a. In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur. -- Am`a*teur"ish*ly, adv. -- Am`a*teur"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Behavior that demonstrates a lack of professional competency. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Eddish. ] The stubble of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish. [ Eng. ] [ Written also arish, ersh, etc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The moment we entered the stubble or arrish. Blackw. Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Stock market) Fearful of or anticipating falling prices, as in the stock market; as, bearish sentiment inhibited buying. [ PJC ]

3. (Stock market) Tending to cause prices to fall. “bearish news about inflation caused a sharp drop in the Dow.” [ PJC ]

4. Hence: Pessimistic. [ PJC ]

n. Behavior like that of a bear. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat bitter. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Swinish; brutal; cruel. [ 1913 Webster ]

In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly. -- Boor"ish*ly, adv. -- Boor"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which is in truth a gross and boorish opinion. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a buccaneer; piratical. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat like a cavalier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Cheerfulness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cherished p. pr. & vb. n. Cherising. ] [ F. chérir, fr. cher dear, fr. L. carus. See Caress, Finish. ] 1. To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid. [ 1913 Webster ]

We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children. 1 Thess. ii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cherish virtue and humanity. Burke.

Syn. -- To nourish; foster; nurse; nurture; entertain; encourage; comfort; protect; support; See Nurture. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. deeply loved or valued.
Syn. -- precious, treasured, wanted. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who cherishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cherisher of my flesh and blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Encouragement; comfort. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Rich bounty and dear cherishment. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat clever. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Cur. ] Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy currish spirit
Governed a wolf. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some currish plot, -- some trick. Lockhart.

-- Cur"rish*ly, adv. -- Cur"rish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the czar. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat old; elderly. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Perished; decayed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I deem thy brain emperished be. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Impoverish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tolerably fair. [ Colloq. ] W. D. Howells. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hot; sultry. “The feverish north.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world.
Syn. -- fevered. [ 1913 Webster ]

Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being. Milton.

-- Fe"ver*ish*ly, adv. -- Fe"ver*ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Flemish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. [ Obs. ] Fenton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sith that the justice of your title to him
Doth flourish the deceit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish. [ 1913 Webster ]

And flourishes his blade in spite of me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To develop; to make thrive; to expand. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Bottoms of thread . . . which with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Flourished p. pr. & vb. n. Flourishing. ] [ OE. florisshen, flurisshen, OF. flurir, F. fleurir, fr. L. florere to bloom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See Flower, and -ish. ] 1. To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. [ 1913 Webster ]

A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil. Bp. Horne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production. [ 1913 Webster ]

When all the workers of iniquity do flourish. Ps. xcii 7 [ 1913 Webster ]

Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of their wickedness. Nelson. [ 1913 Webster ]

We say
Of those that held their heads above the crowd,
They flourished then or then. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery. [ 1913 Webster ]

They dilate . . . and flourish long on little incidents. J. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Impetuous spread
The stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To boast; to vaunt; to brag. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Flourishes 1. A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The Roman monarchy, in her highest flourish, never had the like. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Decoration; ornament; beauty. [ 1913 Webster ]

The flourish of his sober youth
Was the pride of naked truth. Crashaw. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit. [ 1913 Webster ]

He lards with flourishes his long harangue. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure. [ 1913 Webster ]

The neat characters and flourishes of a Bible curiously printed. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare. [ 1913 Webster ]

A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who flourishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously. [ 1913 Webster ]

a., adv., n. Same as Garish, Garishly, Garishness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OE. gauren to stare; of uncertain origin. Cf. gairish. ] 1. Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention. “The garish sun.” “A garish flag.” Shak. “In . . . garish colors.” Asham. “The garish day.” J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Garish like the laughters of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Gay to extravagance; flighty. [ 1913 Webster ]

It makes the mind loose and garish. South.

