adj. 1. 1 shaped like a spine or thorn
Syn. -- spinous [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Spineless, as certain fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'an priv. + 'a`nqos a flower. ] (Bot.) Destitute of flowers; flowerless. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. [ Cf. F. aphtheux. ] Pertaining to, or caused by, aphthæ; characterized by aphtæ; as, aphthous ulcers; aphthous fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, or containing, bismuth, when this element has its lower valence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house for sheltering boats. [ 1913 Webster ]

Half the latticed boathouse hides. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A county town; -- so called in Virginia and some others of the Southern States. [ 1913 Webster ]

Providence, the county town of Fairfax, is unknown by that name, and passes as Fairfax Court House. Barlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. desmo`s bond + gna`qos jaw. ] (Zool.) Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognathæ), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy. [ Obs. ] 2 Kings x. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ NL. dromaius emu + Gr. gna`qos jaw. ] (Zool.) Having the structure of the palate like that of the ostrich and emu. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. ep- + Gr. 'a`nqos flower. ] (Bot.) Growing upon flowers; -- said of certain species of fungi. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Epi- + Gr. gna`qos the jaw. ] (Zoöl.) Hook-billed; having the upper mandible longer than the lower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bagnio, or bathing house. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A brothel; a bagnio. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Pottery) A heated room for drying green ware. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; after + &unr_; flower. ] (Bot.) Having the leaves expand after the flowers have opened. Henslow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Lighthouses A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A building in which vessels' masts are shaped, fitted, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Meso- + Gr. gna`qos jaw. ] (Anat.) Having the jaws slightly projecting; between prognathous and orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. meta- + Gr. gna`qos the jaw. ] (Zool.) Cross-billed; -- said of certain birds, as the crossbill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Mon- + Gr. 'a`nqos flower. ] (Bot.) Having but one flower; one-flowered. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An East Asiatic saxifrage (Saxifraga stolonifera) with racemes of small red-and-white flowers; spreads by numerous creeping stolons; called also strawberry geranium and strawberry saxifrage.
Syn. -- strawberry geranium, strawberry saxifrage, Saxifraga stolonifera, Saxifraga sarmentosam. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; numberless + 'a`kanqa a spine. ] (Zool.) Having numerous spines, as certain fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A building for the shelter of neat cattle. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Oligo- + Gr. 'a`nqos flower. ] (Bot.) Having few flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Ortho- + Gr. gna`qos the jaw. ] (Anat.) Having the front of the head, or the skull, nearly perpendicular, not retreating backwards above the jaws; -- opposed to prognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A small house or building at a little distance from the main house; an outbuilding. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Especially: A small building with one or more seats and a pit underneath, intended for use as a toilet; a privy. [ PJC ]

a. (Zool.) Having both mandibles of equal length, the tips meeting, as in certain birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A corruption of pentice. ] A shed or roof sloping from the main wall or building, as over a door or window; a lean-to. Also figuratively. “The penthouse of his eyes.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

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a. Leaning; overhanging. “Penthouse lid.” Shak. “My penthouse eyebrows.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Plectognathi. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An alehouse. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. pro` before + gna`qos the jaw ] (Anat.) Having the jaws projecting beyond the upper part of the face; -- opposed to orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their countenances had the true prognathous character. Kane. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; earlier (fr. &unr_; before) + &unr_; flower. ] (Bot.) Having flowers appearing before the leaves; -- said of certain plants. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; root + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; flower. ] (Bot.) Producing flowers from a rootstock, or apparently from a root. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; a lizard + &unr_; the jaw. ] (Zool.) Having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers (Pici). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Schizo- + Gr. &unr_; the jaw. ] (Zool.) Having the maxillo-palatine bones separate from each other and from the vomer, which is pointed in front, as in the gulls, snipes, grouse, and many other birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. [ Pref. syn- + Gr. 'a`nqos flower. ] (Bot.) Having flowers and leaves which appear at the same time; -- said of certain plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. þousend, þusend, AS. þūsend; akin to OS. thūsundig, thūsind, OFries. thusend, D. duizend, G. tausend, OHG. tūsunt, dūsunt, Icel. þūsund, þūshund, Sw. tusen, Dan. tusind, Goth. þūsundi, Lith. tukstantis, Russ. tuisiacha; of uncertain origin. ] 1. The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, indefinitely, a great number. [ 1913 Webster ]

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand. Ps. xci. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word thousand often takes a plural form. See the Note under Hundred. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A symbol representing one thousand units; as, 1, 000, M or CI&Crev_;. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, consisting of a great number indefinitely. “Perplexed with a thousand cares.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Multiplied by a thousand. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) A millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also thousand-legged worm. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a thing for the thousandth time. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quotient of a unit divided by a thousand; one of a thousand equal parts into which a unit is divided. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. xanqo`s yellow. ] Yellow; specifically (Ethnol.), of or pertaining to those races of man which have yellowish, red, auburn, or brown hair. [ 1913 Webster ]