| slovo | definícia |
cant
(mass) | cant
- sklonený, sklon, žargón |
cant
(mass) | can't
- nemôcť |
Cant
(gcide) | Cant \Cant\, a.
Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.
[1913 Webster]
To introduce and multiply cant words in the most
ruinous corruption in any language. --Swift.
[1913 Webster] |
Cant
(gcide) | Cant \Cant\, v. i.
1. To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong
tone.
[1913 Webster]
2. To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an
affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice
hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.
[1913 Webster]
The rankest rogue that ever canted. --Beau. & Fl.
[1913 Webster]
3. To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or
technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.
[1913 Webster]
The doctor here,
When he discourseth of dissection,
Of vena cava and of vena porta,
The meser[ae]um and the mesentericum,
What does he else but cant. --B. Jonson
[1913 Webster]
That uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting
language, if I may so call it. --Bp.
Sanderson.
[1913 Webster] |
Cant
(gcide) | Cant \Cant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Canted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Canting.]
1. To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon
the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.
[1913 Webster]
2. To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant
round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
[1913 Webster]
3. To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of
timber, or from the head of a bolt.
[1913 Webster] |
Cant
(gcide) | Cant \Cant\, n. [OF., edge, angle, prof. from L. canthus the
iron ring round a carriage wheel, a wheel, Gr. ? the corner
of the eye, the felly of a wheel; cf. W. cant the stake or
tire of a wheel. Cf. Canthus, Canton, Cantle.]
1. A corner; angle; niche. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
The first and principal person in the temple was
Irene, or Peace; she was placed aloft in a cant.
--B. Jonson.
[1913 Webster]
2. An outer or external angle.
[1913 Webster]
3. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope
or bevel; a titl. --Totten.
[1913 Webster]
4. A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a
bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so
give; as, to give a ball a cant.
[1913 Webster]
5. (Coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of
a cask. --Knight.
[1913 Webster]
6. (Mech.) A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.
--Knight.
[1913 Webster]
7. (Naut.) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to
support the bulkheads.
[1913 Webster]
Cant frames, Cant timbers (Naut.), timber at the two ends
of a ship, rising obliquely from the keel.
[1913 Webster] |
Cant
(gcide) | Cant \Cant\, n. [Prob. from OF. cant, F. chant, singing, in
allusion to the singing or whining tine of voice used by
beggars, fr. L. cantus. See Chant.]
1. An affected, singsong mode of speaking.
[1913 Webster]
2. The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class,
or occupation. --Goldsmith.
[1913 Webster]
The cant of any profession. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
3. The use of religious phraseology without understanding or
sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not
felt; hypocrisy.
[1913 Webster]
They shall hear no cant from me. --F. W.
Robertson
[1913 Webster]
4. Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by
gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.
[1913 Webster] |
Cant
(gcide) | Cant \Cant\, n. [Prob. from OF. cant, equiv. to L. quantum; cf.
F. encan, fr. L. in quantum, i.e. "for how much?"]
A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction. "To sell
their leases by cant." --Swift.
[1913 Webster] |
Cant
(gcide) | Cant \Cant\, v. t.
to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.
[Archaic] --Swift.
[1913 Webster] |
Can't
(gcide) | Can't \Can't\
A colloquial contraction for can not.
[1913 Webster] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
applicant
(mass) | applicant
- žiadateľ, uchádzač |
applicants
(mass) | applicants
- uchádzači |
cant
(mass) | cant
- sklonený, sklon, žargóncan't
- nemôcť |
canteen
(mass) | canteen
- jedáleň |
cantor
(mass) | cantor
- kantor |
i cant
(mass) | i can't
- neviem |
recantation
(mass) | recantation
- odvolanie |
scanty
(mass) | scanty
- obmedzený |
significant
(mass) | significant
- dôležitý, signifikantný, významný, významný |
significantly
(mass) | significantly
- podstatne |
supplicant
(mass) | supplicant
- žiadateľ |
vacant
(mass) | vacant
- prázdny |
Abdicant
(gcide) | Abdicant \Ab"di*cant\, a. [L. abdicans, p. pr. of abdicare.]
Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of.
[1913 Webster]
Monks abdicant of their orders. --Whitlock.
[1913 Webster]Abdicant \Ab"di*cant\, n.
One who abdicates. --Smart.
[1913 Webster] |
Acanth
(gcide) | Acanth \A*canth"\, n.
Same as Acanthus.
[1913 Webster] |
Acantha
(gcide) | Acantha \A*can"tha\, n. [Gr. ? thorn, fr. ? point. See Acute.]
1. (Bot.) A prickle.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Zool.) A spine or prickly fin.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Anat.) The vertebral column; the spinous process of a
vertebra. --Dunglison.
[1913 Webster] |
Acanthaceous
(gcide) | Acanthaceous \Ac"an*tha"ceous\, a.
1. Armed with prickles, as a plant.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of
plants of which the acanthus is the type.
[1913 Webster] |
Acantharchum pomotis
(gcide) | Mud \Mud\ (m[u^]d), n. [Akin to LG. mudde, D. modder, G. moder
mold, OSw. modd mud, Sw. modder mother, Dan. mudder mud. Cf.
Mother a scum on liquors.]
Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
[1913 Webster]
Mud bass (Zool.), a fresh-water fish ({Acantharchum
pomotis} or Acantharchus pomotis) of the Eastern United
States. It produces a deep grunting note.
