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Ware (gcide) | Ware \Ware\, n. [AS. waru caution.]
The state of being ware or aware; heed. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
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Ware (gcide) | Ware \Ware\, v. t. [As. warian.]
To make ware; to warn; to take heed of; to beware of; to
guard against. "Ware that I say." --Chaucer.
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God . . . ware you for the sin of avarice. --Chaucer.
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Then ware a rising tempest on the main. --Dryden.
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Ware (gcide) | Ware \Ware\, obs. imp. of Wear.
Wore.
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Ware (gcide) | Ware \Ware\, v. t. (Naut.)
To wear, or veer. See Wear.
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Ware (gcide) | Ware \Ware\, n. [AS. w[=a]r.] (Bot.)
Seaweed. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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Ware goose (Zool.), the brant; -- so called because it
feeds on ware, or seaweed. [Prov. Eng.]
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Ware (gcide) | Ware \Ware\, n. [OE. ware, AS. waru; akin to D. waar, G. waare,
Icel. & Sw. vara, Dan. vare; and probably to E. worth, a. See
Worth, a.]
Articles of merchandise; the sum of articles of a particular
kind or class; style or class of manufactures; especially, in
the plural, goods; commodities; merchandise. "Retails his
wares at wakes." --Shak. "To chaffer with them and eke to
sell them their ware." --Chaucer.
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It the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on
the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of
them on the Sabbath, or on the holy day. --Neh. x. 31.
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Note: Although originally and properly a collective noun, it
admits of a plural form, when articles of merchandise
of different kinds are meant. It is often used in
composition; as in hardware, glassware, tinware, etc.
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Ware (gcide) | Ware \Ware\, a. [OE. war, AS. w[ae]r. [root]142. See Wary.]
A ware; taking notice; hence, wary; cautious; on one's guard.
See Beware. [Obs.]
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She was ware and knew it bet [better] than he.
--Chaucer.
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Of whom be thou ware also. --2. Tim. iv.
15.
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He is ware enough; he is wily and circumspect for
stirring up any sedition. --Latimer.
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The only good that grows of passed fear
Is to be wise, and ware of like again. --Spenser.
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-ware (foldoc) | -ware
A suffix used to form terms for classes of software. For
example, careware, crippleware, crudware, freeware,
fritterware, guiltware, liveware, meatware, nagware,
payware, psychedelicware, shareware, shelfware,
vaporware, wetware.
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-ware (jargon) | -ware
suff.
[from ‘software’] Commonly used to form jargon terms for classes of
software. For examples, see annoyware, careware, crippleware, {
crudware}, freeware, fritterware, guiltware, liveware, meatware,
payware, psychedelicware, shareware, shelfware, vaporware, {
wetware}, spyware, adware.
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| podobné slovo | definícia |
aware (mass) | aware
- vedomý, uvedomovať si |
awareness (mass) | awareness
- povedomie |
be aware of (mass) | be aware of
- vnímať |
unaware (mass) | unaware
- netušiaci, neuvedomujúci si |
warehouse (mass) | warehouse
- veľkoobchod |
warehouseman (mass) | warehouseman
- skladník |
Albert ware (gcide) | Albert ware \Al"bert ware\
A soft ornamental terra-cotta pottery, sold in the biscuit
state for decorating.
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At unaware (gcide) | Unawares \Un`a*wares"\, adv.
Without design or preparation; suddenly; without
premeditation, unexpectedly. "Mercies lighting unawares."
--J. H. Newman.
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Lest unawares we lose
This our high place, our sanctuary, our hill. --Milton.
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At unaware, or At unawares, unexpectedly; by surprise.
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He breaks at unawares upon our walks. --Dryden.
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So we met
In this old sleepy town at unaware. --R. Browning.
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At unawares (gcide) | Unawares \Un`a*wares"\, adv.
Without design or preparation; suddenly; without
premeditation, unexpectedly. "Mercies lighting unawares."
--J. H. Newman.
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Lest unawares we lose
This our high place, our sanctuary, our hill. --Milton.
