n. [ Aëro- + siderite. ] (Meteor.) A mass of meteoric iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Considered p. pr. & vb. n. Considering. ] [ F. considérer, L. considerare, -sideratum, to consider, view attentively, prob. fr. con- + sidus, sideris, star, constellation; orig., therefore, to look at the stars. See Sidereal, and cf. Desire. ] 1. To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will consider thy testimonies. Ps. cxix. 95. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thenceforth to speculations high or deep
I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind
Considered all things visible. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To look at attentively; to observe; to examine. [ 1913 Webster ]

She considereth a field, and buyeth it. Prov. xxxi. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consider, sir, the chance of war: the day
Was yours by accident. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

England could grow into a posture of being more united at home, and more considered abroad. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To estimate; to think; to regard; to view. [ 1913 Webster ]

Considered as plays, his works are absurd. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The proper sense of consider is often blended with an idea of the result of considering; as, “Blessed is he that considereth the poor.” Ps. xli. 1.; i.e., considers with sympathy and pity. “Which [ services ] if I have not enough considered.” Shak.; i.e., requited as the sufficient considering of them would suggest. “Consider him liberally.” J. Hooker.

Syn. -- To ponder; weigh; revolve; study; reflect or meditate on; contemplate; examine. See Ponder. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To think seriously; to make examination; to reflect; to deliberate. [ 1913 Webster ]

We will consider of your suit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

'T were to consider too curiously, to consider so. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

She wished she had taken a moment to consider, before rushing down stairs. W. Black [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To hesitate. [ Poetic & R. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. considérable. ] 1. Worthy of consideration; requiring to be observed, borne in mind, or attended to. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is considerable, that some urns have had inscriptions on them expressing that the lamps were burning. Bp. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

Eternity is infinitely the most considerable duration. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of some distinction; noteworthy; influential; respectable; -- said of persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

You are, indeed, a very considerable man. Junius. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of importance or value. [ 1913 Webster ]

In painting, not every action, nor every person, is considerable enough to enter into the cloth. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

A considerable sum of money. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Worthiness of consideration; dignity; value; size; amount. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner or to a degree not trifling or unimportant; greatly; much. [ 1913 Webster ]

The breeds . . . differ considerably from each other. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. considerantia. ] Act of considering; consideration. [ Obs. ] Shak.

a. [ L. consideratus, p. p. ] 1. Given to consideration or to sober reflection; regardful of consequences or circumstances; circumspect; careful; esp. careful of the rights, claims, and feelings of others. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of dauntless courage and considerate pride. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Æneas is patient, considerate, and careful of his people. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wisest and most considerate men in the world. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having respect to; regardful. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They may be . . . more considerate of praise. Dr. H. More.

Syn. -- Thoughtful; reflective; careful; discreet; prudent; deliberate; serious. See Thoughtful.

-- Con*sid"er*ate*ly, adv. -- Con*sid"er*ate*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. kind and considerate regard for others; consideration.
Syn. -- consideration, thoughtfulness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. consideratio: cf. F. considération. ] 1. The act or process of considering; continuous careful thought; examination; contemplation; deliberation; attention. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let us think with consideration. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consideration, like an angel, came. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Attentive respect; appreciative regard; -- used especially in diplomatic or stately correspondence. [ 1913 Webster ]

The undersigned has the honor to repeat to Mr. Hulseman the assurance of his high consideration. D. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]

The consideration with which he was treated. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Thoughtful or sympathetic regard or notice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consideration for the poor is a doctrine of the church. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Claim to notice or regard; some degree of importance or consequence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lucan is the only author of consideration among the Latin poets who was not explained for . . . the Dauphin. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The result of delibration, or of attention and examonation; matured opinion; a reflection; as, considerations on the choice of a profession. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. That which is, or should be, taken into account as a ground of opinion or action; motive; reason. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was obliged, antecedent to all other considerations, to search an asylum. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some considerations which are necessary to the forming of a correct judgment. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Law) The cause which moves a contracting party to enter into an agreement; the material cause of a contract; the price of a stripulation; compensation; equivalent. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Consideration is what is done, or promised to be done, in exchange for a promise, and “as a mere advantage to the promisor without detriment to the promisee would not avail, the proper test is detriment to the promisee.” Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Considerate; careful; thoughtful. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I love to be considerative. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who considers. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who considers; a man of reflection; a thinker. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With consideration or deliberation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Desirable. [ R. ] “Good and desiderable things.” Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. See Desideratum. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Desiderated; p. pr. & vb. n. Desiderating. ] [ L. desideratus, p. p. of desiderare to desire, miss. See Desire, and cf. Desideratum. ] To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pray have the goodness to point out one word missing that ought to have been there -- please to insert a desiderated stanza. You can not. Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men were beginning . . . to desiderate for them an actual abode of fire. A. W. Ward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. desideratio. ] Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired. [ R. ] Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. desiderativus. ] Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An object of desire. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) A verb formed from another verb by a change of termination, and expressing the desire of doing that which is indicated by the primitive verb. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Desiderata [ L., fr. desideratus, p. p. See Desiderate. ] Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.

