a. Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive. [ 1913 Webster ]

The debt immense of endless gratitude
So burdensome. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Heavy; weighty; cumbersome; onerous; grievous; oppressive; troublesome. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Bur"den*some*ly, adv. -- Bur"den*some*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a churchwarden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capability of being condensed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. condensable. ] Capable of being condensed; as, vapor is condensable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. condensatus, p. p. of condensare. See Condense, v. t. ] Made dense; condensed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Water . . . thickened or condensate. Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Condensated; p. pr. & vb. n. Condensating. ] To condense. [ R. ] Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. condensatio: cf. F. condensation. ] 1. The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Goldsmith ] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) The act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Chem.) A rearrangement or concentration of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in an increase of density, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene. [ 1913 Webster ]

Condensation product (Chem.), a substance obtained by the polymerization of one substance, or by the union of two or more, with or without separation of some unimportant side products. --
Surface condensation, the system of condensing steam by contact with cold metallic surfaces, in distinction from condensation by the injection of cold water. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. condensatif. ] Having the property of condensing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Condensed p. pr. & vb. n. Condensing. ] [ L. condensare; con- + densare to make thick or dense, densus thick, dense: cf. F. condenser. See Dense, and cf. Condensate. ] 1. To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize. [ 1913 Webster ]

In what shape they choose,
Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem. & Physics) To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water. [ 1913 Webster ]

Condensed milk, milk reduced to the consistence of very thick cream by evaporation (usually with addition of sugar) for preservation and transportation. --
Condensing engine, a steam engine in which the steam is condensed after having exerted its force on the piston.

Syn. -- To compress; contract; crowd; thicken; concentrate; abridge; epitomize; reduce. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nitrous acid is gaseous at ordinary temperatures, but condenses into a very volatile liquid at the zero of Fahrenheit. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) (a) To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products. (b) To undergo polymerization. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. condensus. ] Condensed; compact; dense. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The huge condense bodies of planets. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. (Psychol) representing two or more ideas or emotions by a single symbol; as, a condensed expression of various feelings and ideas. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. shortened by rewriting with fewer words; -- used of texts; as, a condensed book. Opposite of unabridged.
Syn. -- abridged. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

3. reduced to a stronger or more concentrated form; as, condensed milk. Opposite of uncondensed.
Syn. -- concentrated[ 5 ]. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. narrower than usual for a particular height; -- of printers' type. Opposite of expanded. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, condenses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physic) (a) An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the air into a receiver, and a valve to prevent its escape. (b) An instrument for concentrating electricity by the effect of induction between conducting plates separated by a nonconducting plate. (c) A lens or mirror, usually of short focal distance, used to concentrate light upon an object. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Chem.) An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Steam Engine) An apparatus, separate from the cylinder, in which the exhaust steam is condensed by the action of cold water or air. See Illust. of Steam engine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Achromatic condenser (Optics), an achromatic lens used as a condenser. --
Bull's-eye condenser, or
Bull's-eye (Optics), a lens of short focal distance used for concentrating rays of light. --
Injection condenser, a vessel in which steam is condensed by the direct contact of water. --
Surface condenser, an apparatus for condensing steam, especially the exhaust of a steam engine, by bringing it into contact with metallic surface cooled by water or air. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being condensed; as, a gas condensible to a liquid by cold. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. densus; akin to Gr. &unr_; thick with hair or leaves: cf. F. dense. ] 1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. [ 1913 Webster ]

All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

To replace the cloudy barrier dense. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a dense, compact manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being dense; density. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an increase in the density of something.
Syn. -- compaction, compression, concretion. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. densus dense + -meter: cf. F. densimètre. ] An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity or density of a substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an instrument for determining optical or photographic density. A variety capable of measuring optical density of a sample at a number of different wavelengths, is called a spectrophotometer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. same as densimeter. [ PJC ]

n. measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light through it and measuring the intensity of the transmitted light. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. densitas; cf. F. densité. ] 1. The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) The ratio of mass, or quantity of matter, to bulk or volume, esp. as compared with the mass and volume of a portion of some substance used as a standard. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ For gases the standard substance is hydrogen, at a temperature of 0° Centigrade and a pressure of 760 millimeters. For liquids and solids the standard is water at a temperature of 4° Centigrade. The density of solids and liquids is usually called specific gravity, and the same is true of gases when referred to air as a standard. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Photog.) Depth of shade. Abney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_; + E. densimeter. ] Same as Galactometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Horticulture. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A perennial herb of Northeastern U. S. (Hydrastis Canadensis) having a thick knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves.
Syn. -- golden seal, yellow root, turmeric root, Hydrastis Canadensis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. The quality or state of being incondensable.

{ } a. Not condensable; incapable of being made more dense or compact, or reduced to liquid form. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. pl. [ Dan. kjök-kenmöddings kitchen leavings; cf. Scot. midden a dunghill. ] Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. lac, lactis, milk + E. densimeter. ] A form of hydrometer, specially graduated, for finding the density of milk, and thus discovering whether it has been mixed with water or some of the cream has been removed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The amount of magnetic flux in a unit area perpendicular to the direction of magnetic flow.
Syn. -- magnetic field strength, magnetic intensity, magnetic induction. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Maidenhood. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not condensible; incapable of being liquefied; -- said of gases. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. (Steam Engine) Not condensing; discharging the steam from the cylinder at a pressure nearly equal to or above that of the atmosphere and not into a condenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Too burdensome. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of recondensing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To condense again. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. pl. [ So called from Petrus Waldus, or Peter Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, who founded this sect about a. d. 1170. ] (Eccl. Hist.) A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the Waldenses. -- n. One Holding the Waldensian doctrines. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The office or jurisdiction of a warden. [ 1913 Webster ]