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At unaware, or At unawares, unexpectedly; by surprise.
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He breaks at unawares upon our walks. --Dryden.
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So we met
In this old sleepy town at unaware. --R. Browning.
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Aware (gcide) | Aware \A*ware"\, a. [OE. iwar, AS. gew[ae]r, fr. w[ae]r wary.
The pref. ge- orig. meant together, completely. ?. See
Wary.]
1. Watchful; vigilant or on one's guard against danger or
difficulty.
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2. Apprised; informed; cognizant; conscious; as, he was aware
of the enemy's designs.
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Aware of nothing arduous in a task
They never undertook. --Cowper.
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awareness (gcide) | awareness \awareness\ n.
conscious knowledge; as, he had no awareness of his mistakes.
Syn: cognizance, knowingness.
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2. a state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness;
as, the crash intruded on his awareness.
Syn: sentience.
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Belleek ware (gcide) | Belleek ware \Bel*leek" ware\
A porcelainlike kind of decorative pottery with a high gloss,
which is sometimes iridescent. A very fine kind is made at
Belleek in Ireland.
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Beware (gcide) | Beware \Be*ware"\ (b[-e]*w[^a]r"), v. t.
To avoid; to take care of; to have a care for. [Obs.]
"Priest, beware your beard." --Shak.
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To wish them beware the son. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]Beware \Be*ware"\, v. i. [Be, imperative of verb to be + ware.
See Ware, Wary.]
1. To be on one's guard; to be cautious; to take care; --
commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is
to be avoided.
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Beware of all, but most beware of man ! --Pope.
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Beware the awful avalanche. --Longfellow.
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2. To have a special regard; to heed. [Obs.]
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Behold, I send an Angel before thee. . . . Beware of
him, and obey his voice. --Ex. xxiii.
20, 21.
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Note: This word is a compound from be and the Old English
ware, now wary, which is an adjective. "Be ye war of
false prophetis." --Wyclif, Matt. vii. 15. It is used
commonly in the imperative and infinitive modes, and
with such auxiliaries (shall, should, must, etc.) as go
with the infinitive.
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Biddery ware (gcide) | Biddery ware \Bid"der*y ware`\ [From Beder or Bidar a town in
India.]
A kind of metallic ware made in India. The material is a
composition of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of
gold and silver are inlaid or damascened. [Spelt also bidry,
bidree, bedery, beder.]
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Bonded warehouse (gcide) | Bonded \Bond"ed\ (b[o^]nd"[e^]d), a.
Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of
duties, or for conformity to certain regulations.
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Bonded goods, goods placed in a bonded warehouse; goods,
for the duties on which bonds are given at the
customhouse.
Bonded warehouse, a warehouse in which goods on which the
duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint
custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs
officers.
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China ware (gcide) | Porcelain \Por"ce*lain\ (277), n. [F. porcelaine, It.
porcellana, orig., the porcelain shell, or Venus shell
(Cypr[ae]a porcellana), from a dim. fr. L. porcus pig,
probably from the resemblance of the shell in shape to a
pig's back. Porcelain was called after this shell, either on
account of its smoothness and whiteness, or because it was
believed to be made from it. See Pork.]
A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware,
made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and
America; -- called also China, or China ware.
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Porcelain, by being pure, is apt to break. --Dryden.
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Ivory porcelain, porcelain with a surface like ivory,
produced by depolishing. See Depolishing.
Porcelain clay. See under Clay.
Porcelain crab (Zool.), any crab of the genus Porcellana
and allied genera (family Porcellanid[ae]). They have a
smooth, polished carapace.
Porcelain jasper. (Min.) See Porcelanite.
Porcelain printing, the transferring of an impression of an
engraving to porcelain.
Porcelain shell (Zool.), a cowry.
[1913 Webster]China ware \China ware\, chinaware \chinaware\n.
dishes made of china; porcelain; -- so called in the 17th
century because brought from the far East, and differing from
the pottery made in Europe at that time; also, loosely,
crockery in general.
