n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, ray + &unr_; bone. ] (Anat.) One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, a ray + &unr_; mouth. ] (Zool.) The mouth or anterior opening of a cœlenterate animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a steroid having androgenic activity; obtained from the cortex of the adrenal gland. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_; knowing, &unr_; to know. ] Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism. -- Ag*nos"tic*al*ly adv. [1913 Webster]

n. One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to agnosticism; agnostic.
Syn. -- agnostic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. Specifically: (Theol.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. An order of small aquatic crustaceans lacking a carapace, including the fairy shrimps and the brine shrimps.
Syn. -- order Anostraca. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; to incline + &unr_; to make to stand. ] (Bot.) An apparatus consisting of a slowly revolving disk, usually regulated by clockwork, by means of wich the action of external agents, as light and gravity, on growing plants may be regulated or eliminated. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, comb + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, -&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; mouth. ] (Zool.) A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; able to distinguish, fr. &unr_;: cf. F. diagnostique. ] Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ From Diagnostic. ] To make a diagnosis of; to recognize by its symptoms, as a disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That part of medicine which has to do with ascertaining the nature of diseases by means of their symptoms or signs. [ 1913 Webster ]

His rare skill in diagnostics. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. géognoste. ] One versed in geognosy; a geologist. [ R. ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. géognostique. ] Of or pertaining to geognosy, or to a knowledge of the structure of the earth; geological. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Knowing; wise; shrewd. [ Old Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I said you were a gnostic fellow. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl. Hist.) Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the Gnostic heresy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. gnosticus, Gr. &unr_; good at knowing, sagacious; as a n., man that claims to have a deeper wisdom, fr. gignw`skein to know: cf. F. gnostique. See Know. ] (Eccl. Hist.) One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The system of philosophy taught by the Gnostics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. our sea. ] The term used by the ancient Romans to refer to the Mediterranean Sea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. mh`n month + 'ista`nai to stop. ] (Med.) Stoppage of the menses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) Same as Menostasis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, from &unr_; consisting of one verse; mo`nos single + sti`chos line, verse. ] A composition consisting of one verse only. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Monostich. ] (Bot.) Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as the flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridae. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. mono`strofos monostrophic. ] A metrical composition consisting of a single strophe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. monostrofiko`s; mo`nos single + strofh` strophe. ] (Pros.) Having one strophe only; not varied in measure; written in unvaried measure. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Contr. from ne wost. ] Wottest not; knowest not. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a return home + &unr_; pain. ] 1. (Med.) Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sentimental yearning to return to an earlier time remembered as happier or more pleasant, or a former place evoking happy memories; a longing to experience again a former happy time; as, a nostalgia for the brotherhood of the Woodstock music festival; a nostalgia for the comradeship of one's college friends. [ PJC ]

a. [ Cf. F. nostalgique. ] Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Nostalgia. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ F. ] (Bot.) A genus of algae. The plants are composed of moniliform cells imbedded in a gelatinous substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Nostoc commune is found on the ground, and is ordinarily not seen; but after a rain it swells up into a conspicuous jellylike mass, which was formerly supposed to have fallen from the sky, whence the popular names, fallen star and star jelly. Also called witches' butter. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of blue-green algae.
Syn. -- family Nostocaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. nosethril, nosethirl, AS. nosþyrl; nos for nosu nose + þyrel opening, hole, from þyrel pierced, for þyrhel, fr. purh through. √261. See Nose, and Through, and cf. Thrill. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Anat.) One of the external openings of the nose, which give passage to the air breathed and to secretions from the nose and eyes; one of the anterior nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In sperm whales, porpoises, and allied animals, there is only one nostril, which is situated on the top of the head and called a spiracle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Perception; insight; acuteness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Methinks a man
Of your sagacity and clear nostril should
Have made another choice. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Nostrums [ Neut. sing. of L. noster ours, fr. nos we. See Us. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any scheme or device proposed by a quack. [ 1913 Webster ]

The incentives of agitators, the arts of impostors and the nostrums of quacks. Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any scheme asserted to solve a problem, but with no objective basis for belief in its effectiveness; esp., in politics, a scheme or proposal likely to prove popular with voters. [ PJC ]

n. [ L., Our Father. ] 1. The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) A beadlike ornament in moldings. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Angling) A line with a row of hooks and bead-shaped sinkers. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mining) An elevator of an inclined endless traveling chain or belt bearing buckets or shelves which ascend on one side loaded, and empty themselves at the top. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Paternoster pump,
Paternoster wheel, a chain pump; a noria. --
Paternoster while, the space of time required for repeating a paternoster. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. praenoscere to foreknow; prae before + noscere, notum, to know. ] A prognostic; an omen. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. prognwstiko`n. See Prognosis. ] Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. prognosticum, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. pronostic, prognostic. See Prognostic, a. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. That which prognosticates; a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold; an indication; a sign or omen; hence, a foretelling; a prediction. [ 1913 Webster ]

That choice would inevitably be considered by the country
as a prognostic of the highest import. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A sign or symptom indicating the course and termination of a disease. Parr. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sign; omen; presage; token; indication. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To prognosticate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Prognosticated p. pr. & vb. n. Prognosticating. ] [ See Prognostic. ] To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

I neither will nor can prognosticate
To the young gaping heir his father's fate. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; presage; predict; prophesy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. prognostication. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which foreshows; a foretoken. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs. Isa. xlvii. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; with the pillars close together; &unr_; close + &unr_; a column, pillar: cf. F. pycnostyle. ] (Anc. Arch.) See under Intercolumniation. -n. A pycnostyle colonnade. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pyro- + Gr. &unr_; to know. ] (Min.) Of or pertaining to characters developed by the use of heat; pertaining to the characters of minerals when examined before the blowpipe; as, the pyrognostic characters of galena. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. (Min.) The characters of a mineral observed by the use of the blowpipe, as the degree of fusibility, flame coloration, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Siphon, and Stoma. ] (Zool.) (a) A tribe of parasitic copepod Crustacea including a large number of species that are parasites of fishes, as the lerneans. They have a mouth adapted to suck blood. (b) An artificial division of gastropods including those that have siphonostomatous shells. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) (a) Having the front edge of the aperture of the shell prolonged in the shape of a channel for the protection of the siphon; -- said of certain gastropods. (b) Pertaining to the Siphonostomata. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; a siphon + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; mouth. ] (Zool.) (a) Any parasitic entomostracan of the tribe Siphonostomata. (b) A siphonostomatous shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; a channel + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; a mouth. ] (Zool.) A tribe of lophobranch fishes having a tubular snout. The female carries the eggs in a ventral pouch. [ 1913 Webster ]