slovo | definícia |
usa (mass) | U.S.A.
- United States of America |
usa (mass) | USA
- Spojené štáty americké |
u.s.a. (wn) | U.S.A.
n 1: North American republic containing 50 states - 48
conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in
northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the
Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 [syn: {United
States}, United States of America, America, {the
States}, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.] |
usa (vera) | USA
United Software Association (org., USA)
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| podobné slovo | definícia |
a thousand (mass) | a thousand
- tisíc |
accusal (mass) | accusal
- obvinenie |
accusation (mass) | accusation
- obvinenie |
causation (mass) | causation
- príčina |
crusade (mass) | crusade
- krížová výprava, ťaženie, výprava, podniknúť krížovú
výpravu |
jerusalem (mass) | Jerusalem
- Jeruzalem |
pork sausage (mass) | pork sausage
- jaternice |
refusal (mass) | refusal
- odmietnutie |
sausage (mass) | sausage
- párok |
thousand (mass) | thousand
- tisíc |
thousand million (mass) | thousand million
- miliarda |
thousands (mass) | thousands
- tisícky |
usa (mass) | U.S.A.
- United States of AmericaUSA
- Spojené štáty americké |
usage (mass) | usage
- využitie, užívanie, použitie, zvyk, zvyklosť |
námořní jednotky u.s.a. (czen) | námořní jednotky U.S.A.,Marine Corpsn: Ondřej Světlík |
Abusable (gcide) | Abusable \A*bus"a*ble\, a.
That may be abused.
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Abusage (gcide) | Abusage \A*bus"age\, n.
Abuse. [Obs.] --Whately (1634).
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Accusable (gcide) | Accusable \Ac*cus"a*ble\, a. [L. accusabilis: cf. F. accusable.]
Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or
fault; blamable; -- with of.
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Accusal (gcide) | Accusal \Ac*cus"al\, n.
Accusation. [R.] --Byron.
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Accusant (gcide) | Accusant \Ac*cus"ant\, n. [L. accusans, p. pr. of accusare: cf.
F. accusant.]
An accuser. --Bp. Hall.
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Accusation (gcide) | Accusation \Ac`cu*sa"tion\, n. [OF. acusation, F. accusation, L.
accusatio, fr. accusare. See Accuse.]
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1. The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a
lighter offense.
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We come not by the way of accusation
To taint that honor every good tongue blesses.
--Shak.
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2. That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or
crime, or the declaration containing the charge.
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[They] set up over his head his accusation. --Matt.
xxvii. 37.
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Syn: Impeachment; crimination; censure; charge.
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Accusatival (gcide) | Accusatival \Ac*cu`sa*ti"val\, a.
Pertaining to the accusative case.
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Accusative (gcide) | Accusative \Ac*cu"sa*tive\, a. [F. accusatif, L. accusativus (in
sense 2), fr. accusare. See Accuse.]
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1. Producing accusations; accusatory. "This hath been a very
accusative age." --Sir E. Dering.
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2. (Gram.) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin
and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on
which the action or influence of a transitive verb
terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency
to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the
objective case in English.
[1913 Webster]Accusative \Ac*cu"sa*tive\, n. (Gram.)
The accusative case.
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Accusatively (gcide) | Accusatively \Ac*cu"sa*tive*ly\, adv.
1. In an accusative manner.
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2. In relation to the accusative case in grammar.
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Accusatorial (gcide) | Accusatorial \Ac*cu`sa*to"ri*al\, a.
Accusatory.
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accusatorial accusatory accusing (gcide) | inculpative \inculpative\ adj.
Inculpatory. [Narrower terms: {accusatorial, accusatory,
accusing}; comminatory, denunciative, denunciatory;
{condemnatory, condemning ; {criminative, criminatory,
incriminating, incriminatory ; {damnatory, damning ;
recriminative, recriminatory ] Also See: {guilty.
Syn: inculpatory.