Mud bath, an immersion of the body, or some part of it, in
mud charged with medicinal agents, as a remedy for
disease.
Mud boat, a large flatboat used in dredging.
Mud cat. See mud cat in the vocabulary.
Mud crab (Zool.), any one of several American marine crabs
of the genus Panopeus.
Mud dab (Zool.), the winter flounder. See Flounder, and
Dab.
Mud dauber (Zool.), a mud wasp; the mud-dauber.
Mud devil (Zool.), the fellbender.
Mud drum (Steam Boilers), a drum beneath a boiler, into
which sediment and mud in the water can settle for
removal.
Mud eel (Zool.), a long, slender, aquatic amphibian ({Siren
lacertina}), found in the Southern United States. It has
persistent external gills and only the anterior pair of
legs. See Siren.
Mud frog (Zool.), a European frog (Pelobates fuscus).
Mud hen. (Zool.)
(a) The American coot (Fulica Americana).
(b) The clapper rail.
Mud lark, a person who cleans sewers, or delves in mud.
[Slang]
Mud minnow (Zool.), any small American fresh-water fish of
the genus Umbra, as Umbra limi. The genus is allied to
the pickerels.
Mud plug, a plug for stopping the mudhole of a boiler.
Mud puppy (Zool.), the menobranchus.
Mud scow, a heavy scow, used in dredging; a mud boat.
[U.S.]
Mud turtle, Mud tortoise (Zool.), any one of numerous
species of fresh-water tortoises of the United States.
Mud wasp (Zool.), any one of numerous species of
hymenopterous insects belonging to Pepaeus, and allied
genera, which construct groups of mud cells, attached,
side by side, to stones or to the woodwork of buildings,
etc. The female places an egg in each cell, together with
spiders or other insects, paralyzed by a sting, to serve
as food for the larva. Called also mud dauber.
[1913 Webster] |
Acantharchus pomotis
(gcide) | Mud \Mud\ (m[u^]d), n. [Akin to LG. mudde, D. modder, G. moder
mold, OSw. modd mud, Sw. modder mother, Dan. mudder mud. Cf.
Mother a scum on liquors.]
Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
[1913 Webster]
Mud bass (Zool.), a fresh-water fish ({Acantharchum
pomotis} or Acantharchus pomotis) of the Eastern United
States. It produces a deep grunting note.
Mud bath, an immersion of the body, or some part of it, in
mud charged with medicinal agents, as a remedy for
disease.
Mud boat, a large flatboat used in dredging.
Mud cat. See mud cat in the vocabulary.
Mud crab (Zool.), any one of several American marine crabs
of the genus Panopeus.
Mud dab (Zool.), the winter flounder. See Flounder, and
Dab.
Mud dauber (Zool.), a mud wasp; the mud-dauber.
Mud devil (Zool.), the fellbender.
Mud drum (Steam Boilers), a drum beneath a boiler, into
which sediment and mud in the water can settle for
removal.
Mud eel (Zool.), a long, slender, aquatic amphibian ({Siren
lacertina}), found in the Southern United States. It has
persistent external gills and only the anterior pair of
legs. See Siren.
Mud frog (Zool.), a European frog (Pelobates fuscus).
Mud hen. (Zool.)
(a) The American coot (Fulica Americana).
(b) The clapper rail.
Mud lark, a person who cleans sewers, or delves in mud.
[Slang]
Mud minnow (Zool.), any small American fresh-water fish of
the genus Umbra, as Umbra limi. The genus is allied to
the pickerels.
Mud plug, a plug for stopping the mudhole of a boiler.
Mud puppy (Zool.), the menobranchus.
Mud scow, a heavy scow, used in dredging; a mud boat.
[U.S.]
Mud turtle, Mud tortoise (Zool.), any one of numerous
species of fresh-water tortoises of the United States.
Mud wasp (Zool.), any one of numerous species of
hymenopterous insects belonging to Pepaeus, and allied
genera, which construct groups of mud cells, attached,
side by side, to stones or to the woodwork of buildings,
etc. The female places an egg in each cell, together with
spiders or other insects, paralyzed by a sting, to serve
as food for the larva. Called also mud dauber.
[1913 Webster] |
Acanthi
(gcide) | Acanthus \A*can"thus\, n.; pl. E. Acanthuses, L. Acanthi.
[L., from Gr. ?. Cf. Acantha.]
[1913 Webster]
1. (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the
south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Arch.) An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of
the acanthus (Acanthus spinosus); -- used in the
capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders.
[1913 Webster] |
Acanthine
(gcide) | Acanthine \A*can"thine\, a. [L. acanthinus, Gr. ?, thorny, fr.
?. See Acanthus.]
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus.
[1913 Webster] |
Acanthis linaria
(gcide) | Linnet \Lin"net\ (l[i^]n"n[e^]t), n. [F. linot, linotte, from L.
linum flax; or perh. shortened from AS. l[imac]netwige, fr.
AS. l[imac]n flax; -- so called because it feeds on the seeds
of flax and hemp. See Linen.] (Zool.)
Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera
Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common
European species (Linota cannabina), which, in full summer
plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or
less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown,
tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet,
rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, {gorse
thatcher}, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The
American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the
crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite.
[1913 Webster]
Green linnet (Zool.), the European green finch.
[1913 Webster] |
Acanthis linarius
(gcide) | Redpoll \Red"poll`\ (-p?l`), n. (Zool.)
