a. [ Pref. anti- + Gr. "e`lmins, -inqos, worm, esp. a tapeworm, or mawworm. See also helminth] (Med.) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms. -- n. An anthelmintic remedy. [Written also anthelminthic.]
Syn. -- helminthic, parasiticidal [1913 Webster WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

a. Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

(Ceramics) A mode of printing on glazed ware. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. bi- + quintile: cf. F. biquintile. ] (Astron.) An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle -- that is, twice 72 degrees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Colocynth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Constraining; compulsory. [ R. ] “Any constraintive vow.” R. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Daintified p. pr. & vb. n. Daintifying. ] [ Dainty + -fy. ] To render dainty, delicate, or fastidious. “Daintified emotion.” Sat. rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a dainty manner; nicely; scrupulously; fastidiously; deliciously; prettily. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The daintiness and niceness of our captains Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

More notorious for the daintiness of the provision . . . than for the massiveness of the dish. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

The duke exeeded in the daintiness of his leg and foot, and the earl in the fine shape of his hands, Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. defeating one's expectations or hopes; failing to fulfill one's expectations or hopes; as, a disappointing result; a disappointing crop yield. [ PJC ]

n. the act of disappointing someone.
Syn. -- disappointment, dashing hopes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A hollow tile used in making drains; -- called also draining tile. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fainting fit, a fainting or swoon; syncope. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Slightly faint; somewhat faint. -- Faint"ish*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. Creating pictures using finger paint. [ PJC ]

n. The procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; as, glinting eyes; glinting water.
Syn. -- aglitter(predicate), fulgid, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, scintillescent, sparkling(prenominal), sparkly. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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

adv. In a hinting manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Ethology, Psychology) The learning of a behavioral pattern that occurs soon after birth or hatching in certain animals, in which a long-lasting response to an individual (such as a parent) or an object is rapidly acquired; it is particularly noted in the response of certain birds to the animal they first see after hatching, usually the parent, as in ducks who will follow the adult duck they first see. [ PJC ]

v. t. See Entice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Anat.) the innermost coat of an organ, such as a blood vessel. It usually consists of an endothelial layer of cells, backed by connective tissue and elastic tissue. [ PJC ]

n.; pl. Intimacies [ From Intimate. ] The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship.

Syn. -- Acquaintance; familiarity; fellowship; friendship. See Acquaintance. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to the intima. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Formerly intime, L. intimus, a superl. corresponding to the compar. interior: cf. F. intime. The form intimate is due to confusion with intimate, v. t. See Interior. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. “I knew from intimate impulse.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Near; close; direct; thorough; complete. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was honored with an intimate and immediate admission. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Close in friendship or acquaintance; familiar; confidential; as, an intimate friend.

Syn. -- Familiar; near; friendly; confidential. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An intimate friend or associate; a confidant. Gov. of the Tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Intimated p. pr. & vb. n. Intimating. ] [ L. intimatus, p. p. of intimare to put, bring, drive, or press into, to announce, make known, from intimus the inmost. See Intimate, a. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To announce; to declare; to publish; to communicate; to make known. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He, incontinent, did proclaim and intimate open war. E. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

So both conspiring 'gan to intimate
Each other's grief. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To suggest obscurely or indirectly; to refer to remotely; to give slight notice of; to hint; as, he intimated his intention of resigning his office. [ 1913 Webster ]

The names of simple ideas and substances, with the abstract ideas in the mind, intimate some real existence, from which was derived their original pattern. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an intimate manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. intimatio: cf. F. intimation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Announcement; declaration. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design. [ 1913 Webster ]

Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Intimate, a. ] Inward; internal; intimate. [ Obs. ] Sir K. Digby. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Intimidated p. pr. & vb. n. Intimidating ] [ LL. intimidatus, p. p. of intimidare to frighten; pref. in- in + timidus fearful, timid: cf. F. intimider. See Timid. ] To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast,
Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson.

Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; abash; deter; frighten; terrify; daunt; cow. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. made timid or fearful as by threats. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. frightened into submission or compliance.
Syn. -- browbeaten, bullied, cowed, hangdog. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. discouraging; inhibiting; deterring. Opposite of encouraging.
Syn. -- daunting. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. intimidation. ] The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king carried his measures in Parliament by intimidation. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending or serving to intimidate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. intinctio, fr. intingere to dip in; pref. in- in + tingere to tinge. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of tingeing or dyeing. Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) A method or practice of the administration of the sacrament by dipping the bread or wafer in the wine and administering both together. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. in- not + L. tinctus, p. p. of tingere to tinge ] The lack of the quality of coloring or tingeing other bodies. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. intus within. Cf. Extine. ] (Bot.) A transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen.

a., adv. See Entire, a., Entirely, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Entitle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Intituled p. pr. & vb. n. Intituling. ] [ Cf. F. intituler. See Entitle. ] To entitle; to give a title to. Selden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jointing machine, a planing machine for wood used in furniture and piano factories, etc. --
Jointing plane. See Jointer, 2. --
Jointing rule (Masonry), a long straight rule, used by bricklayers for securing straight joints and faces. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ AS. līnetwige. See Linnet. ] (Zool.) See Linnet. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Printing) A printing technique in which a lithographic image on an inked metal or stone plate is transferred first to a rubber sheet (usually on a cylinder) before transfer to the paper. Called also offset lithography. [ PJC ]

n. 1. The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fine Arts) The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Color laid on; paint. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A depicting by words; vivid representation in words. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Picture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. plaintif making complaint, plaintive; in Old French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See Plaint, and cf. Plaintive. ] (Law) One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to defendant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Plaintive. [ Obs. ] Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. plaintif. See Plaintiff, n. ] 1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. “The most plaintive ditty.” Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Painting) A theory or practice which is a further development, on more rigorously scientific lines, of the theory and practice of Impressionism, originated by George Seurat (1859-91), and carried on by Paul Signac (1863- -) and others. Its method is marked by the laying of pure primary colors in minute dots upon a white ground, any given line being produced by a variation in the proportionate quantity of the primary colors employed. This method is also known as (stippling). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]