n. 1. navigating according to the positions of the stars.
Syn. -- celestial navigation [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Avocado. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) The fruit of the Rhamnus infectorius, eand of other species of the same genus; -- so called from the city of Avignon, in France. It is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. Called also French berry. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being sailed round. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Circumnavigated p. pr. & vb. n. Circumnavigating ] [ L. circumnavigatus, p. p. of circumnavigare to sail round; circum + navigare to navigate. ] To sail completely round. [ 1913 Webster ]

Having circumnavigated the whole earth. T. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sails round. W. Guthrie. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ L., fr. clava club + gerere to carry. ] One who carries a club; a club bearer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. clavis key + gerere to carry. ] One who carries the keys of any place. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bearing a club or a key. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To enervate; to weaken. [ R. ] Sydney Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. enavigatus, p. p. of enavigare. ] To sail away or over. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To invigorate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. evigilatio; e out + vigilare to be awake. See Vigilant. ] A waking up or awakening. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. gravis heavy + gradus step. ] (Zool.) Slow-paced. -- n. One of the pachyderms. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. innavigabilis : cf. F. innavigable. See In- not, and Navigable. ] Incapable of being navigated; impassable by ships or vessels. Drygen. -- In*nav"i*ga*bly, adv. [1913 Webster]

{ } n. [ in- not + vigilance: cf. OF. invigilance. ] Lack of vigilance; neglect of watching; carelessness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. vmorph>[ imp. & p. p. Invigilated p. pr. & vb. n. Invigilating. ] [ L. invigilare to stay awake, to be vigilant. ] To keep watch. [ PJC ]

2. To keep watch over examination candidates to prevent cheating. [ British ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. keeping watch over examination candidates to prevent cheating. [ British ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. someone who watches examination candidates to prevent cheating. [ British ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To invigorate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Invigorated p. pr. & vb. n. Invigorating. ] [ Pref. in- in + vigor. ] To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Christian graces and virtues they can not be, unless fed, invigorated, and animated by universal charity. Atterbury.

Syn. -- To refresh; animate; exhilarate; stimulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of invigorating, or the state of being invigorated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Levigate. ] (Biol.) Having a smooth surface, as if polished. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Levigate, v. t. ] Capable of being levigated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. levigatus, p. p. of levigare to lighten, fr. l&ebreve_;vis light. ] Made less harsh or burdensome; alleviated. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Levigated p. pr. & vb. n. Levigating. ] [ L. levigatus, p. p. of levigare to make smooth, fr. lēvis smooth; akin to Gr. lei^os. ] To make smooth in various senses: (a) To free from grit; to reduce to an impalpable powder or paste. (b) To mix thoroughly, as liquids or semiliquids. (c) To polish. (d) To make smooth in action. “ When use hath levigated the organs.” Barrow. (e) Technically, to make smooth by rubbing in a moist condition between hard surfaces, as in grinding pigments. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. levigatus, p. p. ] Made smooth, as if polished. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. levigatio a smoothing: cf. F. lévigation. ] The act or operation of levigating. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. navigabilité. ] The quality or condition of being navigable; navigableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. navigabilis: cf. F. navigable. See Navigate. ] Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels; as, a navigable river. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ By the common law, a river is considered as navigable only so far as the tide ebbs and flows in it. This is also the doctrine in several of the United States. In other States, the doctrine of the civil law prevails, which is, that a navigable river is a river capable of being navigated, in the common sense of the term. Kent. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Nav"i*ga*ble*ness, n. -- Nav"i*ga*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Navigated p. pr. & vb. n. Navigating. ] [ L. navigatus, p. p. of navigare, v.t. & i.; navis ship + agere to move, direct. See Nave, and Agent. ] 1. To journey by water; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication; to sail. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Phenicians navigated to the extremities of the Western Ocean. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To direct or operate a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft. [ PJC ]

3. To pass through, over, or around; -- used especially of a course having obstacles; as, to navigate around all the randomly scattered tables to the far side of the room. [ PJC ]

v. t. 1. To pass over in ships; to sail over or on; as, to navigate the Atlantic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To steer, direct, or manage in sailing; to conduct (ships) upon the water by the art or skill of seamen; as, to navigate a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pass through, over, or around; -- used especially of a course having obstacles; as, to navigate all the randomly scattered tables to the far side of the room. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. navigatio: cf. F. navigation. ] 1. The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (a) The science or art of conducting ships or vessels from one place to another, including, more especially, the method of determining a ship's position, course, distance passed over, etc., on the surface of the globe, by the principles of geometry and astronomy. (b) The management of sails, rudder, etc.; the mechanics of traveling by water; seamanship. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Ships in general. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aerial navigation, the act or art of sailing or floating in the air, as by means of airplanes or ballons; aviation; aeronautic. --
Inland navigation,
Internal navigation, navigation on rivers, inland lakes, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to navigation; used in navigation; as, navigational aids. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who navigates or sails; esp., one who direct the course of a ship, or one who is skillful in the art of navigation; also, a book which teaches the art of navigation; as, Bowditch's Navigator. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. naviger; navis ship + gerere to bear. ] Bearing ships; capable of floating vessels. [ R. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Ovum + -gerous: cf. F. ovigere. ] (Biol.) Bearing eggs; oviferous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pervigilatio, fr. pervigilare. ] Careful watching. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To invigorate anew. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To navigate again. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. revigoratus, p. p. of revigorare; L. re- + vigor vigor. ] Having new vigor or strength; invigorated anew. [ R. ] Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To give new vigor to. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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a. [ L. vigesimus twentieth, from viginti twenty. ] Twentieth; divided into, or consisting of, twenties or twenty parts. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of putting to death every twentieth man. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. vigesimus quartus twenty-fourth. Cf. Duodecimo. ] Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a vigesimo-quarto form, book, leaf, size, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. -tos A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into twenty-four leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book so made; -- usually written 24mo, or 24°. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. vigile, L. vigilia, from vigil awake, watchful, probably akin to E. wake: cf. F. vigile. See Wake, v. i., and cf. Reveille, Surveillance, Vedette, Vegetable, Vigor. ] 1. Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch. “Worn out by the labors and vigils of many months.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nothing wears out a fine face like the vigils of the card table and those cutting passions which attend them. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises. [ 1913 Webster ]

So they in heaven their odes and vigils tuned. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be sober and keep vigil,
The Judge is at the gate. Neale (Rhythm of St. Bernard). [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eccl.) (a) Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast. (b) Later, the day and the night preceding a feast. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors,
And say, “To-morrow is St. Crispian.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vigils of flowers or
Watchings of flowers (Bot.), a peculiar faculty belonging to the flowers of certain plants of opening and closing their petals at certain hours of the day. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]