(a) Any one of several species of small northern finches of
the genus Acanthis (formerly Aegiothus), native of
Europe and America. The adults have the crown red or
rosy. The male of the most common species ({Acanthis
linarius}) has also the breast and rump rosy. Called also
redpoll linnet. See Illust. under Linnet.
(b) The common European linnet.
(c) The American redpoll warbler (Dendroica palmarum).
[1913 Webster] |
Acanthocarpous
(gcide) | Acanthocarpous \A*can`tho*car"pous\, a. [Gr. ? thorn + ? fruit.]
(Bot.)
Having the fruit covered with spines.
[1913 Webster] |
Acanthocephala
(gcide) | Acanthocephala \A*can`tho*ceph"a*la\, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. ? a
spine, thorn + ? head.] (Zool.)
A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with
recurved spines.
[1913 Webster] |
Acanthocephalous
(gcide) | Acanthocephalous \A*can`tho*ceph"a*lous\, a. (Zool.)
Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.
[1913 Webster] acanthoid |
Acanthocibium petus
(gcide) | Wahoo \Wa*hoo"\, n.
A dark blue scombroid food fish (Acanthocibium solandri or
Acanthocibium petus) of Florida and the West Indies.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
Acanthocibium solandri
(gcide) | Wahoo \Wa*hoo"\, n.
A dark blue scombroid food fish (Acanthocibium solandri or
Acanthocibium petus) of Florida and the West Indies.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
acanthoid
(gcide) | acanthoid \acanthoid\ acanthous \acanthous\adj.
1. 1 shaped like a spine or thorn
Syn: spinous
[WordNet 1.5] |
Acantholithodes hystrix
(gcide) | Porcupine \Por"cu*pine\, n. [OE. porkepyn, porpentine, OF.
porc-espi, F. porc-['e]pic (cf. It. porco spino, porco
spinoso, Sp. puerco espino, puerco espin, fr. L. porcus swine
+ spina thorn, spine). The last part of the French word is
perhaps a corruption from the It. or Sp.; cf. F. ['e]pi ear,
a spike of grain, L. spica. See Pork, Spike a large nail,
Spine.]
1. (Zool.) Any Old Word rodent of the genus Hystrix, having
the back covered with long, sharp, erectile spines or
quills, sometimes a foot long. The common species of
Europe and Asia (Hystrix cristata) is the best known.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Zool.) Any species of Erethizon and related genera,
native of America. They are related to the true
porcupines, but have shorter spines, and are arboreal in
their habits. The Canada porcupine (Erethizon dorsatus)
is a well known species.
[1913 Webster]
Porcupine ant-eater (Zool.), the echidna.
Porcupine crab (Zool.), a large spiny Japanese crab
(Acantholithodes hystrix).
Porcupine disease (Med.). See Ichthyosis.
Porcupine fish (Zool.), any plectognath fish having the
body covered with spines which become erect when the body
is inflated. See Diodon, and Globefish.
Porcupine grass (Bot.), a grass (Stipa spartea) with
grains bearing a stout twisted awn, which, by coiling and
uncoiling through changes in moisture, propels the
sharp-pointed and barbellate grain into the wool and flesh
of sheep. It is found from Illinois westward. See
Illustration in Appendix.
Porcupine wood (Bot.), the hard outer wood of the cocoa
palm; -- so called because, when cut horizontally, the
markings of the wood resemble the quills of a porcupine.
[1913 Webster] |
Acanthophis
(gcide) | Acanthophis \Acanthophis\ n.
1. a genus of Australian elapid snakes.
Syn: genus Acanthophis.
[WordNet 1.5] |
Acanthophis tortor
(gcide) | Death \Death\ (d[e^]th), n. [OE. deth, dea[eth], AS.
de['a][eth]; akin to OS. d[=o][eth], D. dood, G. tod, Icel.
dau[eth]i, Sw. & Dan. d["o]d, Goth. dau[thorn]us; from a verb
meaning to die. See Die, v. i., and cf. Dead.]
1. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of
resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
[1913 Webster]
Note: Local death is going on at all times and in all parts
of the living body, in which individual cells and
elements are being cast off and replaced by new; a
process essential to life. General death is of two
kinds; death of the body as a whole (somatic or
systemic death), and death of the tissues. By the
former is implied the absolute cessation of the
functions of the brain, the circulatory and the
respiratory organs; by the latter the entire
disappearance of the vital actions of the ultimate
structural constituents of the body. When death takes
place, the body as a whole dies first, the death of the
tissues sometimes not occurring until after a
considerable interval. --Huxley.
[1913 Webster]
2. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the
death of memory.
[1913 Webster]
The death of a language can not be exactly compared
with the death of a plant. --J. Peile.
[1913 Webster]
3. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
[1913 Webster]
A death that I abhor. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Let me die the death of the righteous. --Num. xxiii.
10.
[1913 Webster]
4. Cause of loss of life.
[1913 Webster]
Swiftly flies the feathered death. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
He caught his death the last county sessions.
--Addison.
[1913 Webster]
5. Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally
represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
[1913 Webster]
Death! great proprietor of all. --Young.
[1913 Webster]
And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name
that sat on him was Death. --Rev. vi. 8.
[1913 Webster]
6. Danger of death. "In deaths oft." --2 Cor. xi. 23.
[1913 Webster]
7. Murder; murderous character.
[1913 Webster]
Not to suffer a man of death to live. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
8. (Theol.) Loss of spiritual life.
