n. [ L. aucupatio, fr. auceps, contr. for aviceps; avis bird + capere to take. ] Birdcatching; fowling. [ Obs. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ See Upas. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. -ties /plu>. [ Hind. chapātī. ] A kind of griddlecake of unleavened bread, used among the natives of India. [ Anglo-Indian ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ F. ] Culpable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. croupe hind quarters. ] (Man.) A leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs toward his belly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Croupy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being unemployed; want of occupation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. drupacé. ] (Bot.) Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Drupaceous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being duped. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; comfort, happy condition of the soul. See Eu-, and Pathetic. ] Right feeling. [ R. ] Harris.

{ } n. (Med.) A principle or mixture of principles extracted from various species of Eupatorium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Eupator, king of Pontus, said to have used it as a medicine. ] (Bot.) A genus of perennial, composite herbs including hemp agrimony, boneset, throughwort, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. e'y^ well + &unr_; father. ] One well born, or of noble birth.

n. [ Prob. fr. Pg. garupa crupper. Cf. Grouper the fish. ] (Zool.) One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See Rockfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of occupation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Jeopardy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A great Brazilian palm tree (Raphia tædigera), used by the natives for many purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. nuncupatus, p. p. of nuncupare to nuncupate, prob. fr. nomen name + capere to take. ] 1. To declare publicly or solemnly; to proclaim formally. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In whose presence did St. Peter nuncupate it? Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dedicate by declaration; to inscribe; as, to nuncupate a book. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. nuncupatio. ] The act of nuncupating. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. nuncupativus nominal: cf. F. nuncupatif. ] 1. Publicly or solemnly declaratory. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Nominal; existing only in name. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Oral; not written. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nuncupative will or
Nuncupative testament, a will or testament made by word of mouth only, before witnesses, as by a soldier or seaman, and depending on oral testimony for proof. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Nuncupative; oral. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Occupant. ] 1. The act of taking or holding possession, especially of real property or rental property; possession; occupation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state or condition of being occupied; as, occupancy by more than 250 people is dangerous and unlawful. [ PJC ]

3. The period of time during which one occupies a property. [ PJC ]

Title by occupancy (Law), a right of property acquired by taking the first possession of a thing, or possession of a thing which belonged to nobody, and appropriating it. Blackstone. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. occupans, p. pr. of occupare: cf. F. occupant. See Occupy. ] 1. One who occupies, or takes possession; one who has the actual use or possession, or is in possession, of a thing; as, the occupant of the apartment is not at home. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word, in law, sometimes signifies one who takes the first possession of a thing that has no owner. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A prostitute. [ Obs. ] Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. occupatus, p. p. of occupare. See Occupy. ] To occupy. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. occupatio: cf. F. occupation. ] 1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which occupies or engages the time and attention. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. Specfically: The principal business of one's life; the principal work by which one earns one's livelihood; vocation; employment; profession; calling; trade; avocation; as, these days many people continue to practice their occupation well into their seventies. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Absence of occupation is not rest. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Occupation bridge (Engin.), a bridge connecting the parts of an estate separated by a railroad, a canal, or an ordinary road. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Occupancy; possession; tenure; use; employment; avocation; engagement; vocation; calling; office; trade; profession. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Of or pertaining to an occupation{ 3 } or occupations{ 3 }; caused by or incidental to an occupation{ 3 }; as, occupational hazard; occupational illness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Anat.) A ligament, of fascia, extending, in most mammals, from the ventral side of the ilium to near the symphysis of the pubic bones. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Preoccupate. ] The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. praeoccupatus, p. p. of praeoccupare to preoccupy. See Preoccupy. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To anticipate; to take before. [ Obs. ] “Fear preoccupateth it [ death ].” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To prepossess; to prejudice. [ Obs. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. praeoccupatio: cf. F. préoccupation. ] 1. The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anticipation of objections. [ R. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Pseudopupæ E. Pseudopupas [ NL. See Pseudo-, and Pupa. ] (Zool.) A stage intermediate between the larva and pupa of bees and certain other hymenopterous insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. L. Pupæ E. Pupas [ L. pupa girl. doll, puppet, fem. of pupus. Cf. Puppet. ] 1. (Zool.) Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Among insects belonging to the higher orders, as the Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, the pupa is inactive and takes no food; in the lower orders it is active and takes food, and differs little from the imago except in the rudimentary state of the sexual organs, and of the wings in those that have wings when adult. The term pupa is sometimes applied to other invertebrates in analogous stages of development. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Coarctate pupa, or
Obtected pupa, a pupa which is incased in the dried-up skin of the larva, as in many Diptera. --
Masked pupa, a pupa whose limbs are bound down and partly concealed by a chitinous covering, as in Lepidoptera. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to a pupa, or the condition of a pupa. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Zool.) To become a pupa. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) the act of becoming a pupa. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The young of an insect in a stage between the larva and pupa. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having a pallial sinus. See under Sinus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Skr. stūpa. ] A mound or monument commemorative of Buddha. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] (Med.) See 1st Stupe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of American Indian origin. ] Boiled Indian meal; hasty pudding; mush. [ Written also sepawn, sepon, and suppawn. ] [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the native name. ] (Zool.) A South American tinamou (Crypturus tataupa). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any one of the tupaiids. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic insectivores of the family Tupaiidae, somewhat resembling squirrels in size and arboreal habits. The nose is long and pointed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Malay pūhn-ūpas; pūhn a tree + ūpas poison. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Bot.) A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas. [ 1913 Webster ]

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2. A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is derived from the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., the hoopoe. ] (Zool.) A genus of birds which includes the common hoopoe. [ 1913 Webster ]