v. t. [ OF. acoragier; à (L. ad) + corage. See Courage. ] To encourage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Ac-, for L. ad. See Court. ] To treat courteously; to court. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Cater. ] Purveyor; acater. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Adjourned p. pr. & vb. n. Adjourning ] [ OE. ajornen, OF. ajoiner, ajurner, F. ajourner; OF. a (L. ad) + jor, jur, jorn, F. jour, day, fr. L. diurnus belonging to the day, fr. dies day. Cf. Journal, Journey. ] To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

'Tis a needful fitness
That we adjourn this court till further day. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To delay; defer; postpone; put off; suspend. -- To Adjourn, Prorogue, Dissolve. These words are used in respect to public bodies when they lay aside business and separate. Adjourn, both in Great Britain and this country, is applied to all cases in which such bodies separate for a brief period, with a view to meet again. Prorogue is applied in Great Britain to that act of the executive government, as the sovereign, which brings a session of Parliament to a close. The word is not used in this country, but a legislative body is said, in such a case, to adjourn sine die. To dissolve is to annul the corporate existence of a body. In order to exist again the body must be reconstituted. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Adjournment; postponement. [ R. ] “An adjournal of the Diet.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. f. adjournement, OF. ajornement. See Adjourn. ] 1. The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a battle in which English longbowmen under Henry V decisively defeated a much larger French army in 1415. It was named for the site at which it occurred. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. à jour, open to day. ] of or pertaining to objects which are pierced or decorated with an openwork pattern. RHUD 1.3 [ PJC. ]

adj. prenom. 1. both plant- and flesh-eating; -- said of animals. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

[ All + four (cards). ] A game at cards, called “High, Low, Jack, and the Game.” [ 1913 Webster ]

[ formerly, All` four".] All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person. [1913 Webster]

To be,
go, or
run,
on all fours (Fig.), to be on the same footing; to correspond (with) exactly; to be alike in all the circumstances to be considered. “This example is on all fours with the other.” “No simile can go on all fours.” Macaulay. [1913 Webster]

n. [ F., fr. L. amor love. ] 1. Love; affection. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair. [ 1913 Webster ]

In amours with, in love with. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F. ] Self-love; self-esteem. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Elec.) The quantity of electricity delivered in hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of charge quantity; the Ampere hour is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms and are sometimes similarly used. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ ‖‖ } n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; lawless + o'yra` tail. ] (Zool.) A group of decapod Crustacea, of which the hermit crab in an example. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Anura. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Anurous. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 protected with a covering of armor.
Syn. -- steel-plated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. provided with protective covering; -- used of animals. Opposite of unarmored. [ Narrower terms: bone-covered ; scaly, scaley, scaled.
Syn. -- armored. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. same as armor-clad; -- used of persons or things military. Opposite of unarmored. One that is aromour-clad is bulletproof. Narrower terms: lightly armored, lightly armoured; mail-clad, mailed; panzer; scaled
Syn. -- armored. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc.
Syn. -- armorer, artificer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a manufacturer of firearms.
Syn. -- armorer [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a collection of resources.
Syn. -- armory, inventory. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. all the weapons and equipment that a country has.
Syn. -- arsenal, armory. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms.
Syn. -- arsenal, armory. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. a place where arms are manufactured.
Syn. -- armory, arsenal [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F., fr. avant before + courrier. See Avaunt, and Courier. ] A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. avanteur. ] A boaster. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Bargeboard. ] (Arch.) A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. basse-cour. See Base, a., and Court, n. ] 1. The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house; the outer court of a castle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) An inferior court of law, not of record. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as behaviorism.
Syn. -- behaviorism, behavioristic psychology, behaviouristic psychology. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. same as behaviorist.
Syn. -- behaviorist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. bel amour fair love. ] 1. A lover. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A flower, but of what kind is unknown. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Her snowy brows, like budded belamours. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To mourn over. Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having two colors.
Syn. -- bicolor, bicolour, bicolored. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Bistouries [ F. bistouri. ] A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Bittern ] (Zool.) The bittern. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Arch.) The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Bower a chamber. ] A chamber or a cottage. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the castle and seigniory of Bourbon in central France. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A politician who is behind the age; a ruler or politician who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The principles of those adhering to the house of Bourbon; obstinate conservatism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who adheres to the house of Bourbon; a legitimist. [ 1913 Webster ]

. See under Whisky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bourde fib, lie, OF. borde, bourde, jest, joke. ] A jest. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To jest. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A jester. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. burdo mule, esp. one used for carrying litters. Cf. Sp. muleta a young she mule; also, crutch, prop. ] A pilgrim's staff. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See Burden a refrain. ] (Mus.) (a) A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.) (b) A kind of organ stop. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From a French type founder named Bourgeois, or fr. F. bourgeois of the middle class; hence applied to an intermediate size of type between brevier and long primer: cf. G. bourgeois, borgis. Cf. Burgess. ] (Print.) A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This line is printed in bourgeois type. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. bourg town; of German origin. See Burgess. ] A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class. [ France. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characteristic of the middle class, as in France. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ F. ] The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ OE. burjoun a bud, burjounen to bud, F. bourgeon a bud, bourgeonner to bud; cf. OHG. burjan to raise. ] To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gayly to bourgeon and broadly to grow. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) A mullet (Mugil capito) found in the rivers of Southern Europe and in Africa. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OE. burne, borne, AS. burna; akin to OS. brunno spring, G. born, brunnen, OHG. prunno, Goth. brunna, Icel. brunnr, and perh. to Gr. &unr_;. The root is prob. that of burn, v., because the source of a stream seems to issue forth bubbling and boiling from the earth. Cf. Torrent, and see Burn, v. ] A stream or rivulet; a burn. [ 1913 Webster ]

My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]