v. i. To take one's self off; to decamp. [ A jocular word. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adaequatus, p. p. of adaequare to make equal to; ad + aequare to make equal, aequus equal. See Equal. ] Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Proportionate; commensurate; sufficient; suitable; competent; capable. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Adequate, a. ] 1. To equalize; to make adequate. [ R. ] Fotherby. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To equal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It [ is ] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. Shelford. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an adequate manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adaequatio. ] The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent. [ Obs. ] Bp. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. antiquatus, p. p. of antiquare, fr. antiquus ancient. ] To make old, or obsolete; to make antique; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use; hence, to make void, or abrogate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Christianity might reasonably introduce new laws, and antiquate or abrogate old one. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. “Antiquated words.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Ancient; old; antique; obsolete. See Ancient. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being antiquated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Antiquatedness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. antiquatio, fr. antiquare. ] The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated. Beaumont. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. appropinquatus, p. p. of appropinquare; ad + prope near. ] To approach. [ Archaic ] Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. appropinquatio. ] A drawing nigh; approach. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aquaticus: cf. F. aquatique. See Aqua. ] Pertaining to water; growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An aquatic animal or plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Sports or exercises practiced in or on the water. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Aquatic. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aquatilis: cf. F. aquatile. ] Inhabiting the water. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 1. to etch in aquatint. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ It. acquatinta dyed water; acqua (L. aqua) water + tinto, fem. tinta, dyed. See Tint. ] A kind of etching in which spaces are bitten by the use of aqua fortis, by which an effect is produced resembling a drawing in water colors or India ink; also, the engraving produced by this method. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shaped like a bow; arcuate; curved. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. Squatting. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Colliquated; p. pr. & vb. n. Colliquating. ] [ Pref. col- + L. liquare, liquatum, to melt. ] To change from solid to fluid; to make or become liquid; to melt. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The ore of it is colliquated by the violence of the fire. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Ice ] will colliquate in water or warm oil. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A melting together; the act of melting; fusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

When sand and ashes are well melted together and suffered to cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call “glass”. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Causing rapid waste or exhaustion; melting; as, colliquative sweats. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Kumquat.
Syn. -- kumquat, kumquat tree. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. [ L. deliquatus, p. p. of deliquare to clear off, de- + liquare to make liquid, melt, dissolve. ] To melt or be dissolved; to deliquesce. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to melt away; to dissolve; to consume; to waste. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Dilapidating, or rather deliquating, his bishopric. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A melting. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. eliquatio, fr. eliquare to clarify, strain; e + liquare to make liquid, melt. ] (Metallurgy) The process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Equated; p. pr. & vb. n. Equating. ] [ L. aequatus, p. p. of aequare to make level or equal, fr. aequus level, equal. See Equal. ] To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to mean time or motion; as, to equate payments; to equate lines of railroad for grades or curves; equated distances. [ 1913 Webster ]

Palgrave gives both scrolle and scrowe and equates both to F[ rench ] rolle. Skeat (Etymol. Dict. ). [ 1913 Webster ]

Equating for grades (Railroad Engin.), adding to the measured distance one mile for each twenty feet of ascent. --
Equating for curves, adding half a mile for each 360 degrees of curvature. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of regarding as equal.
Syn. -- equation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. aequatio an equalizing: cf. F. équation equation. See Equate. ] 1. A making equal; equal division; equality; equilibrium. [ 1913 Webster ]

