a. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; spine + fe`rein to bear. ] Spine-bearing. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having acrospores. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, ray + fe`rein to bear. ] Having straight projecting spines. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Adeno- + Gr. foro`s bearing. ] (Bot.) Producing glands. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'adia`foros; 'a priv. + dia`foros different; dia` through + fe`rein to bear. ] 1. Indifferent or neutral. Jer. Taylor. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Incapable of doing either harm or good as a medicine. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; cock + &unr_; fight. ] Cockfighting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Alectryomancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L., from board and bed. ] (Law) A kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. amoroso, fem. amorosa. ] A wanton woman; a courtesan. Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being amorous; lovingness. [ R. ] Galt. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. amoroso, LL. amorosus. ] A lover; a man enamored. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ adv. [ It. ] (Mus.) In a soft, tender, amatory style. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. amoros, F. amoreux, LL. amorosus, fr. L. amor love, fr. amare to love. ] 1. Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Affected with love; in love; enamored; -- usually with of; formerly with on. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy roses amorous of the moon. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

High nature amorous of the good. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sure my brother is amorous on Hero. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of or relating to, or produced by, love. “Amorous delight.” Milton. “Amorous airs.” Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Loving; fond; tender; passionate; affectionate; devoted; ardent. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an amorous manner; fondly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Angio- + spore. ] (Bot.) Having spores contained in cells or thecæ, as in the case of some fungi. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. anomalus irregular + flos, floris, flower. ] (Bot.) Having anomalous flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Flower bearing; supporting the flower. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Aphis + L. vorare to devour. ] (Zool.) Devouring aphides; aphidophagous. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. feeding on bees; bee-eating. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;. See Aporia. ] (Zool.) A group of corals in which the coral is not porous; -- opposed to Perforata. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Without pores. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Formed by trees. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

From under shady, arborous roof. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an arthrospore{ 2 }.
Syn. -- arthrosporic [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. 1 of or pertaining to an ascospore. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 a genus comprising the alligatorfishes.
Syn. -- genus Aspidophoroides. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Astro- + meteorology. ] The investigation of the relation between the sun, moon, and stars, and the weather. -- As`*tro*me`te*or`o*log"ic*al a. -- As`tro*me`te*or*ol"o*gist n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aurum gold + vorare to devour. ] Gold-devouring. [ R. ] H. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bacca berry + vorare to devour. ] (Zool.) Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to a basidiospore. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ L. bis twice + flos, floris, flower. ] (Bot.) Bearing two flowers; two-flowered. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. biforis having two doors; bis twice, two + foris door. ] See Biforate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Boron + fluoride. ] (Chem.) A double fluoride of boron and hydrogen, or some other positive element, or radical; -- called also fluoboride, and formerly fluoborate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Boron + glyceride. ] (Chem.) A compound of boric acid and glycerin, used as an antiseptic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Borax. ] (Chem.) A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic number 5. Atomic weight 10.81. Symbol B. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ Boron + silicate. ] (Chem.) A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. burgh, burw, boru, port, town, burrow, AS. burh, burg; akin to Icel., Sw., & Dan. borg, OS. & D. burg, OHG. puruc, purc, MHG. burc, G. burg, Goth. baúrgs; and from the root of AS. beorgan to hide, save, defend, G. bergen; or perh. from that of AS. beorg hill, mountain. √95. See Bury, v. t., and cf. Burrow, Burg, Bury, n., Burgess, Iceberg, Borrow, Harbor, Hauberk. ] 1. In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Burrill. Erskine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax. [ 1913 Webster ]

Close borough, or
Pocket borough, a borough having the right of sending a member to Parliament, whose nomination is in the hands of a single person. --
Rotten borough, a name given to any borough which, at the time of the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, contained but few voters, yet retained the privilege of sending a member to Parliament. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Borrow. ] (O. Eng. Law) (a) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other. (b) The pledge or surety thus given. Blackstone. Tomlins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Law) A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Headborough. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A headborough; a borsholder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Burgomaster. ] The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The practices of a boroughmonger. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. calx lime + vorare to devour. ] Eroding, or eating into, limestone. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. calyx, -ycis, calyx + flos, floris, flower. ] (Bot.) Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. canorus, from nor melody, fr. canere to sing. ] Melodious; musical. “Birds that are most canorous.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

A long, lound, and canorous peal of laughter. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being musical. [ 1913 Webster ]

He chooses his language for its rich canorousness. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. carnivorus; caro, carnis, flesh + varare to devour. ] Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics. [ 1913 Webster ]