the border of a continent; thus, the western cordillera of North America in the United States includes the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, Coast and Cascade ranges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. contretaille; contre (L. contra) + taille cut. See Tally. ] A counter tally; correspondence (in sound). [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

At the countretaille, in return. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Fort.) An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. déshabillé, fr. déshabiller to undress; pref. dés- (L. dis-) + habiller to dress. See Habiliment, and cf. Dishabille. ] An undress; a careless toilet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Dillenia grown for their foliage and nodding magnolialike flowers which are followed by fruit that is used in curries and jellies and preserves. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees and climbers having leathery leaves or flattened leaflike stems, including the genera Dillenia and Hibbertia.
Syn. -- family Dilleniaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a group of families of more or less advanced trees and shrubs and herbs having either polypetalous or gamopetalous corollas and often with ovules attached to the walls of the ovary; it contains 69 families including Ericaceae and Cruciferae and Malvaceae; it is sometimes classified as a superorder.
Syn. -- subclass Dilleniidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Deshabille. ] An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille. [ 1913 Webster ]

They breakfast in dishabille. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who distills; esp., one who extracts alcoholic liquors by distillation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The condenser of a distilling apparatus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Distilleries [ F. distillerie. ] 1. The building and works where distilling, esp. of alcoholic liquors, is carried on. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of distilling spirits. [ R. ] Todd. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. Having a bill like that of a duck; as, a duck-billed dinosaur.. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having a beak resembling that of a duck.
Syn. -- duckbill, duckbilled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. same as Duck Mole, under Duck..
Syn. -- duck mole, duckbill, duck-bill platypus, platypus. [ PJC ]

n. a sandal with a sole made of rope or rubber and a cloth upper part. [ WordNet 1.5 ]