[1913 Webster]
To be carnally minded is death. --Rom. viii.
6.
[1913 Webster]
9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
[1913 Webster]
It was death to them to think of entertaining such
doctrines. --Atterbury.
[1913 Webster]
And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto
death. --Judg. xvi.
16.
[1913 Webster]
Note: Death is much used adjectively and as the first part of
a compound, meaning, in general, of or pertaining to
death, causing or presaging death; as, deathbed or
death bed; deathblow or death blow, etc.
[1913 Webster]
Black death. See Black death, in the Vocabulary.
Civil death, the separation of a man from civil society, or
the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as
by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm,
entering a monastery, etc. --Blackstone.
Death adder. (Zool.)
(a) A kind of viper found in South Africa ({Acanthophis
tortor}); -- so called from the virulence of its
venom.
(b) A venomous Australian snake of the family
Elapid[ae], of several species, as the
Hoplocephalus superbus and Acanthopis antarctica.
Death bell, a bell that announces a death.
[1913 Webster]
The death bell thrice was heard to ring. --Mickle.
Death candle, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the
superstitious as presaging death.
Death damp, a cold sweat at the coming on of death.
Death fire, a kind of ignis fatuus supposed to forebode
death.
[1913 Webster]
And round about in reel and rout,
The death fires danced at night. --Coleridge.
Death grapple, a grapple or struggle for life.
Death in life, a condition but little removed from death; a
living death. [Poetic] "Lay lingering out a five years'
death in life." --Tennyson.
Death rate, the relation or ratio of the number of deaths
to the population.
[1913 Webster]
At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than
in rural districts. --Darwin.
Death rattle, a rattling or gurgling in the throat of a
dying person.
Death's door, the boundary of life; the partition dividing
life from death.
Death stroke, a stroke causing death.
Death throe, the spasm of death.
Death token, the signal of approaching death.
Death warrant.
(a) (Law) An order from the proper authority for the
execution of a criminal.
(b) That which puts an end to expectation, hope, or joy.
Death wound.
(a) A fatal wound or injury.
(b) (Naut.) The springing of a fatal leak.
Spiritual death (Scripture), the corruption and perversion
of the soul by sin, with the loss of the favor of God.
The gates of death, the grave.
[1913 Webster]
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? --Job
xxxviii. 17.
The second death, condemnation to eternal separation from
God. --Rev. ii. 11.
To be the death of, to be the cause of death to; to make
die. "It was one who should be the death of both his
parents." --Milton.
Syn: Death, Decease, Demise, Departure, Release.
Usage: Death applies to the termination of every form of
existence, both animal and vegetable; the other words
only to the human race. Decease is the term used in
law for the removal of a human being out of life in
the ordinary course of nature. Demise was formerly
confined to decease of princes, but is now sometimes
used of distinguished men in general; as, the demise
of Mr. Pitt. Departure and release are peculiarly
terms of Christian affection and hope. A violent death
is not usually called a decease. Departure implies a
friendly taking leave of life. Release implies a
deliverance from a life of suffering or sorrow.
[1913 Webster] |
Acanthophorous
(gcide) | Acanthophorous \Ac`an*thoph"o*rous\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? spine +
fe`rein to bear.]
Spine-bearing. --Gray.
[1913 Webster] |
Acanthopis antarctica
(gcide) | Death \Death\ (d[e^]th), n. [OE. deth, dea[eth], AS.
de['a][eth]; akin to OS. d[=o][eth], D. dood, G. tod, Icel.
dau[eth]i, Sw. & Dan. d["o]d, Goth. dau[thorn]us; from a verb
meaning to die. See Die, v. i., and cf. Dead.]
1. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of
resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
[1913 Webster]
Note: Local death is going on at all times and in all parts
of the living body, in which individual cells and
elements are being cast off and replaced by new; a
process essential to life. General death is of two
kinds; death of the body as a whole (somatic or
systemic death), and death of the tissues. By the
former is implied the absolute cessation of the
functions of the brain, the circulatory and the
respiratory organs; by the latter the entire
disappearance of the vital actions of the ultimate
structural constituents of the body. When death takes
place, the body as a whole dies first, the death of the
tissues sometimes not occurring until after a
considerable interval. --Huxley.
[1913 Webster]
2. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the
death of memory.
[1913 Webster]
The death of a language can not be exactly compared
with the death of a plant. --J. Peile.
[1913 Webster]
3. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
[1913 Webster]
A death that I abhor. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Let me die the death of the righteous. --Num. xxiii.
10.
[1913 Webster]
4. Cause of loss of life.
[1913 Webster]
Swiftly flies the feathered death. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
He caught his death the last county sessions.
--Addison.
[1913 Webster]
5. Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally
represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
[1913 Webster]
Death! great proprietor of all. --Young.
[1913 Webster]
And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name
that sat on him was Death. --Rev. vi. 8.
[1913 Webster]
6. Danger of death. "In deaths oft." --2 Cor. xi. 23.
[1913 Webster]
7. Murder; murderous character.
[1913 Webster]
Not to suffer a man of death to live. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
8. (Theol.) Loss of spiritual life.
[1913 Webster]
To be carnally minded is death. --Rom. viii.
6.
[1913 Webster]
9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
[1913 Webster]
It was death to them to think of entertaining such
doctrines. --Atterbury.
