a. [ L. adamantēus. ] Of adamant; hard as adamant. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A preceding act. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ antea, ante, before. Cf. Ancient. ] Being before, or in front. [ R. ] J. Fleming. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Atlant&unr_;us. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to, or resembling, Atlas; strong. [ 1913 Webster ]

With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear
The weight of mightiest monarchies. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Bateaux [ F. bateau, LL. batellus, fr. battus, batus, boat, which agrees with AS. bāt boat: cf. W. bad boat. See Boat, n. ] A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers. [ Written also, but less properly, batteau. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Bateau bridge, a floating bridge supported by bateaux. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bed + stead a frame. ] A framework for supporting a bed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for broiling. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bestead or Bested, also (Obs.) Bestad. In sense 3 imp. also Besteaded. ] [ Pref. be- + stead a place. ] 1. To put in a certain situation or condition; to circumstance; to place. [ Only in p. p. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: . . . and curse their king and their God. Is. viii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many far worse bestead than ourselves. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put in peril; to beset. [ Only in p. p. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To serve; to assist; to profit; to avail. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + bracteate. ] (Bot.) Furnished with, or having, two bracts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., a thin plate of metal or wood, gold foil. ] (Bot.) A bract. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf.F. bractéal. ] Having the nature or appearance of a bract. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. L. bracteatus covered with gold plate. ] (Bot.) Having a bract or bracts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a difficult problem.
Syn. -- riddle, conundrum, enigma. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genus of East Indian trees or shrubs: dhak.
Syn. -- genus Butea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n.; pl. Chateux [ F. château a castle. See Castle. ] 1. A castle or a fortress in France. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The distinctive, French term for a fortified castle of the middle ages is château-fort. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a double-thick center cut of beef tenderloin, broiled and served with a sauce and potatoes. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖Chateau en Espagne ety>[ F. ], a castle in Spain, that is, a castle in the air, Spain being the region of romance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918.
Syn. -- battle of the Marne, Belleau Wood, Marne River. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. small genus of Eurasian shrubs with yellow flowers and bladdery pods.
Syn. -- genus Colutea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ Cornish cothas dropped + stean tin. ] To search after lodes. See Costeaning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Coteaux /plu>. [ F., a hill. ] [ Canada & U. S. ] 1. A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys; a divide. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. The side of a valley. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. ] A knife; a dagger. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to, emanating from or resembling, the poet Dante or his writings. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. that can be given a date. Opposite of undatable. [ Narrower terms: dated ]
Syn. -- datable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a concrete and dateable happening C. W. Shumaker

n. Entrance or place of a door. [ Obs. or Local ] Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. e- + bracteate. ] (Bot.) Without bracts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) Relating to endostosis; as, endosteal ossification. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

With its pleasant groves and farmsteads. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A farmstead. [ Scot. ] Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fibra a fiber + gr. cho`ndros cartilage + 'oste`on bone. ] (Anat.) Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous. St. George Mivart. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To teach beforehand. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ After Galatea, a British man-of-war, the material being used for children's sailor suits. ] A kind of striped cotton fabric, usually of superior quality and striped with blue or red on white. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. cake. ] (Cookery) Any of various rich and elaborate cakes, particularly a light sponge cake having a rich filling or rich icing, such as gateau foret noire (Black Forest Cake). [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. [ L. giganteus, fr. gigas, antis. See Giant. ] Like a giant; mighty; gigantic. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Girdle + stead place. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. That part of the body where the girdle is worn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The lap. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There fell a flower into her girdlestead. Swinburne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ G. &unr_; rump, pl., the buttocks. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the glutæus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. fr. Gr. gymno`s naked + blasta`nein to sprout. ] (Zool.) The Athecata; -- so called because the medusoid buds are not inclosed in a capsule. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Pertaining to the Holostei. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. hāmstede. ] 1. The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The home or seat of a family; place of origin. [ 1913 Webster ]

We can trace them back to a homestead on the Rivers Volga and Ural. W. Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family. [ 1913 Webster ]

Homestead law. (a) A law conferring special privileges or exemptions upon owners of homesteads; esp., a law exempting a homestead from attachment or sale under execution for general debts. Such laws, with limitations as to the extent or value of the property, exist in most of the States. Called also homestead exemption law. (b) Also, a designation of an Act of Congress authorizing and regulating the sale of public lands, in parcels of 160 acres each, to actual settlers. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. in- + stead place. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. In the place or room; -- usually followed by of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let thistles grow of wheat. Job xxxi. 40. [ 1913 Webster ]

Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab. 2 Sam. xvii. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Equivalent; equal to; -- usually with of. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This very consideration to a wise man is instead of a thousand arguments, to satisfy him, that in those times no such thing was believed. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Jet d'eau. [ R. ] Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Anat.) One of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the small intestine through the mesenteric glands to the thoracic duct; a chyliferous vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. lacteus milky, fr. lac, lactis, milk. Cf. Galaxy, Lettuce. ] 1. Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat. & Physiol.) Pertaining to, or containing, chyle; as, the lacteal vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Milkily; in the manner of milk. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Lacteal. ] 1. Milky; consisting of, or resembling, milk. “This lactean whiteness.” Moxon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat. & Physiol.) Lacteal; conveying chyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. Connecticut; -- a nickname alluding to the moral character of its inhabitants, implied by the rigid laws (see Blue laws) of the early period. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A yellowish central area of the retina that is rich in cones.
Syn. -- macula, yellow spot. [ WordNet 1.5 ]