n. See Acipenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ L., the name of a fish. ] (Zool.) A genus of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the under side of the head. See Sturgeon. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. The natural family of fish including the sturgeons.
Syn. -- family Acipenseridae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ G.; Alp, gen. pl. Alpen + stock stick. ] A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps. Cheever. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of appending. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. receiving money for services rendered.
Syn. -- paying(prenominal), remunerative, salaried, stipendiary. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. qualifying one for receipt of compensation, such as for a bodily injury; as, a compensable injury. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Compensated; p. pr. & vb. n. Compensating. ] [ L. compensatus, p. p. of compensare, prop., to weigh several things with one another, to balance with one another, verb intens. fr. compendere. See Compendium. ] 1. To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for. [ 1913 Webster ]

The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries. Prior.

Syn. -- To recompense; remunerate; indemnify; reward; requite; counterbalance. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. receiving or eligible for compensation.
Syn. -- remunerated, salaried, stipendiary. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. compensatio a weighing, a balancing of accounts. ] 1. The act or principle of compensating. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense. [ 1913 Webster ]

The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) (a)The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off. Bouvier. Wharton. (b) A recompense or reward for some loss or service. (c) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Compensation balance, or
Compensated balance, a kind of balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of two different metals having different expansibility under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movement. --
Compensation pendulum. See Pendulum.

Syn. -- Recompense; reward; indemnification; consideration; requital; satisfaction; set-off. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. compensativus. ] Affording compensation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Compensation. [ R. ] Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) An iron plate or magnet placed near the compass on iron vessels to neutralize the effect of the ship's attraction on the needle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving for compensation; making amends. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. compenser. See Compensate. ] To compensate. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of northern temperate low evergreen plants; in some classifications placed in its own order Diapensiales.
Syn. -- family Diapensiaceae, diapensia family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an order of plants, used in some classifications as coextensive with the family Diapensiaceae.
Syn. -- order Diapensiales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ LL. dispensabilis. See Dispense. ] 1. Capable of being dispensed or administered. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of being dispensed with. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being dispensable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Dispensaries [ Cf. F. dispensaire. ] 1. A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp., a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dispensatory. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. dispensation, L. dispensatio. ] 1. The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration. [ 1913 Webster ]

To respect the dispensations of Providence. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed; especially (Theol.), A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, exemption from some ecclesiastical law or obligation to God which a man has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.). [ 1913 Webster ]

A dispensation was obtained to enable Dr. Barrow to marry. Ward. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. dispensatif. ] Granting dispensation. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By dispensation. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] A distributer; a dispenser. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the way of dispensation; dispensatively. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dispensatorius relating to management. See Dispense, v. t. ] Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations. “Dispensatory power.” Bp. Rainbow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Dispensatories A book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic description of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It is usually, but not always, distinguished from a pharmacopœia in that it issued by private parties, and not by an official body or by government. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dispensed p. pr. & vb. n. Dispensing. ] [ F. dispenser, L. dispensare, intens. of dispendere. See Dispend. ] 1. To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct. [ 1913 Webster ]

While you dispense the laws, and guide the state. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pay for; to atone for. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His sin was dispensed
With gold, whereof it was compensed. Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To exempt; to excuse; to absolve; -- with from. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be dispensed from parliamentary attendance. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To compensate; to make up; to make amends. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

One loving hour
For many years of sorrow can dispense. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give dispensation. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ the pope ] can also dispense in all matters of ecclesiastical law. Addis & Arnold (Cath. Dict. ) [ 1913 Webster ]

To dispense with. (a) To permit the neglect or omission of, as a form, a ceremony, an oath; to suspend the operation of, as a law; to give up, release, or do without, as services, attention, etc.; to forego; to part with. (b) To allow by dispensation; to excuse; to exempt; to grant dispensation to or for. [ Obs. ] “Conniving and dispensing with open and common adultery.” Milton. (c) To break or go back from, as one's word. [ Obs. ] Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dispense dispensation. See Dispense, v. t. ] Dispensation; exemption. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. despense, F. dépense. ] Expense; profusion; outlay. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It was a vault built for great dispense. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. distributed or weighed out in carefully determined portions; as, medicines dispensed to the sick. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Equi- + pensatus, p. p. of pensare to weigh. Cf. Equipoise. ] To weigh equally; to esteem alike. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. expensa (sc. pecunia), or expensum, fr. expensus, p. p. of expendere. See Expend. ] 1. A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Husband nature's riches from expense. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time. [ 1913 Webster ]

Courting popularity at his party's expense. Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Loss. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Expense magazine (Mil.), a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. H. L. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of expense; costly; chargeable. [ R. ] Sir H. Wotton. -- Ex*pense"ful*ly, adv. [R.] -- Ex*pense"ful*ness, n. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without cost or expense. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family. [ 1913 Webster ]

War is expensive, and peace desirable. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad sense: extravagant; lavish. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness. Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]

The idle and expensive are dangerous. Sir W. Temple.

Syn. -- Costly; dear; high-priced; lavish; extravagant.

-- Ex*pen"sive*ly, adv. -- Ex*pen"sive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. indispensabilité. ] Indispensableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + dispensable: cf. F. indispensable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The law was moral and indispensable. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Unavoidable; inevitable. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an indispensable manner. “Indispensably necessary.” Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not expensive; cheap. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Misspense. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A spending improperly; a wasting. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To grant an outpension to. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A public pension granted to one not required to live in a charitable institution. -- Out"pen`sion*er, n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

v. to make excessive corrections for fear of making an error.
Syn. -- over-correct, compensate too much. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ etc. } (Accounting) Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business; -- called also fixed charges, establishment charges, or (in a manufacturing business) administration charges, selling charges, and distribution charges, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n., pl. of Penny; pence. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]