adj. 1. of or pertaining to the adrenal cortex. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. stimulating or acting on the adrenal cortex [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a growth hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; it stimulates the adrenal cortex.
Syn. -- adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, corticotropin, corticotrophin, ACTH [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Auto- + inoculation. ] (Med.) Inoculation of a person with virus from his own body. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gael. bonnach. ] A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England. Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bannock fluke, the turbot. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A battle in which the Scots under Robert the Bruce defeated the English and assured the independence of Scotland. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. binocle; L. bini two at a time + oculus eye. ] (Opt.) A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double-barreled field glass or an opera glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. binoculaire. See Binocle. ] 1. Having two eyes. “Most animals are binocular.” Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to both eyes; employing both eyes at once; as, binocular vision. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Adapted to the use of both eyes; as, a binocular microscope or telescope. Brewster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A binocular glass, whether opera glass, telescope, or microscope. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a binocular manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having two eyes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. boubw`n groin + &unr_; tumor: cf. F. bubonocèle. ] (Med.) An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. choa`nh funnel + -cyte. ] any of the flagellated cells in sponges having a collar of cytoplasm around base of the flagellum; they maintain a flow of water through the body.
Syn. -- collar cell. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. ktei`s, kteno`s, comb + ky`stis bladder. ] (Zool.) An organ of the Ctenophora, supposed to be sensory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of epiphytic or terrestrial tropical American orchids.
Syn. -- genus Cycnoches. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the type genus of the family Cynocephalidae.
Syn. -- genus Cynocephalus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Paleon.) See Dinoceras. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. dai`mwn demon + kra`tos strength: cf. F. démonocratie. ] The power or government of demons. [ 1913 Webster ]

A demonocracy of unclean spirits. H. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; terrible + &unr_;, &unr_;, horn. ] (Paleon.) A genus of large extinct Eocene mammals from Wyoming; -- called also Uintatherium. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ They were herbivorous, and remarkable for three pairs of hornlike protuberances on the skull. The males were armed with a pair of powerful canine tusks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small order of primitive ungulates of the Paleocene and Eocene.
Syn. -- order Dinocerata. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door, which may be swung by hand against the door to make a loud knocking sound.
Syn. -- knocker. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ or , n. A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland. [ Formerly written also darnex, dornic, dorneck, etc. ] Halliwell. Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Ure says that dornock, a kind of stout figured linen, derives its name from a town in Scotland where it was first manufactured for tablecloths. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Dun, a. ] (Zool.) The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor. [ Local, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. annual or perennial succulent grasses of warm regions.
Syn. -- genus Echinochloa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Med.) infestation with echinococci (tapeworms). An infection with the larval form is called hydatid disease. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'echi^nos hedgehog, sea urchin + ko`kkos grain, seed, berry. So called because forming little granular bodies, each armed with hooklets and disposed upon the inner wall of the hydatid cysts. ] (Zoöl.) A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Tænia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog. The adult form is not found in man. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) a red blood cell which has become crenated. [ PJC ]

a. [ L. aequinoctials, fr. aequinoctium equinox: cf. F. équinoxial. See Equinox. ] 1. Pertaining to an equinox, or the equinoxes, or to the time of equal day and night; as, the equinoctial line. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to the regions or climate of the equinoctial line or equator; in or near that line; as, equinoctial heat; an equinoctial sun. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Pertaining to the time when the sun enters the equinoctial points; as, an equinoctial gale or storm, that is, one happening at or near the time of the equinox, in any part of the world. [ 1913 Webster ]

Equinoctial colure (Astron.), the meridian passing through the equinoctial points. --
Equinoctial line (Astron.), the celestial equator; -- so called because when the sun is on it, the nights and days are of equal length in all parts of the world. See Equator. [ 1913 Webster ] Thrice the equinoctial line
He circled. Milton. --
Equinoctial points (Astron.), the two points where the celestial and ecliptic intersect each other; the one being in the first point of Aries, the other in the first point of Libra. --
Equinoctial time (Astron.) reckoned in any year from the instant when the mean sun is at the mean vernal equinoctial point. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The equinoctial line. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Towards the equinox. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own; exhibiting ethnocentrism (in both senses). [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. 1. belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group. [ wns=1 ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a tendency to evaluate other people, activities, cultures, etc. primarily from the perspective of one's own as being superior. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ It. finocchio fennel, LL. fenuclum. See Fennel. ] (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant (Fœniculum dulce) having a somewhat tuberous stem; sweet fennel. The blanched stems are used in France and Italy as a culinary vegetable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Galvanic + caustic. ] Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) Cautery effected by a knife or needle heated by the passage of a galvanic current. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; brightness + &unr_; head. ] (Paleon.) A group of fossil amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Paleon.) Of or pertaining to the Ganocephala. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to genocide; as, the genocidal policies of the Serbs in Bosnia. [ PJC ]

n. The systematic killing of a racial or cultural group; as, the Nazi genocide of Jews left few in Germany or Poland after World War II.
Syn. -- race murder, racial extermination. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; offspring + E. calyx, ] (Zool.) The bell of a sessile gonozooid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; offspring + &unr_; to separate. ] (a) Separation of the sexes in different individuals; -- opposed to hermaphroditism. (b) In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs. (c) In phylogeny, the evolution of distinct sexes in species previously hermaphrodite or sexless. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; semen, the genitals + NL. & E. coccus. ] (Med.) A microorganism (Neisseria gonnorrhoeae) of the genus Neisseria (formerly Micrococcus), found in the secretion in gonorrhea, and constituting the cause of this disease. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ Named after Lord Greenock. ] (Min.) Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Gyneocracy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. gymno`s naked + karpo`s fruit. ] (Bot.) Naked-fruited, the fruit either smooth or not adherent to the perianth. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. gymno`s naked + chro`a skin, body. ] (Zool.) A division of Hydroidea including the hydra. See Hydra. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. gymno`s naked + kla`dos a branch. ] (Bot.) A genus of leguminous plants; the Kentucky coffee tree. The leaves are cathartic, and the seeds a substitute for coffee. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. gymno`s naked + kw`ph an oar. ] (Zool.) A group of transparent, free-swimming Annelida, having setæ only in the cephalic appendages. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. gymno`s naked + ky`tos a hollow vessel. ] (Biol.) A cytode without a proper cell wall, but with a nucleus. Haeckel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. gymno`s naked + E. cytode. ] (Biol.) A cytode without either a cell wall or a nucleus. Haeckel. [ 1913 Webster ]