n. [ Pref. ab- + evacuation. ] (Med.) A partial evacuation. Mayne. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F., lit., on horseback. ] Astride; with a part on each side; -- used specif. in designating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road. [ 1913 Webster ]

A position à cheval on a river is not one which a general willingly assumes. Swinton. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. 1 the possibility of being achieved or accomplished; -- a property which may be possessed by a contemplated act.
Syn. -- attainability, attainableness [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Capable of being achieved. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. achevance. ] Achievement. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. agrevance, fr. agrever. See Aggrieve. ] Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being believed; credible. -- Be*liev"a*ble*ness, n. -- Be*liev`a*bil"i*ty n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a particle accelerator which is capable of accelerating protons up to 6 gigaeletron volts. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ F. boulevard, boulevart, fr. G. bollwerk. See Bulwark. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A frequenter of a city boulevard, esp. in Paris. F. Harrison. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. See Chivachie. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Chiefage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Chevaux [ F. See Cavalcade. ] A horse; hence, a support or frame. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cheval glass, a mirror swinging in a frame, and large enough to reflect the full length figure. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; commonly used in the pl. Chevaux-de-frise. [ F.; cheval horse + Frise Friesland, where it was first used. ] (Mil.) A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Obstructions of chain, boom, and cheval-de-frise. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. LL. caballarius. See Cavaller. ] 1. A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man. “Mount, chevaliers; to arms.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member of certain orders of knighthood. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖Chevalier d'industrie ety>[ F. ], one who lives by persevering fraud; a pickpocket; a sharper. --
The Chevalier St. George (Eng. Hist.), James Francis Edward Stuart (son of James II.), called “The Pretender.” --
The Young Chevalier, Charles Edward Stuart, son of the Chevalier St. George. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. See Cheval. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. chiche lean + vache cow. ] A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. chevance property, equiv. To chevisance, fr. chevir to accomplish. See Chevisance. ] An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ F., hitherto, formerly. ] Former; previous; of times gone by; as, a ci-devant governor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. coaevus; co- + aevum lifetime, age. See Age, n. ] Of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Silence! coeval with eternity! Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Oaks coeval spread a mournful shade. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the same age; a contemporary. [ 1913 Webster ]

As if it were not enough to have outdone all your coevals in wit. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Prob. of same origin as cavally. See Cavally. ] (Zool.) (a) The cavally or jurel. See Cavally, and Jurel. (b) The pompano (Trachynotus Carolinus). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See Crevice. ] 1. A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖or ‖(&unr_;), n. [ Skr. d&unr_;va. Cf. Deity. ] (Hind. Myth.) A god; a deity; a divine being; an idol; a king. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Skr. dēvanāgarī; dēva god + nagara city, i. e., divine city. ] The script or characters in which Sanskrit and Hindi are written. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. The change of vapor into water, as in the formation of rain. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. dévaster. See Devastate. ] To devastate. [ Obs. ] Bolingbroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Devastated; p. pr. & vb. n. Devastating. ] [ L. devastatus, p. p. of devastare to devastate; de + vastare to lay waste, vastus waste. See Vast. ] To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay.

Syn. -- To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. same as desolated.
Syn. -- blasted, desolate, desolated, ravaged, ruined, wasted. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. 1. highly critical; making light of; as, a devastating portrait of human folly.
Syn. -- annihilating, withering. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. causing or capable of causing complete destruction; as, a devastating hurricane.
Syn. -- annihilative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. dévastation. ] 1. The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even now the devastation is begun,
And half the business of destruction done. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator. Blackstone.

Syn. -- Desolation; ravage; waste; havoc; destruction; ruin; overthrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who, or that which, devastates. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., he has wasted. ] (Law) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Hind., fr. Skr. d&unr_;va god. ] (Hind. Myth.) A deity; a divine being; a good spirit; an idol. [ Written also dewata. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. elevatus, p. p. ] Elevated; raised aloft. [ Poetic ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Elevated p. pr. & vb. n. Elevating ] [ L. elevatus, p. p. of elevare; e + levare to lift up, raise, akin to levis light in weight. See Levity. ] 1. To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To raise to a higher station; to promote; as, to elevate to an office, or to a high social position. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To raise from a depressed state; to animate; to cheer; as, to elevate the spirits. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To exalt; to ennoble; to dignify; as, to elevate the mind or character. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To raise to a higher pitch, or to a greater degree of loudness; -- said of sounds; as, to elevate the voice. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy. [ Colloq. & Sportive ] “The elevated cavaliers sent for two tubs of merry stingo.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To lessen; to detract from; to disparage. [ A Latin meaning ] [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

To elevate a piece (Gun.), to raise the muzzle; to lower the breech.

Syn. -- To exalt; dignify; ennoble; erect; raise; hoist; heighten; elate; cheer; flush; excite; animate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Elevated railway, one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city railway above the line of street travel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being elevated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. elevatio: cf. F. élévation. ] 1. The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Condition of being elevated; height; exaltation. “Degrees of elevation above us.” Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

His style . . . wanted a little elevation. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Astron.) The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Dialing) The angle which the style makes with the substylar line. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Gunnery) The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line o&unr_; sight; -- distinguished from direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Drawing) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; -- called by the ancients the orthography. [ 1913 Webster ]

Angle of elevation (Geodesy), the angle which an ascending line makes with a horizontal plane. --
Elevation of the host (R. C. Ch.), that part of the Mass in which the priest raises the host above his head for the people to adore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., one who raises up, a deliverer: cf. F. élévateur. ] 1. One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A cage or platform (called an elevator car) and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Anat.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Surg.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Aëronautics) A movable plane or group of planes used to control the altitude or fore-and-aft poise or inclination of an airship or flying machine. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Elevator head,
Elevator leg, and
Elevator boot, the boxes in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in a grain elevator. [ 1913 Webster ] --
Elevator shoes, shoes having unusually thick soles and heels, designed to make a person appear taller than he or she actually is. [ PJC ]

a. Tending to raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. élévatoire. ] (Surg.) See Elevator, n. (e). Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. e- + vacate. ] To empty. [ Obs. ] Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L.evacuans, -antis, p. pr. of evacuare: cf. F. évacuant. ] Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic. -- n. (Med.) A purgative or cathartic. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Evacuated p. pr. & vb. n. Evacuating. ] [ l. evacuatus, p. p. of evacuare to empty, nullify; e out + vacuus empty, vacare to be empty. See Vacate. ] 1. To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To make empty; to deprive. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important meaning. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To make void; to nullify; to vacate; as, to evacuate a contract or marriage. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To let blood [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. to expel stool from the bowels; to defecate. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. p. p. of evacuate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. emptied of gas by being pumped out or having a vacuum created; as, a highly evacuated glass tube. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. evacuatio: cf. F. évacuation. ] 1. The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging. Specifically: (a) (Mil.) Withdrawal of troops from a town, fortress, etc. (b) (Med.) Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means. Quincy. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Abolition; nullification. [ Obs. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Evacuation day, the anniversary of the day on which the British army evacuated the city of New York, November 25, 1783. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. évacuatif. ] Serving of tending to evacuate; cathartic; purgative. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who evacuates; a nullifier. “Evacuators of the law.” Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]