{ } n. [ Alcohol + -meter. ] (Chem.) An instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>, a. Relating to the alcoholometer or alcoholometry. [ 1913 Webster ]

The alcoholometrical strength of spirituous liquors. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence. [ 1913 Webster ]

You may do it without controlment. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Opposition; resistance; hostility. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Here have we war for war, and blood for blood,
Controlment for controlment. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A counter account. See Control. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. dolmas or dolmades. (Cookery) a dish composed of well-seasoned rice (with nuts or currants of minced lamb) simmered or braised in stock, stuffed into tomatoes or green peppers, or wrapped in grape leaves; -- popular in the near east.
Syn. -- stuffed grape leaves. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n.; pl. Dolmans. [ Turk. dōlāmān: cf. F. doliman. ] 1. A long robe or outer garment, with long sleeves, worn by the Turks. [ Written also doliman. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A woman's cloak with capelike pieces instead of sleeves. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. The uniform jacket of many European hussar regiments, worn like a cloak, fastened with a cord or chain, and with sleeves hanging loose. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Cookery) plural of dolma; -- sometimes used as a singular form.
Syn. -- stuffed grape leaves. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Armor. taol, tol, table + mean, maen, men, stone: cf. F. dolmen. ] A cromlech. See Cromlech. [ Written also tolmen. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Praise. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE., prob. from AS. holen holly; as the holly is also called holm. See Holly. ] (Bot.) A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. holm, usually meaning, sea, water; akin to Icel. hōlmr, holmr, an island, Dan. holm, Sw. holme, G. holm, and prob. to E. hill. Cf. Hill. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An islet in a river. J. Brand. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Low, flat land. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

The soft wind blowing over meadowy holms. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Holm thrush (Zool.), the missel thrush. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sherlock Holmes, a fictitious detective in novels by A. Conan Doyle.
Syn. -- Sherlock Holmes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Chem.) An oxide of holmium. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from Stockholm. ] (Chem.) A rare element of atomic number 67 said to be contained in gadolinite. Chemical symbol Ho. Atomic weight 164.93. Valence +3. It was detected by spectral absorption bands in 1878 by the Delafontaine and Soret, who called it "Element X". Later the Swedish chemist Cleve independently discovered it in erbia, and named it after his native city Stockholm. The first preparation of pure Holmia, the yellow oxide, was not made until 1911. HCP61 -- Hol"mic a. [1913 Webster +PJC]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr.&unr_;. ] (Greek & Etrus. Antiq.) A name given to a vase having a rounded body; esp.: (a) A closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal. Fairholt. (b) A drinking cup having a foot and stem. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A genus of plants usually found in coastal habitats; native from the Mediterranean to Afghanistan.
Syn. -- genus Malcolmia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A militant American black nationalist leader, also called Malcolm X; (1925-1965). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. See Malcolm Little. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander (Proteus anguinus) with permanent external gills.
Syn. -- Proteus anguinus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Patrolmen One who patrols; a watchman; especially, a policeman who patrols a particular precinct of a town or city. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A schoolmistress. [ Colloq.U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A schoolgirl. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Schoolmen One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The schoolmen were philosophers and divines of the Middle Ages, esp. from the 11th century to the Reformation, who spent much time on points of nice and abstract speculation. They were so called because they taught in the mediaeval universities and schools of divinity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad, -- a person less imposing, -- in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who, or that which, disciplines and directs. [ 1913 Webster ]

The law was our schoolmaster, to bring us unto Christ. Gal. iii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pupil who attends the same school as another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school-teacher. [ 1913 Webster ]

A small uninhabited island. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Bot.) Sea holly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. solmisation, fr. solmiser to sol-fa; -- called from the musical notes sol, mi. See Sol-fa. ] (Mus.) The act of sol-faing. [ Written also solmisation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This art was practiced by the Greeks; but six of the seven syllables now in use are generally attributed to Guido d' Arezzo, an Italian monk of the eleventh century, who is said to have taken them from the first syllables of the first six lines of the following stanza of a monkish hymn to St. John the Baptist. -- [ 1913 Webster ] Ut queant laxis
Resonare fibris
Mira gestorum
Famuli tuorum
Solve polluti
Labii reatum,
Sancte Joannes. [ 1913 Webster ] Professor Skeat says the name of the seventh note, si, was also formed by him [ Guido ] from the initials of the two words of the last line; but this is disputed, Littré attributing the first use of it to Anselm of Flanders long afterwards. The syllable do is often substituted for ut. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Dolmen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Woolmen One who deals in wool. [ 1913 Webster ]