‖n. pl. [ L., hawks. ] (Zool.) The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Accoutered or Accoutred p. pr. & vb. n. Accoutering or Accoutring. ] [ F. accouter, OF. accoutrer, accoustrer; à (L. ad) + perh. LL. custor, for custos guardian, sacristan (cf. Custody), or perh. akin to E. guilt. ] To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. [ 1913 Webster ]

Both accoutered like young men. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose especially military; as, troops accoutered for battle [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. an item of clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of one's main clothing.
Syn. -- accessory, accouterment [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. pl. [ F. accoutrement, earlier also accoustrement, earlier also accoustrement. See Accouter. ] Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers. [ 1913 Webster ]

How gay with all the accouterments of war! [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. actrice. ] 1. A female actor or doer. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who flatters with servility. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. avoutre, avoltre, fr. L. adulter. Cf. Adulterer. ] An adulterer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An adulteress. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a relatively well-defined prevailing wind. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller.
Syn. -- slipstream, race, backwash, wash [ WordNet 1.5 ]

A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. amphitheatrum, fr. Gr. &unr_;; 'amfi` + &unr_; theater: cf. F. amphithéâtre. See Theater. ] 1. An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Romans first constructed amphitheaters for combats of gladiators and wild beasts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ overturning, fr. &unr_; to turn up or over; &unr_; + &unr_; too turn. ] Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues. Enfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female ancestor. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. antre, L. antrum, fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] A cavern. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] (Rom. Antiq.) An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. Audsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Arbiter. ] A female arbiter; an arbitratrix. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female architect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. arch- + treasurer. ] A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] A rude apparatus for pulverizing ores, esp. those containing free gold. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. at (AS. æt) out + rede. ] To surpass in council. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Men may the olde atrenne, but hat atrede. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. at + renne to run. ] To outrun. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; not perforated. ] (Med.) Absence or closure of a natural passage or channel of the body; imperforation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. attrectatio; ad + tractare to handle. ] Frequent handling or touching. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female hearer. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. [ See Adventure. ] To venture; to dare. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. A woman aviator (in senses 1 or 3). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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

n. [ Cf. Icel. öxultr&unr_;. ] 1. A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A spindle or axle of a wheel. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Axle or axletree. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female baker. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Baxter. ] A baker. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a woman who trains ballet dancers. [ PJC ]

. A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis). [ 1913 Webster ]

[ AS. beám a tree. See Beam. ] (Bot.) A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Bot.) A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida). [ 1913 Webster ]

The beech. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ F. ] Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who confers a benefit. [ 1913 Webster ]

His benefactress blushes at the deed. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To streak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Bestrewed p. p. Bestrewed, Bestrown (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bestrewing. ] To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [ Spelt also bestrow. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Bister. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. bistre a color made of soot; of unknown origin. Cf., however, LG. biester frowning, dark, ugly. ] (Paint.) A dark brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. colored with or as if with bister.
Syn. -- bistered. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ n., }. [ Etym. uncertain. ] (Bot.) A small scrubby tree (Balanites Ægyptiaca) growing in dry regions of tropical Africa and Asia. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The hard yellowish white wood is made into plows in Abyssinia; the bark is used in Farther India to stupefy fish; the ripe fruit is edible, when green it is an anthelmintic; the fermented juice is used as a beverage; the seeds yield a medicinal oil called zachun. The African name of the tree is hajilij. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Boot + tree wood, timber. ] An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pretty boots trimly stretched on boottrees. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists (Ficus religiosa), which is planted close to every temple, and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of the god himself. . . . It differs from the banyan (Ficus Indica) by sending down no roots from its branches. Tennent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. common black-fruited shrub or small tree (Sambucus nigra) of Europe and Asia; -- the fruit is used for wines and jellies.
Syn. -- black elder, common elder, elderberry, European elder. [ WordNet 1.5 ]