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chinaware (gcide) | China ware \China ware\, chinaware \chinaware\n.
dishes made of china; porcelain; -- so called in the 17th
century because brought from the far East, and differing from
the pottery made in Europe at that time; also, loosely,
crockery in general.
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clayware (gcide) | clayware \clay"ware`\ n.
Objects made from clay and baked in a kiln.
Syn: pottery.
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Cogware (gcide) | Cogware \Cog"ware`\, n.
A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower
classes in the sixteenth century. --Halliwell.
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cookware (gcide) | cookware \cookware\ n.
cooking utensils, such as pots, pans, or baking dishes made
of heat-resistant material.
Syn: cooking utensil.
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Crackleware (gcide) | Crackleware \Crac"kle*ware`\ (-w?r`), n.
See Crackle, n., 3.
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Delaware (gcide) | Delaware \Del"a*ware\ (d[e^]l"[.a]*w[^a]r), n.
1. one of the thirteen original states of the United States
of America.
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2. (Bot.) An American grape, with compact bunches of small,
amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.
[1913 Webster]Delawares \Del"a*wares\ (d[e^]l"[.a]*w[^a]rz), n. pl.; sing.
Delaware. (Ethnol.)
A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the
Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian
Territory.
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Delawarean (gcide) | Delawarean \Delawarean\ n.
a resident of Delaware.
Syn: Delawarian.
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Delawares (gcide) | Delawares \Del"a*wares\ (d[e^]l"[.a]*w[^a]rz), n. pl.; sing.
Delaware. (Ethnol.)
A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the
Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian
Territory.
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Delftware (gcide) | Delftware \Delft"ware`\, n.
(a) Pottery made at the city of Delft in Holland; hence:
(b) Earthenware made in imitation of the above; any glazed
earthenware made for table use, and the like.
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dishware (gcide) | dishware \dishware\ n.
eating and serving dishes collectively.
Syn: crockery.
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Dresden ware (gcide) | Dresden ware \Dres"den ware`\
A superior kind of decorated porcelain made near Dresden in
Saxony.
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Earthenware (gcide) | Earthenware \Earth"en*ware`\, n.
Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of
baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and
Porcelain.
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Fictile ware (gcide) | Fictile \Fic"tile\, a. [L. fictilis. See Fiction.]
Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art;
relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material.
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Fictile earth is more fragile than crude earth.
--Bacon.
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The earliest specimens of Italian fictile art. --C.
Wordsworth.
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Fictile ware, ware made of any material which is molded or
shaped while soft; hence, pottery of any sort. --
Fic"tile*ness, n. -- Fic*til"i*ty, n.
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flatware (gcide) | flatware \flat"ware`\ n.
eating utensils such as knives, forks, and spoons, considered
collectively.
Syn: silver.
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Flintware (gcide) | Flintware \Flint"ware`\, n.
A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint
enters largely. --Knight.
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Garden ware (gcide) | Garden \Gar"den\ (g[aum]r"d'n; 277), n. [OE. gardin, OF. gardin,
jardin, F. jardin, of German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G.
garten; akin to AS. geard. See Yard an inclosure.]
1. A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of
herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
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2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.
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I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy,
The pleasant garden of great Italy. --Shak.
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Note: Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining
compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden
walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse.
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Garden balsam, an ornamental plant (Impatiens Balsamina).
Garden engine, a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering
gardens.
Garden glass.
(a) A bell glass for covering plants.
(b) A globe of dark-colored glass, mounted on a pedestal,
to reflect surrounding objects; -- much used as an
ornament in gardens in Germany.
Garden house
(a) A summer house. --Beau. & Fl.
(b) A privy. [Southern U.S.]
Garden husbandry, the raising on a small scale of seeds,
fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale.
Garden mold or Garden mould, rich, mellow earth which is
fit for a garden. --Mortimer.
Garden nail, a cast nail, used for fastening vines to brick
walls. --Knight.
Garden net, a net for covering fruits trees, vines, etc.,
to protect them from birds.
