n. [ F. abatture, fr. abattre. See Abate. ] Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An abridgment; a compendium or abstract. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty of a Christian. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated. [ R. ] Caldwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Action. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. acus needle + punctura a pricking, fr. pungere to prick: cf. F. acuponcture. ] Pricking with a needle; a needle prick. Specifically (Med.): The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes, such as to relieve pain. It was first recorded as being practised in China, and the technique is believed to be over 2, 000 years old. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

Acupuncture
(An NIH Consensus Statement prepared by a nonadvocate, non-Federal panel of experts)

November 3-5, 1997
Vol. 15, No. 5

Acupuncture as a therapeutic intervention is widely practiced in the United States. While there have been many studies of its potential usefulness, many of these studies provide equivocal results because of design, sample size, and other factors. The issue is further complicated by inherent difficulties in the use of appropriate controls, such as placebos and sham acupuncture groups. However, promising results have emerged, for example, showing efficacy of acupuncture in adult post-operative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting and in post-operative dental pain. There are other situations such as addiction, stroke rehabilitation, headache, menstrual cramps, tennis elbow, fibromyalgia, myofacial pain, osteoarthritis, low back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and asthma where acupuncture may be useful as an adjunct treatment or an acceptable alternative or be included in a comprehensive management program. Further research is likely to uncover additional areas where acupuncture interventions will be useful.
taken from: https://web.archive.org/web/20011126211520/http://odp.od.nih.gov/consensus/cons/107/107_intro.htm [ PJC ]

v. t. To treat with acupuncture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Adjudication. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. admiscere, admixtum, to admix; ad + miscere to mix. See Mix. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of mixing; mixture. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The compound formed by mixing different substances together. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is mixed with anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. aventure, aunter, anter, F. aventure, fr. LL. adventura, fr. L. advenire, adventum, to arrive, which in the Romance languages took the sense of “to happen, befall.” See Advene. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Risk; danger; peril. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He was in great adventure of his life. Berners. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat. [ 1913 Webster ]

He loved excitement and adventure. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account. [ 1913 Webster ]

A bill of adventure (Com.), a writing setting forth that the goods shipped are at the owner's risk. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Undertaking; enterprise; venture; event. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Adventured p. pr. & vb. n. Adventuring ] [ OE. aventuren, auntren, F. aventurer, fr. aventure. See Adventure, n. ] 1. To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture. [ 1913 Webster ]

He would not adventure himself into the theater. Acts xix. 31. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet they adventured to go back. Bunyan, [ 1913 Webster ]

Discriminations might be adventured. J. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To try the chance; to take the risk. [ 1913 Webster ]

I would adventure for such merchandise. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Given to adventure. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

1. One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A social pretender on the lookout for advancement. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. -- Ad*ven"ture*some*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of affixing, or the state of being affixed; attachment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. agricultura; ager field + cultura cultivation: cf. F. agriculture. See Acre and Culture. ] The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. alcoolature. ] (Med.) An alcoholic tincture prepared with fresh plants. New Eng. Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mazy winding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Fort.) A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. apertura, fr. aperire. See Aperient. ] 1. The act of opening. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

An aperture between the mountains. Gilpin. [ 1913 Webster ]

The back aperture of the nostrils. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Opt.) The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The aperture of microscopes is often expressed in degrees, called also the angular aperture, which signifies the angular breadth of the pencil of light which the instrument transmits from the object or point viewed; as, a microscope of 100° aperture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. apis bee + E. culture. ] Rearing of bees for their honey and wax. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. the cultivation of aquatic animals, such as fish or shellfish, or of plants, such as seaweed, in a controlled and sometimes enclosed body of water. The term includes use of either salt or fresh water. It is a form of agriculture, but under water. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. aqua water, + punctura puncture, pungere, punctum, to, prick. ] (Med.) The introduction of water subcutaneously for the relief of pain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. arbor tree + cultura. See Culture. ] The cultivation of trees and shrubs, chiefly for timber or for ornamental purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. architectura, fr. architectus: cf. F. architecture. See Architect. ] 1. The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many other architectures besides Gothic. Ruskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship. [ 1913 Webster ]

