v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Attuned p. pr. & vb. n. Attuning. ] [ Pref. ad- + tune. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To arrange fitly; to make accordant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wake to energy each social aim,
Attuned spontaneous to the will of Jove. Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See Alnage. ] A French cloth measure, of different parts of the country (at Paris, 0.95 of an English ell); -- now superseded by the meter. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To befall. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I wish all good befortune you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a sultanate in Northwestern Borneo. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to Brunei; as, Bruneian oil production. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a native or inhabitant of Brunei. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. being or having dark-colored skin and hair; contrasted with blond. [ Narrower terms: adust, sunburned burned brown by the sun; black, brown; black-haired, dark-haired; browned, suntanned, tanned; grizzled, roan; nutbrown ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. brunet, brunette, brownish, dim. of brun, brune, brown, fr. OHG. br&unr_;n. See Brown, a. ] A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion. -- a. Having a dark tint. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Weary; mournful. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n., or }. [ Prob. fr. a native name in Honduras. ] A Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm (Attalea cohune), the very large and hard nuts of which are turned to make fancy articles, and also yield an oil used as a substitute for coconut oil. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends. [ 1913 Webster ]

For days of happy commune dead. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Communed p. pr. & vb. n. Communing. ] [ OF. communier, fr. L. communicare to communicate, fr. communis common. See Common, and cf. Communicate. ] 1. To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel. [ 1913 Webster ]

I would commune with you of such things
That want no ear but yours. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord's supper. [ 1913 Webster ]

To commune under both kinds. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

To commune with one's self or
To commune with one's heart, to think; to reflect; to meditate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. commun. See Common. ] 1. The commonalty; the common people. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

In this struggle -- to use the technical words of the time -- of the “commune”, the general mass of the inhabitants, against the “prudhommes” or “wiser” few. J. R. Green. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small territorial district in France under the government of a mayor and municipal council; also, the inhabitants, or the government, of such a district. See Arrondissement. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Absolute municipal self-government. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. a group of people living together as an organized community and owning in common most or all of their property and possessions, and sharing work, income, and many other aspects of daily life. Such sommunities are oftten organized based on religious or idealistic principles, and they sometimes have unconventional lifestyles, practises, or moral codes. [ PJC ]

The Commune of Paris, or
The Commune (a) The government established in Paris (1792-94) by a usurpation of supreme power on the part of representatives chosen by the communes; the period of its continuance is known as the “Reign of Terror.” (b) The revolutionary government, modeled on the commune of 1792, which the communists, so called, attempted to establish in 1871. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. co- + unus one. ] To combine or unite. [ Obs. ] “Co-uned together.” Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ L. cuneus a wege. See Coin. ] Relating to a wedge; wedge-shaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L.cuneatus, fr. cuneus a wege SeeCoin. ] Wedge-shaped; (Bot.), wedge-shaped, with the point at the base; as, a cuneate leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Cuneiform. “Cuneatic decipherment.” Sayce. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Fort.) A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. cuneus a wedge + -form: cf. F. cunei-forme. See Coin. ] 1. Wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; -- especially applied to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. See Arrowheaded. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to, or versed in, the ancient wedge-shaped characters, or the inscriptions in them. “A cuneiform scholar.” Rawlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. 1. The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. I. Taylor (The Alphabet). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) (a) One of the three tarsal bones supporting the first, second third metatarsals. They are usually designated as external, middle, and internal, or ectocuniform, mesocuniform, and entocuniform, respectively. (b) One of the carpal bones usually articulating with the ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A déjeuner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Take a déjeuné of muskadel and eggs. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. déjeuner breakfast, as a verb, to breakfast. Cf. Dinner. ] A breakfast; sometimes, also, a lunch or collation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. demi- lune. ] 1. (Fort.) A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. See Ravelin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Each crescent is made of polyhedral cells which under some circumstances are supposed to give rise to new salivary cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To put out of tune. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ The same word as down: cf. D. duin. See Down a bank of sand. ] A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds. [ Written also dun. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Three great rivers, the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, had deposited their slime for ages among the dunes or sand banks heaved up by the ocean around their mouths. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Ecto- + cuneiform, cuniform. ] (Anat.) One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Ento- + cuneiform, cuniform. ] (Anat.) One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tune; to intone. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of boas consisting of anacondas, large South American snakes that may grow to 25 feet.
Syn. -- genus Eunectes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>v. t. [ Cf. F. excommuier. See Excommunicate. ] To exclude from participation in; to excommunicate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Poets . . . were excommuned Plato's common wealth Gayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to adjust carefully and precisely so as to achieve optimum performance or efficiency; as, The mechanic fine-tuned the engine. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. fortune, L. fortuna; akin to fors, fortis, chance, prob. fr. ferre to bear, bring. See Bear to support, and cf. Fortuitous. ] 1. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life. [ 1913 Webster ]

'T is more by fortune, lady, than by merit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune. [ 1913 Webster ]

You, who men's fortunes in their faces read. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

His father dying, he was driven to seek his fortune. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.

Syn. -- Chance; accident; luck; fate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fortune book, a book supposed to reveal future events to those who consult it. Crashaw. --
Fortune hunter, one who seeks to acquire wealth by marriage. --
Fortune teller, one who professes to tell future events in the life of another. --
Fortune telling, the practice or art of professing to reveal future events in the life of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF. fortuner, L. fortunare. See Fortune, n. ] 1. To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To provide with a fortune. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To presage; to tell the fortune of. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To fall out; to happen. [ 1913 Webster ]

It fortuned the same night that a Christian, serving a Turk in the camp, secretely gave the watchmen warning. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. small genus of shrubs called kumquats, native to South China, producing small ovoid orangelike fruits called kumquats.
Syn. -- genus Fortunella. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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]

a. [ L. funebris belonging to a funeral, fr. funus funeral. ] Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal. [ Obs. ] [ Written also funebral. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Funebrial. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. funeralia, prop. neut. pl. of funeralis of a funeral, fr. L. funus, funeris, funeral: cf. F. funérailles. ] 1. The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

King James his funerals were performed very solemnly in the collegiate church at Westminster. Euller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment. “The long funerals.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A funeral sermon; -- usually in the plural. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Mr. Giles Lawrence preached his funerals. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. funeralis. See Funeral, n. ] Pertaining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Funeral pile or
Funeral pyre, a structure of combustible material, upon which a dead body is placed to be reduced to ashes, as part of a funeral rite; a pyre.

-- Fu"ner*al*ly, adv. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]

n. An establishment, usually commercial, where the bodies of dead persons are prepared for viewing before burial or cremation; called also funeral parlor, mortuary, funeral chapel and informally, undertaker's. The body may or may not be preserved by embalming before viewing or burial, and in some cases the body is not exposed for viewing, though present in a casket. Often, some form of memorial service is held for the deceased at the funeral home, where friends and relatives may come to pay their respects to the dead, and express condolence to the family. The work of preparation of the body and many other arrangements related to the funeral and burial are carried out by an undertaker or mortician who manages the funeral home. [ PJC ]

n. Same as funeral home. [ PJC ]

adj. of or pertaining to a funeral or to burial of human remains; as, funerary urn. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ L. funeratus, p. p. of funerare to funerate, fr. funus. See Funeral. ] To bury with funeral rites. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. funeratio. ] The act of burying with funeral rites. [ Obs. ] Knatchbull. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. funereus, fr. fentus a funeral. ] Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn; as, at a funereal pace. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. Longfellow.

-- Fu*ne"re*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. funestus, fr. funus a funeral, destruction: cf. F. funeste. ] Lamentable; doleful. [ R. ] “Funest and direful deaths.” Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

A forerunner of something very funest. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. immunis. See Immunity. ] 1. Exempt; protected. -- Im*mu"nize v. t. [1913 Webster]

2. (Med.) Protected from disease due to the action of the immune system, especially by having been inoculated against or previously exposed to a disease. [PJC]

3. (Med.) Of or pertaining to the immune system or the components of the immune system. [PJC]

4. Not responsive; as, immune to suggestion. [PJC]

n. One who is immune; esp., a person who is immune from a disease by reason of previous affection with the disease or inoculation. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Biol.) The complex of cells, cellular processes, and substances within and diffused throughout an organism which allow the organism to counteract or destroy noxious foreign substances introduced into the body, destroy infectious agents such as bacteria and viruses, destroy malignant cells, and remove cellular debris, thus protecting the organism against many of the potentially harmful external agents and internal events that could lead to sickness or death. The system has numerous interacting components, including circulating antibodies, antibody-producing cells, white blood cells and lymphokines, lymph tissue and lymph nodes, and stem cells which may differentiate into other types of cell, together with the thymus and spleen. The system is responsible for the phenomenon of immunity{ 3 }. See also immunoglobulin and antibody. [ PJC ]