Garden party, a social party held out of doors, within the
grounds or garden attached to a private residence.
Garden plot, a plot appropriated to a garden.
Garden pot, a watering pot.
Garden pump, a garden engine; a barrow pump.
Garden shears, large shears, for clipping trees and hedges,
pruning, etc.
Garden spider, (Zool.), the diadem spider ({Epeira
diadema}), common in gardens, both in Europe and America.
It spins a geometrical web. See Geometric spider, and
Spider web.
Garden stand, a stand for flower pots.
Garden stuff, vegetables raised in a garden. [Colloq.]
Garden syringe, a syringe for watering plants, sprinkling
them with solutions for destroying insects, etc.
Garden truck, vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.]
Garden ware, garden truck. [Obs.] --Mortimer.
Bear garden, Botanic garden, etc. See under Bear, etc.
Hanging garden. See under Hanging.
Kitchen garden, a garden where vegetables are cultivated
for household use.
Market garden, a piece of ground where vegetable are
cultivated to be sold in the markets for table use.
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Glassware (gcide) | Glassware \Glass"ware\, n.
Ware, or articles collectively, made of glass.
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Granite ware (gcide) | Granite \Gran"ite\ (gr[a^]n"[i^]t), n. [It. granito granite,
adj., grainy, p. p. of granire to make grainy, fr. L. granum
grain; cf. F. granit. See Grain.] (Geol.)
A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar,
and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red
color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in
planes, and therefore in being destitute of a schistose
structure.
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Note: Varieties containing hornblende are common. See also
the Note under Mica.
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Gneissoid granite, granite in which the mica has traces of
a regular arrangement.
Graphic granite, granite consisting of quartz and feldspar
without mica, and having the quartz crystals so arranged
in the transverse section like oriental characters.
Porphyritic granite, granite containing feldspar in
distinct crystals.
Hornblende granite, or
Syenitic granite, granite containing hornblende as well as
mica, or, according to some authorities hornblende
replacing the mica.
Granite ware.
(a) A kind of stoneware.
(b) A Kind of ironware, coated with an enamel resembling
granite.
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graniteware (gcide) | graniteware \graniteware\ n.
a kind of ironware with stone gray enamel.
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Green ware (gcide) | Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), a. [Compar. Greener (gr[=e]n"[~e]r);
superl. Greenest.] [OE. grene, AS. gr[=e]ne; akin to D.
groen, OS. gr[=o]ni, OHG. gruoni, G. gr["u]n, Dan. & Sw.
gr["o]n, Icel. gr[ae]nn; fr. the root of E. grow. See
Grow.]
1. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing;
resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is
between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.
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2. Having a sickly color; wan.
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To look so green and pale. --Shak.
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3. Full of life and vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent;
as, a green manhood; a green wound.
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As valid against such an old and beneficent
government as against . . . the greenest usurpation.
--Burke.
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4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green
fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
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5. Not roasted; half raw. [R.]
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We say the meat is green when half roasted. --L.
Watts.
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6. Immature in age, judgment, or experience; inexperienced;
young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or
judgment.
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I might be angry with the officious zeal which
supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my
gray hairs. --Sir W.
Scott.
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7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as,
green wood, timber, etc. --Shak.
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8. (Politics) Concerned especially with protection of the
enviroment; -- of political parties and political
philosophies; as, the European green parties.
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Green brier (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub ({Emilaz
rotundifolia}) having a yellowish green stem and thick
leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the
United States; -- called also cat brier.
Green con (Zool.), the pollock.
Green crab (Zool.), an edible, shore crab ({Carcinus
menas}) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally
named joe-rocker.
Green crop, a crop used for food while in a growing or
unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root
crop, etc.
Green diallage. (Min.)
(a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene.
(b) Smaragdite.
Green dragon (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant
(Aris[ae]ma Dracontium), resembling the Indian turnip;
-- called also dragon root.
Green earth (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in
cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used
as a pigment by artists; -- called also mountain green.
Green ebony.