n. (Med.) a granular yellowish-brown substance composed of protein and ferric oxide, resulting from the breakdown of hemoglobin; it has a higher iron content than ferritin, and its presence in body tissues or phagocytes can be a symptom of disturbed iron metabolism. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. (Med.) The accumulation of abnormal amounts of hemosiderin in the tisssues. Several causes have been recognized. Stedman. [ PJC ]

n. [ Holo + siderite. ] (Min.) Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not considerable; unworthy of consideration or notice; unimportant; small; trivial; as, an inconsiderable distance; an inconsiderable quantity, degree, value, or sum. “The baser scum and inconsiderable dregs of Rome.” Stepney. -- In`con*sid"er*a*ble*ness, n. -- In`con*sid"er*a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Inconsiderateness; thoughtlessness. [ Obs. ] Chesterfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inconsideratus. See In- not, and Considerate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not considerate; not attentive to safety or to propriety; not regarding the rights or feelings of others; hasty; careless; thoughtless; heedless; as, the young are generally inconsiderate; inconsiderate conduct. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is a very unhappy token of our corruption, that there should be any so inconsiderate among us as to sacrifice morality to politics. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inconsiderable. [ Obs. ] E. Terry.

Syn. -- Thoughtless; inattentive; inadvertent; heedless; negligent; improvident; careless; imprudent; indiscreet; incautious; injudicious; rash; hasty. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an inconsiderate manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being inconsiderate. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inconsideratio: cf. F. inconsidération. ] Lack of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an officer of a corporation or others who have access to private information about the corporation's operations, especially information relating to profitability. An insider is forbidden by U. S. securities laws to trade stock in publicly owned corporations based on the private information. The definition of insider for the purpose of securities law has changed in the late 29th century to become more inclusive, whereas it initially was applied only to officers of a corporation. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Between or among constellations or stars; interstellar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Meso- + siderite. ] (Min.) See the Note under Meteorite. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; heart of a tree + &unr_; iron. ] (Bot.) A myrtaceous genus of trees or shrubs, found in Australia and the South Sea Islands, and having very hard wood. Metrosideros vera is the true ironwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Oligo- + siderite. ] (Min.) A meteorite characterized by the presence of but a small amount of metallic iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling. [ Recent ] A. Trollope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the key is inside. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A horse which is not a favorite in the betting. [ Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. fa`rmakon drug, poison + E. siderite. ] (Min.) A hydrous arsenate of iron occurring in green or yellowish green cubic crystals; cube ore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who presides. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To consider again; as, to reconsider a subject. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Parliamentary Practice) To take up for renewed consideration, as a motion or a vote which has been previously acted upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of reconsidering, or the state of being reconsidered; as, the reconsideration of a vote in a legislative body. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who resides in a place. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Considering in one's own mind; deliberating. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who takes a side. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Cider. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sideralis. See Sidereal. ] 1. Relating to the stars. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astrol.) Affecting unfavorably by the supposed influence of the stars; baleful. “Sideral blast.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sideratus, p. p. of siderari to be blasted by a constellation, fr. sidus, sideris, a constellation. ] Planet-struck; blasted. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sideratio. ] The state of being siderated, or planet-struck; esp., blast in plants; also, a sudden and apparently causeless stroke of disease, as in apoplexy or paralysis. [ Obs. ] Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sidereus, from sidus, sideris, a constellation, a star. Cf. Sideral, Consider, Desire. ] 1. Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sidereal clock,
day,
month,
year. See under Clock, Day, etc. --
Sideral time, time as reckoned by sideral days, or, taking the sidereal day as the unit, the time elapsed since a transit of the vernal equinox, reckoned in parts of a sidereal day. This is, strictly, apparent sidereal time, mean sidereal time being reckoned from the transit, not of the true, but of the mean, equinoctial point. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To elevate to the stars, or to the region of the stars; to etherealize. [ 1913 Webster ]

German literature transformed, siderealized, as we see it in Goethe, reckons Winckelmann among its initiators. W. Pater. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sidereus. ] Sidereal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]