The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Military architecture, the art of fortifications. --
Naval architecture, the art of building ships. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. armatura, fr. armare to arm: cf. F. armature. See Arm, v. t., Armor. ] 1. Armor; whatever is worn or used for the protection and defense of the body, esp. the protective outfit of some animals and plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Magnetism) A piece of soft iron used to connect the two poles of a magnet, or electro-magnet, in order to complete the circuit, or to receive and apply the magnetic force. In the ordinary horseshoe magnet, it serves to prevent the dissipation of the magnetic force. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc. Oxf. Gloss. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Elec.) That moving part of a dynamo or electric generator in which a current is induced by a moving through a magnetic field, or, in an electric motor, the part through which the applied current moves, thereby generating torque. The armature usually consists of a series of coils or groups of insulated conductors surrounding a core of iron. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Attainder; disgrace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Adventure, n. ] 1. Accident; chance; adventure. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Old Law) A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. avis bird + cultura culture. ] (Zool.) Rearing and care of birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. battre to beat. ] An elevated river bed or sea bed. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Belectured p. pr. & vb. n. Belecturing. ] To vex with lectures; to lecture frequently. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Hort.) A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. An abbreviature; an abbreviation. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ from Brompton Hospital, London. ](Pharmacy) A mixture containing morphine and cocaine, and sometimes other narcotic substances, such as heroin, in an alcoholic solution, administered mostly to terminally ill patients, especially cancer patients, to relieve severe pain. Its use is not universally accepted as good medical practice. [ PJC ]

n. [ F. calenture, fr. Sp. calenture heat, fever, fr. calentar to heat, fr. p. pr. of L. calere to be warm. ] (Med.) A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Hath fed on pageants floating through the air
Or calentures in depths of limpid flood. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Candidacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. capillatura. ] A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair. Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. capture, fr. caper to take: cf. F. capture. See Caitiff, and cf. aptive. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even with regard to captures made at sea. Bluckstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The thing taken by force, surprise, or stratagem; a prize; prey.

Syn. -- Seizure; apprehension; arrest; detention. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Captured p. pr. & vb. n. Capturing. ] 1. To seize or take possession of by force, surprise, or stratagem; to overcome and hold; to secure by effort. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. to record or make a lasting representation of (sound or images); as, to capture an event on videotape; the artist captured the expression of grief on his face. [ PJC ]

3. (Games) to take control of, or remove from play; as, to capture a piece in chess. [ PJC ]

4. to exert a strong psychological influence on; as, to capture the heart of a maiden; to capture the attention of the nation. [ PJC ]

5. (Computers) to record (data) in a computer-readable form; as, to capture a transaction in a database. [ PJC ]

Her heart is like some fortress that has been captured. W. Ivring. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. caricatura, fr. caricare to charge, overload, exaggerate. See Charge, v. t. ] 1. An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A picture or other figure or description in which the peculiarities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody. [ Formerly written caricatura. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The truest likeness of the prince of French literature will be the one that has most of the look of a caricature. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

A grotesque caricature of virtue. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Caricatured p. pr. & vb. n. Caricaturing. ] To make or draw a caricature of; to represent with ridiculous exaggeration; to burlesque. [ 1913 Webster ]

He could draw an ill face, or caricature a good one, with a masterly hand. Lord Lyttelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A cincture, girdle, or belt; -- chiefly used in English as a dressmaking term. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. caelatura, fr. caelare to engrave in relief. ] 1. The act or art of engraving or embossing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is engraved. [ Obs. ] Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ L. cinctura, fr. cingere, cinctum, to gird. ] 1. A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure. “Within the cincture of one wall.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Having or wearing a cincture or girdle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. climature. ] A climate. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Parliamentary Practice) See Closure, 5. [ 1913 Webster ]