(a) A south American tree (Jacaranda ovalifolia), having
a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid
work, and in dyeing.
(b) The West Indian green ebony. See Ebony.
Green fire (Pyrotech.), a composition which burns with a
green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium
chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate),
to which the color of the flame is due.
Green fly (Zool.), any green species of plant lice or
aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants.
Green gage, (Bot.) See Greengage, in the Vocabulary.
Green gland (Zool.), one of a pair of large green glands in
Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have their
outlets at the bases of the larger antenn[ae].
Green hand, a novice. [Colloq.]
Green heart (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in
the West Indies and in South America, used for
shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and
Guiana is the Nectandra Rodi[oe]i, that of Martinique is
the Colubrina ferruginosa.
Green iron ore (Min.) dufrenite.
Green laver (Bot.), an edible seaweed (Ulva latissima);
-- called also green sloke.
Green lead ore (Min.), pyromorphite.
Green linnet (Zool.), the greenfinch.
Green looper (Zool.), the cankerworm.
Green marble (Min.), serpentine.
Green mineral, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment.
See Greengill.
Green monkey (Zool.) a West African long-tailed monkey
(Cercopithecus callitrichus), very commonly tamed, and
trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West
Indies early in the last century, and has become very
abundant there.
Green salt of Magnus (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline
salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides
of platinum.
Green sand (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while
slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made.
Green sea (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a
vessel's deck.
Green sickness (Med.), chlorosis.
Green snake (Zool.), one of two harmless American snakes
(Cyclophis vernalis, and C. [ae]stivus). They are
bright green in color.
Green turtle (Zool.), an edible marine turtle. See
Turtle.
Green vitriol.
(a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline
substance, very extensively used in the preparation of
inks, dyes, mordants, etc.
(b) (Min.) Same as copperas, melanterite and {sulphate
of iron}.
Green ware, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not
yet baked.
Green woodpecker (Zool.), a common European woodpecker
(Picus viridis); -- called also yaffle.
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Grindery warehouse (gcide) | Grindery \Grind"er*y\, n.
Leather workers' materials. [Eng.]
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Grindery warehouse, a shop where leather workers' materials
and tools are kept on sale. [Eng.]
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Hardware (gcide) | Hardware \Hard"ware`\ (h[aum]rd"w[^a]r`), n.
1. Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the
like; ironmongery.
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2. Any of the physical objects used in carrying out an
activity, in contrast to the knowledge, skill, or theory
required to perform the activity; mostly used
collectively.
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3. Specifically: (Computers) The sum of all the physical
objects, such as the electrical, mechanical, and
electronic devices which comprise a computer system; as,
the typical PC hardware suite consists of a mainboard and
a number of peripherals such as hard drives and speakers,
connected by adapter cards, but the input and output from
users occurs mostly through the keyboard and monitor;
contrasted with software, the programs executed by the
computer.
[PJC]
4. Specifically: (Military) The weapons, transport, and other
physical objects used in conducting a war.
[PJC]
5. (Slang) Weapons, especially handguns, carried on the
person; as, check your hardware at the door before
entering.
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hardwareman (gcide) | hardwareman \hard"ware`man\ (h[aum]rd"w[^a]r`m[a^]n), n.; pl.
Hardwaremen (h[aum]rd"w[^a]r`m[e^]n).
One who makes, or deals in, hardware.
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Hardwaremen (gcide) | hardwareman \hard"ware`man\ (h[aum]rd"w[^a]r`m[a^]n), n.; pl.
Hardwaremen (h[aum]rd"w[^a]r`m[e^]n).
One who makes, or deals in, hardware.
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Henware (gcide) | Henware \Hen"ware`\, n. (Bot.)
A coarse, blackish seaweed. See Badderlocks.
[1913 Webster]Badderlocks \Bad"der*locks\, n. [Perh. for Balderlocks, fr.
Balder the Scandinavian deity.] (Bot.)
A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in
Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.
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henware (gcide) | Henware \Hen"ware`\, n. (Bot.)