Again the golden day resumed its right,
And ruled in just equation with the night. Rowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) An expression of the condition of equality between two algebraic quantities or sets of quantities, the sign = being placed between them; as, a binomial equation; a quadratic equation; an algebraic equation; a transcendental equation; an exponential equation; a logarithmic equation; a differential equation, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Astron.) A quantity to be applied in computing the mean place or other element of a celestial body; that is, any one of the several quantities to be added to, or taken from, its position as calculated on the hypothesis of a mean uniform motion, in order to find its true position as resulting from its actual and unequal motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Absolute equation. See under Absolute. --
Equation box, or
Equational box, a system of differential gearing used in spinning machines for regulating the twist of the yarn. It resembles gearing used in equation clocks for showing apparent time. --
Equation of the center (Astron.), the difference between the place of a planet as supposed to move uniformly in a circle, and its place as moving in an ellipse. --
Equations of condition (Math.), equations formed for deducing the true values of certain quantities from others on which they depend, when different sets of the latter, as given by observation, would yield different values of the quantities sought, and the number of equations that may be found is greater than the number of unknown quantities. --
Equation of a curve (Math.), an equation which expresses the relation between the coördinates of every point in the curve. --
Equation of equinoxes (Astron.), the difference between the mean and apparent places of the equinox. --
Equation of payments (Arith.), the process of finding the mean time of payment of several sums due at different times. --
Equation of time (Astron.), the difference between mean and apparent time, or between the time of day indicated by the sun, and that by a perfect clock going uniformly all the year round. --
Equation clock or
Equation watch, a timepiece made to exhibit the differences between mean solar and apparent solar time. Knight. --
Normal equation. See under Normal. --
Personal equation (Astron.), the difference between an observed result and the true qualities or peculiarities in the observer; particularly the difference, in an average of a large number of observation, between the instant when an observer notes a phenomenon, as the transit of a star, and the assumed instant of its actual occurrence; or, relatively, the difference between these instants as noted by two observers. It is usually only a fraction of a second; -- sometimes applied loosely to differences of judgment or method occasioned by temperamental qualities of individuals. --
Theory of equations (Math.), the branch of algebra that treats of the properties of a single algebraic equation of any degree containing one unknown quantity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. aequator one who equalizes: cf. F. équateur equator. See Equate. ] 1. (Geog.) The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface into two hemispheres. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) The great circle of the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the earth's equator; -- so called because when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of equal length; hence called also the equinoctial, and on maps, globes, etc., the equinoctial line. [ 1913 Webster ]

Equator of the sun or
Equator of a planet (Astron.), the great circle whose plane passes through through the center of the body, and is perpendicular to its axis of revolution. --
Magnetic equator. See Aclinic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. équatorial. ] Of or pertaining to the equator; as, equatorial climates; also, pertaining to an equatorial instrument. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Astron.) An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axis of the earth, and each carrying a graduated circle, the one for measuring declination, and the other right ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed, even in the daytime, to any star or other object whose right ascension and declination are known. The motion in right ascension is sometimes communicated by clockwork, so as to keep the object constantly in the field of the telescope. Called also an equatorial telescope. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term equatorial, or equatorial instrument, is sometimes applied to any astronomical instrument which has its principal axis of rotation parallel to the axis of the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to have motion or direction parallel to the equator. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., 3d pers. sing. pres. subj. of exequi, exsequi, to perform, execute. ] 1. A written official recognition of a consul or commercial agent, issued by the government to which he is accredited, and authorizing him to exercise his powers in the place to which he is assigned. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Official recognition or permission. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. il- in + L. liquare to melt. ] The melting or dissolving of one thing into another. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + adequate: cf. F. inadéquat. ] Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc. Dryden.

-- In*ad"e*quate*ly, adv. -- In*ad"e*quate*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of exact correspondence. [ Obs. ] Puller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inaquatus, p. p. of inaquare to make into water; pref. in- in + aqua water. ] Embodied in, or changed into, water. [ Obs. ] Cranmer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being inaquate. [ Obs. ] Bp. Gardiner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Math.) An inequality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Chin. kin keu. ] (Bot.) any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella (formerly Citrus) of the rue family (Rutaceae) (especially Citrus Japonica) growing in China and Japan bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp; also, any of the small acid, orange-colored citrus fruits of such plants, used mostly for preserves. [ Also spelled cumquat. ] [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ L. liquatus, p. p. of liquare to melt. ] To melt; to become liquid. [ Obs. ] Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Metal.) To separate by fusion, as a more fusible from a less fusible material. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. liquatio: cf. F. liquation. ] 1. The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; also, the capacity of becoming liquid. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Metal.) The process of separating, by heat, an easily fusible metal from one less fusible; eliquation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Chinese name. ] (Bot.) The fruit of the Japanese medlar (Photinia Japonica). It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. Also, the tree itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ F., Louis fourteenth. ] Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the art or style of the times of Louis XIV. of France; as, Louis quatorze architecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An imaginary line paralleling the equator where a magnetic needle has no dip, the dipping needle being horizontal; called also aclinic line. [ WordNet 1.5 ]