‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, goat + &unr_;, n. pl., heads. ] (Arch.) Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. aegilopis, Gr. a'igi`lwps, fr. a'i`x, gen. a'igo`s, goat + 'w`ps eye. ] 1. (Med.) An ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye. [ Written also egilops ] AS [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) (a) The great wild-oat grass or other cornfield weed. Crabb. (b) [ capitalized ] A genus of plants, called also hardgrass. [ Written also egilops ] [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

‖n. [ L. aegis, fr. Gr. a'igi`s a goat skin, a shield, a'i`x goat, or fr. 'ai`:ssw to rush. ] A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. alegeaunce; pref. a- + OF. lige, liege. The meaning was influenced by L. ligare to bind, and even by lex, legis, law. See Liege, Ligeance. ] 1. The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Loyalty; fealty. -- Allegiance, Loyalty. These words agree in expressing the general idea of fidelity and attachment to the “powers that be.” Allegiance is an obligation to a ruling power. Loyalty is a feeling or sentiment towards such power. Allegiance may exist under any form of government, and, in a republic, we generally speak of allegiance to the government, to the state, etc. In well conducted monarchies, loyalty is a warm-hearted feeling of fidelity and obedience to the sovereign. It is personal in its nature; and hence we speak of the loyalty of a wife to her husband, not of her allegiance. In cases where we personify, loyalty is more commonly the word used; as, loyalty to the constitution; loyalty to the cause of virtue; loyalty to truth and religion, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hear me, recreant, on thine allegiance hear me! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found, . . .
Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified,
His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Loyal. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Phytogeog.) A depth of water so great that only those organisms can exist that do not assimilate. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; N temperate regions esp. mountains.
Syn. -- columbine, aquilege [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Begilded or Begilt ] To gild. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Began Begun p. pr. & vb. n. Beginning ] [ AS. beginnan (akin to OS. biginnan, D. & G. beginnen, OHG. biginnan, Goth., du-ginnan, Sw. begynna, Dan. begynde); pref. be- + an assumed ginnan. √31. See Gin to begin. ] 1. To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vast chain of being! which from God began. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start. “Tears began to flow.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

When I begin, I will also make an end. 1 Sam. iii. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To enter on; to commence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye nymphs of Solyma ! begin the song. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of. [ 1913 Webster ]

The apostle begins our knowledge in the creatures, which leads us to the knowledge of God. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To commence; originate; set about; start. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Beginning. [ Poetic & Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro. [ 1913 Webster ]

A sermon of a new beginner. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am . . . the beginning and the ending. Rev. i. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is begun; a rudiment or element. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mighty things from small beginnings grow. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Enterprise. “To hinder our beginnings.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Inception; prelude; opening; threshold; origin; outset; foundation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Begirt Begirded; p. p. Begirt; p. pr. & vb. n. Begirding. ] [ AS. begyrdan (akin to Goth. bigairdan); pref. be- + gyrdan to gird. ] 1. To bind with a band or girdle; to gird. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To surround as with a band; to encompass. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To surround as with a girdle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To encompass; to begird. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That besieges; laying siege to. -- Be*sie"ging*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. [ Gr. bibli`on book + phgny`naito make fast. ] Relating to the binding of books. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bookbinder. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the art of binding books. [ R. ] Dibdin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of climbing or scrambling herbs; bindweed.
Syn. -- genus Calystegia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genus of plants consisting of one species, the saguaro.
Syn. -- genus Carnegiea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. A device for recording the amount of cash received, usually having an automatic adding machine and a money drawer and exhibiting the amount of the sale. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ LL. collegialis. ] Collegiate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; a student in a college. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. collegiatus. ] Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Collegiate church. (a) A church which, although not a bishop's seat, resembles a cathedral in having a college, or chapter of canons (and, in the Church of England, a dean), as Westminster Abbey. (b) An association of churches, possessing common revenues and administered under the joint pastorate of several ministers; as, the Reformed (Dutch) Collegiate Church of New York. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of a college. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., orig., a corrector. ] The chief magistrate of a Spanish town. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Ægilops. ] (Med.) Pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with, an Ægilops, or tumor in the corner of the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Ægilops.

a. [ L. egregius; lit., separated or chosen from the herd, i. e., distinguished, excellent; e out + grex, gregis, herd. See Gregarious. ] Surpassing; extraordinary; distinguished (in a bad sense); -- formerly used with words importing a good quality, but now joined with words having a bad sense; as, an egregious rascal; an egregious ass; an egregious mistake. [ 1913 Webster ]

The egregious impudence of this fellow. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

His [ Wyclif's ] egregious labors are not to be neglected. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Greatly; enormously; shamefully; as, egregiously cheated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being egregious. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. elegiacus, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. élégiaque. See Elegy. ] 1. Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains. [ 1913 Webster ]

Elegiac griefs, and songs of love. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Elegiac verse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Elegiac. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who composes elegies. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; an elegy + -graph + -er. ] An elegist. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A write of elegies. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., he has chosen, fr. eligere to choose. See Elect. ] (Law) A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + register: cf. F. enregistrer. Cf. Inregister. ] To register; to enroll or record; to inregister. [ 1913 Webster ]

To read enregistered in every nook
His goodness, which His beauty doth declare. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) A premium paid by a lessee when taking his lease. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Terra del Fuego. -- n. A native of Terra del Fuego. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. gna`qos the jaw + &unr_; a roof. ] (Zool.) One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also hejira. ] [ Ar. hijrah flight. ] The flight of Mohammed from Mecca, September 13, a. d. 622 (subsequently established as the first year of the Moslem era); hence, any flight or exodus regarded as like that of Mohammed. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The starting point of the Era was made to begin, not from the date of the flight, but from the first day of the Arabic year, which corresponds to July 16, a. d. 622. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.[ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; half + &unr_; a stroke; cf. F. hémiplagie. ] (Med.) A palsy that affects one side only of the body. -- Hem`i"pleg"ic a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being illegible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incapable of being read; not legible; as, illegible handwriting; an illegible inscription. -- Il*leg"i*ble*ness, n. -- Il*leg"i*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being illegitimate. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]