‖n. [ Gr. 'agora`. ] An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] (Med.) Cold; chilliness. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

Algor mortis (Med.), The decrease of body temperature to room temperature after death. [ AS ]

{ } n. [ OE. algorism, algrim, augrim, OF. algorisme, F. algorithme (cf. Sp. algoritmo, OSp. alguarismo, LL. algorismus), fr. the Ar. al-Khowārezmī of Khowārezm, the modern Khiwa, surname of Abu Ja'far Mohammed ben Musā, author of a work on arithmetic early in the 9th century, which was translated into Latin, such books bearing the name algorismus. The spelling with th is due to a supposed connection with Gr. &unr_; number. ] 1. The art of calculating by nine figures and zero; computation with Arabic figures. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the Arabic system of numeration.
Syn. -- decimal system [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. The art of calculating with any species of notation; as, the algorithms of fractions, proportions, surds, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem; a set of procedures guaranteed to find the solution to a problem.
Syn. -- algorithmic rule, algorithmic program [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an algorithm. recursive [ 1913 Webster ]

2. definitively solvable by a finite number of steps; -- said of mathematical or logical problems. Contrasted with heuristic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ F. allégorique, L. allegorius, fr. Gr. &unr_;. See Allegory. ] Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative. “An allegoric tale.” Falconer. “An allegorical application.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing, but means another. Max Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Al`le*gor"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Al`le*gor"ic*al*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. allegoriste. ] One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Allegorized p. pr. & vb. n. Allegorizing. ] [ Cf. F. allégoriser, fr. L. allegorizare. ] 1. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To use allegory. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Allegories [ L. allegoria, Gr. &unr_;, description of one thing under the image of another; &unr_; other + &unr_; to speak in the assembly, harangue, &unr_; place of assembly, fr. &unr_; to assemble: cf. F. allégorie. ] 1. A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Paint. & Sculpt.) A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Metaphor; fable. -- Allegory, Parable. “An allegory differs both from fable and parable, in that the properties of persons are fictitiously represented as attached to things, to which they are as it were transferred. . . . A figure of Peace and Victory crowning some historical personage is an allegory. “I am the Vine, ye are the branches” [ John xv. 1-6 ] is a spoken allegory. In the parable there is no transference of properties. The parable of the sower [ Matt. xiii. 3-23 ] represents all things as according to their proper nature. In the allegory quoted above the properties of the vine and the relation of the branches are transferred to the person of Christ and His apostles and disciples.” C. J. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

An allegory is a prolonged metaphor. Bunyan's “Pilgrim's Progress” and Spenser's “Faërie Queene” are celebrated examples of the allegory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Amphigory. ] Nonsensical; absurd; pertaining to an amphigory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. amphigouri, of uncertain derivation; perh. fr. Gr. 'amfi` + &unr_; a circle. ] A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless. [ Written also amphigouri. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. See Anger. ] >1. (Med.) Extreme anxiety. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

2. (Med) Angina{ 2 }. [ AS ]

3. (Med) Angina pectoris; also called angor pectoris. [ AS ]

n. A city of Asia Minor (or Anatolia) which has given its name to a goat, a cat, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Angora cat (Zool.), a variety of the domestic cat with very long and silky hair, generally of the brownish white color. Called also Angola cat. See Cat. --
Angora goat (Zool.), a variety of the domestic goat, reared for its long silky hair, which is highly prized for manufacture. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To besmear with gore. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Gael. carn a cairn + gorm azure. ] (Min.) A smoky yellow or brown variety of rock crystal, or crystallized quartz, found especially, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in Scotland.
Syn. -- smoky quartz. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; predicate. See Category. ] (Logic.) Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to a category. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The scriptures by a multitude of categorical and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute. A. Marvell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. placed in a category. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Categories [ L. categoria, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to accuse, affirm, predicate; &unr_; down, against + &unr_; to harrangue, assert, fr. &unr_; assembly. ] 1. (Logic.) One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. [ 1913 Webster ]

The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language -- were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. clangere. See Clang, v. t. ] A sharp, harsh, ringing sound. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a loud resonant repeating noise.
Syn. -- clang, clangor, clangour, clank, clash, crash, jangle. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ LL. clangorosus. ] Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., cut throat. ] (Mil.) Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces. Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. demi- gorge. ] (Fort.) