n. [ F. communisme, fr. commun common. ] A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ At different times, and in different countries, various schemes pertaining to socialism in government and the conditions of domestic life, as well as in the distribution of wealth, have been called communism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. communiste. ] 1. An advocate for the theory or practice of communism. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A supporter of the commune of Paris. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to communism or communists; as, communistic theories. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Living or having their nests in common, as certain birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without penal restraint; not punishable. [ R. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who describes the fauna of country; a naturalist. Gilbert White. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., a rope. ] A cord; specifically, the umbilical cord or navel string. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as immunization. [ Chiefly Brit. ]
Syn. -- immunization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. luna moon + E. solar: cf. F. lunisolaire. ] Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lunisolar precession (Astron.), that portion of the annual precession of the equinoxes which depends on the joint action of the sun and moon. --
Lunisolar year, a period of time, at the end of which, in the Julian calendar, the new and full moons and the eclipses recur on the same days of the week and month and year as in the previous period. It consists of 532 common years, being the least common multiple of the numbers of years in the cycle of the sun and the cycle of the moon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. luna moon + sistere to cause to stand. Cf. Solstice. ] (Astron.) The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , prop. n. [ Cf. F. neptinien, neptuniste. ] (Geol.) One who adopts the Neptunian theory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. opportunisme. ] The art or practice of taking advantage of opportunities or circumstances, or of seeking immediate advantage with little regard for ultimate consequences. [ Recent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. opportuniste. ] One who advocates or practices opportunism. [ Recent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit; practising opportunism. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- opportunist, timeserving. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Med.) Causing disease only when the immune system of the host has been weakened, or other damage to the host provides special opportunity for invasion; -- of microorganisms or infectious diseases; as, opportunistic pathogens may infect a burn site; AIDS predisposes a patient to opportunistic infection. [ PJC ]

a. Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business. [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Punished p. pr. & vb. n. Punishing. ] [ OE. punischen, F. punir, from L. punire, punitum, akin to poena punishment, penalty. See Pain, and -ish. ] 1. To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience. [ 1913 Webster ]

A greater power
Now ruled him, punished in the shape he sinned. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To injure, as by beating; to pommel. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To deal with roughly or harshly; -- chiefly used with regard to a contest; as, our troops punished the enemy. [ Colloq. or Slang ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Syn. -- To chastise; castigate; scourge; whip; lash; correct; discipline. See Chasten. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. punissable. ] Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses. [ 1913 Webster ]

That time was, when to be a Protestant, to be a Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Pun"ish*a*ble*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. One who inflicts punishment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of punishing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense. [ 1913 Webster ]

I never gave them condign punishment. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rewards and punishments of another life. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Severe, rough, or disastrous treatment. [ Colloq. or Slang ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Uni- + septate. ] (Bot.) Having but one septum, or partition; -- said of two-celled fruits, such as the silicles of cruciferous plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Uni- + serial. ] Having only one row or series. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Uni- + seriate. ] Having one line or series; uniserial. -- U`ni*se"ri*ate*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. [ Uni- + sexual: cf. F. unisexuel. ] (Biol.) Having one sex only, as plants which have the male and female flowers on separate individuals, or animals in which the sexes are in separate individuals; diœcious; -- distinguished from bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Diœcious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Uni- + silicate. ] (Min.) A salt of orthosilicic acid, H4SiO4; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen atoms united to the basic metals and silicon respectively is 1:1; for example, Mg2SiO4 or 2MgO.SiO2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. unisonus having the same sound; L. unus one + sonus a sound: cf. F. unisson, It. unisono. See One, and Sound a noise. ] 1. Harmony; agreement; concord; union. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) Identity in pitch; coincidence of sounds proceeding from an equality in the number of vibrations made in a given time by two or more sonorous bodies. Parts played or sung in octaves are also said to be in unison, or in octaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ If two cords of the same substance have equal length, thickness, and tension, they are said to be in unison, and their sounds will be in unison. Sounds of very different qualities and force may be in unison, as the sound of a bell may be in unison with a sound of a flute. Unison, then, consists in identity of pitch alone, irrespective of quality of sound, or timbre, whether of instruments or of human voices. A piece or passage is said to be sung or played in unison when all the voices or instruments perform the same part, in which sense unison is contradistinguished from harmony. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A single, unvaried. [ R. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

In unison, in agreement; agreeing in tone; in concord. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. It. unisono. See Unison, n. ] 1. Sounding alone. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ sounds ] intermixed with voice,
Choral or unison. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) Sounded alike in pitch; unisonant; unisonous; as, unison passages, in which two or more parts unite in coincident sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being in unison; unisonant. -- U*nis"o*nal*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ See Unisonant. ] Accordance of sounds; unison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Uni- + sonant. See Unison. ] Being in unison; having the same degree of gravity or acuteness; sounded alike in pitch. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Unison. ] Being in unison; unisonant. Busby. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. pl.; sing. Zuñi /sing>. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Pueblo Indians occupying a village in New Mexico, on the Zuñi River. [ 1913 Webster ]