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Accusatorially (gcide) | Accusatorially \Ac*cu`sa*to"ri*al*ly\, adv.
By way accusation.
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Accusatory (gcide) | Accusatory \Ac*cu"sa*to*ry\, a. [L. accusatorius, fr. accusare.]
Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an
accusatory libel. --Grote.
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Aethusa Cynapium (gcide) | Fool \Fool\, n. [OE. fol, n. & adj., F. fol, fou, foolish, mad;
a fool, prob. fr. L. follis a bellows, wind bag, an inflated
ball; perh. akin to E. bellows. Cf. Folly, Follicle.]
1. One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of
understanding; an idiot; a natural.
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2. A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or
pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one
without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.
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Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools. --Milton.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn
in no other. --Franklin.
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3. (Script.) One who acts contrary to moral and religious
wisdom; a wicked person.
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The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
--Ps. xiv. 1.
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4. One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or
buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed
fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.
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Can they think me . . . their fool or jester?
--Milton.
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April fool, Court fool, etc. See under April, Court,
etc.
Fool's cap, a cap or hood to which bells were usually
attached, formerly worn by professional jesters.
Fool's errand, an unreasonable, silly, profitless adventure
or undertaking.
Fool's gold, iron or copper pyrites, resembling gold in
color.
Fool's paradise, a name applied to a limbo (see under
Limbo) popularly believed to be the region of vanity and
nonsense. Hence, any foolish pleasure or condition of vain
self-satistaction.
Fool's parsley (Bot.), an annual umbelliferous plant
(Aethusa Cynapium) resembling parsley, but nauseous and
poisonous.
To make a fool of, to render ridiculous; to outwit; to
shame. [Colloq.]
To play the fool, to act foolishly; to act the buffoon; to
act a foolish part. "I have played the fool, and have
erred exceedingly." --1 Sam. xxvi. 21.
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Amusable (gcide) | Amusable \A*mus"a*ble\ ([.a]*m[=u]z"[.a]*b'l), a. [Cf. F.
amusable.]
Capable of being amused.
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anchusa (gcide) | anchusa \anchusa\ n.
1. any of various Old World herbs of the genus Anchusa
having one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers.
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Anchusa officinalis (gcide) | oxtongue \ox"tongue`\, ox-tongue \ox"-tongue`\, n. (Bot.)
A widespread European weed (Picris echioides formerly
Helminthia echioides) with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and
yellow flowers. The name is applied to several plants, from
the shape and roughness of their leaves; as, {Anchusa
officinalis}, a kind of bugloss, and Helminthia echioides,
both European herbs. It has been naturalized in the U. S.
Syn: bristly oxtongue, prickly oxtongue, bitterweed, bugloss.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]Alkanet \Al"ka*net\ ([a^]l"k[.a]*n[e^]t), n. [Dim. of Sp.
alcana, alhe[~n]a, in which al is the Ar. article. See
Henna, and cf. Orchanet.]
1. (Chem.) A dyeing matter extracted from the roots of
Alkanna tinctoria, which gives a fine deep red color.
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2. (Bot.)
(a) A boraginaceous herb (Alkanna tinctoria) yielding
the dye; orchanet.
(b) The similar plant Anchusa officinalis; bugloss;
also, the American puccoon.
[1913 Webster]Bugloss \Bu"gloss\, n.; pl. Buglosses. [F. buglosse, L.
buglossa, buglossus, fr. Gr. ? oxtongue ? ox + ? tongue.]
(Bot.)
A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the {Anchusa
officinalis}, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue.
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Small wild bugloss, the Asperugo procumbens and the
Lycopsis arvensis.
Viper's bugloss, a species of Echium.
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Applausable (gcide) | Applausable \Ap*plaus"a*ble\, a.
Worthy of applause; praiseworthy. [Obs.]
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Arousal (gcide) | Arousal \A*rous"al\, n.
The act of arousing, or the state of being aroused.
