n. One versed in æsthetics. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Africus, Africanus, fr. Afer African. ] Of or pertaining to Africa. [ 1913 Webster ]

African hemp, a fiber prepared from the leaves of the Sanseviera Guineensis, a plant found in Africa and India. --
African marigold, a tropical American plant (Tagetes erecta). --
African oak or
African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. [ 1913 Webster ]

African violet . --
African-American, see African-American. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry or their history or culture
Syn. -- Afro-American [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 an American whose ancestors were born in Africa, especially a United States citizen of African descent.
Syn. -- Afro-American, African, black, negro [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. an American whose ancestors were born in Africa.
Syn. -- African-American, African. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. 1 of or pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry or their history or culture.
Syn. -- African-American. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Named from Americus Vespucius. ] 1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the United States. “A young officer of the American navy.” Lyell. [ 1913 Webster ]

American ivy. See Virginia creeper. --
American Party (U. S. Politics), a party, about 1854, which opposed the influence of foreign-born citizens, and those supposed to owe allegiance to a foreign power. --
Native american Party (U. S. Politics), a party of principles similar to those of the American party. It arose about 1843, but soon died out. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

The name American must always exalt the pride of patriotism. Washington. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Angli the Angles, a Germanic tribe in Lower Germany. Cf. English. ] 1. English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A member of the Church of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whether Catholics, Anglicans, or Calvinists. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a restricted sense, a member of the High Church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the Church of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the English and Americans, or to the descendants of Englishmen in America. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an American who was born in England or whose ancestors were English. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. antelucanus; ante + lux light. ] Held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning. “Antelucan worship.” De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. Marshall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Opposed to what is Gallic or French. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. Armoricus, fr. Celtic ar on, at + mor sea. ] Of or pertaining to the northwestern part of France (formerly called Armorica, now Bretagne or Brittany), or to its people. -- n. The language of the Armoricans, a Celtic dialect which has remained to the present times. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A native of Armorica. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.
Syn. -- trash can, garbage can, wastebin, ashbin, dustbin, trash barrel, trash bin. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Barbican. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OE. barbican, barbecan, F. barbacane, LL. barbacana, barbicana, of uncertain origin: cf. Ar. barbakh aqueduct, sewer. F. barbacane also means, an opening to let out water, loophole. ] 1. (Fort.) A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. baracan, bouracan (cf. Pr. barracan, It. baracane, Sp. barragan, Pg. barregana, LL. barracanus), fr. Ar. barrakān a kind of black gown, perh. fr. Per. barak a garment made of camel's hair. ] A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica; basilical. [ 1913 Webster ]

There can be no doubt that the first churches in Constantinople were in the basilican form. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. boucan. See Buccaneer. ] 1. A wooden frame or grid for roasting, smoking, or drying meat over fire. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A place where meat is smoked. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. Buccaned meat. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ F. boucaner. See Buccaneer. ] To expose (meat) in strips to fire and smoke upon a buccan. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [ See Gan. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

With gentle words he can faile gree. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. & AS. canne; akin to D. Kan, G. Kanne, OHG. channa, Sw. Kanna, Dan. kande. ] 1. A drinking cup; a vessel for holding liquids. [ Shak. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Fill the cup and fill can,
Have a rouse before the morn. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A vessel or case of tinned iron or of sheet metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a milk can. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A can may be a cylinder open at the top, as for receiving the sliver from a carding machine, or with a removable cover or stopper, as for holding tea, spices, milk, oysters, etc., or with handle and spout, as for holding oil, or hermetically sealed, in canning meats, fruits, etc. The name is also sometimes given to the small glass or earthenware jar used in canning. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Canned p. pr. & vb. n. Canning. ] To preserve by putting in sealed cans [ U. S. ] “Canned meats” W. D. Howells. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canned goods, a general name for fruit, vegetables, meat, or fish, preserved in hermetically sealed cans.

v. t. & i. [ The transitive use is obsolete. ] [ imp. Could ] [ OE. cunnen, cannen (1st sing. pres. I can), to know, know how, be able, AS. cunnan, 1st sing. pres. ic cann or can, pl. cunnon, 1st sing. imp. cūðe (for cunðe); p. p. cūð (for cunð); akin to OS. Kunnan, D. Kunnen, OHG. chunnan, G. können, Icel. kunna, Goth. Kunnan, and E. ken to know. The present tense I can (AS. ic cann) was originally a preterit, meaning I have known or Learned, and hence I know, know how. √45. See Ken, Know; cf. Con, Cunning, Uncouth. ] 1. To know; to understand. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I can rimes of Robin Hood. Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

I can no Latin, quod she. Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the priest in surplice white,
That defunctive music can. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be able to do; to have power or influence. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The will of Him who all things can. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

For what, alas, can these my single arms? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mæcænas and Agrippa, who can most with Cæsar. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be able; -- followed by an infinitive without to; as, I can go, but do not wish to.