[1913 Webster]
And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto
death. --Judg. xvi.
16.
[1913 Webster]
Note: Death is much used adjectively and as the first part of
a compound, meaning, in general, of or pertaining to
death, causing or presaging death; as, deathbed or
death bed; deathblow or death blow, etc.
[1913 Webster]
Black death. See Black death, in the Vocabulary.
Civil death, the separation of a man from civil society, or
the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as
by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm,
entering a monastery, etc. --Blackstone.
Death adder. (Zool.)
(a) A kind of viper found in South Africa ({Acanthophis
tortor}); -- so called from the virulence of its
venom.
(b) A venomous Australian snake of the family
Elapid[ae], of several species, as the
Hoplocephalus superbus and Acanthopis antarctica.
Death bell, a bell that announces a death.
[1913 Webster]
The death bell thrice was heard to ring. --Mickle.
Death candle, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the
superstitious as presaging death.
Death damp, a cold sweat at the coming on of death.
Death fire, a kind of ignis fatuus supposed to forebode
death.
[1913 Webster]
And round about in reel and rout,
The death fires danced at night. --Coleridge.
Death grapple, a grapple or struggle for life.
Death in life, a condition but little removed from death; a
living death. [Poetic] "Lay lingering out a five years'
death in life." --Tennyson.
Death rate, the relation or ratio of the number of deaths
to the population.
[1913 Webster]
At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than
in rural districts. --Darwin.
Death rattle, a rattling or gurgling in the throat of a
dying person.
Death's door, the boundary of life; the partition dividing
life from death.
Death stroke, a stroke causing death.
Death throe, the spasm of death.
Death token, the signal of approaching death.
Death warrant.
(a) (Law) An order from the proper authority for the
execution of a criminal.
(b) That which puts an end to expectation, hope, or joy.
Death wound.
(a) A fatal wound or injury.
(b) (Naut.) The springing of a fatal leak.
Spiritual death (Scripture), the corruption and perversion
of the soul by sin, with the loss of the favor of God.
The gates of death, the grave.
[1913 Webster]
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? --Job
xxxviii. 17.
The second death, condemnation to eternal separation from
God. --Rev. ii. 11.
To be the death of, to be the cause of death to; to make
die. "It was one who should be the death of both his
parents." --Milton.
Syn: Death, Decease, Demise, Departure, Release.
Usage: Death applies to the termination of every form of
existence, both animal and vegetable; the other words
only to the human race. Decease is the term used in
law for the removal of a human being out of life in
the ordinary course of nature. Demise was formerly
confined to decease of princes, but is now sometimes
used of distinguished men in general; as, the demise
of Mr. Pitt. Departure and release are peculiarly
terms of Christian affection and hope. A violent death
is not usually called a decease. Departure implies a
friendly taking leave of life. Release implies a
deliverance from a life of suffering or sorrow.
[1913 Webster] |
Acanthopodious
(gcide) | Acanthopodious \A*can`tho*po"di*ous\, a. [Gr. ? thorn + ?, ?,
foot.] (Bot.)
Having spinous petioles.
[1913 Webster] |
Acanthopteri
(gcide) | Acanthopteri \Ac`an*thop"ter*i\, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. ? thorn +
? wing, fin.] (Zool.)
A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See
Acanthopterygii.
[1913 Webster] |
Acanthopterous
(gcide) | Acanthopterous \Ac`an*thop"ter*ous\, a. [Gr. ? spine + ? wing.]
1. (Zool.) Spiny-winged.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Zool.) Acanthopterygious.
[1913 Webster] |
Acanthopterygian
(gcide) | Acanthopterygian \Ac`an*thop`ter*yg"i*an\, a. (Zool.)
Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the
perch. -- n. A spiny-finned fish.
[1913 Webster] |
Acanthopterygii
(gcide) | Acanthopterygii \Ac`an*thop`ter*yg"i*i\, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. ?
thorn + ? fin, dim. fr. ? wing.] (Zool.)
An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal,
ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the
perch.
[1913 Webster] |
Acanthopterygious
(gcide) | Acanthopterygious \Ac`an*thop`ter*yg"i*ous\, a. (Zool.)
Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike;
spiny-finned.
[1913 Webster] |
acanthous
(gcide) | acanthoid \acanthoid\ acanthous \acanthous\adj.
1. 1 shaped like a spine or thorn
Syn: spinous
[WordNet 1.5] |
Acanthuridae
(gcide) | Acanthuridae \Acanthuridae\ n.
1. 1 a family of fishes consisting of the surgeonfishes. fish
family
Syn: family Acanthuridae
[WordNet 1.5] |
Acanthurus
(gcide) | Acanthurus \Acanthurus\ n.
1. type genus of the family Acanthuridae; doctorfishes.
Syn: genus Acanthurus
[WordNet 1.5] |
Acanthus
(gcide) | Acanthus \A*can"thus\, n.; pl. E. Acanthuses, L. Acanthi.
[L., from Gr. ?. Cf. Acantha.]
[1913 Webster]
1. (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the
south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Arch.) An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of
the acanthus (Acanthus spinosus); -- used in the
capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders.
[1913 Webster] |
Acanthus mollis
(gcide) | Bear's-breech \Bear's"-breech`\, bear's-breeches
\bear's"-breech`es\, n.
1. (Bot.) The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium)
--Dr. Prior.