-- Gar"ish*ly, adv. -- Gar"ish*ness, n. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. tasteless showiness.
Syn. -- flashiness, gaudiness, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness, glitz. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. strident color or excessive ornamentation.
Syn. -- gaudiness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Unmeaning; as, gibberish language. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Gibber, v. i. ] 1. Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words. [ 1913 Webster ]

He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go;
All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to know. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Incomprehensible, obscure, or pretentious technical talk or writing; excessively obscure jargon. [ PJC ]

a. Patched; mean. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF. guarir, garir, F. guérir. ] To heal. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a hare. [ R. ] Huloet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being imperishable: indstructibility. “The imperishability of the universe.” Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. im- not + perishable: cf. F. impérissable. ] Not perishable; not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring permanently; as, an imperishable monument; imperishable renown. -- Im*per"ish*a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*per"ish*a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Impoverished p. pr. & vb. n. Impoverishing. ] [ OF. empovrir; pref. em- (L. in) + povre poor, F. pauvre; cf. OF. apovrir, F. appauvrir, where the prefix is a-, L. ad. Cf. Empoverish, and see Poor, and -ish. ] 1. To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, impoverishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. empoverissement, and F. appauvrissement. ] The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. īrisc, fr. īras the Irish. Cf. Aryan, Erse. ] Of or pertaining to Ireland or to its inhabitants; produced in Ireland. [ 1913 Webster ]

Irish elk. (Zool.) See under Elk. --
Irish moss. (a) (Bot.) Carrageen. (b) A preparation of the same made into a blanc mange. --
Irish poplin. See Poplin. --
Irish potato, the ordinary white potato, so called because it is a favorite article of food in Ireland. --
Irish reef, or
Irishman's reef (Naut.), the head of a sail tied up. --
Irish stew, meat, potatoes, and onions, cut in small pieces and stewed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. 1. pl. The natives or inhabitants of Ireland, esp. the Celtic natives or their descendants. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The language of the Irish; also called Irish Gaelic or the Hiberno-Celtic. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. An old game resembling backgammon. [ 1913 Webster ]

get one's Irish up to become angry. [ PJC ]

. A native of Ireland who has become an American citizen; also, a child or descendant of such a person. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish; an Hibernicism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Irishmen A man born in Ireland or of the Irish race; an Hibernian. [ 1913 Webster ]

Irishman's hurricane (Naut.), a dead calm. --
Irishman's reef. (Naut.) See Irish reef, under Irish, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The Celtic people of Ireland. “The whole Irishry of rebels.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Skr. k&rsdot_;sh&nsdot_;a ' The black.'. ] (Hindu Myth.) The most popular of the Hindu divinities, usually held to be the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Krishna is a well-known Hindu deity. Originally the ethnic god of some powerful confederation of Rajput clans, by fusion with the Vishnu of the older theology Krishna becomes one of the chief divinities of Hinduism. He is indeed an avatar of Vishnu, or Vishnu himself. In his physical character mingle myths of fire, lightning, and storm, of heaven and the sun. In the epic he is a hero invincible in war and love, brave, but above all crafty. He was the son of Vasudeva and Devaki, and born at Mathura, on the Yamuna, between Delhi and Agra, among the Yadavas. Like that of many solar heroes, his birth was beset with peril. On the night when it took place, his parents had to remove him from the reach of his uncle, King Kansa, who sought his life because he had been warned by a voice from heaven that the eighth son of Devaki would kill him, and who had regularly made away with his nephews at their birth. Conveyed across the Yamuna, Krishna was brought up as their son by the shepherd Nanda and his wife Yashoda, together with his brother Balarama, 'Rama the strong, ' who had been likewise saved from massacre. The two brothers grew up among the shepherds, slaying monsters and demons and sporting with the Gopis, the female cowherds of Vrindavana. Their birth and infancy, their juvenile exploits, and their erotic gambols with the Gopis became in time the essential portion of the legend of Krishna, and their scenes are today the most celebrated centers of his worship. When grown, the brothers put their uncle Kansa to death, and Krishna became king of the Yadavas. He cleared the land of monsters, warred against impious kings, and took part in the war of the sons of Pandu against those of Dhritarashtra, as described in the Mahabharata. He transferred his capital to Dvaraka ('the city of gates'), the gates of the West, since localized in Gujarat. There he and his race were overtaken by the final catastrophe. After seeing his brother slain, and the Yadavas kill each other to the last man, he himself perished, wounded in the heel, like Achilles, by the arrow of a hunter. The bible of the worshipers of Vishnu in his most popular manifestation, that of Krishna, consists of the Bhagavatapurana and the Bhagavadgita. See these words. [ Century Dict. 1906 ]

Hare Krishnas A popular name for the group International Society for Krishna Consciousness (abbreviated ISKCON), devotees of Krishna, founded in 1966 by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (born 1896, died 1977). They are called thus because of their frequent public chanting of the words “Hare Krishna”. [ PJC ]