adj. 1. of or pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry or their history or culture
Syn. -- Afro-American [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 an American whose ancestors were born in Africa, especially a United States citizen of African descent.
Syn. -- Afro-American, African, black, negro [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. an American whose ancestors were born in Africa.
Syn. -- African-American, African. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. 1 of or pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry or their history or culture.
Syn. -- African-American. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; other + &unr_; part. ] (Chem.) Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to alphanumerics.
Syn. -- alphanumeric, alphameric, alphamerical [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Computers) using or consisting of only alphabetical and numerical characters; -- contrasting with binary or control. alphanumeric characters
Syn. -- alphanumeric, alphanumerical, alphameric, alphamerical [ PJC ]

n. 1. a character set that includes letters and digits and punctuation marks. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. any of various South American plants of the genus Alstroemeria valued for their handsome umbels of beautiful flowers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 one of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; sometimes included in subfamily Amaryllidaceae.
Syn. -- family Alstroemeriaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Named from Americus Vespucius. ] 1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the United States. “A young officer of the American navy.” Lyell. [ 1913 Webster ]

American ivy. See Virginia creeper. --
American Party (U. S. Politics), a party, about 1854, which opposed the influence of foreign-born citizens, and those supposed to owe allegiance to a foreign power. --
Native american Party (U. S. Politics), a party of principles similar to those of the American party. It arose about 1843, but soon died out. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

The name American must always exalt the pride of patriotism. Washington. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. any artifact (such a books or furniture or art) that is distinctive to America. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a red-skinned member of a race of people living in North America when Europeans arrived.
Syn. -- Indian, native American, Amerindian, Red Indian [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to American Indians
Syn. -- Amerindian, Amerind, Amerindic, Indian, native American [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. Attachment to the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process of Americanizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Americanizer p. pr. & vb. n. Americanizing. ] To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics. [ 1913 Webster ]

. In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A. P .A. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a sign language, used in the United States mostly by the deaf or for communication with the deaf, in which gestures made with the hands symbolize words, alphabetical letters, or ideas, permitting rapid communication in the absence of speech.
Syn. -- Ameslan. [ PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to the English and Americans, or to the descendants of Englishmen in America. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an American who was born in England or whose ancestors were English. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; unequal + &unr_; part. ] (Chem.) Not isomeric; not made of the same components in the same proportions. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. antemeridianus; ante + meridianus belonging to midday or noon. See Meridian. ] Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m.) [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. Marshall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennials.
Syn. -- genus Armeria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genus comprising the false nettle.
Syn. -- genus Boehmeria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; gill + -mere. ] (Anat.) The state of being made up of branchiate segments. R. Wiedersheim. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Biol.) pertaining to the centromere, the dense specialized portion of a chromosome to which the spindle attaches during mitosis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Chimerical. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.

Syn. -- Imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wild; unfounded; vain; deceitful; delusive. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Wildy; vainly; fancifully. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Cimmerius. ] [ Written also Kimmerian. ] 1. Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without any light; intensely dark. [ 1913 Webster ]

In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. circum- + meridian. ] About, or near, the meridian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. démérite demerit (in sense 2), OF. demerite demerit (in sense 1), fr. L. demerere to deserve well, LL., to deserve well or ill; de- + merere to deserve. See De-, and Merit. ] 1. That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By many benefits and demerits whereby they obliged their adherents, [ they ] acquired this reputation. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit. [ 1913 Webster ]

They see no merit or demerit in any man or any action. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Secure, unless forfeited by any demerit or offense. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The state of one who deserves ill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. démériter to deserve ill. See Demerit, n. ] 1. To deserve; -- said in reference to both praise and blame. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

If I have demerited any love or thanks. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Executed as a traitor . . . as he well demerited. State Trials (1645). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To depreciate or cry down. [ R. ] Bp. Woolton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To deserve praise or blame. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To relieve from mesmeric influence. See Mesmerize. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Emery. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A glazier's diamond. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Emeritus. ] Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honorably discharged. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ L., having served out his time, p. p. of emerere, emereri, to obtain by service, serve out one's term; e out + merere, mereri, to merit, earn, serve. ] Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n.; pl. Emeriti [ L. ] A veteran who has honorably completed his service.

a. Ephemeral. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Ephemerides [ L., a diary, Gr. &unr_;, also, a calendar, fr. &unr_;. See Ephemera. ] 1. A diary; a journal. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) (a) A publication giving the computed places of the heavenly bodies for each day of the year, with other numerical data, for the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the “American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.” (b) Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Literature) A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who keeps an ephemeris; a journalist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ethmoid + vomerine. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to the region of the vomer and the base of the ethmoid in the skull. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ethmovomerine plate (Anat.), a cartilaginous plate beneath the front of the fetal brain which the ethmoid region of the skull is developed. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ L. Euhemerus, Gr. &unr_; a philosopher, about 300 &unr_;. ] The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who advocates euhemerism. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

pos>v. t. To interpret (mythology) on the theory of euhemerism. [ 1913 Webster ]