‖n. [ F., fr. It. bagatella; cf. Prov. It. bagata trifle, OF. bague, Pr. bagua, bundle. See Bag, n. ] 1. A trifle; a thing of no importance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rich trifles, serious bagatelles. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Bookbinding) An ornamental tooling like lace. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who predicts. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a person who claims to be able to foretell events in the future of another person.
Syn. -- fortune teller, fortune-teller.
-- for"tune*tel`ling, n. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

n.; pl. Immortelles [ F. See Immortal. ] (Bot.) A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See Everlasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Far.) Hoofbound. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. intellectus, fr. intelligere, intellectum, to understand: cf. intellect. See Intelligent. ] 1. (Metaph.) The part or faculty of the human mind by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; mental capacity. [ PJC ]

3. A particular mind, especially a person of high intelligence; as, he was a great intellect. [ PJC ]

a. Endowed with intellect; having intellectual powers or capacities. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In body, and in bristles, they became
As swine, yet intellected as before. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. intellectio synecdoche: cf. F. intellection. ] A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself. Hickok. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. intellectif. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Pertaining to, or produced by, the intellect or understanding; intellectual. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having power to understand, know, or comprehend; intelligent; rational. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Capable of being perceived by the understanding only, not by the senses. [ 1913 Webster ]

Intellective abstractions of logic and metaphysics. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an intellective manner. [ R. ] “Not intellectivelly to write.” Warner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh,
Whose higher intellectual more I shun. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A learned person or one of high intelligence; especially, one who places greatest value on activities requiring exercise of the intelligence, such as study, complex forms of knowledge, literature and aesthetic matters, reflection and philosophical speculation; a member of the intelligentsia; as, intellectuals are often apalled at the inanities that pass for entertainment on television. [ PJC ]

a. [ L. intellectualis: cf. F. intellectuel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who would lose,
Though full of pain, this intellectual being,
Those thoughts that wander through eternity? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called “mental” philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Intellectual power; intellectuality. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Preference for activities involving exercise of the intellect; sometimes, an excessive emphasis on abstract or intellectual matters with deprecation of the value of feelings. [ PJC ]

n. 1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. intellectualitas: cf. F. intellectualité. ] Intellectual powers; possession of intellect; quality of being intellectual. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an intellectual manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. mantelletta. See Mantelet. ] (R. C. Ch.) A silk or woolen vestment without sleeves worn by cardinals, bishops, abbots, and the prelates of the Roman court. It has a low collar, is fastened in front, and reaches almost to the knees. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. not intellectual. Opposite of intellectual. [ Narrower terms: anti-intellectual, philistine; lowbrow, uncultivated ] Also See unscholarly. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ See Stell to place. ] Firmly placed or fixed. [ Obs. ] “The stelled fires” [ the stars ]. Shak. [ In this passage by some defined as “starry, ” as if from stellatus. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ After Geo. W. Steller, a German naturalist. ] (Zool.) The rytina; -- called also stellerine and Steller's sea cow. See rytina. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. stella a star. ] (Zool.) A starfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) An extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Zool.) A starfish, or brittle star. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ After Geo. W. Steller, a German naturalist. ] (Zool.) The rytina; -- called also stellerine and steller. See rytina. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes, incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An historian; -- in contempt. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A euphemism or child's word for “a liar.” [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being above intellect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any species of Tellina. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An employee of a bank who receives money paid in, and pays money out, and makes records of such transactions. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

4. One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or employment of a teller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who tells the truth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]