A coarse, blackish seaweed. See Badderlocks.
[1913 Webster]Badderlocks \Bad"der*locks\, n. [Perh. for Balderlocks, fr.
Balder the Scandinavian deity.] (Bot.)
A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in
Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.
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Hollow ware (gcide) | Hollow \Hol"low\, a. [OE. holow, holgh, holf, AS. holh a hollow,
hole. Cf. Hole.]
1. Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial,
within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the
interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.
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Hollow with boards shalt thou make it. --Ex. xxvii.
8.
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2. Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
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With hollow eye and wrinkled brow. --Shak.
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3. Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound;
deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar. --Dryden.
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4. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as,
a hollow heart; a hollow friend. --Milton.
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Hollow newel (Arch.), an opening in the center of a winding
staircase in place of a newel post, the stairs being
supported by the wall; an open newel; also, the
stringpiece or rail winding around the well of such a
staircase.
Hollow quoin (Engin.), a pier of stone or brick made behind
the lock gates of a canal, and containing a hollow or
recess to receive the ends of the gates.
Hollow root. (Bot.) See Moschatel.
Hollow square. See Square.
Hollow ware, hollow vessels; -- a trade name for cast-iron
kitchen utensils, earthenware, etc.
Syn: Syn.- Concave; sunken; low; vacant; empty; void; false;
faithless; deceitful; treacherous.
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holloware (gcide) | holloware \holloware\, hollowware \hollowware\n.
serving dishes of silver having some depth in the bowl;
contrasted with flatware.
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hollowware (gcide) | holloware \holloware\, hollowware \hollowware\n.
serving dishes of silver having some depth in the bowl;
contrasted with flatware.
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Honeyware (gcide) | Honeyware \Hon"ey*ware`\, n. (Bot.)
See Badderlocks.
[1913 Webster]Badderlocks \Bad"der*locks\, n. [Perh. for Balderlocks, fr.
Balder the Scandinavian deity.] (Bot.)
A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in
Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.
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honeyware (gcide) | Honeyware \Hon"ey*ware`\, n. (Bot.)
See Badderlocks.
[1913 Webster]Badderlocks \Bad"der*locks\, n. [Perh. for Balderlocks, fr.
Balder the Scandinavian deity.] (Bot.)
A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in
Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.
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Ironware (gcide) | Ironware \I"ron*ware`\, n.
Articles made of iron, as household utensils, tools, and the
like.
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Jasper ware (gcide) | Jasper \Jas"per\, n. [OE. jaspre, jaspe, OF. jaspre, jaspe, F.
jaspe, L. iaspis, Gr. ?; cf. Per. yashp, yashf, Ar. yashb,
yasb, yasf, Heb. y[=a]shpheh. Cf. Diaper.] (Min.)
An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and
other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits
of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes,
etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called
striped jasper or banded jasper. The Egyptian pebble is a
brownish yellow jasper.
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Jasper opal, a yellow variety of opal resembling jasper.
Jasper ware, a delicate kind of earthenware invented by
Josiah Wedgwood. It is usually white, but is capable of
receiving color.
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Kelpware (gcide) | Kelpware \Kelp"ware`\, n.
Same as Kelp, 2.
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kitchenware (gcide) | kitchenware \kitchenware\ n.
Implements for use in a kitchen, or for cooking, such as
pots, pans, ladles, measuring cups, etc.
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Lava ware (gcide) | Lava \La"va\ (l[aum]"v[.a]; 277), n. [It. lava lava, orig. in
Naples, a torrent of rain overflowing the streets, fr. It. &
L. lavare to wash. See Lave.]
The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured
sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It
also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms
beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern
United States.
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Note: Lavas are classed, according to their structure, as
scoriaceous or cellular, glassy, stony, etc., and
according to the material of which they consist, as
doleritic, trachytic, etc.
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Lava millstone, a hard and coarse basaltic millstone from
the neighborhood of the Rhine.
Lava ware, a kind of cheap pottery made of iron slag cast
into tiles, urns, table tops, etc., resembling lava in
appearance.
