adj. 1. seizing the attention attention-getting demonstration
Syn. -- eye-catching. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. 1 likely to attract interest.
Syn. -- catchy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit. Lindley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Dewrotting; the process of decomposing the gummy matter of flax and hemp and setting the fibrous part, by exposure on a sward to dew, rain, and sunshine. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It ., dim. fr. duetto a duet. ] A duet of short extent and concise form. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ SA. eten, eoten, orig., gluttonous, fr. etan to eat. ] A giant. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By forgetting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition. [ 1913 Webster ]

With all thy getting, get understanding. Prov. iv. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is got or obtained; gain; profit. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Named after the discoverer, Charles Hatchett. ] (Min.) Mineral tallow; a waxy or spermaceti-like substance, commonly of a greenish yellow color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. frequent international travel for pleasure, as contrasted with business. [ PJC ]

n. The state of being jetty; blackness. Pennant. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. being propelled violently in a usually narrow stream; -- of liquids.
Syn. -- spouting, spurting, squirting. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ From Loreto in Italy. ] (R. C. Ch.) (a) One of an order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the western United States. (b) A Loreto nun. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ From Net, n. ] 1. The act or process of making nets or network, or of forming meshes, as for fancywork, fishing nets, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece of network; any fabric, made of cords, threads, wires, or the like, crossing one another with open spaces between. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) A network of ropes used for various purposes, as for holding the hammocks when not in use, also for stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

Netting needle, a kind of slender shuttle used in netting. See Needle, n., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Urine. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Compensating for.
Syn. -- countervailing, compensatory, compensative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sexually titillating foreplay without contact with the genital organs.
Syn. -- caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, smooching, snuggling. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality or state of being pretty; -- used sometimes in a disparaging sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

A style . . . without sententious pretension or antithetical prettiness. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and kindred processes; -- also called rotting. See Ret. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place where flax is retted; a rettery. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Something set in, or inserted. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt set in it settings of stones. Ex. xxviii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold setting of a jeweled pin. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. the time, place, and circumstances in which an event (real or fictional) occurs; as, the setting of a novel. [ PJC ]

Setting coat (Arch.), the finishing or last coat of plastering on walls or ceilings. --
Setting dog, a setter. See Setter, n., 2. --
Setting pole, a pole, often iron-pointed, used for pushing boats along in shallow water. --
Setting rule. (Print.) A composing rule. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Any one of a series of gymnastic exercises used, as in drilling recruits, for the purpose of giving an erect carriage, supple muscles, and an easy control of the limbs. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. 1. The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore. Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, the region where the sun sets; the west. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sunset shell (Zool.), a West Indian marine bivalve (Tellina radiata) having a smooth shell marked with radiating bands of varied colors resembling those seen at sunset or before sunrise; -- called also rising sun. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or art of setting type. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Something set or built under as a support; a pedestal. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow. [ Scot. ] Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. such as to disturb the self-possession of; unnerving; causing mental distress; as, the sight was an upsetting experience. [ PJC ]

. A thermometer by merely inverting which the temperature may be registered. The column of mercury is broken and, as it remains until the instrument is reset, the reading may be made at leisure. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. (Biology) Being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation, usually male. In contradistinction to female or androgynous.
Syn. -- male. [ WordNet 1.5 ]