a. (Med.) Of or caused by acari (acarids, or mites); as, acarine diseases. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

n. (Med.) A member of the order Acarina. [ PJC ]

n. The state of being accessary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. accipitrin. ] (Zool.) Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adulterinus, fr. adulter. ] Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal. [ 1913 Webster ]

When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An illegitimate child. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lightness of spirits; gayety; levity; as, the airiness of young persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster; as alabastrine limbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. alexandrin. ] A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables. [ 1913 Webster ]

The needless Alexandrine ends the song,
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A native or one of the people of Algiers or Algeria. Also, a pirate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. alizarine, fr. alizari. ] (Chem.) A coloring principle, C14H6O2(OH)2, found in madder, and now produced artificially as an an orange-red crystalline compound from anthracene. It is used in making red pigments (such as the Turkish reds), and in dyeing. [ 1913 Webster WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. Alpestris. ] 1. Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; as, Alpestrine diseases, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Growing on the elevated parts of mountains, but not above the timber line; subalpine. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. amarus bitter. ] (Chem.) A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a white crystalline substance used as an analgesic and antipyretic.
Syn. -- amidopyrine [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality of being angry, or of being inclined to anger. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such an angriness of humor that we take fire at everything. Whole Duty of Man. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. anserinus, fr. anser a goose. ] 1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Pertaining to the Anseres. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) Acetanilide. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being arbitrary; despoticalness; tyranny. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Trademark. ] a drug once used to treat malaria (C23H30ClN3O); chemically it is a derivative of the tricyclic structure acridine: 6-chloro-9-[ [ 4-(diethylamino-1-methylbutyl) ]amino ]-2-methoxyacridine. It also has some anthelmintic activity against cestodes. Atabrine is a trademark.
Syn. -- quinacrine, mepacrine. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ NL. atherina, fr. Gr. &unr_; a kind of smelt. ] (Zool.) A small marine fish of the family Atherinidæ, having a silvery stripe along the sides. The European species (Atherina presbyter) is used as food. The American species (Menidia notata) is called silversides and sand smelt. See Silversides. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. austrinus, from auster south. ] Southern; southerly; austral. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. aventurine: cf. It. avventurino. ] 1. A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Min.) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aventurine feldspar, a variety of oligoclase with internal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Azurn. ] Azure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The blue roach of Europe (Leuciscus cæruleus); -- so called from its color. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or } n. (Chem.) An alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green heart of Guiana (Nectandra Rodiœi). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine. [ Written also bibirine. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Beery condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) See Bebeerine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. biforis, biforus, having two doors; bis twice + foris door. ] (Bot.) An oval sac or cell, found in the leaves of certain plants of the order Araceæ. It has an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. bryne a burning, salt liquor, brine, fr. brinnan, brynnan, to burn. See Burn. ] 1. Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not long beneath the whelming brine . . . he lay. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Tears; -- so called from their saltness. [ 1913 Webster ]

What a deal of brine
Hath washed thy sallow cheecks for
Rosaline! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brine fly (Zool.), a fly of the genus Ephydra, the larvæ of which live in artificial brines and in salt lakes. --
Brine gauge, an instrument for measuring the saltness of a liquid. --
Brine pan, a pit or pan of salt water, where salt is formed by cristallization. --
Brine pit, a salt spring or well, from which water is taken to be boiled or evaporated for making salt. --
Brine pump (Marine Engin.), a pump for changing the water in the boilers, so as to clear them of the brine which collects at the bottom. --
Brine shrimp,
Brine worm (Zool.), a phyllopod crustacean of the genus Artemia, inhabiting the strong brines of salt works and natural salt lakes. See Artemia. --
Brine spring, a spring of salt water. --
Leach brine (Saltmaking), brine which drops from granulated salt in drying, and is preserved to be boiled again. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To steep or saturate in brine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A substance prepared from animal fat with some other ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter. [ 1913 Webster ]

The manufacturers ship large quantities of oleomargarine to England, Holland, and other countries, to be manufactured into butter, which is sold as butterine or suine. Johnson's Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. Also }. [ From Cadaver and amine. ] (Chem.) A sirupy, nontoxic ptomaine, H2N.(CH2)5.NH2 (chemically pentamethylene diamine), formed in putrefaction of flesh, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. (Chem.) An alkaloid resembling physostigmine and occurring with it in the calabar bean. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar of the brain. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Cancer. ] Having the qualities of a crab; crablike. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. [ L. caprinus. ] Of or pertaining to a goat; as, caprine gambols. [ 1913 Webster ]

See catherine wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ So called from St. Catherine of Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her martyrdom. ] 1. (Geoth.Arth.) Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine-wheel window. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Pyrotechny) A revolving piece of fireworks resembling in form the window of the same name. [ Written also Catharine wheel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cedrinus, Gr. ke`drinos. See Cedar. ] Of or pertaining to cedar or the cedar tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. feeling vexed, especially due to feeling inferior or unworthy and hence embarrassed; as, chagrined at the poor sales of his book.
Syn. -- embarrassed, mortified. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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

n. The state of being cheery. [ 1913 Webster ]