n. [ For obeisance; confused with F. abaisser, E. abase. ] Obeisance. [ Obs. ] Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. accusans, p. pr. of accusare: cf. F. accusant. ] An accuser. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. alisaundre, OF. alissandere, fr. Alexander or Alexandria. ] (Bot) A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A corruption of and, per se and, i. e., & by itself makes and. ] A word used to describe the character &unr_;, &unr_;, or &. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a person undergoing psychoanalysis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Annulosa. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a resident of Arkansas.
Syn. -- Arkansawyer [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. artisan, fr. L. artitus skilled in arts, fr. ars, artis, art: cf. It. artigiano. See Art, n. ] 1. One who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One trained to manual dexterity in some mechanic art or trade; and handicraftsman; a mechanic. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is willingly submitted to by the artisan, who can . . . compensate his additional toil and fatigue. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Artificer; artist. -- Artisan, Artist, Artificer. An artist is one who is skilled in some one of the fine arts; an artisan is one who exercises any mechanical employment. A portrait painter is an artist; a sign painter is an artisan, although he may have the taste and skill of an artist. The occupation of the former requires a fine taste and delicate manipulation; that of the latter demands only an ordinary degree of contrivance and imitative power. An artificer is one who requires power of contrivance and adaptation in the exercise of his profession. The word suggest neither the idea of mechanical conformity to rule which attaches to the term artisan, nor the ideas of refinement and of peculiar skill which belong to the term artist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a. See Acescency, Acescent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Basil, a sheepskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. basanites lapis, Gr. ba`sanos the touchstone: cf. F. basanite. ] (Min.) Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Bezant. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Bot.) (a) The coneflower, or yellow daisy (Rudbeckia hirta). (b) The bladder ketmie. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion; -- used especially as a measure of such a shattering power, applied to high explosives. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to brisance. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having the ability to shatter, as contrasted with merely fracturing; -- of explosives. the more brisant explosives, such as dynamite, will shatter rock into smaller fragments than the less brisant, such as gunpowder. [ WordNet 1.5 + PJC ]

a. (Anat.) Of the callosum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an Italian adventurer (Giovanni Giacomo Casanova; b. 1725; d. 1798) who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. any man noted for his amorous adventures. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>a. [ L. cessans, p. pr. of cessare. See Cease. ] Inactive; dormant [ Obs. ] W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of. chevisance, chevissance, fr. chevircome to an end, perform, fr. chef head, end, from L. caput head. See Chieve, Chief. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Achievement; deed; performance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Fortune, the foe of famous chevisance. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bargain; profit; gain. [ Obs. ] Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (O. Eng. Law) (a) A making of contracts. (b) A bargain or contract; an agreement about a matter in dispute, such as a debt; a business compact. (c) An unlawful agreement or contract. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. chryso`s gold + E. anilene. ] (Chem.) A yellow substance obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of rosaniline. It dyes silk a fine golden-yellow color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; chryso`s gold + &unr_; flower. ] (Bot.) A genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and perennial), and also the feverfew and the oxeye daisy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. complaisance. See Complaisant, and cf. Complacence. ] Disposition to please or oblige; obliging compliance with the wishes of others; a deportment indicative of a desire to please; courtesy; civility. [ 1913 Webster ]

These [ ladies ] . . . are by the just complaisance and gallantry of our nation the most powerful part of our people. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

They strive with their own hearts and keep them down,
In complaisance to all the fools in town. Young.

Syn. -- Civility; courtesy; urbanity; suavity; affability; good breeding. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. complaisant, p. pr. of complaire to acquiesce as a favor, fr. L. complacere. See Complacent. ] Desirous to please; courteous; obliging; compliant; as, a complaisant gentleman. [ 1913 Webster ]

There are to whom my satire seems too bold:
Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough. Pope.

Syn. -- Obliging; courteous; affable; gracious; civil; polite; well-bred. See Obliging.

-- Com"plai*sant`ly, adv. -- Com"plai*sant`ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. confessant. ] One who confesses to a priest. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) See Cognizance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Law) See Cognizant. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. related by blood; descended from a common ancestor; -- used as a term of relation between two people.
Syn. -- akin(predicate), blood-related, cognate, consanguineous, kin(predicate). [ PJC + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Law) having the same father but different mothers; -- contrasted with uterine{ 2 } and german. [ PJC ]

a. Of the same blood; related by birth. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of kin blood; related. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. conguineus; con- + sanguis blood: cf. F. consanguin. See Sanquine. ] Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor. Shak.
Syn. -- consanguine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. consanguinitas: cf. F. consanguintité. ] The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Invoking aid by the ties of consanguinity. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Law) See Cognizant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being conversant; habit of familiarity; familiar acquaintance; intimacy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Conversance [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. conversans, p. pr. of conversari: cf. F. conversant. ] 1. Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have been conversant with the first persons of the age. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; -- generally used with with, sometimes with in. [ 1913 Webster ]

Deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

he uses the different dialects as one who had been conversant with them all. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conversant only with the ways of men. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Concerned; occupied. [ 1913 Webster ]

Education . . . is conversant about children. W. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who converses with another; a convenser. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a familiar manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. corpo santo holy body. ] St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Counterfesance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. contrefaisance, fr. contrefaire. See Counterfeit, a. ] The act of forging; forgery. [ Obs. ] [ Written also counterfaisance. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Counter- + passant: cf. F. contrepassant. ] (Her.) Passant in opposite directions; -- said of two animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. courtisane, fr. courtisan courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp. cortesana. See Court. ] A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Harlotry. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ F. croissant, adj. & n., crescent. ] (Her.) Terminated with crescents; -- said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ OF. damage + F. faisant doing, p. pr. See Feasible. ] (Law) Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. defesance, fr. defesant, F. défaisant, p. pr. of defaire, F. défaire, to undo. See Defeat. ] 1. A defeat; an overthrow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

After his foes' defeasance. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rendering null or void. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) A condition, relating to a deed, which being performed, the deed is defeated or rendered void; or a collateral deed, made at the same time with a feoffment, or other conveyance, containing conditions, on the performance of which the estate then created may be defeated. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Mortgages were usually made in this manner in former times, but the modern practice is to include the conveyance and the defeasance in the same deed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Law) Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. dioecesanus: cf. F. diocésain. ] Of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. The clergy or the people of a diocese. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]