Syn. -- Can but, Can not but. It is an error to use the former of these phrases where the sens requires the latter. If we say, “I can but perish if I go, ” “But” means only, and denotes that this is all or the worst that can happen. When the apostle Peter said. “We can not but speak of the things which we have seen and heard.” he referred to a moral constraint or necessety which rested upon him and his associates; and the meaning was, We cannot help speaking, We cannot refrain from speaking. This idea of a moral necessity or constraint is of frequent occurrence, and is also expressed in the phrase, “I can not help it.” Thus we say. “I can not but hope, ” “I can not but believe, ” “I can not but think, ” “I can not but remark, ” etc., in cases in which it would be an error to use the phrase can but. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet he could not but acknowledge to himself that there was something calculated to impress awe, . . . in the sudden appearances and vanishings . . . of the masque De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tom felt that this was a rebuff for him, and could not but understand it as a left-handed hit at his employer. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. cassicus helmeted, fr. L. cassis a belmet. ] (Zool.) An American bird of the genus Cassicus, allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest; the crested oriole. The name is also sometimes given to the piping crow, an Australian bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrupt of conquian. ] A game of cards derived from conquian, played by two or more players with one or two full packs of cards. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an East Indian cereal grass (Eleusine coracana) whose seeds yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
Syn. -- finger millet, ragi, ragee, African millet, corakan, kurakkan, Eleusine coracana. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of or pertaining to Corsica (definition 2). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in Florence. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Dellacruscan School, a name given in satire to a class of affected English writers, most of whom lived in Florence, about a. d. 1785. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. [ NL. Dominicanus, fr. Dominicus, Dominic, the founder: cf. F. Dominicain. ] Of or pertaining to St. Dominic (Dominic de Guzman), or to the religious communities named from him. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dominican nuns, an order of nuns founded by St. Dominic, and chiefly employed in teaching. --
Dominican tertiaries the third order of St. Dominic. See Tertiary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zoöl.) Relating to the Entomostraca. -- n. One of the Entomostraca. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Etruscus. ] Of or relating to Etruria. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Etruria. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. [ Europe + Afric, African. ] 1. (Geog.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Zoögeography) Pert. to or designating a region including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the Sahara. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. Of European and African descent. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Mining) Soft clayey matter in the vein, or surrounding it. [ Written also flookan, flukan, and fluccan. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. Franciscus Francis: cf. F. franciscain. ] (R. C. Ch.) Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans. [ 1913 Webster ]

Franciscan Brothers, pious laymen who devote themselves to useful works, such as manual labor schools, and other educational institutions; -- called also Brothers of the Third Order of St. Francis. --
Franciscan Nuns, nuns who follow the rule of St. Francis, esp. those of the Second Order of St. Francis, -- called also Poor Clares or Minoresses. --
Franciscan Tertiaries, the Third Order of St. Francis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (R.C.Ch.) A monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. They are called also Friars Minor; and in England, Gray Friars, because they wear a gray habit. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Gallicanus: cf. F. gallican. ] Of or pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallic; French; as, the Gallican church or clergy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

. An American who is referred to by a hyphenated term with the first word indicating an origin in a foreign country, and the second term being “American”, as Irish-American, Italian-American, African-American, Asian-American. Used in reference to Americans of foreign birth or ancestry. When used of Americans of European ancestry, it is often used to refer to those who have a strong attachment to the ancestral country or its culture. It implies that the individual is imperfectly assimilated into American culture, and is sometimes used derogatively. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to Hyrcania, an ancient country or province of Asia, southeast of the Caspian (which was also called the Hyrcanian) Sea. “The Hyrcan tiger.” “Hyrcanian deserts.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the Incas. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Indigo. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Chem.) A glucoside (C14H17NO6) obtained from woad (indigo plant, Isatis Tinctoria) and other plants (see indigo), as a yellow or light brown sirup. When purified it is obtained as spear-shaped crystals. It has a nauseous bitter taste. By the action of acids, enzymes, etc., it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo. Chemically it is the 3-glucoside of indole, H-indol-3-yl-β-D-glucopyranoside. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. (Physiol. Chem.) An indigo-forming substance, found in urine, and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin). Chemically, it is indoxyl sulphate of potash, C8H6NSO4K, and is derived from the indol formed in the alimentary canal. Called also uroxanthin. [ 1913 Webster ]