n. 1. a Philippine dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish; served with rice. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Etymology unknown. Cf. Kimbo. ] With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward. “With one arm akimbo.” Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Ambos [ LL. ambo, Gr. &unr_;, any rising, a raised stage, pulpit: cf. F. ambon. ] A large pulpit or reading desk, in the early Christian churches. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Zool.) A small lemuroid mammal (Arctocebus Calabarensis) of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Bilboes 1. A rapier; a sword; so named from Bilbao, in Spain. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships. [ 1913 Webster ]

Methought I lay
Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. [ Cf. W. bw, an interj. of threatening or frightening; n., terror, fear, dread. ] An exclamation used to startle or frighten. [ Spelt also boh and boo. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An anthropoid ape (Pan paniscus), resembling but smaller than the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes); -- called also pygmy chimpanzee. It is found in the forests of Zaire. Its genome is the closest known to humans, differing by less than 2% in nucleotide sequence.
Syn. -- pygmy chimpanzee, pygmy chimp. [ PJC ]

n.; pl. Buboes [ LL. bubo the groin, a swelling in the groin, Gr. boubw`n. ] (Med.) An inflammation, with enlargement, of a lymphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small South American spiny tree (Erythrina crista-galli) with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered.
Syn. -- crybaby tree, cry-baby tree, common coral tree, Erythrina crista-galli. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. (Geography) The (official) capital city of Sri Lanka. Population (2000) = 1, 994, 000. [ PJC ]

n. (Med.) See Calumba. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) See Calumba. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small band of jazz musicians.
Syn. -- jazz band, jazz group. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. Cramp, a., difficult. ] 1. A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme. [ 1913 Webster ]

I saw in one corner . . . a cluster of men and women, diverting themselves with a game at crambo. I heard several double rhymes . . . which raised a great deal of mirth. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A word rhyming with another word. [ 1913 Webster ]

His similes in order set
And every crambo he could get. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dumb crambo, a game in which one party of players give a word which rhymes with another, which last to be guessed by the opposing party, who represent in dumb show what they think it to be. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Humorously formed from gaze. ] A summerhouse so situated as to command an extensive prospect. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Gumbo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also gombo. ] 1. A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup. Especially, A thick stew made with chicken (chicken gumbo), or seafood (seafood gumbo), thickened with okra or file, and also containing greens and often hot spices; it is particularly popular in Louisiana. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The okra plant or its pods. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A tropical American tree (Bursera simaruba) yielding a reddish resin used in cements and varnishes.
Syn. -- Bursera simaruba. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Hobos or Hoboes /plu>. [ Of uncertain origin. ] A professional tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living. [ U. S. ] -- Ho"bo*ism n.
Syn. -- tramp; bum; vagrant; knight of the road. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

a. [ From the name Jumbo, given to a very large elephant exhibited as part of P. T. Barnum's circus in 1882. ] Very large. [ PJC ]

n. Any object which is a very large example of its class. [ PJC ]

a. [ Cf. Akimbo. ] Crooked; arched; bent. [ Written also kimbow. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A bird of Madagascar (Leptosomus discolor), the only living type of a family allied to the rollers. It has a pair of loral plumes. The male is glossy green above, with metallic reflections; the female is spotted with brown and black. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Jamaican E. limba to bend, fr. E. limber (1950) MW10 ] A West Indian dance contest, in which participants must dance under a pole which is lowered successively until only one participant can successfully pass under, without falling. It is often performed at celebrations, such as weddings. [ PJC ]

{ } n. [ L. limbus border, edge in limbo on the border. Cf. Limb border. ] 1. (Scholastic Theol.) An spiritual region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the last judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

As far from help as Limbo is from bliss. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A Limbo large and broad, since called
The Paradise of fools. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The limbus patrum was considered as a place for the souls of good men who lived before the coming of our Savior. The limbus infantium was said to be a similar place for the souls of unbaptized infants. To these was added, in the popular belief, the limbus fatuorum, or fool's paradise, regarded as a receptacle of all vanity and nonsense. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: A state of waiting, or uncertainty, in which final judgment concerning the outcome of a decision is postponed, perhaps indefinitely; neglect for an indefinite time; as, the proposal was left in limbo while opponents and proponents refused to compromise. [ PJC ]

4. (Anat.) A border or margin; as, the limbus of the cornea. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Pg. ] A yellowish aromatic bark, used in medicine and perfumery, said to be from the South American shrub Croton Malambo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. fr. the native name of an African god. ] 1. Among the Mandingos of the western Sudan, a bugbear by means of which the women are terrified and disciplined by societies of the men, one of whom assumes a masquerade for the purpose; hence, loosely, any Negro idol, fetish, or bugaboo. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

The miserable Mumbo Jumbo they paraded. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An object of superstitious homage and fear. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Incomprehensible or senseless language, usually intended to avoid answering plainly, confuse a listener, or obscure an issue. [ PJC ]

4. Language so arcane or obscure as to be unintelligible to the listener. [ PJC ]

prop. n. (Babylonian mythology) The Babylonian god of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
Syn. -- Nabu. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖prop. n. [ Ceylonese word. ] (Bot.) A genus of great water lilies. The North American species is Nelumbo lutea, the Asiatic is the sacred lotus, Nelumbo speciosa. [ Written also Nelumbium. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., I shall please, fut. of placere to please. ] 1. (R. C. Ch.) The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A prescription with no pharmacological activity given to a patient to humor or satisfy the desire for medical treatment. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) a dose of a compound having no pharmacological activity given to a subject in a medical experiment as part of a control experiment in a test of the effectiveness of another, active pharmacological agent. [ PJC ]

To sing placebo, to agree with one in his opinion; to be complaisant to. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Grog. [ Obs. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. zambo bandy-legged, the child of a negro and an Indian; prob. of African origin. ] 1. A negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; -- formerly used colloquially or with humorous intent, but now considered offensive or racist by African-Americans. [ Derogatory and offensive ] A children's book named Little Black Sambo was at one time popular in elementary schools, but the book has been removed from reading lists in many American schools due to the development of a reduced acceptance of patronizing depictions of negros, as well as the negative associations of the word itself. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

2. In Central America, an Indian and negro half-breed, or mixed blood. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Sp. zambo, sambo. ] A colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. théorbe, téorbe, formerly tuorbe, tiorbe, It. tiorba. ] (Mus.) An instrument made like large lute, but having two necks, with two sets of pegs, the lower set holding the strings governed by frets, while to the upper set were attached the long bass strings used as open notes. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A larger form of theorbo was also called the archlute, and was used chiefly, if not only, as an accompaniment to the voice. Both have long fallen into disuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. turbo, -inis, a top. See Turbine. ] (Zool.) Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus Turbo or family Turbinidae, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Umbones E. Umbos [ L. ] 1. The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the larvae of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) One of the lateral prominences just above the hinge of a bivalve shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Zambos [ See Sambo. ] The child of a mulatto and a negro; also, the child of an Indian and a negro; colloquially or humorously, a negro; a sambo. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) A kind of domestic cattle reared in Asia for its flesh and milk. It is supposed to be a hybrid between the zebu and the yak. [ 1913 Webster ]