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Whatever has associated itself with the arousal and
activity of our better nature. --Hare.
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Arquebusade (gcide) | Arquebusade \Ar`que*bus*ade"\, n. [F. arquebusade shot of an
arquebus; eau d'arquebusade a vulnerary for gunshot wounds.]
1. The shot of an arquebus. --Ash.
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2. A distilled water from a variety of aromatic plants, as
rosemary, millefoil, etc.; -- originally used as a
vulnerary in gunshot wounds. --Parr.
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Bambusa arundinacea (gcide) | Bamboo \Bam*boo"\ (b[a^]m*b[=oo]"), n. [Malay bambu, mambu.]
(Bot.)
A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa,
growing in tropical countries.
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Note: The most useful species is Bambusa arundinacea, which
has a woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, and
grows to the height of forty feet and upward. The
flowers grow in large panicles, from the joints of the
stalk, placed three in a parcel, close to their
receptacles. Old stalks grow to five or six inches in
diameter, and are so hard and durable as to be used for
building, and for all sorts of furniture, for water
pipes, and for poles to support palanquins. The smaller
stalks are used for walking sticks, flutes, etc.
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black-eyed Susan (gcide) | Rudbeckia \Rud*beck"i*a\, n. [NL. So named after Olaf Rudebeck,
a Swedish botanist.] (Bot.)
A genus of composite plants, the coneflowers, consisting of
perennial herbs with showy pedunculate heads, having a
hemispherical involucre, sterile ray flowers, and a conical
chaffy receptacle. There are about thirty species,
exclusively North American. Rudbeckia hirta, the
black-eyed Susan, is a common weed in meadows.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]Black-eyed Susan \Black"-eyed` Su"san\ (Bot.)
(a) The coneflower, or yellow daisy (Rudbeckia hirta).
(b) The bladder ketmie.
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Black-eyed Susan (gcide) | Rudbeckia \Rud*beck"i*a\, n. [NL. So named after Olaf Rudebeck,
a Swedish botanist.] (Bot.)
A genus of composite plants, the coneflowers, consisting of
perennial herbs with showy pedunculate heads, having a
hemispherical involucre, sterile ray flowers, and a conical
chaffy receptacle. There are about thirty species,
exclusively North American. Rudbeckia hirta, the
black-eyed Susan, is a common weed in meadows.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]Black-eyed Susan \Black"-eyed` Su"san\ (Bot.)
(a) The coneflower, or yellow daisy (Rudbeckia hirta).
(b) The bladder ketmie.
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bologna sausage (gcide) | baloney \ba*lo"ney\, n.
1. [Believed to be derived form balogna, but perhaps also
influenced by blarney.] nonsense; foolishness; bunk; --
also used as an interjection. [Also spelled boloney.]
[slang]
[PJC]
No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney!
--Al Smith.
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2. informal variant of bologna[2], for bologna sausage.
[informal]
[PJC]Bologna \Bo*lo"gna\, n.
1. A city of Italy which has given its name to various
objects.
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2. A Bologna sausage; also informally called baloney.
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Bologna sausage [It. salsiccia di Bologna], a large sausage
made of bacon or ham, beef, veal, and pork, cooked and
smoked, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin.
Bologna stone (Min.), radiated barite, or barium sulphate,
found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers,
first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when
calcined.
Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly
into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body,
as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a
bullet may be dropped into it without injury.
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Bologna sausage (gcide) | baloney \ba*lo"ney\, n.
1. [Believed to be derived form balogna, but perhaps also
influenced by blarney.] nonsense; foolishness; bunk; --
also used as an interjection. [Also spelled boloney.]
[slang]
[PJC]
No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney!
--Al Smith.
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2. informal variant of bologna[2], for bologna sausage.
[informal]
[PJC]Bologna \Bo*lo"gna\, n.
1. A city of Italy which has given its name to various
objects.
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2. A Bologna sausage; also informally called baloney.