[1913 Webster]
2. a widely cultivated southern European acanthus ({Acanthus
mollis}) with whitish purple-veined flowers. See
Acanthus, n., 1.
Syn: bear's breech, bear's-breech, bear's breeches, sea
holly.
[WordNet 1.5] |
Acanthus spinosus
(gcide) | Acanthus \A*can"thus\, n.; pl. E. Acanthuses, L. Acanthi.
[L., from Gr. ?. Cf. Acantha.]
[1913 Webster]
1. (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the
south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Arch.) An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of
the acanthus (Acanthus spinosus); -- used in the
capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders.
[1913 Webster] |
Acanthuses
(gcide) | Acanthus \A*can"thus\, n.; pl. E. Acanthuses, L. Acanthi.
[L., from Gr. ?. Cf. Acantha.]
[1913 Webster]
1. (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the
south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Arch.) An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of
the acanthus (Acanthus spinosus); -- used in the
capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders.
[1913 Webster] |
Acocanthera
(gcide) | Acocanthera \Acocanthera\ n.
same as Akocanthera.
Syn: Akocanthera, genus Acocanthera, genus Acokanthera.
[WordNet 1.5] |
Agave cantala
(gcide) | Maguey \Mag"uey\, n. [Sp. maguey, Mexican maguei and metl.]
(Bot.)
Any of several species of Agave, such as the {century
plant} (Agave Americana), a plant requiring many years to
come to maturity and blossoming only once before dying; and
the Agave atrovirens, a Mexican plant used especially for
making pulque, the source of the colorless Mexican liquor
mescal; and the cantala (Agave cantala), a Philippine
plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine. See
Agave.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
2. A hard fibre used in making coarse twine, derived from the
Philippine Agave cantala (Agave cantala); also called
cantala.
[WordNet 1.5] |
Albicant
(gcide) | Albicant \Al"bi*cant\, a. [L. albicans, p. pr. of albicare,
albicatum, to be white, fr. albus white.]
Growing or becoming white.
[1913 Webster] |
Alicant
(gcide) | Alicant \Al"i*cant\, n.
A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been
made near Alicant, in Spain. --J. Fletcher.
[1913 Webster] |
Almacantar
(gcide) | Almacantar \Al`ma*can"tar\, n. (Astron.)
(a) Same as Almucantar.
(b) A recently invented instrument for observing the heavenly
bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See
Almucantar.
[1913 Webster] Almadia |
Almucantar
(gcide) | Almucantar \Al`mu*can"tar\, n. [F. almucantarat, almicantarat,
ultimately fr. Ar. al-muqantar[=a]t, pl., fr. qantara to
bend, arch.] (Astron.)
A small circle of the sphere parallel to the horizon; a
circle or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same
almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar.
[Archaic]
[1913 Webster]
Almucanter staff, an ancient instrument, having an arc of
fifteen degrees, formerly used at sea to take observations
of the sun's amplitude at the time of its rising or
setting, to find the variation of the compass.
[1913 Webster] |
Almucanter staff
(gcide) | Almucantar \Al`mu*can"tar\, n. [F. almucantarat, almicantarat,
ultimately fr. Ar. al-muqantar[=a]t, pl., fr. qantara to
bend, arch.] (Astron.)
A small circle of the sphere parallel to the horizon; a
circle or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same
almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar.
[Archaic]
[1913 Webster]
Almucanter staff, an ancient instrument, having an arc of
fifteen degrees, formerly used at sea to take observations
of the sun's amplitude at the time of its rising or
setting, to find the variation of the compass.
[1913 Webster] |
Anacanthini
(gcide) | Anacanthini \An`a*can"thi*ni\, Anacanths \An"a*canths\, n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. 'an priv. + ? thorny, fr. ? thorn.] (Zool.)
A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin-rays, as
the cod.
[1913 Webster] |
Anacanthous
(gcide) | Anacanthous \An`a*can"thous\, a.
Spineless, as certain fishes.
[1913 Webster] |
Anacanths
(gcide) | Anacanthini \An`a*can"thi*ni\, Anacanths \An"a*canths\, n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. 'an priv. + ? thorny, fr. ? thorn.] (Zool.)
A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin-rays, as
the cod.
[1913 Webster] |
Applicant
(gcide) | Applicant \Ap"pli*cant\, n. [L. applicans, p. pr. of applicare.
See Apply.]
One who apples for something; one who makes request; a
petitioner.
[1913 Webster]
The applicant for a cup of water. --Plumtre.
[1913 Webster]
The court require the applicant to appear in person.
--Z. Swift.
[1913 Webster] |
Astragalus Tragacanthus
(gcide) | Goat \Goat\ (g[=o]t), n. [OE goot, got, gat, AS. g[=a]t; akin to
D. geit, OHG. geiz, G. geiss, Icel. geit, Sw. get, Dan. ged,
Goth. gaits, L. haedus a young goat, kid.] (Zool.)
A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several
species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat ({Capra
hircus}), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The Cashmere and Angora varieties of the goat have
long, silky hair, used in the manufacture of textile
fabrics. The wild or bezoar goat (Capra [ae]gagrus),
of Asia Minor, noted for the bezoar stones found in its
stomach, is supposed to be one of the ancestral species
of the domestic goat. The Rocky Mountain goat
(Haplocercus montanus) is more nearly related to the
antelopes. See Mazame.
