prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Lebanon. Population (2000) = 1, 100, 000. [ PJC ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Chiroptera; -- an older spelling of chiropter. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. chei`r hand + ptero`n wing. ] (Zool.) An earlier spelling for Chiroptera, an order of Mammalia, including the bats, having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they can be used like wings in flying. See Chiroptera and Bat. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. (Zool.) chiropterous; belonging to the Chiroptera, or Bat family. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Cheiropterygia [ NL., fr. Gr. chei`r hand + pte`ryx, pte`rygos wing, fin. ] (Anat.) The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. chei`r hand + &unr_; knowledge. ] The art of reading character as it is delineated in the hand.

-- Chei*ros"o*phist n. [1913 Webster]

‖prop. n. [ NL., fr. Gr. chei`r hand + qhri`on beast. ] (Poleon.) A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A joint heir; one of two or more heirs; one of several entitled to an inheritance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female heir who inherits with other heiresses; a joint heiress. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a coheir. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. i. See Compear. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Disherit. ] To disinherit. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. the Irish name for Ireland; the name used in 1937 to 1949 for the Republic of Ireland.
Syn. -- Erin, Ireland. [ PJC ]

n. Air. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Irenarch. ] (Gr. Antiq.) A justice of the peace; irenarch. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pacific. See Irenic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Aerie, and Eyrie. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Zoöl.) A genus of spiders, including the common garden spider (E. diadema). They spin geometrical webs. See Garden spider. [ 1913 Webster ]

, n. See Glair. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. heir, eir, hair, OF. heir, eir, F. hoir, L. heres; of uncertain origin. Cf. Hereditary, Heritage. ] 1. One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am my father's heir and only son. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues. [ 1913 Webster ]

And I his heir in misery alone. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Heir apparent. (Law.) See under Apparent. --
Heir at law, one who, after his ancector's death, has a right to inherit all his intestate estate. Wharton (Law Dict.). --
Heir presumptive, one who, if the ancestor should die immediately, would be his heir, but whose right to the inheritance may be defeated by the birth of a nearer relative, or by some other contingency. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To inherit; to succeed to. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

One only daughter heired the royal state. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of an heir; succession by inheritance. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female heir. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of an heir. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Heir + loom, in its earlier sense of implement, tool. See Loom the frame. ] Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations. [ 1913 Webster ]

Woe to him whose daring hand profanes
The honored heirlooms of his ancestors. Moir. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Heirship movables, certain kinds of movables which the heir is entitled to take, besides the heritable estate. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Kier. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ G. lämmergeier; lamm, pl. lämmer, lamb + geier vulture. ] (Zool.) A very large vulture (Gypaëtus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber. [ 1913 Webster ]

peop. n. A genus of giant crabs of Japan.
Syn. -- genus Macrocheira. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Pg., the Island Madeira, properly, wood, fr. L. materia stuff, wood. The island was so called because well wooded. See Matter. ] A rich wine made on the Island of Madeira. [ 1913 Webster ]

A cup of Madeira, and a cold capon's leg. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Madeira nut (Bot.), the European walnut; the nut of the Juglans regia. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A herbaceous climbing vine (Boussingaultia baselloides) very popular in cultivation, having shining entire leaves and racemes of small fragrant white flowers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Bot.) A small South American shrub (Solanum pseudocapsicum) cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherrylike fruit.
Syn. -- Jerusalem cherry, winter cherry, Madeira winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. (Bot.) (a) The mahogany tree (Swietenia Mahogoni). (b) A West Indian leguminous tree (Lysiloma Latisiliqua) the wood of which is used for boat trimming. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. oneirocritique. See Oneirocritic, a. ] An interpreter of dreams. Bp. Warburton. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; a dream + &unr_; critical, fr. &unr_; to discern. ] Of or pertaining to the interpretation of dreams. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The art of interpreting dreams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a dream + -mancy. ] Divination by means of dreams. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who interprets dreams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a dream + -scopy. ] The interpretation of dreams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. pei^ra a trial + -meter. ] A dynamometer for measuring the force required to draw wheel carriages on roads of different constructions. G. Francis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. peirastiko`s, fr. peira^n to try, fr. pei^ra a trial. ] Fitted for trial or test; experimental; tentative; treating of attempts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Same as Seerfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; a cord + E. spore. ] (Bot.) One of several spores arranged in a chain as in certain algae of the genus Callithamnion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A salt glaze on pottery, made by adding common salt to an earthenware glaze. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To ask. See Spere. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

pron. & a. [ OE. thair, fr. Icel. þeirra, þeira, of them, but properly gen. pl. of the definite article; akin to AS. ðāra, ð&aemacr_;ra, gen. pl. of the definite article, or fr. AS. ð&aemacr_;ra, influenced by the Scandinavian use. See That. ] The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The possessive takes the form theirs (&unr_;) when the noun to which it refers is not expressed, but implied or understood; as, our land is richest, but theirs is best cultivated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nothing but the name of zeal appears
'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of an heir. [ 1913 Webster ]

To leave him utterly unheired. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OE. wer, AS. wer; akin to G. wehr, AS. werian to defend, protect, hinder, G. wehren, Goth. warjan; and perhaps to E. wary; or cf. Skr. v&rsdot_; to check, hinder. √142. Cf. Garret. ] 1. A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water. [ 1913 Webster ]