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Bologna sausage [It. salsiccia di Bologna], a large sausage
made of bacon or ham, beef, veal, and pork, cooked and
smoked, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin.
Bologna stone (Min.), radiated barite, or barium sulphate,
found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers,
first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when
calcined.
Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly
into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body,
as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a
bullet may be dropped into it without injury.
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Bumelia retusa (gcide) | Balata \Bal"a*ta\, n. [Sp., prob. fr. native name.]
1. A West Indian sapotaceous tree (Bumelia retusa).
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2. The bully tree (Minusops globosa); also, its milky juice
(); also, its milky juice (), which when dried
constitutes an elastic gum called chicle, or {chicle
gum}.
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Carousal (gcide) | Carousal \Ca*rous"al\, n. [See Carouse, but also cf. F.
carrousel tilt.]
A jovial feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse.
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The swains were preparing for a carousal. --Sterne.
Syn: Banquet; revel; orgie; carouse. See Feast.
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Causable (gcide) | Causable \Caus"a*ble\, a.
Capable of being caused.
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Causal (gcide) | Causal \Caus"al\, a. [L. causalis. See Cause.]
Relating to a cause or causes; inplying or containing a cause
or causes; expressing a cause; causative.
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Causal propositions are where two propositions are
joined by causal words. --Watts.
[1913 Webster]Causal \Caus"al\, n.
A causal word or form of speech.
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Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon
drincan to drink. --Skeat.
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Causality (gcide) | Causality \Cau*sal"i*ty\, n.; pl. Causalities.
1. The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in
producing its effect.
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The causality of the divine mind. --Whewell.
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2. (Phren.) The faculty of tracing effects to their causes.
--G. Combe.
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Causally (gcide) | Causally \Caus"al*ly\, adv.
According to the order or series of causes; by tracing
effects to causes.
[1913 Webster]Causally \Caus"al*ly\, n. (Mining.)
The lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing.
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Causation (gcide) | Causation \Cau*sa"tion\, n.
The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect
is produced.
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The kind of causation by which vision is produced.
--Whewell.
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Law of universal causation, the theoretical or asserted law
that every event or phenomenon results from, or is the
sequel of, some previous event or phenomenon, which being
present, the other is certain to take place.
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Causationist (gcide) | Causationist \Cau*sa"tion*ist\, n.
One who believes in the law of universal causation.
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Causative (gcide) | Causative \Caus"a*tive\, a. [L. causativus pertaining to a
lawsuit (causa), but in the English sense from E. cause.]
1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing.
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Causative in nature of a number of effects. --Bacon.
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2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is
a causative case.
[1913 Webster]Causative \Caus"a*tive\ (k[add]"z[.a]*t[i^]v), n.
A word which expresses or suggests a cause.
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Causatively (gcide) | Causatively \Caus"a*tive*ly\, adv.
In a causative manner.
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Causator (gcide) | Causator \Cau*sa"tor\ (k[add]*z[=a]"t[o^]r), n. [See Cause.]
One who causes. [R.] --Sir T. Browne.
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Confusability (gcide) | Confusability \Con*fus`a*bil"i*ty\, n.
Capability of being confused.
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Confusable (gcide) | Confusable \Con*fus"a*ble\, a.
Capable of being confused.
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Connusance (gcide) | Connusance \Con"nu*sance\, n. (Law)
See Cognizance. [Obs.]
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Connusant (gcide) | Connusant \Con"nu*sant\, a. (Law)
See Cognizant. [Obs.]
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Conusable (gcide) | Conusable \Con"u*sa*ble\, a.
Cognizable; liable to be tried or judged. [Obs.] --Bp.
Barlow.
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Conusant (gcide) | Conusant \Con"u*sant\, a. (Law)
See Cognizant.
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covered-eyed medusae (gcide) | Medusa \Me*du"sa\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.]
1. (Class. Myth.) The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose
hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked
upon her were turned into stone.
