n. Abstruseness; that which is abstruse. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. acetositas. See Acetous. ] The quality of being acetous; sourness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acquisitus, p. p. of acquirere. See Acquire. ] Acquired. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. acquisitio, fr. acquirere: cf. F. acquisition. See Acquire. ] 1. The act or process of acquiring. [ 1913 Webster ]

The acquisition or loss of a province. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: (Business, Finance) The purchase of one commercial enterprise by another, whether for cash, or in a trade of stock of the purchasing company for that of the purchased company.
Syn. -- buyout, takeover. [ PJC ]

3. The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Acquirement. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Acquired. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the way of acquisition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Phren.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. Combe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who acquires. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Abundant activity. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The state of being fat; fatness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Adversities [ OE. adversite, F. adversité, fr. L. adversitas. ] 1. Opposition; contrariety. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Affliction; distress; misery; disaster; trouble; suffering; trial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being amorous; lovingness. [ R. ] Galt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A silicate of aluminium, occurring usually in thick rhombic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It was first discovered in Andalusia, Spain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) An eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. dark grayish extrusive rock. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Anfractuosities [ Cf. F. anfractuosité. ] 1. A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The anfractuosities of his intellect and temper. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) A sinuous depression or sulcus like those separating the convolutions of the brain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the Isle of Anglesea. ] (Min.) A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of being angulous or angular. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Animosities [ F. animosité, fr. L. animositas. See Animose, Animate, v. t. ] 1. Mere spiritedness or courage. [ Obs. ] Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such as give some proof of animosity, audacity, and execution, those she [ the crocodile ] loveth. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Enmity; hatred; opposition. -- Animosity, Enmity. Enmity be dormant or concealed; animosity is active enmity, inflamed by collision and mutual injury between opposing parties. The animosities which were continually springing up among the clans in Scotland kept that kingdom in a state of turmoil and bloodshed for successive ages. The animosities which have been engendered among Christian sects have always been the reproach of the church. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such [ writings ] as naturally conduce to inflame hatreds and make enmities irreconcilable. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ These ] factions . . . never suspended their animosities till they ruined that unhappy government. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. anorthose triclinic feldspar (fr. Gr. 'an priv. + 'orqo`s straight) + -ite. ] (Petrol.) A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda-lime feldspar, usually labradorite. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. LL. antepositio. See Position. ] (Gram.) The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; from + &unr_; food. ] (Med.) Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. appositus, p. p. of apponere to set or put to; ad + ponere to put, place. ] Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case. -- Ap"po*site*ly, adv. -- Ap"po*site*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. appositio, fr. apponere: cf. F. apposition. See Apposite. ] 1. The act of adding; application; accretion. [ 1913 Webster ]

It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gram.) The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. [ 1913 Webster ]

Growth by apposition (Physiol.), a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of an organ into solid unorganized substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically. Ellicott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to apposition; in apposition. -- n. A noun in apposition. -- Ap*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Appositive to the words going immediately before. Knatchbull. [1913 Webster]

n. [ LL. aquositas. ] The condition of being wet or watery; wateriness. Huxley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Very little water or aquosity is found in their belly. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_; food. ] (Med.) Want of appetite; loathing of food. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

‖n. [ L., he undertook, pret. of L. assumere. See Assume. ] (Law) (a) A promise or undertaking, founded on a consideration. This promise may be oral or in writing not under seal. It may be express or implied. (b) An action to recover damages for a breach or nonperformance of a contract or promise, express or implied, oral or in writing not under seal. Common or indebitatus assumpsit is brought for the most part on an implied promise. Special assumpsit is founded on an express promise or undertaking. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. act as a baby-sitter
Syn. -- babysit, sit [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home.
Syn. -- sitter [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the work of a baby sitter; caring for children when their parents are not home. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing).
Syn. -- bedsitting room, bedsitter. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A recess in a room for a bed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of the three bedrooms, two have fireplaces, and all are of fair size, with windows and bedsite well placed. Quart. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing).
Syn. -- bedsitting room, bedsit. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ Pref. be- + sit. ] To suit; to fit; to become. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. E. bursa + -itis. ] (Med.) Inflammation of a bursa. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. chabazi`os one of twenty species of stones mentioned in the poem Peri` li`qwn, ascribed to Orpheus. ] (Min.) A mineral occuring in glassy rhombohedral crystals, varying in color from white to yellow or red. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also chabasie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. caliginosus dark. See Caligation. ] Darkness. [ R. ] G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Callosities [ L. callasitas; cf. F. calosté. ] A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ Cf. F. carnosité. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Med.) A fleshy excrescence; esp. a small excrescence or fungous growth. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fleshy substance or quality; fleshy covering. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Consciences ] overgrown with so hard a carnosity. Spelman. [ 1913 Webster ]

The olives, indeed be very small there, and bigger than capers; yet commended they are for their carnosity. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖pl. Cartes de visite /plu>. [ F. ] 1. A visiting card. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A photographic picture of the size formerly in use for a visiting card. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; tin. ] (Min.) Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See Black tin, under Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. celstudo, from celsus high: cf. celsitude. ] Height; altitude. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Min.) Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a greenish gray or black silicate of iron and aluminum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. circumpositio, fr. circumponere, - positium, to place around. ] The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from L. compositus made up of parts. See Composite. ] (Bot.) A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples. [ 1913 Webster ]