n. [ L. adosculari, adosculatum, to kiss. See Osculate. ] (Biol.) Impregnation by external contact, without intromission. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to Æsculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Aesculapius, Gr. &unr_;. ] (Myth.) The god of medicine. Hence, a physician. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Esculin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a dwarf tree; shrublike. Da Costa. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. To auscultate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ausculcatio, fr. auscultare to listen, fr. a dim. of auris, orig. ausis, ear. See Auricle, and cf. Scout, n. ] 1. The act of listening or hearkening to. Hickes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) An examination by listening either directly with the ear (immediate auscultation) applied to parts of the body, as the abdomen; or with the stethoscope (mediate auscultation), in order to distinguish sounds recognized as a sign of health or of disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who practices auscultation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to auscultation. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., a seesaw. ] In mechanics, an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bascule bridge, a counterpoise or balanced drawbridge, which is opened by sinking the counterpoise and thus lifting the footway into the air. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + muscular. ] (Zool.) Having two adductor muscles, as a bivalve mollusk. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels; as, cardiovascular conditioning. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. F. corpusculaire. ] Pertaining to, or composed of, corpuscles, or small particles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corpuscular philosophy, that which attempts to account for the phenomena of nature, by the motion, figure, rest, position, etc., of the minute particles of matter. --
Corpuscular theory (Opt.), the theory enunciated by Sir Isaac Newton, that light consists in the emission and rapid progression of minute particles or corpuscles. The theory is now generally rejected, and supplanted by the undulatory theory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Corpuscular. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An adherent of the corpuscular philosophy. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A corpuscle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Corpuscular. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. crepusculum, fr. creper dusky, dark: cf. F. crépuscule. ] Twilight. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Crepuscular. [ Obs. ] Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. crépusculaire. ] 1. Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous. [ 1913 Webster ]

This semihistorical and crepuscular period. Sir G. C. Lewis. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise; -- said certain birds and insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Others feed only in the twilight, as bats and owls, and are called crepuscular. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act or process of demasculinizing; the removal of the testicles of a male animal.
Syn. -- emasculation, castration. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

v. t. to remove the testicles of a male animal.
Syn. -- emasculate, castrate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ L. deosculatus, p. p. of deosculari. See Osculate. ] To kiss warmly. [ Obs. ] -- De*os`cu*la"tion n. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disculpated; p. pr. & vb. n. Disculpating. ] [ LL. disculpatus, p. p. of disculpare to disculpate; dis- + L. culpare to blame, culpa fault. ] To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate. [ 1913 Webster ]

I almost fear you think I begged it, but I can disculpate myself. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. disculpation. ] Exculpation. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to exculpate; exculpatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) Pertaining to the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Emasculated p. pr. & vb. n. Emasculating ] [ L. emasculare; e + masculus male, masculine. See Male masculine. ] 1. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Luxury had not emasculated their minds. V. Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak. “Emasculate slave.” Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having the testicles removed; -- of a male animal.
Syn. -- cut, gelded, sexless. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. deprived of virility, vigor, or manly character. [ PJC ]

n. 1. The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigor or strength; unmanly weakness. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. Serving or tending to emasculate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Æsculapian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Æsculapius. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. esculentus, fr. escare to eat, fr. esca food, fr. edere to eat: cf. F. esculent. See Eat. ] Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Esculent grain for food. Sir W. Jones. [ 1913 Webster ]

Esculent swallow (Zoöl.), the swallow which makes the edible bird's-nest. See Edible bird's-nest, under Edible. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Anything that is fit for eating; that which may be safely eaten by man. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From NL. Aesculus, the generic name of the horse-chestnut, fr. L. aesculus a kind of oak. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the horse-chestnut; as, esculic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Esculic. ] (Chem.) A glucoside obtained from the Æsculus hippocastanum, or horse-chestnut, and characterized by its fine blue fluorescent solutions. [ Written also æsculin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. exosculatus, p. p. of exosculari to kiss. See Osculate. ] To kiss; especially, to kiss repeatedly or fondly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) (a) Outside the vessels; -- said of the substance of all the tissues. (b) Destitute of vessels; non-vascular. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fibra a fiber + E. vascular. ] (Bot.) Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Flosculous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From L. flosculus a floweret. ] (Zool.) One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. flosculus, dim. of flos flower: cf. F. floscule. ] (Bot.) A floret. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Consisting of many gamopetalous florets. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gastro- + -vascular. ] (Zool.) Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of cœlenterates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Idio- + muscular. ] (Physiol.) Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Inosculated p. pr. & vb. n. Inosculating ] [ Pref. in- in + osculate. ] 1. To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To intercommunicate; to interjoin. [ 1913 Webster ]

The several monthly divisions of the journal may inosculate, but not the several volumes. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]