[1913 Webster]
Goat antelope (Zool), one of several species of antelopes,
which in some respects resemble a goat, having recurved
horns, a stout body, large hoofs, and a short, flat tail,
as the goral, thar, mazame, and chikara.
Goat fig (Bot.), the wild fig.
Goat house.
(a) A place for keeping goats.
(b) A brothel. [Obs.]
Goat moth (Zool.), any moth of the genus Cossus, esp. the
large European species (Cossus ligniperda), the larva of
which burrows in oak and willow trees, and requires three
years to mature. It exhales an odor like that of the
he-goat.
Goat weed (Bot.), a scrophulariaceous plant, of the genus
Capraria (Capraria biflora).
Goat's bane (Bot.), a poisonous plant ({Aconitum
Lucoctonum}), bearing pale yellow flowers, introduced from
Switzerland into England; wolfsbane.
Goat's foot (Bot.), a kind of wood sorrel ({Oxalis
caprina}) growing at the Cape of Good Hope.
Goat's rue (Bot.), a leguminous plant (Galega officinalis
of Europe, or Tephrosia Virginiana in the United
States).
Goat's thorn (Bot.), a thorny leguminous plant ({Astragalus
Tragacanthus}), found in the Levant.
Goat's wheat (Bot.), the genus Tragopyrum (now referred
to Atraphaxis).
[1913 Webster] |
bel canto
(gcide) | bel canto \bel canto\ (b[e^]l k[aum]n"t[-o]), n. [It., beautiful
singing.] (Music)
a cantabile style of operatic singing characterized by purity
and evenness of tone, and a precise but brilliant vocal
technique displaying ease and agility.
[PJC] |
Calycanthus floridus
(gcide) | Allspice \All"spice`\, n.
The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the
West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably
aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to
combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and
hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic
shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus);
wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush,
spicewood, and feverbush.
[1913 Webster] |
Candicant
(gcide) | Candicant \Can"di*cant\, a. [L. candicans, p. pr. of candicare
to be whitish.]
Growing white. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster] |
Cant
(gcide) | Cant \Cant\, a.
Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.
[1913 Webster]
To introduce and multiply cant words in the most
ruinous corruption in any language. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]Cant \Cant\, v. i.
1. To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong
tone.
[1913 Webster]
2. To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an
affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice
hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.
[1913 Webster]
The rankest rogue that ever canted. --Beau. & Fl.
[1913 Webster]
3. To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or
technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.
[1913 Webster]
The doctor here,
When he discourseth of dissection,
Of vena cava and of vena porta,
The meser[ae]um and the mesentericum,
What does he else but cant. --B. Jonson
[1913 Webster]
That uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting
language, if I may so call it. --Bp.
Sanderson.
[1913 Webster]Cant \Cant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Canted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Canting.]
1. To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon
the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.
[1913 Webster]
2. To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant
round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
[1913 Webster]
3. To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of
timber, or from the head of a bolt.
[1913 Webster]Cant \Cant\, n. [OF., edge, angle, prof. from L. canthus the
iron ring round a carriage wheel, a wheel, Gr. ? the corner
of the eye, the felly of a wheel; cf. W. cant the stake or
tire of a wheel. Cf. Canthus, Canton, Cantle.]
1. A corner; angle; niche. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
The first and principal person in the temple was
Irene, or Peace; she was placed aloft in a cant.
--B. Jonson.
[1913 Webster]
2. An outer or external angle.
[1913 Webster]
3. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope
or bevel; a titl. --Totten.
[1913 Webster]
4. A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a
bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so
give; as, to give a ball a cant.
[1913 Webster]
5. (Coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of
a cask. --Knight.
[1913 Webster]
6. (Mech.) A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.
--Knight.
[1913 Webster]
7. (Naut.) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to
support the bulkheads.
[1913 Webster]
Cant frames, Cant timbers (Naut.), timber at the two ends
of a ship, rising obliquely from the keel.
[1913 Webster]Cant \Cant\, n. [Prob. from OF. cant, F. chant, singing, in
allusion to the singing or whining tine of voice used by
beggars, fr. L. cantus. See Chant.]
1. An affected, singsong mode of speaking.
[1913 Webster]
2. The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class,
or occupation. --Goldsmith.
[1913 Webster]
The cant of any profession. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
3. The use of religious phraseology without understanding or
sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not
felt; hypocrisy.
[1913 Webster]
They shall hear no cant from me. --F. W.
Robertson
[1913 Webster]
4. Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by
gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.
[1913 Webster]Cant \Cant\, n. [Prob. from OF. cant, equiv. to L. quantum; cf.
F. encan, fr. L. in quantum, i.e. "for how much?"]
A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction. "To sell
their leases by cant." --Swift.
[1913 Webster]Cant \Cant\, v. t.
to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.
[Archaic] --Swift.
[1913 Webster]Can't \Can't\
A colloquial contraction for can not.
[1913 Webster] |
Can't
(gcide) | Cant \Cant\, a.
Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.
[1913 Webster]
To introduce and multiply cant words in the most
ruinous corruption in any language. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]Cant \Cant\, v. i.
1. To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong
tone.
[1913 Webster]
2. To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an
affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice
hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.
[1913 Webster]
The rankest rogue that ever canted. --Beau. & Fl.
[1913 Webster]
3. To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or
technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.
[1913 Webster]
The doctor here,
When he discourseth of dissection,
Of vena cava and of vena porta,
The meser[ae]um and the mesentericum,
What does he else but cant. --B. Jonson
[1913 Webster]
That uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting
language, if I may so call it. --Bp.