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Limoges ware (gcide) | Limoges \Li*moges"\ (l[-e]*m[=o]zh"), prop. n.
1. A city of Southern France.
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2. A variety of fine porcelain manufactured at Limoges[1];
also called Limoges ware or Limoges China.
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Limoges enamel, a kind of enamel ware in which the enamel
is applied to the whole surface of a metal plaque, vase,
or the like, and painted in enamel colors. The art was
brought to a high degree of perfection in Limoges in the
16th century.
Limoges ware.
(a) Articles decorated with Limoges enamel.
(b) Articles of porcelain, etc., manufactured at Limoges.
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low-area storm (gcide) | Cyclone \Cy"clone\ (s?"kl?n), n. [Gr.????? moving in a circle,
p. pr. of ?????, fr. ky`klos circle.]
1. (Meteor.) A violent storm, often of vast extent,
characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center
of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward,
often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour.
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Note: The atmospheric disturbance usually accompanying a
cyclone, marked by an onward moving area of high
pressure, is called an anticyclone.
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2. (Meteor.) In general, a condition of the atmosphere
characterized by a central area of pressure much lower
than that of surrounding areas, and a system of winds
blowing inward and around (clockwise in the southern
hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the northern); --
called also a low-area storm. It is attended by high
temperature, moist air, abundant precipitation, and
clouded sky. The term includes the hurricane, typhoon, and
tropical storms; it should not be applied to the moderate
disturbances attending ordinary areas of low pressure nor
to tornadoes, waterspouts, or "twisters," in which the
vertical motion is more important than the horizontal.
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3. A tornado. See above, and Tornado. [Middle U. S.]
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Luster ware (gcide) | Luster \Lus"ter\, Lustre \Lus"tre\, n. [F. lustre; cf. It.
lustro; both fr. L. lustrare to purify, go about (like the
priests at the lustral sacrifice), traverse, survey,
illuminate, fr. lustrum a purificatory sacrifice; perh. akin
to E. loose. But lustrare to illuminate is perhaps a
different word, and akin to L. lucere to be light or clear,
to shine. See Lucid, and cf. Illustrious, Lustrum.]
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1. Brilliancy; splendor; brightness; glitter.
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The right mark and very true luster of the diamond.
--Sir T. More.
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The scorching sun was mounted high,
In all its luster, to the noonday sky. --Addison.
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Note: There is a tendency to limit the use of luster, in this
sense, to the brightness of things which do not shine
with their own light, or at least do not blaze or glow
with heat. One speaks of the luster of a diamond, or of
silk, or even of the stars, but not often now of the
luster of the sun, a coal of fire, or the like.
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2. Renown; splendor; distinction; glory.
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His ancestors continued about four hundred years,
rather without obscurity than with any great luster.
--Sir H.
Wotton.
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3. A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, or the like,
generally of an ornamental character. --Pope.
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4. (Min.) The appearance of the surface of a mineral as
affected by, or dependent upon, peculiarities of its
reflecting qualities.
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Note: The principal kinds of luster recognized are: metallic,
adamantine, vitreous, resinous, greasy, pearly, and
silky. With respect to intensity, luster is
characterized as splendent, shining, glistening,
glimmering, and dull.
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5. A substance which imparts luster to a surface, as graphite
and some of the glazes.
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6. A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, --
used for women's dresses.
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Luster ware, earthenware decorated by applying to the
glazing metallic oxides, which acquire brilliancy in the
process of baking.
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ovenware (gcide) | ovenware \ov"en*ware`\ n.
Heat-resistant dishware in which food can be cooked as well
as served.
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Palissy ware (gcide) | Palissy \Pal"is*sy\, a.
Designating, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by
Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry.
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Palissy ware, glazed pottery like that made by Bernard
Palissy; especially, that having figures of fishes,
reptiles, etc., in high relief. See Palissy, below.
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Peltryware (gcide) | Peltryware \Pelt"ry*ware`\, n.
Peltry. [Obs.]
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