n. [ Gr. &unr_; undistinguishable; 'a priv. + &unr_; to separate, distinguish + &unr_; color. ] Color blindness; achromatopsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ L. anatocismus, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; again + &unr_; to lend on interest. ] (Law) Compound interest. [ R. ] Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of fur seals.
Syn. -- genus Arctocephalus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Aristocracies [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; best + &unr_; to be strong, to rule, &unr_; strength; &unr_; is perh. from the same root as E. arm, and orig. meant fitting: cf. F. aristocratie. See Arm, and Create, which is related to Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. Government by the best citizens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A ruling body composed of the best citizens. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In the Senate
Right not our quest in this, I will protest them
To all the world, no aristocracy. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The aristocracy of Venice hath admitted so many abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that the period of its duration seems approach. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. aristocrate. See Aristocracy. ] 1. One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person. [ 1913 Webster ]

A born aristocrat, bred radical. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who favors an aristocracy as a form of government, or believes the aristocracy should govern. [ 1913 Webster ]

His whole family are accused of being aristocrats. Romilly. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. aristocratique. ] 1. Of or pertaining to an aristocracy; consisting in, or favoring, a government of nobles, or principal men; as, an aristocratic constitution. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Partaking of aristocracy; befitting aristocracy; characteristic of, or originating with, the aristocracy; as, an aristocratic measure; aristocratic pride or manners. -- Ar`is*to*crat"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Ar`is*to*crat"ic*al*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The principles of aristocrats. Romilly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Aristocrats, collectively. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_; bread + &unr_; fruit. ] (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the breadfruit, or to the genus Artocarpus. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Auto- + Gr. karpo`s fruit. ] (Bot.) Consisting of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Auto- + catalysis. ] (Chem.) Self-catalysis; catalysis of a substance by one of its own products, as of silver oxide by the silver formed by reduction of a small portion of it. -- Au`to*cat`a*lyt"ic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; independent; &unr_; self + &unr_; head. ] (Eccl. Hist.) Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Auto- + chronograph. ] An instrument for the instantaneous self-recording or printing of time. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. E. Authochthons L. Autochthones [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, pl. &unr_;, from the land itself; a'yto`s self + &unr_; earth, land. ] 1. One who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is original to a particular country, or which had there its origin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being autochthonal. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Aboriginal; indigenous; native. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An aboriginal or autochthonous condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Auto-; Clastic. ] (Geol.) Broken in place; -- said of rocks having a broken or brecciated structure due to crushing, in contrast to those of brecciated materials brought from a distance. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F., fr. Gr. a'yto`s self + L. clavis key. ] 1. A kind of French stewpan with a steam-tight lid. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a device used for sterilizing objects by exposing them to steam at above atmospheric pressure (and thus at a temperature above the normal boiling point of water). It consists of a closed chamber able to withstand internal pressure, and a means of passing superheated steam into the chamber. Autoclaves are made in various sizes, and are much used in hospitals and research laboratories to render instruments and equipment sterile. [ PJC ]

n. [ Auto- + coherer. ] (Wireless Teleg.) A self-restoring coherer, as a microphonic detector. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. any physiologically active internal secretion, especially one of uncertain classification.
Syn. -- autacoid. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Autocracies. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. autocratie. See Autocrat. ] 1. Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Med.) The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle. [ In this sense, written also autocrasy. ] Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; self + &unr_; strength, &unr_; strong: cf. F. autocrate. See Hard, a. ] 1. An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a title of the Czar). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who rules with undisputed sway in any company or relation; a despot. [ 1913 Webster ]

The autocrat of the breakfast table. Holmes. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government. -- Au`to*crat"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] An autocrat. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to an autocrator; absolute. [ Obs. ] Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] A female sovereign who is independent and absolute; -- a title given to the empresses of Russia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or dignity of an autocrat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead. [ Obs. or Dial. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The handle of a beetle. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G., lit., mountain stick. ] A long pole with a spike at the end, used in climbing mountains; an alpenstock. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Bit a morsel. ] A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; sprout, germ + &unr_; fruit. ] (Bot.) Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. blasto`s sprout + koi^los hollow. ] (Biol.) The cavity inside a blastula; -- also called segmentation cavity. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to a blastocoel. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. blasto`s sprout + E. cyst. ] (Biol.) The germinal vesicle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an undifferentiated embryonic cell. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. thoroughbred horses (collectively). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A literary lady; a female pedant. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ As explained in Boswell's “Life of Dr. Johnson”, this term is derived from the name given to certain meetings held by ladies, in Johnson's time, for conversation with distinguished literary men. An eminent attendant of these assemblies was a Mr. Stillingfleet, who always wore blue stockings. He was so much distinguished for his conversational powers that his absence at any time was felt to be a great loss, so that the remark became common, “We can do nothing without the blue stockings.” Hence these meetings were sportively called bluestocking clubs, and the ladies who attended them, bluestockings. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The American avocet (Recurvirostra Americana). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ Pg. botoque stopple. So called because they wear a wooden plug in the pierced lower lip. ] A Brazilian tribe of Indians, noted for their use of poisons; -- also called Aymborés. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Incorrect for brachistochrone, fr. Gr. bra`chistos shortest (superl. of brachy`s short) + &unr_; time : cf. F. brachistochrone. ] (Math.) A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Butt an end. ] 1. The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump. Often used in the plural -- see buttocks.
Syn. -- cheek. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern. Mar. Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. the fleshy part of the human body at the back of the hip, on which a person sits.
Syn. -- arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Christ + centric. ] Making Christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion. J. W. Chadwick. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Eurysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration; -- called also cleistothecium.
Syn. -- cleistothecium. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. a genus of white-spored agarics with flat or funnel-shaped cap and elastic stem.
Syn. -- genus Clitocybe. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Counterfoil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Wrestling) A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]