v. t. [ LL. afforestare; ad + forestare. See Forest. ] To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of converting into forest or woodland. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Said before, or in a preceding part; already described or identified. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female anchoret. [ 1913 Webster ]

And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. arborescens, p. pr. of arborescere to become a tree, fr. arbor tree. ] Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree. “Arborescent hollyhocks.” Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. resembling a tree in form and branching structure.
Syn. -- arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, treelike, tree-shaped. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A female author. Glover. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word is not very much used, author being commonly applied to a female writer as well as to a male. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. self induced fluorescence. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. calor heat. ] (Physics) The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions; as, cardiopulmonary resuscitation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ L. clamator, pl. clamatores, a bawler. ] (Zool.) A division of passerine birds in which the vocal muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of singing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To convert into, or add to, a forest. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L. cursor, pl. cursores, a runner. ] (Zool.) (a) An order of running birds including the ostrich, emu, and allies; the Ratitaæ. (b) A group of running spiders; the wolf spiders. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To clear of forests; to disforest. U. S. Agric. Reports. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to carry through, to throw off by perspiration; dia` through + &unr_; to carry. ] (Med.) Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration.

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disafforested; p. pr. & vb. n. Disafforesting. ] [ Pref. dis- + afforest: cf. OF. desaforester. ] (Eng. Law) To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws. [ 1913 Webster ]

By charter 9 Henry III. many forests were disafforested. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To disafforest. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To clear or deprive of forests or trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of clearing land of forests. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) A woman disseizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female doctor.[ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Effloresced p. pr. & vb. n. Efflorescing ] [ L. efflorescere to bloom, blossom; ex + florescere to begin to blossom, incho., fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos a flower. See Flower. ] 1. To blossom forth. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. efflorescence. ] 1. (Bot.) Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Chem.) (a) The formation of the whitish powder or crust on the surface of efflorescing bodies, as salts, etc. (b) The powder or crust thus formed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. efflorescent, L. efflorescens, -entis, blooming, p. pr. of efflorescere. See Effloresce, v. i. ] 1. That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Covered with an efflorescence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Fem. of Elector. ] An electress. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Chem.) the motion of charged molecules or particles in a liquid medium under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge move toward the cathode and negative to the anode. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- cataphoresis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Chem., Biochem.) the application of the principle of electrophoresis to separate molecules, used as an analytical or preparative technique; as, separation by electrophoresis; gel electrophoresis. [ PJC ]

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Gel electrophoresis is a technique in which the molecules to be separated are moved through a gelatinous medium under the influence of an electric field. At the completion of a period of electrophoresis, the gel, unlike a liquid solution, may be manipulated as a single object, permitting the substances contained within to be detected or visualized by a variety of methods, and their relative mobilities determined. It is therefore a popular analytic tool in biochemistry, and has many variants. Popular substances used to create the gel are starch, polyacrylamide, and agarose. Since a polyacrylamide gel can be created with different concentrations and different degrees of cross-linking, the pore size of the gel can be controlled to provide special properties appropriate to separation of specific molecules, as for example optimizaion for separation within a particular molecular weight range. in SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, SDS (sodium dodecyl sulfate, a detergent) is included; it binds to and denatures protein molecules, allowing them to be separated on the basis of their molecular weight alone. It is thus used as one method of determining the molecular weights of isolated protein chains. [ PJC ]

v. t. To turn into a forest. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A factor who is a woman. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who favors or gives countenance. [ Written also fovouress. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Florescent. ] (Bot.) A bursting into flower; a blossoming. Martyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. florescens, p. pr. of florescere begin to blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See Flower. ] Expanding into flowers; blossoming. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A yellowish red, crystalline substance, C20H12O5, produced by heating together phthalic anhydride and resorcin; -- so called, from the very brilliant yellowish green fluorescence of its alkaline solutions. It has acid properties, and its salts of the alkalies are known to the trade under the name of uranin.
Syn. -- fluorescein, fluorescent dye, resorcinolphthalein. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Fluor. ] (Chemistry, Optics) A luminescence emitted by certain substances due to the absorption of radiation at one wavelength, and the almost instantaneous re-emission of radiation at another, usually longer wavelength. The re-radiation stops almost as soon as the incident radiation is halted, thus distinguishing this phenomenon from phosphorescence, in which re-radiation of light may continue for some time after the incident radiation is halted. The color of the radiated light typically differs from the apparent color of the material, as when green crystals of fluor spar afford blue reflections. It is due not to the difference in the color of a distinct surface layer, but to the power which the substance has of modifying the light incident upon it, by first absorbing the light to achieve an excited state, and then radiating light to resume the ground energy level. The light emitted by fluorescent substances is in general of longer wavelength than the incident light. The radiation can also be induced by ionizing radiation which is not electromagnetic, such as alpha or beta rays, and cathode rays. This property is possessed by fluorspar, uranium glass, sulphide of calcium, and many other substances. It finds use in analytical instruments to detect or measure radiation, and in some commercial applications. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Having the property of fluorescence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A colorless, amorphous substance which is produced by the reduction of fluoresceïn, and from which the latter may be formed by oxidation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mentioned before; aforesaid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) (a) The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast. (b) The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner. (c) The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ AS. foresecgan; fore + secgan to say. See Say, v. t. ] To foretell. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Her danger nigh that sudden change foresaid. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ AS. foreseón; fore + seón to see. See See, v. t. ] 1. To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. [ 1913 Webster ]

A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Prov. xxii. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To have or exercise foresight. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. being such as may reasonable be anticipated; as, foreseeable costs were well within the budget. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

conj., or (strictly) p. p. Provided; in case that; on condition that. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

One manner of meat is most sure to every complexion, foreseen that it be alway most commonly in conformity of qualities, with the person that eateth. Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who foresees or foreknows. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To seize beforehand. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To shadow or typi&unr_;y beforehand; to prefigure. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Foreshow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The fore part of a ship. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the part of the seashore between the high-water and and low-water marks. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. 1. (Fine Art) To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. [ 1913 Webster ]

Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie
Foreshortened in the tract of time. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]