/mhw>, n. [ NL. arteriola, dim. of L. arteria: cf. F. artériole. ] A small artery with a muscular wall. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

{ } (Zool.) A common bird (Icterus galbula) of eastern and central America and Canada, named after Lord Baltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin. It winters in the American tropics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] An oval or pearshaped diamond having its entire surface cut in triangular facets. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Anat.) A minute bronchial tube. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Cabriolet, and cf. Capriole. ] (Man.) A curvet; a leap. See Capriole. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cabrioles which his charger exhibited. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., dim. of cabriole a leap, caper, from It. capriola, fr. dim. of L. caper he-goat, capra she-goat. This carriage is so called from its skipping lightness. Cf. Cab, Caper a leap. ] A one-horse carriage with two seats and a calash top. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. capriole, cabriole, It. capriola, fr. L. caper goat. Cf. Caper, v. i. Cabriole, Caprice, Cheveril. ] 1. (Man.) A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A leap or caper, as in dancing. “With lofty turns and caprioles.” Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To perform a capriole. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. carriole, dim. fr. L. carrus. See Car, and Carryall. ] (a) A small, light, open one-horse carriage. (b) A covered cart. (c) A kind of calash. See Carryall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) one of two small cylindrical cell organelles composes of nine triplet microtubules, which form the asters during mitosis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. ] 1. A crustade. [ Obs. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A shell or cup of pastry filled with custard, whipped cream, crushed macaroons, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. fasciola a little bandage. See Fascia. ] (Zool.) A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of L. folium leaf: cf. F. foliole. ] (Bot.) One of the distinct parts of a compound leaf; a leaflet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. gladiolus a small sword, the sword lily, dim. of gladius sword. See Glaive. ] (Bot.) A lilylike plant, of the genus Gladiolus; -- called also corn flag. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. gloriola a small glory, dim. of gloria glory. ] An aureole. [ R. ] Msr. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Linguistics) the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;. See Curiologic. ] The use of literal or simple expressions, as distinguished from the use of figurative or obscure ones. Krauth-Fleming. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The theory, doctrine, or practice of peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate.
Syn. -- passive resistance. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. peacefully resistant in response to injustice; not using violence; -- used of protests and demonstrations; as, nonviolent resistance. Opposite of violent.
Syn. -- passive, peaceful. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. achieved without bloodshed. Contrasted with bloody.
Syn. -- unbloody, bloodless. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OF. oriol, oriouz, orieus, F. loriot (for l'oriol), fr. L. aureolus golden, dim. of aureus golden, fr. aurum gold. Cf. Aureole, Oriel, Loriot. ] (Zool.) (a) Any one of various species of Old World singing birds of the family Oriolidae. They are usually conspicuously colored with yellow and black. The European or golden oriole (Oriolus galbula, or Oriolus oriolus) has a very musical flutelike note. (b) In America, any one of several species of the genus Icterus, belonging to the family Icteridae. See Baltimore oriole, and Orchard oriole, under Orchard. [ 1913 Webster ]

Crested oriole. (Zool.) See Cassican. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ostiolum a little door, dim. of ostium a door: cf. F. ostiole. ] (Bot.) (a) The exterior opening of a stomate. See Stomate. (b) Any small orifice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the tubes of which the ovaries of most insects are composed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. pétiole, fr. L. petiolus a little foot, a fruit stalk; cf. pes, pedis, a foot. ] 1. (Bot.) A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A stalk or peduncle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Petiolate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. spongiola a rose gall, small roots, dim. of spongia: cf. F. spongiole. ] (Bot.) A supposed spongelike expansion of the tip of a rootlet for absorbing water; -- called also spongelet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. strophiolum a little chaplet, dim. of strophium a band, Gr. &unr_;, dim. of &unr_; a twisted band: cf. F. strophiole. ] (Bot.) A crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Triolet. ] (Mus.) Same as Triplet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. tri- + olein. ] (Physiol. Chem.) See Olein. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. triolet. See Trio. ] A short poem or stanza of eight lines, in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the second being, repeated as the eighth. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The golden oriole. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. ultra- + violet. ] (Physics) Lying outside the visible spectrum at its blue-violet end; -- said of light more refrangible (i. e. having a shorter wavelength) than the extreme violet rays of the visible spectrum. Electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths shorter than those of ultrviolet light are not usually considered as light waves, but are classified differently. The ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum is generally considered as comprising those electromagnetic emissions with wavelengths lying between those of visible light and those of X-rays, i. e. between 4000 Angstroms and 100 Angstroms. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. variole smallpox. See Variola. ] 1. A foveola. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Geol.) A spherule of a variolite. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A vial. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. violentia. See Violent. ] 1. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force. [ 1913 Webster ]

That seal
You ask with such a violence, the king,
Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the elements
At least had gone to wrack, disturbed and torn
With the violence of this conflict. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault. [ 1913 Webster ]

Do violence to do man. Luke iii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

We can not, without offering violence to all records, divine and human, deny an universal deluge. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Looking down, he saw
The whole earth filled with violence. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Ravishment; rape; constupration. [ 1913 Webster ]

To do violence on, to attack; to murder. “She . . . did violence on herself.” Shak. --
To do violence to, to outrage; to injure; as, he does violence to his own opinions. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Vehemence; outrage; fierceness; eagerness; violation; infraction; infringement; transgression; oppression. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. violenter. ] To urge with violence. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F., from L. violentus, from vis strength, force; probably akin to Gr. &unr_; a muscle, strength. ] 1. Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

Float upon a wild and violent sea. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A violent cross wind from either coast. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bring forth more violent deeds. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal. [ 1913 Webster ]

These violent delights have violent ends. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

No violent state can be perpetual. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ease would recant
Vows made in pain, as violent and void. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Violent presumption (Law), presumption of a fact that arises from proof of circumstances which necessarily attend such facts. --
Violent profits (Scots Law), rents or profits of an estate obtained by a tenant wrongfully holding over after warning. They are recoverable in a process of removing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent; impetuous; passionate; severe; extreme. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An assailant. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be violent; to act violently. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste,
And violenteth in a sense as strong
As that which causeth it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a violent manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. viola a violet. ] Tending to a violet color; violascent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. violette a violet (cf. violet violet-colored), dim. of OF. viole a violet, L. viola; akin to Gr. &unr_;. Cf. Iodine. ] 1. (Bot.) Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor). [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The cultivated sweet violet is Viola odorata of Europe. The common blue violet of the eastern United States is Viola cucullata; the sand, or bird-foot, violet is Viola pedata. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color. Mollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lycaena, or Rusticus, and allied genera. [ 1913 Webster ]

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Corn violet. See under Corn. --
Dame's violet. (Bot.) See Damewort. --
Dogtooth violet. (Bot.) See under Dogtooth. --
Water violet (Bot.), an aquatic European herb (Hottonia palustris) with pale purplish flowers and pinnatifid leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. violet. See Violet, n. ] Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined. [ 1913 Webster ]

Violet shell (Zool.), any species of Ianthina; -- called also violet snail. See Ianthina. --
Violet wood, a name given to several kinds of hard purplish or reddish woods, as king wood, myall wood, and the wood of the Andira violacea, a tree of Guiana. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Any tropical humming bird of the genus Petasophora, having violet or purplish ear tufts. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) A very handsome American butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis). Its wings are mottled with various shades of red and brown and have violet tips. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) See under Violet. [ 1913 Webster ]