n. An adjunct; a helper. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Anointed; p. pr. & vb. n. Anointing. ] [ OF. enoint, p. p. of enoindre, fr. L. inungere; in + ungere, unguere, to smear, anoint. See Ointment, Unguent. ] 1. To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil. [ 1913 Webster ]

And fragrant oils the stiffened limbs anoint. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. John ix. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his [ Aaron's ] head and anoint him. Exod. xxix. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

Anoint Hazael to be king over Syria. 1 Kings xix. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord's Anointed, Christ or the Messiah; also, a Jewish or other king by “divine right.” 1 Sam. xxvi. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. Anointed. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who anoints. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of anointing, or state of being anointed; also, an ointment. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Appointed; p. pr. & vb. n. Appointing. ] [ OE. appointen, apointen, OF. apointier to prepare, arrange, lean, place, F. appointer to give a salary, refer a cause, fr. LL. appunctare to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement; L. ad + punctum a point. See Point. ] 1. To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out. [ 1913 Webster ]

When he appointed the foundations of the earth. Prov. viii. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint. 2 Sam. xv. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

He hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness. Acts xvii. 31. [ 1913 Webster ]

Say that the emperor request a parley . . . and appoint the meeting. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To assign, designate, or set apart by authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service. Num. iv. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

These were cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. Josh. xx. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out. [ 1913 Webster ]

The English, being well appointed, did so entertain them that their ships departed terribly torn. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Appoint not heavenly disposition. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Law) To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. Burrill. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

To appoint one's self, to resolve. [ Obs. ] Crowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To ordain; to determine; to arrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel. 2 Sam. xvii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being appointed or constituted. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having acquired an office or responsibility through appointment; -- said of officials, and contrasting with elected. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. fixed or established by order or command.
Syn. -- decreed, ordained, prescribed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. provided with furnishing and accessories especially of a tasteful kind. a house that is beautifully appointed [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. selected for a duty or job [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. appointé, p. p. of appointer. See Appoint, v. t. ] 1. A person appointed. [ 1913 Webster ]

The commission authorizes them to make appointments, and pay the appointees. Circular of Mass. Representatives (1768). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (law) A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed. Kent. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. appointement. ] 1. The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being appointed to som&unr_; service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appointment to meet at six. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments. [ 1913 Webster ]

According to the appointment of the priests. Ezra vi. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) The exercise of the power of designating (under a “power of appointment”) a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cavaliers emulated their chief in the richness of their appointments. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll prove it in my shackles, with these hands
Void of appointment, that thou liest. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An expense proportioned to his appointments and fortune is necessary. Chesterfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Designation; command; order; direction; establishment; equipment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. [ Cf. Prov. E. rynt, rynt thee, roynt, or runt, terms used by milkmaids to a cow that has been milked, in order to drive her away, to make room for others; AS. r&ymacr_;man to make room or way, fr. rūm room. The final t is perh. for ta, for thou. Cf. Room space. ] Stand off, or begone. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Aroint thee, witch, the rump-fed ronyon cries. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To drive or scare off by some exclamation. [ R. ] “Whiskered cats arointed flee.” Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Back, a. or adv. + joint. ] (Arch.) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a pen which has a small metal ball as point of transfer of ink to paper, at the tip of a cylandrical and non-refillable reservoir of ink; -- short for ballpoint pen.
Syn. -- ballpoint pen, ballpen, Biro. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A child's game. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint. [ 1913 Webster ]

A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Equal in intensity or degree; as, the relations between 6 and 12, and 8 and 16, are cointense. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition of being of equal in intensity; -- applied to relations; as, 3:6 and 6:12 are relations of cointension. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cointension . . . is chosen indicate the equality of relations in respect of the contrast between their terms. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. conjoint, p. p. of conjoindre. See Conjoin, and cf. Conjunct. ] United; connected; associated. “Influence conjoint.” Glover. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conjoint degrees (Mus.), two notes which follow each other immediately in the order of the scale, as ut and re. Johnson. --
Conjoint tetrachords (Mus.), two tetrachords or fourths, where the same note is the highest of one and the lowest of the other; -- also written conjunct. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a conjoint manner; untitedly; jointly; together. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ Counter- + point. ] An opposite point [ Obs. ] Sir E. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. contrepoint; cf. It. contrappunto. Cf. Contrapuntal. ] (Mus.) (a) The setting of note against note in harmony; the adding of one or more parts to a given canto fermo or melody. (b) The art of polyphony, or composite melody, i. e., melody not single, but moving attended by one or more related melodies. (c) Music in parts; part writing; harmony; polyphonic music. See Polyphony. [ 1913 Webster ]

Counterpoint, an invention equivalent to a new creation of music. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. contrepoincte, corruption of earlier counstepointe, countepointe, F. courtepointe, fr. L. culcita cushion, mattress (see Quilt, and cf. Cushion) + puncta, fem. p. p. of pungere to prick (see Point). The word properly meant a stitched quilt, with the colors broken one into another. ] A coverlet; a cover for a bed, often stitched or broken into squares; a counterpane. See 1st Counterpane. [ 1913 Webster ]

Embroidered coverlets or counterpoints of purple silk. Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports “point.” [ 1913 Webster ]

(Physics), That combination of volume and pressure, at the critical temperature of the substance, at which the liquid and gaseous phases of a given quantity of a substance have identical values for their densities and other properties. [ PJC ]

n. (Meteor.) The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To invalidate the consecration of; as, to disanoint a king. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disapointed; p. pr. & vb. n. Disappointing. ] [ OF. desapointier, F. désappointer; pref. des- (L. dis-) + apointier, F. appointier, to appoint. See Appoint. ] 1. To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions, expectations, or plans are disappointed; a bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was disappointed, but very agreeably. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Disappointed of a thing not obtained; disappointed in a thing obtained. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To frustrate; to fail; to hinder of result. [ 1913 Webster ]

His retiring foe
Shrinks from the wound, and disappoints the blow. Addison.

Syn. -- To tantalize; fail; frustrate; balk; baffle; delude; foil; defeat. See Tantalize. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unprepared; unequipped. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. defeating one's expectations or hopes; failing to fulfill one's expectations or hopes; as, a disappointing result; a disappointing crop yield. [ PJC ]

n. the act of disappointing someone.
Syn. -- disappointment, dashing hopes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. désappointement. ] 1. The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration. [ 1913 Webster ]

If we hope for things of which we have not thoroughly considered the value, our disappointment will be greater than our pleasure in the fruition of them. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

In disappointment thou canst bless. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which disappoints.

Syn. -- Miscarriage; frustration; balk. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. desjoint, p. p. of desjoindre. See Disjoin. ] Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From OF. desjoint, p. p. of desjoindre. See Disjoint, v. t. ] Difficult situation; dilemma; strait. [ Obs. ] “I stand in such disjoint.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disjointed; p. pr. & vb. n. Disjointing. ] 1. To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame,
But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame? Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint an edifice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some half-ruined wall
Disjointed and about to fall. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To fall in pieces. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent. -- Dis*joint"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*joint"ed*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a disjointed state. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An old rural game. [ 1913 Webster ]

With any boy at dust-point they shall play. Peacham (1620). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. en bon point in good condition. See Bon, and Point. ] Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A point of termination or completion.
Syn. -- end point. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Anointed. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]