n. Renunciation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an item of clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of one's main clothing.
Syn. -- accessory, accouterment [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. pl. [ F. accoutrement, earlier also accoustrement, earlier also accoustrement. See Accouter. ] Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers. [ 1913 Webster ]

How gay with all the accouterments of war! [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) Pertaining to accremention. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See accresce, Increment. ] (Physiol.) The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respects like the individual from which it proceeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment. “Rules for the acquirement of a taste.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

His acquirements by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Acquisition, Acquirement. Acquirement is used in opposition to a natural gift or talent; as, eloquence, and skill in music and painting, are acquirements; genius is the gift or endowment of nature. It denotes especially personal attainments, in opposition to material or external things gained, which are more usually called acquisitions; but this distinction is not always observed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of adoring; adoration. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Previously mentioned; before-mentioned. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act alluring; temptation; enticement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which allures; any real or apparent good held forth, or operating, as a motive to action; as, the allurements of pleasure, or of honor. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ Ampère + meter. ] (Physics) An instrument for measuring the strength of an electrical current in ampères. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Aspiration. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Attire; adornment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the branch of biotechnology that uses biological processes to overcome environmental problems. [ WordNet 1.6 ]

n. [ L. biremis; bis twice + remus oar: cf. F. birème. ] An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. breme, brime, fierce, impetuous, glorious, AS. brēme, br&ymacr_;me, famous. Cf. Brim, a. ] 1. Fierce; sharp; severe; cruel. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

From the septentrion cold, in the breme freezing air. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Famous; renowned; well known. Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Written also brim and brimme. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cera wax: cf. F. cirement. ] (a) A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed. (b) Any shroud or wrapping for the dead. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. concrementum, fr. concrescere. See Concrete. ] A growing together; the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The concrement of a pebble or flint. Sir M. Hale [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] Cream; -- a term used esp. in cookery, names of liqueurs, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Declaration. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ornament. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. decrementum, fr. decrescere. See Decrease. ] 1. The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss. [ 1913 Webster ]

Twit me with the decrements of my pendants. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rocks, mountains, and the other elevations of the earth suffer a continual decrement. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; -- opposed to increment. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Crystallog.) A name given by Haüy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Math.) The quantity by which a variable is diminished. [ 1913 Webster ]

Equal decrement of life. (a) The decrease of life in a group of persons in which the assumed law of mortality is such that of a given large number of persons, all being now of the same age, an equal number shall die each consecutive year. (b) The decrease of life in a group of persons in which the assumed law of mortality is such that the ratio of those dying in a year to those living through the year is constant, being independent of the age of the persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Deploration. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To fail to remember; to forget. [ Obs. or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. endurement. ] Endurance. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. sing. & pl. [ F., fr. entre between + mets a dish, mess. ] 1. (Cookery) A side dish; a dainty or relishing dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any small entertainment between two greater ones. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. excrementum, fr. excernere, excretum, to skin out, discharge: cf. F. excrément. See Excrete. ] Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. excrementum, fr. excrescere, excretum, to grow out. See Excrescence. ] An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth. [ Obs. ] “Ornamental excrements.” Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Living creatures put forth (after their period of growth) nothing that is young but hair and nails, which are excrements and no parts. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to excrement.

{ } a. (Physiol.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement. [ R. ] “The excrementive parts.” Felthman. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>v. i. To void excrement. [ R. ] Life of A. Wood &unr_;. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of exploring; exploration. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. extremus, superl. of exter, extrus, on the outside, outward: cf. F. extrême. See Exterior. ] 1. At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly. “The extremest remedy.” Dryden. “Extreme rapidity.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Puritans or extreme Protestants. Gladstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mus.) Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Extreme and mean ratio (Geom.), the relation of a line and its segments when the line is so divided that the whole is to the greater segment is to the less. --
Extreme distance. (Paint.) See Distance., n., 6. --
Extreme unction. See under Unction. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Although this adjective, being superlative in signification, is not properly subject to comparison, the superlative form not unfrequently occurs, especially in the older writers. “Tried in his extremest state.” Spenser. “Extremest hardships.” Sharp. “Extremest of evils.” Bacon. “Extremest verge of the swift brook.” Shak. “The sea's extremest borders.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence, furthest degree; any undue departure from the mean; -- often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet. [ 1913 Webster ]

His parsimony went to the extreme of meanness. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc. “Resolute in most extremes.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Logic) Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Math.) The first or the last term of a proportion or series. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the extreme as much as possible. “The position of the Port was difficult in the extreme.” J. P. Peters. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no extremes; infinite. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an extreme manner or state; in the utmost degree; to the utmost point; exceedingly; as, extremely hot or cold. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Intended beforehand; premeditated. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mentioned before; already cited; aforementioned. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Called to mind previously. Bp. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ a. [ OE., from AS. fremede, fremde; akin to G. fremd. ] Strange; foreign. [ Old Eng. & Scot. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fremere to roar, murmur + -escent. ] Becoming murmurous, roaring. “Fremescent clangor.” Carlyle. -- Fre*mes"cence n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. Act of making gestures; gesturing. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of immuring, or the state of being immured; imprisonment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. incrementum: cf. F. incrément. See Increase. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement. [ 1913 Webster ]

The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Matter added; increase; produce; production; -- opposed to decrement. “Large increment.” J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Math.) The increase of a variable quantity or fraction from its present value to its next ascending value; the finite quantity, generally variable, by which a variable quantity is increased. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Rhet.) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: [ 1913 Webster ]

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, . . . think on these things. Phil. iv. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

Infinitesimal increment (Math.), an infinitesimally small variation considered in Differential Calculus. See Calculus. --
Method of increments (Math.), a calculus founded on the properties of the successive values of variable quantities and their differences or increments. It differs from the method of fluxions in treating these differences as finite, instead of infinitely small, and is equivalent to the calculus of finite differences. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Biol.) Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. irremeabilis; pref. ir- not + remeabilis returning, fr. remeare: cf. F. irréméable. See Remeant. ] Admitting no return; as, an irremeable way. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]