n. [ L. abdomen + Gr. skopei^n to examine. ] (Med.) Examination of the abdomen by means of a laparoscope to detect abdominal diseases. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

a. Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan,
Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 distension of the stomach area due to overweight.
Syn. -- paunchiness [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a white crystalline compound (HO.C6H4.NH.CO.CH3) used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic. It has molecular weight 151.16. It is the active ingredient in the commercial analgesics Tylenol and Datril.
Syn. -- p-hydroxyacetanilide, p-acetamidophenol, N-acetyl-p-aminophenol, paracetamol, N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)acetamide It is sold under many trade names, and has been one of the most popular analgesics in the late 20th century. It is used in place of aspirin by people in whom aspirin causes undesirable side effects, such as stomach irritation or stomach bleeding. [ PJC ]

a. Terminating in a flat, narrow end. Lindley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by acumen; keen. Highmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. albumen + -oid. ] (Chem.) Resembling albumin. -- n. One of a class of organic principles (called also proteids) which form the main part of organized tissues. Brunton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Of the nature of an albuminoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. E. albumin. ] (Med.) A condition of excessively high blood albumin level. [ obsolescent ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + AS ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. albumineux. ] 1. Pertaining to, or containing, albumin; having the properties of, or resembling, albumen or albumin; an older term now replaces by proteinaceous. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. proteinaceous; containing or composed of protein. -- Al*bu"mi*nous*ness, n. [PJC]

n. [ OF. alumineor, fr. L. ad + liminare. See Luminate. ] An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner. [ Obs. ] Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Alumin-ium + -graphy. ] Art or process of producing, and printing from, aluminium plates, after the manner of ordinary lithography. -- A*lu`mi*no*graph"ic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

a. [ L. aluminosus, fr. alumen alum: cf. F. alumineux. ] Pertaining to or containing alum, or alumina; as, aluminous minerals, aluminous solution. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals.
Syn. -- amine, alkyl amine [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. an oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines. Same as aniline.
Syn. -- aniline oil, phenylamine [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ From amine. ] (Pharm.) A colorless liquid prepared from herring brine and containing amines, used as a local antiseptic. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. a methyl with the hydrogen atom replaced by an amino radical. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 a white crystalline substance used as an analgesic and antipyretic.
Syn. -- amidopyrine [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Binominal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to bitumen. like a bitumenoid remark
Syn. -- bitumenoid. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. bituminosus: cf. F. bitumineux. ] Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen. [ 1913 Webster ]

Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bituminous coal, a kind of coal which yields, when heated, a considerable amount of volatile bituminous matter. It burns with a yellow smoky flame. --
Bituminous limestone, a mineral of a brown or black color, emitting an unpleasant smell when rubbed. That of Dalmatia is so charged with bitumen that it may be cut like soap. --
Bituminous shale, an argillaceous shale impregnated with bitumen, often accompanying coal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of, or containing, lime and bitumen. Lyell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) Pertaining to, or secreting, cerumen; as, the ceruminous glands. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. conterminus. Cf. Conterminous. ] Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous. [ 1913 Webster ]

This conformed so many of them as were conterminous to the colonies and garrisons, to the Roman laws. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Conterminous. ] Bordering; conterminous; -- followed by with. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ L. crimen, crimenis, crime + -logy. ] 1. A treatise on crime or the criminal population. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The branch of sociology which studies crime and criminals. [ PJC ]

-- Crim`i*nol"o*gist n. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. criminosus, fr. crimen. See Crime. ] Criminal; involving great crime or grave charges; very wicked; heinous. [ Obs. ] Holland.

-- Crim"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Crim"i*nous*ness, n. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cuminic + L. oleum. ] A liquid, C3H7.C6H4.CHO, obtained from oil of caraway; -- called also cuminic aldehyde. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. discriminosus, fr. L. discrimen the dangerous, decisive moment. See Discriminate, a. ] Hazardous; dangerous. [ Obs. ] Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Dominos or plw>Dominoes [ F. domino, or It. dominò, or Sp. dominó, fr. L. dominus master. The domino was orig. a hood worn by the canons of a cathedral. See Don, Dame. ] 1. A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice. Kersey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mourning veil formerly worn by women. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A person wearing a domino. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. pl. A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played Hoyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played. Hoyle.

fall like dominoes. To fall sequentially, as when one object in a line, by falling against the next object, causes it in turn to fall, and that second object causes a third to fall, etc.; the process can be repeated an indefinite number of times. The phrase is derived from an entertainment using dominoes arranged in a row, each standing on edge and therefore easily knocked over; when the first is made to fall against the next, it starts a sequence which ends when all have fallen. For amusement, people have arranged such sequences involving thousands of dominoes, arrayed in fanciful patterns.

. A political theory current in the 1960's, according to which the conversion of one country in South Asia to communism will start a sequential process causing all Asian countries to convert to Communism. The apparent assumption was that an Asian country politically aligned with the West was as politically unstable as a domino standing on edge. It was used by some as a justification for American involvement in the Vietnam war, 1964-1972. [ PJC ]

. A game of cards in which the suits are played in sequence, beginning with a 5 or 9, the player who gets rid of his cards first being the winner. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n., n. (Her.) See Note under Ermine, n., 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. ex- + albumen. ] (Bot.) Having no albumen about the embryo; -- said of certain seeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. flumen, fluminis, river. ] Pertaining to rivers; abounding in streama. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. foraminosus. ] Having foramina; full of holes; porous. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. geminus. ] Double; in pairs. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A common genus of marine bubble shells of the Pacific coast of North America.
Syn. -- genus Haminoea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A superfamily of mammals including anthropoid apes and human beings.
Syn. -- superfamily Hominoidea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Bright; clear. [ R. ] H. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. A half-hardy, deep crimson rose of the remontant class; -- so named after General Jacqueminot, of France. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. légumineux. ] 1. Pertaining to pulse; consisting of pulse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Belonging to, or resembling, a very large natural order of plants (Leguminosæ), which bear legumes, including peas, beans, clover, locust trees, acacias, and mimosas. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being luminous; luminousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. luminosus, fr. lumen light: cf. F. lumineux. See Luminary, Illuminate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Shining; emitting or reflecting light; brilliant; bright; as, the is a luminous body; a luminous color. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fire burneth wood, making it . . . luminous. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mountains lift . . . their lofty and luminous heads. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Illuminated; full of light; bright; as, many candles made the room luminous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Up the staircase moved a luminous space in the darkness. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a luminous mind. “ Luminous eloquence.” Macaulay. “ A luminous statement.” Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]

Luminous paint, a paint made up with some phosphorescent substance, as sulphide of calcium, which after exposure to a strong light is luminous in the dark for a time. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Lucid; clear; shining; perspicuous. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Lu"mi*nous*ly, adv. -- Lu"mi*nous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light.
Syn. -- luminosity, luminance, light. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

[ Hind. mainā. ] (Zool.) An Asiatic bird (Gracula musica), allied to the starlings. It is black, with a white spot on the wings, and a pair of flat yellow wattles on the head. It is often tamed and taught to pronounce words. It is one of the birds called mynah bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In hereditary monarchies, the minority of a sovereign ends at an earlier age than of a subject. The minority of a sovereign of Great Britain ends upon the completion of the eighteenth year of his age. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Logic) The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A Minorite; a Franciscan friar. [ 1913 Webster ]