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2. [pl. Medusae.] (Zool.) Any free swimming acaleph; a
jellyfish.
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Note: The larger medusae belong to the Discophora, and are
sometimes called covered-eyed medusae; others, known
as naked-eyed medusae, belong to the Hydroidea, and
are usually developed by budding from hydroids. See
Discophora, Hydroidea, and Hydromedusa.
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Medusa bud (Zool.), one of the buds of a hydroid, destined
to develop into a gonophore or medusa. See Athecata, and
Gonotheca.
Medusa's head.
(a) (Zool.) An astrophyton.
(b) (Astron.) A cluster of stars in the constellation
Perseus. It contains the bright star Algol.
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Crusade (gcide) | Crusade \Cru*sade"\ (kr?-s?d"), n. [F. croisade, fr. Pr.
crozada, or Sp cruzada, or It. crociata, from a verb
signifying to take the cross, mark one's self with a cross,
fr. L. crux cross; or possibly taken into English directly
fr. Pr. Cf. Croisade, Crosado, and see Cross.]
1. Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by
Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries,
for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans.
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2. Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm; as, a
crusade against intemperance.
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3. A Portuguese coin. See Crusado.
[1913 Webster]Crusade \Cru*sade"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crusaded; p. pr. &
vb. n. Crusading.]
To engage in a crusade; to attack in a zealous or hot-headed
manner. "Cease crusading against sense." --M. Green.
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Crusaded (gcide) | Crusade \Cru*sade"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crusaded; p. pr. &
vb. n. Crusading.]
To engage in a crusade; to attack in a zealous or hot-headed
manner. "Cease crusading against sense." --M. Green.
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Crusader (gcide) | Crusader \Cru*sad"er\ (-s?"d?r), n.
One engaged in a crusade; as, the crusaders of the Middle
Ages.
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Azure-eyed and golden-haired,
Forth the young crusaders fared. --Longfellow.
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Crusading (gcide) | Crusade \Cru*sade"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crusaded; p. pr. &
vb. n. Crusading.]
To engage in a crusade; to attack in a zealous or hot-headed
manner. "Cease crusading against sense." --M. Green.
[1913 Webster]Crusading \Cru*sad"ing\, a.
Of or pertaining to a crusade; as, a crusading spirit.
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Crusado (gcide) | Crusado \Cru*sa"do\ (-s?"d?), n. [Pg. cruzado, fr. cruz, fr. L.
crux. See Crusade, 3.]
An old Portuguese coin, worth about seventy cents. [Written
also cruade.] --Shak.
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Diffusate (gcide) | Diffusate \Dif*fus"ate\, n. (Chem.)
Material which, in the process of catalysis, has diffused or
passed through the separating membrane.
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Disusage (gcide) | Disusage \Dis*us"age\, n.
Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse.
[R.] --Hooker.
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Espousage (gcide) | Espousage \Es*pous"age\, n.
Espousal. [Obs.] --Latimer.
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Espousal (gcide) | Espousal \Es*pous"al\, n. [OF. espousailles, pl., F.
['e]pousailles, L. sponsalia, fr. sponsalis belonging to
betrothal or espousal. See Espouse, and cf. Sponsal,
Spousal.]
1. The act of espousing or betrothing; especially, in the
plural, betrothal; plighting of the troths; a contract of
marriage; sometimes, the marriage ceremony.
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2. The uniting or allying one's self with anything;
maintenance; adoption; as, the espousal of a quarrel.
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The open espousal of his cause. --Lord Orford.
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Excusable (gcide) | Excusable \Ex*cus"a*ble\a. [L. excusabilis: cf. F. excusable.
See Excuse.]
That may be excused, forgiven, justified, or acquitted of
blame; pardonable; as, the man is excusable; an excusable
action. -- Ex*cus"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ex*cus"a*bly, adv.
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The excusableness of my dissatisfaction. --Boyle.
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