Sanderson.
[1913 Webster]Cant \Cant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Canted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Canting.]
1. To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon
the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.
[1913 Webster]
2. To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant
round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
[1913 Webster]
3. To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of
timber, or from the head of a bolt.
[1913 Webster]Cant \Cant\, n. [OF., edge, angle, prof. from L. canthus the
iron ring round a carriage wheel, a wheel, Gr. ? the corner
of the eye, the felly of a wheel; cf. W. cant the stake or
tire of a wheel. Cf. Canthus, Canton, Cantle.]
1. A corner; angle; niche. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
The first and principal person in the temple was
Irene, or Peace; she was placed aloft in a cant.
--B. Jonson.
[1913 Webster]
2. An outer or external angle.
[1913 Webster]
3. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope
or bevel; a titl. --Totten.
[1913 Webster]
4. A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a
bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so
give; as, to give a ball a cant.
[1913 Webster]
5. (Coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of
a cask. --Knight.
[1913 Webster]
6. (Mech.) A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.
--Knight.
[1913 Webster]
7. (Naut.) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to
support the bulkheads.
[1913 Webster]
Cant frames, Cant timbers (Naut.), timber at the two ends
of a ship, rising obliquely from the keel.
[1913 Webster]Cant \Cant\, n. [Prob. from OF. cant, F. chant, singing, in
allusion to the singing or whining tine of voice used by
beggars, fr. L. cantus. See Chant.]
1. An affected, singsong mode of speaking.
[1913 Webster]
2. The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class,
or occupation. --Goldsmith.
[1913 Webster]
The cant of any profession. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
3. The use of religious phraseology without understanding or
sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not
felt; hypocrisy.
[1913 Webster]
They shall hear no cant from me. --F. W.
Robertson
[1913 Webster]
4. Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by
gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.
[1913 Webster]Cant \Cant\, n. [Prob. from OF. cant, equiv. to L. quantum; cf.
F. encan, fr. L. in quantum, i.e. "for how much?"]
A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction. "To sell
their leases by cant." --Swift.
[1913 Webster]Cant \Cant\, v. t.
to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.
[Archaic] --Swift.
[1913 Webster]Can't \Can't\
A colloquial contraction for can not.
[1913 Webster] |
Cant frames
(gcide) | Frame \Frame\, n.
1. Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a
fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system,
whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building,
vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a
structure.
[1913 Webster]
These are thy glorious works, Parent of good,
Almighty! thine this universal frame. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
2. The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build
of a person.
[1913 Webster]
Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
No frames could be strong enough to endure it.
--Prescott.
[1913 Webster]
3. A kind of open case or structure made for admitting,
inclosing, or supporting things, as that which incloses or
contains a window, door, picture, etc.; that on which
anything is held or stretched; as:
(a) The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and
machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.
(b) (Founding) A molding box or flask, which being filled
with sand serves as a mold for castings.
(c) The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other
structure with a fabric covering.
(d) A structure of four bars, adjustable in size, on which
cloth, etc., is stretched for quilting, embroidery,
etc.
(e) (Hort.) A glazed portable structure for protecting
young plants from frost.
(f) (Print.) A stand to support the type cases for use by
the compositor.
(f) a pair of glasses without the lenses; that part of a
pair of glasses that excludes the lenses.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
4. (Mach.) A term applied, especially in England, to certain
machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking
frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc.
[1913 Webster]
5. Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution;
system; as, a frameof government.
[1913 Webster]
She that hath a heart of that fine frame
To pay this debt of love but to a brother. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Put your discourse into some frame. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
6. Particular state or disposition, as of the mind; humor;
temper; mood; as, to be always in a happy frame. Same as
{frame of mind}
[1913 Webster +PJC]
7. Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
John the bastard
Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
8. In games:
(a) In pool, the triangular form used in setting up the
balls; also, the balls as set up, or the round of
playing required to pocket them all; as, to play six
frames in a game of 50 points.
(b) In bowling, as in tenpins, one of the several innings
forming a game.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Balloon frame, Cant frames, etc. See under Balloon,
Cant, etc.
Frame building or Frame house, a building of which the
form and support is made of framed timbers. [U.S.] --
Frame level, a mason's level.
Frame saw, a thin saw stretched in a frame to give it
rigidity.
[1913 Webster]Cant \Cant\, n. [OF., edge, angle, prof. from L. canthus the
iron ring round a carriage wheel, a wheel, Gr. ? the corner
of the eye, the felly of a wheel; cf. W. cant the stake or
tire of a wheel. Cf. Canthus, Canton, Cantle.]
1. A corner; angle; niche. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
The first and principal person in the temple was
Irene, or Peace; she was placed aloft in a cant.
--B. Jonson.
[1913 Webster]
2. An outer or external angle.
[1913 Webster]
3. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope
or bevel; a titl. --Totten.
[1913 Webster]
4. A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a
bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so
give; as, to give a ball a cant.
[1913 Webster]
5. (Coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of
a cask. --Knight.
[1913 Webster]
6. (Mech.) A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.
--Knight.
[1913 Webster]
7. (Naut.) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to
support the bulkheads.
[1913 Webster]
Cant frames, Cant timbers (Naut.), timber at the two ends
of a ship, rising obliquely from the keel.
[1913 Webster] |
|