‖ [ L., according to the value. ] (Com.) A term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods, at a certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their invoice, -- in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. anomalus irregular + flos, floris, flower. ] (Bot.) Having anomalous flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. anti- + chlorine. ] (Chem.) Any substance (but especially sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. apeleur, fr. L. appellator, fr. appellare. ] (Law) (a) The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime. Blackstone. (b) One who confesses a felony committed and accuses his accomplices. Blount. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word is rarely or never used for the plaintiff in appeal from a lower court, who is called the appellant. Appellee is opposed both to appellant and appellor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Ger. erzkanzler. See Arch-, pref. ] A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the color of ashes; a whitish gray or brownish gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Aurum + chloride. ] (Chem.) The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. bacheler young man, F. bachelier (cf. Pr. bacalar, Sp. bachiller, Pg. bacharel, It. baccalare), LL. baccalarius the tenant of a kind of farm called baccalaria, a soldier not old or rich enough to lead his retainers into battle with a banner, a person of an inferior academical degree aspiring to a doctorate. In the latter sense, it was afterward changed to baccalaureus. See Baccalaureate, n. ] 1. A man of any age who has not been married. [ 1913 Webster ]

As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An unmarried woman. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person who has taken the first or lowest degree in the liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at a college or university; as, a bachelor of arts. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Zool.) A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a knight of the lowest order; he was permitted to display only a pennon.
Syn. -- knight bachelor, bachelor [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena). [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Bachelor's buttons, a name given to several flowers “from their similitude to the jagged cloathe buttons, anciently worne in this kingdom, ” according to Johnson's Gerarde, p. 472 (1633); but by other writers ascribed to “a habit of country fellows to carry them in their pockets to divine their success with their sweethearts.” Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a bachelor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One who delivers goods or money to another in trust. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To act the lord over. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To address by the title of “lord”. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. bi- + chloride. ] (Chem.) A compound consisting of two atoms of chlorine with one or more atoms of another element; -- called also dichloride. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bichloride of mercury, mercuric chloride; -- sometimes called corrosive sublimate. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. bicolor; bis twice + color color. ] Of two colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. bis twice + flos, floris, flower. ] (Bot.) Bearing two flowers; two-flowered. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. a variant of blare, v. i.; or cf. Gael. & Ir. blor a loud noise. ] The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A most tempestuous blore. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. rose-colored.
Syn. -- blushful, rosy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a type of calorimeter made of a steel body which closes tightly and resists high pressure, designed for measuring the amount of heat developed durng chemical combustion of a quantity of combustible material in an oxygen atmosphere. [ PJC ]

n. a European country east of Poland, formerly a part of the Soviet Union. After the breakup of the Soviet Union the name was changed to Belarus.
Syn. -- Belarus, Belorussia, White Russia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a native or inhabitant of Byelorussia.
Syn. -- Belorussian, White Russian. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the language spoken in Belarus.
Syn. -- Belarusian. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genu sof fur seals.
Syn. -- genus Callorhinus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ L. calyx, -ycis, calyx + flos, floris, flower. ] (Bot.) Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. calor heat. ] (Physics) The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. calor heat; cf. F. calorique. ] (Physics) The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Caloric expands all bodies. Henry. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to caloric. [ 1913 Webster ]

Caloric engine, a kind of engine operated by heated air. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol.) A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. calor heat (fr. calere to warm) + E. duct. ] A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. calor heat. ] (Physics) The unit of heat according to the French standard; the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0° to 1°. Compare the English standard unit, Foot pound. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) See Calorificient. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. calorifère, fr. L. calor heat + ferre to bear. ] An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) See Calorificient. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. calorificus; calor heat + facere to make; cf. F. calorifique. ] Possessing the quality of producing heat; heating. [ 1913 Webster ]

Calorific rays, the invisible, heating rays which emanate from the sun, and from burning and heated bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. calorification. ] Production of heat, esp. animal heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) Having, or relating to the power of producing heat; -- applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. calor heat + -meter; cf. F. calorimètre. ] 1. (Physiol.) An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc. For combustion processes, a bomb calorimeter may be used. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. (Engineering) An apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the process of using the calorimeter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Satisfactory calorimetric results. Nichol. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. calor heat + E. motor. ] (Physics) A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects.

‖n. [ NL., heater, fr. L. calor heat. ] An apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. an alternative genus classification for the cactus wrens.
Syn. -- genus Campylorhynchus, Heleodytes, genus Heleodytes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. canceler, chaunceler, F. chancelier, LL. cancellarius chancellor, a director of chancery, fr. L. cancelli lattices, crossbars, which surrounded the seat of judgment. See Chancel. ] A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The chancellor was originally a chief scribe or secretary under the Roman emperors, but afterward was invested with judicial powers, and had superintendence over the other officers of the empire. From the Roman empire this office passed to the church, and every bishop has his chancellor, the principal judge of his consistory. In later times, in most countries of Europe, the chancellor was a high officer of state, keeper of the great seal of the kingdom, and having the supervision of all charters, and like public instruments of the crown, which were authenticated in the most solemn manner. In France a secretary is in some cases called a chancellor. In Scotland, the appellation is given to the foreman of a jury, or assize. In the present German empire, the chancellor is the president of the federal council and the head of the imperial administration. In the United States, the title is given to certain judges of courts of chancery or equity, established by the statutes of separate States. Blackstone. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chancellor of a bishop or
Chancellor of a diocese (R. C. Ch. & ch. of Eng.), a law officer appointed to hold the bishop's court in his diocese, and to assist him in matter of ecclesiastical law. --
Chancellor of a cathedral, one of the four chief dignitaries of the cathedrals of the old foundation, and an officer whose duties are chiefly educational, with special reference to the cultivation of theology. --
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, an officer before whom, or his deputy, the court of the duchy chamber of Lancaster is held. This is a special jurisdiction. --
Chancellor of a university, the chief officer of a collegiate body. In Oxford, he is elected for life; in Cambridge, for a term of years; and his office is honorary, the chief duties of it devolving on the vice chancellor. --
Chancellor of the exchequer, a member of the British cabinet upon whom devolves the charge of the public income and expenditure as the highest finance minister of the government. --
Chancellor of the order of the Garter (or other military orders), an officer who seals the commissions and mandates of the chapter and assembly of the knights, keeps the register of their proceedings, and delivers their acts under the seal of their order. --
Lord high chancellor of England, the presiding judge in the court of chancery, the highest judicial officer of the crown, and the first lay person of the state after the blood royal. He is created chancellor by the delivery into his custody of the great seal, of which he becomes keeper. He is privy counselor by his office, and prolocutor of the House of Lords by prescription. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Chlorine + alcohol. ] 1. (Chem.) A colorless oily liquid, CCl3.CHO, of a pungent odor and harsh taste, obtained by the action of chlorine upon ordinary or ethyl alcohol. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Chloral hydrate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Chloral + amide. ] (Chem.) A compound of chloral and formic amide used to produce sleep. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a chemical substance (CCl3.CH(OH)2) which is a hydrate of trichloroacetaldehyde. It crystallizes as white monoclinic plates, obtained by treating chloral with water. It produces sleep when taken internally or hypodermically, and is used in medicine as a hypnotic and sedative; -- called also chloral It may be habit-forming, and is a controlled substance listed in the U. S. Code of Federal Regulations. It is sometimes used to render a person unconscious for illegal or nefarious purposes, and in this use, a concentrated solution is one of the agents called knockout drops. [ PJC ]

n. (Med.) A morbid condition of the system resulting from excessive use of chloral. [ 1913 Webster ]