n. (Arch.) A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows. [ Written also brestsummer and bressummer. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Breastsummer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Probably of East Indian origin, because it was originally a kind of East Indian pickles. Cf. also Malay k&ebreve_;chap fish sauce. MW10. ] A pureed table sauce made predominantly from tomatoes, flavored with onions, sugar, salt and spices; called also tomato ketchup. The term is also applied to pureed sauces containing mushrooms, walnuts, etc., being called in such cases mushroom ketchup, walnut ketchup, etc. [ Written also ketchup. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Catchup, and Ketchup. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Min.) The Chinese name for a highly prized variety of pale green jade. See Jade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europæus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ . n. [ Jap. jūjutsu; jū soft (prob. because no weapons are used) + jutsu art. ] The Japanese art of self-defense without weapons, now widely used as a system of physical training. It depends for its efficiency largely upon the principle of making clever use of an opponent's strength, weight, and movements to disable or injure him, and by applying pressure so that his opposing movement will throw him out of balance, dislocate or break a joint, etc. It opposes knowledge and skill to brute strength, and demands an extensive practical knowledge of human anatomy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Jap., soft technique. ] a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker's own weight and strength.
Syn. -- jujitsu, jiujutsu, jujutsu. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. same as jujutsu. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

prop. n. A natural family of fish which in some classifications is considered a separate family comprising the oceanic bonitos.
Syn. -- family Kasuwonidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A genus of oceanic bonitos; in some classifications it is placed in its own family Katsuwonidae.
Syn. -- genus Katsuwonus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Jap. ] In Japanese costume and decorative art, a small object carved in wood, ivory, bone, or horn, or wrought in metal, and pierced with holes for cords by which it is connected, for convenience, with the inro, the smoking pouch (tabako-ire), and similar objects carried in the girdle. It is now much used on purses sold in Europe and America. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To exceed in suffering. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Fine Arts) A kind of ornamental hard-glazed pottery made at Satsuma in Kiushu, one of the Japanese islands. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ Written also Tsung-li-Yamen or Tsungli Yamen. ] [ Chin. ] The board or department of foreign affairs in the Chinese government. See Yamen. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖ A viceroy or governor-general, the highest provincial official in China, with civil and military authority over one or more provinces. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or observed at, Whitsuntide; as, Whitsun week; Whitsun Tuesday; Whitsun pastorals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ White + Sunday. ] 1. (Eccl.) The seventh Sunday, and the fiftieth day, after Easter; a festival of the church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; Pentecost; -- so called, it is said, because, in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Scots Law) See the Note under Term, n., 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Whitsunday + tide. ] The week commencing with Whitsunday, esp. the first three days -- Whitsunday, Whitsun Monday, and Whitsun Tuesday; the time of Pentecost. R. of Gloucester. [ 1913 Webster ]