n. [ AS. æcern, fr. æcer field, acre; akin to D. aker acorn, Ger. ecker, Icel. akarn, Dan. agern, Goth. akran fruit, akrs field; -- orig. fruit of the field. See Acre. ] 1. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) See Acorn-shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Furnished or loaded with acorns. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fed or filled with acorns. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. See Barnacle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Adorned p. pr. & vb. n. Adorning. ] [ OE. aournen, anournen, adornen, OF. aorner, fr. L. aaornare; ad + ornare to furnish, embellish. See Adore, Ornate. ] To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive. [ 1913 Webster ]

As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. Isa. lxi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

At church, with meek and unaffected grace,
His looks adorned the venerable place. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To deck; decorate; embellish; ornament; beautify; grace; dignify; exalt; honor. -- To Adorn, Ornament, Decorate, Embellish. We decorate and ornament by putting on some adjunct which is attractive or beautiful, and which serves to heighten the general effect. Thus, a lady's head-dress may be ornament or decorated with flowers or jewelry; a hall may be decorated or ornament with carving or gilding, with wreaths of flowers, or with hangings. Ornament is used in a wider sense than decorate. To embellish is to beautify or ornament richly, not so much by mere additions or details as by modifying the thing itself as a whole. It sometimes means gaudy and artificial decoration. We embellish a book with rich engravings; a style is embellished with rich and beautiful imagery; a shopkeeper embellishes his front window to attract attention. Adorn is sometimes identical with decorate, as when we say, a lady was adorned with jewels. In other cases, it seems to imply something more. Thus, we speak of a gallery of paintings as adorned with the works of some of the great masters, or adorned with noble statuary and columns. Here decorated and ornamented would hardly be appropriate. There is a value in these works of genius beyond mere show and ornament. Adorn may be used of what is purely moral; as, a character adorned with every Christian grace. Here neither decorate, nor ornament, nor embellish is proper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Adornment. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adorned; decorated. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Adornment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By adorning; decoratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. adornement. See Adorn. ] An adorning; an ornament; a decoration. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 coextensive with the order Aepyorniformes.
Syn. -- family Aepyornidae [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 huge extinct flightless birds: elephant birds.
Syn. -- order Aepyorniformes [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖ n. [ Gr. &unr_; high + &unr_; bird. ] A gigantic (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird, of which fossils were found in Madagascar.
Syn. -- elephant bird [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. conveyed by or through air, as dust or pollen; as, a clean room is needed to avoid airborne contaminants. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. in flight; flying; -- said of an airplane. [ PJC ]

3. (Mil.) carried directly to the site of battle by aircraft; -- said of combat troops, as, an airborne division. [ PJC ]

{ }, n. [ G. Alpenhorn. ] A curved wooden horn about three feet long, with a cupped mouthpiece and a bell, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Alt + horn. ] (Mus.) An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ger. amelkorn: cf. MHG. amel, amer, spelt, and L. amylum starch, Gr. &unr_;. ] A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ See Amorwe. The -s is a genitival ending. See -wards. ] In the morning; every morning. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And have such pleasant walks into the woods
A-mornings. J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF. aörner, aöurner, fr. L. adornare to adorn. The form a-ourne was corrupted into anourne. ] To adorn. [ Obs. ] Bp. Watson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an extinct primitive toothed bird with a long feathered tail and three free clawed digits on each wing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 a subclass of primitive reptilelike fossil birds of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous.
Syn. -- subclass Archaeornithes [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 the type genus of the Atrichornithidae.
Syn. -- genus Atrichornis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a antural family comprising the scrubbirds.
Syn. -- family Atrichornithidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ OF. atorner, aturner, atourner, to direct, prepare, dispose, attorn (cf. OE. atornen to return, adorn); à (L. ad) + torner to turn; cf. LL. attornare to commit business to another, to attorn; ad + tornare to turn, L. tornare to turn in a lathe, to round off. See Turn, v. t. ] 1. (Feudal Law) To turn, or transfer homage and service, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Modern Law) To agree to become tenant to one to whom reversion has been granted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Attorneys [ OE. aturneye, OF. atorné, p. p. of atorner: cf. LL. atturnatus, attornatus, fr. attornare. See Attorn. ] 1. A substitute; a proxy; an agent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And will have no attorney but myself. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) (a) One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact. (b) A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ An attorney is either public or private. A private attorney, or an attorney in fact, is a person appointed by another, by a letter or power of attorney, to transact any business for him out of court; but in a more extended sense, this class includes any agent employed in any business, or to do any act in pais, for another. A public attorney, or attorney at law, is a practitioner in a court of law, legally qualified to prosecute and defend actions in such court, on the retainer of clients. Bouvier. -- The attorney at law answers to the procurator of the civilians, to the solicitor in chancery, and to the proctor in the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts, and all of these are comprehended under the more general term lawyer. In Great Britain and in some states of the United States, attorneys are distinguished from counselors in that the business of the former is to carry on the practical and formal parts of the suit. In many states of the United States however, no such distinction exists. In England, since 1873, attorneys at law are by statute called solicitors. [ 1913 Webster ]

A power,
letter, or
warrant,
of attorney, a written authority from one person empowering another to transact business for him. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; (pl. Attorney-generals or Attorneys-general). (Law) The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice or peculiar cleverness of attorneys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or profession of an attorney; agency for another. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. attornement, LL. attornamentum. See Attorn. ] (Law) The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord. Burrill. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Aver, n. + corn. ] (Old Eng. Law) A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers. Kennet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Corn. ] 1. A grain or “corn” of barley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch. [ 1913 Webster ]

John Barleycorn, a humorous personification of barley as the source of malt liquor or whisky. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Born out of wedlock. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Born of low parentage. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Vile; mean. “Thy baseborn heart.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ See Basset, a. ] (Mus.) An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves; The corno di bassetto. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Mus.) A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To treat with scorn. “Then was he bescorned.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Torn in pieces; tattered. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. bicornis; bis twice + cornu horn: cf. F. bicorne. Cf. Bickern. ] Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. & adv. Before. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis montana or Caprovis montana); called also bighorn sheep. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) (a) A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe. (b) A species of Cratægus or hawthorn (Cratægus tomentosa). Both are used for hedges. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. [ See Bear, v. t. ] 1. Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced by birth. [ 1913 Webster ]

No one could be born into slavery in Mexico. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having from birth a certain character; by or from birth; by nature; innate; as, a born liar. “A born matchmaker.” W. D. Howells. [ 1913 Webster ]

Born again (Theol.), regenerated; renewed; having received spiritual life. “Except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God.” John iii. 3. --
Born days, days since one was born; lifetime. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Bear. Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Borneo + -ol. ] (Chem.) A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called also Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, and camphol. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after Von Born, a mineralogist. ] (Min.) A valuable ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur; -- also called purple copper ore (or erubescite), in allusion to the colors shown upon the slightly tarnished surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corn of grain of which bread is made, as wheat, rye, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having horns spreading widely. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A tall variety of grass (Sorghum vulgare technicum), having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long stiff branches, of which brooms are made. [ 1913 Webster ]