a. [ L. aestivalis, aestivus, fr. aestas summer. ] Of or belonging to the summer; as, æstival diseases. [ Spelt also estival. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. aestivare, aestivatum. ] 1. To spend the summer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) To pass the summer in a state of torpor. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Spelt also estivate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Zool.) The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) The arrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Spelt also estivation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. agrestis, fr. ager field. ] Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth. “Agrestic behavior.” Gregory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Agrestic. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Causing loss of memory. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to amnesia. [ PJC ]

n. A drug causing loss of memory. Stedman. [ PJC ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Aiding the memory; as, anamnestic remedies. [ 1913 Webster ]

Same as Anapest, Anapestic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. anapaesticus, Gr. 'anapaistiko`s. ] Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse. -- n. Anapestic measure or verse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Anapestic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Striking; attracting attention; impressive. [ 1913 Webster ]

This most solemn and arresting occurrence. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to arrest. McCosh. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling asbestus; inconsumable; asbestine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. asbestus + -form. ] Having the form or structure of asbestus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to asbestus, or partaking of its nature; incombustible; asbestic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Attesting; furnishing evidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Auto- + suggestion. ] (Med.) 1. Self-suggestion as distinguished from suggestion coming from another, especially in hypnotism. Autosuggestion is characteristic of certain mental conditions in which expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function of one or more organs. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. hypnosis induced by oneself.
Syn. -- self-hypnosis, self-suggestion. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Same as Biestings. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. pl. [ OE. bestynge, AS. b&ymacr_;sting, fr. b&ymacr_;st, beost; akin to D. biest, OHG. biost, G. biest; of unknown origin. ] The first milk given by a cow after calving. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

The thick and curdy milk . . . commonly called biestings. Newton. (1574). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. bestial, L. bestialis, fr. bestia beast. See Beast. ] 1. Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Among the bestial herds to range. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Brutish; beastly; brutal; carnal; vile; low; depraved; sensual; filthy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. same as bestialize. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. bestialité. ] 1. The state or quality of being bestial. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unnatural connection with a beast. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bestialized p. pr. & vb. n. Bestializing. ] To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize. [ 1913 Webster ]

The process of bestializing humanity. Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a bestial manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. bestiarium, fr. L. bestiarius pert. to beasts, fr. bestia beast: cf. F. bestiaire. ] A treatise on beasts; esp., one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages. [ 1913 Webster ]

A bestiary . . . in itself one of the numerous mediæval renderings of the fantastic mystical Zoology. Saintsbury. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bestuck p. pr. & vb. n. Besticking. ] To stick over, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce. [ 1913 Webster ]

Truth shall retire
Bestuck with slanderous darts. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make still. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bestirred p. pr. & vb. n. Bestirring. ] To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor; -- usually with the reciprocal pronoun. [ 1913 Webster ]

You have so bestirred your valor. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Written also bhistee, bhisti, etc. ] [ Per. bihishtī lit., heavenly. ] A water carrier, as to a household or a regiment. [ India ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Hunting for, or taking, birds' nests or their contents. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. buprestis, Gr. &unr_;, a poisonous beetle, which, being eaten by cattle in the grass, caused them to swell up and and die; &unr_; ox, cow + &unr_; to blow up, swell out. ] (Zool.) One of a tribe of beetles, of the genus Buprestis and allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. The larvæ are usually borers in timber, or beneath bark, and are often very destructive to trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. candel-sticca; candel candle + sticca stick. ] An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis; constituting, characterized by or given to catachresis; wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fetched. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Cat`a*chres"tic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

[A] catachrestical and improper way of speaking. Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]

a. [ OF. celestial, celestied, fr. L. caelestic, fr. caelum heaved. See Cell. ] 1. Belonging to the aërial regions, or visible heavens. “The twelve celestial signs.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine. “Celestial spirits.” “Celestial light, ” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Chinese, or Celestial, Empire, of the Chinese people. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Celestial city, heaven; the heavenly Jerusalem. Bunyan. --
Celestial empire, China; -- so called from the Chinese words, tien chan, Heavenly Dynasty, as being the kingdom ruled over by the dynasty appointed by heaven. S. W. Williams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An inhabitant of heaven. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A native of China; a Chinaman; a Chinese. [ Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To make celestial. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a celestial manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. caelestis heavenly + -fly. ] To make like heaven. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Eccl. Hist.) A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. [ LL. caelestinus bine. ] (Min.) Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A family of invertebrates coextensive with the order Cestida; ctenophores having a greatly flattened and elongated body.
Syn. -- family Cestidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. clandestinus, fr. clam secretly; akin to celare, E. conceal: cf. F. clandestin. ] Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage. Locke.

Syn. -- Hidden; secret; private; concealed; underhand; sly; stealthy; surreptitious; furtive; fraudulent.

-- Clan*des"tine*ly, adv. -- Clan*des"tine*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Privacy or secrecy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. comestible, fr. L. comesus, comestus, p. p. of comedere to eat; com- + edere to eat. ] Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some herbs are most comestible. Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Something suitable to be eaten; -- commonly in the plural. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. congestio: cf. F. congestion. ] 1. The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The congestion of dead bodies one upon another. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyperæmia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a contending manner. [ 1913 Webster ]