v. t. [ L. aberuncare, for aberruncare. See Averruncate. ] To weed out. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A weeding machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ala wing + truncus trunk. ] (Zool.) The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax. Kirby. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to an Earl of Arundel; as, Arundel or Arundelian marbles, marbles from ancient Greece, bought by the Earl of Arundel in 1624. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. arundifer; arundo reed + ferre to bear. ] Producing reeds or canes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. arundinaceus, fr. arundo reed. ] Of or pertaining to a reed; resembling the reed or cane. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. arundineus, fr. arundo reed. ] Abounding with reeds; reedy. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G., enlightenment. ] A philosophic movement of the 18th century characterized by a lively questioning of authority, keen interest in matters of politics and general culture, and an emphasis on empirical method in science. It received its impetus from the unsystematic but vigorous skepticism of Pierre Bayle, the physical doctrines of Newton, and the epistemological theories of Locke, in the preceding century. Its chief center was in France, where it gave rise to the skepticism of Voltaire , the naturalism of Rousseau, the sensationalism of Condillac, and the publication of the “Encyclopedia” by D'Alembert and Diderot. In Germany, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Herder were representative thinkers, while the political doctrines of the leaders of the American Revolution and the speculations of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine represented the movement in America. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ L. averruncare to avert; a, ab, off + verruncare to turn; formerly derived from ab and eruncare to root out. Cf. Aberuncate. ] 1. To avert; to ward off. [ Obs. ] Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To root up. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. averroncation. ] 1. The act of averting. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Eradication. [ R. ] De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An instrument for pruning trees, having two blades, or a blade and a hook, fixed on a long rod and operated by a string or wire; a tree pruner. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ G., lit., mountain gap. ] (Phys. Geog.) The crevasse or series of crevasses, usually deep and often broad, frequently occurring near the head of a mountain glacier, about where the névé field joins the valley portion of the glacier. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ See Broun a brook. ] Same as Brun, a brook. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a late breakfast or an early lunch. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a sultanate in Northwestern Borneo. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to Brunei; as, Bruneian oil production. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a native or inhabitant of Brunei. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. being or having dark-colored skin and hair; contrasted with blond. [ Narrower terms: adust, sunburned burned brown by the sun; black, brown; black-haired, dark-haired; browned, suntanned, tanned; grizzled, roan; nutbrown ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. brunet, brunette, brownish, dim. of brun, brune, brown, fr. OHG. br&unr_;n. See Brown, a. ] A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion. -- a. Having a dark tint. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. brugnon (cf. It. brugna, prugna), fr. L. prunum. See Prune, n. ] A nectarine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation. [ 1913 Webster ]

See Japan black. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ G. Braunschweiger grün, first made at Brunswick, in Germany. ] An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brunt, bront, fr. Icel. bruna to rush; cf. Icel. brenna to burn. Cf. Burn, v. t. ] 1. The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The force of a blow; shock; collision. “And heavy brunt of cannon ball.” Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Burundi; as, the Burundi capital. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Burundian people; as, the Burundian population. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a native or inhabitant of Burundi. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a terrestrial Siberian squirrel (Eutamius asiaticus or Eutamius sibiricus).
Syn. -- baronduki, baranduki, barunduki. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

[ a trade name, from Carbon + corundum. ] A beautiful crystalline compound, silicon carbide (SiC), consisting of carbon and silicon in combination; -- also called carbon silicide. It is made by heating carbon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than emery, and is used as an abrasive. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ or }. Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum; -- a foprm of sandpaper. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

{ ‖ } n. [ L. caruncula a little piece of flesh, dim. of caro flesh. ] 1. (Anat.) A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the
caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Having a caruncle or caruncles; caruncular. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a very hard mineral used as an abrasive; same as corundun.
Syn. -- corundum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Corundums [ Also corindon. ] [ From Hind. kurand corundum stone. ] (Min.) The mineral alumina (Al2O3), as found native in a crystalline state. Transparent varieties are used as gemstones, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or red sapphire; the oriental amethyst, or purple sapphire; and adamantine spar, the hair-brown variety. It is the hardest substance found native, next to the diamond. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ The name corundum is sometimes restricted to the non-transparent or coarser kinds. Emery is a dark-colored granular variety, usually admixed with magnetic iron ore. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Crunched p. pr. & vb. n. Crunching. ] [ Prob. of imitative origin; or cf. D. schransen to eat heartily, or E. scrunch. ] 1. To chew with force and noise; to craunch. [ 1913 Webster ]

And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To grind or press with violence and noise. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ship crunched through the ice. Kane. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To emit a grinding or craunching noise. [ 1913 Webster ]

The crunching and ratting of the loose stones. H. James. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. i. [ Cf. Icel. kr&unr_;nka to croak. ] To cry like a crane. [ Obs. ] “The crane crunketh.” Withals (1608). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Geom.) Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; -- used of curves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. fr. L. crux a cross + E. node. ] (Geom.) A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Detruncated; p. pr. & vb. n. Detruncating. ] [ L. detruncatus, p. p. of detruncare to cut off; de + truncare to maim, shorten, cut off. See Truncate. ] To shorten by cutting; to cut off; to lop off. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. detruncatio: cf. F. détroncation. ] The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To dissatisfy; to disaffect; to anger. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. dronke, drunke, dronken, drunken, AS. druncen. Orig. the same as drunken, p. p. of drink. See Drink. ] 1. Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man). [ 1913 Webster ]

Be not drunk with wine, where in is excess. Eph. v. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drunk with recent prosperity. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will make mine arrows drunk with blood. Deut. xxxii. 42. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A drunken condition; a spree. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Drunk + -ard. ] One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot. [ 1913 Webster ]

The drunkard and glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. druncen, prop., that has drunk, p. p. of drincan, taken as active. See Drink, v. i., and cf. Drunk. ] 1. Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the earth be drunken with our blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication. [ 1913 Webster ]

The drunken quarrels of a rake. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Drunkenness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a drunken manner. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. South.

Syn. -- Intoxication; inebriation; inebriety. -- Drunkenness, Intoxication, Inebriation. Drunkenness refers more to the habit; intoxication and inebriation, to specific acts. The first two words are extensively used in a figurative sense; a person is intoxicated with success, and is drunk with joy. “This plan of empire was not taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected success.” Burke.

{ } n. The state of being drunk; drunkenness. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Utterly drunk; very drunk. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]