v. t. [ L. abstergere, abstersum; ab, abs + tergere to wipe. Cf. F absterger. ] To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge. [ R. ] Quincy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. abstergens, p. pr. of abstergere. ] Serving to cleanse, detergent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A substance used in cleansing; a detergent; as, soap is an abstergent. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. producing or activated by epinephrine or adrenaline an adrenergic nerve fiber [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aftergame at Irish, an ancient game very nearly resembling backgammon. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown; aftermath. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A second growth or crop, or (metaphorically) development. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to allergens or allergenicity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. causing an allergy or an allergic reaction. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to allergy. allergic reaction [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. 1 having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibilty especially to a specific factor allergic children
Syn. -- hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitized, supersensitive, supersensitized [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a physician skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of allergies. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. hypersensitivity to a particular substance. “an allergy to bee venom so severe that a second sting may be fatal” [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Ambergris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ambre gris, i. e., gray amber; F. gris gray, which is of German origin: cf. OS. grîs, G. greis, gray-haired. See Amber. ] A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212° Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL. anergia, fr. Gr. &unr_;- not + &unr_; work. ] Lack of energy; inactivity. -- An*er"gic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

‖n. [ L., Thou shalt sprinkle. ] (R. C. Ch.) (a) The service or ceremony of sprinkling with holy water. (b) The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an aspergill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Aspergillum + -form. ] (Bot.) Resembling the aspergillum in form; as, an aspergilliform stigma. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ LL. aspergillum, fr. L. aspergere. See Asperse, v. t. ] 1. The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people. [ Also written aspergillus. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) See Wateringpot shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] An inn. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a region in central France. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family inclusing the mole rats and sand rats.
Syn. -- family Bathyergidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genus consisting of the mole rats.
Syn. -- genus Bathyergus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ √95. See Barrow hill, and cf. Iceberg. ] A large mass or hill, as of ice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glittering bergs of ice. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small wrasse (Tautogolabrus adspersus), common in north Atantic coastal waters of the U. S.; -- also called the cunner.
Syn. -- cunner. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. bergamote, fr. It. bergamotta; prob. a corruption of Turk. beg armūdi a lord's pear. ] 1. (Bot.) (a) A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit. (b) A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The essence or perfume made from the fruit. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A variety of pear. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot. [ 1913 Webster ]

The better hand . . . gives the nose its bergamot. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wild bergamot (Bot.), an American herb of the Mint family (Monarda fistulosa). [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. [ Berg, for burrow + gander a male goose? Cf. G. bergente, Dan. gravgaas. ] (Zool.) A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. bergerete, F. berger a shepherd. ] A pastoral song. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. beorg. ] A hill. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Barmaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. berg mountain + mehl meal. ] (Min.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Barmote. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G., lit., mountain gap. ] (Phys. Geog.) The crevasse or series of crevasses, usually deep and often broad, frequently occurring near the head of a mountain glacier, about where the névé field joins the valley portion of the glacier. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ G., lit., mountain stick. ] A long pole with a spike at the end, used in climbing mountains; an alpenstock. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Zool.) The Norway haddock. See Rosefish. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. Heb. bnē hargem sons of thunder. -- an appellation given by Christ to two of his disciples (James and John). See Mark iii. 17. ] Any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. L. cera wax. ] A wax candle used in religous rites. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., dim. of clerc. See Clerk. ] A chorister boy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Learned; erudite; clerical. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; clerkily; learned. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. clergie, clergi, clerge, OF. clergie, F. clergie (fr. clerc clerc, fr. L. clericus priest) confused with OF. clergié, F. clergé, fr. LL. clericatus office of priest, monastic life, fr. L. clericus priest, LL. scholar, clerc. Both the Old French words meant clergy, in sense 1, the former having also sense 2. See Clerk. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Learning; also, a learned profession. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sophictry . . . rhetoric, and other cleargy. Guy of Warwick. [ 1913 Webster ]

Put their second sons to learn some clergy. State Papers (1515). [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The privilege or benefit of clergy. [ 1913 Webster ]

If convicted of a clergyable felony, he is entitled equally to his clergy after as before conviction. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Benefit of clergy (Eng., Law), the exemption of the persons of clergymen from criminal process before a secular judge -- a privilege which was extended to all who could read, such persons being, in the eye of the law, clerici, or clerks. This privilege was abridged and modified by various statutes, and finally abolished in the reign of George IV. (1827). --
Regular clergy,
Secular clergy See Regular, n., and Secular, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy; as, a clergyable felony. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Clergymen An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

. See under Sergeant. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] 1. The office or lodge of a concierge or janitor. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A celebrated prison, attached to the Palais de Justice in Paris. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Converged p. pr. & vb. n. Converging ] [ Pref. con- + L. vergere to turn, incline; cf. F. converger. See Verge, v. i. ] To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mountains converge into a single ridge. Jefferson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to tend to one point; to cause to incline and approach nearer together. [ 1913 Webster ]

I converge its rays to a focus of dazzling brilliancy. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Cf. F. convergence. ] 1. The condition or quality of converging; tendency to one point; the occurrence of two or more things coming together. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit.
Syn. -- convergency. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena.
Syn. -- overlap, intersection. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. the act of converging (coming closer).
Syn. -- converging, convergency. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

5. (Biol.) a similarity of form or function in two or more organisms caused by evolutionary adaptations to a similarity in the environment, rather than to a common heredity. [ PJC ]

The convergence or divergence of the rays falling on the pupil. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. convergent. ] tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging. [ 1913 Webster ]

As many rays of light, as conveniently can be let in, and made convergent. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

The vast dome of its cathedral . . . directing its convergent curves to heaven. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]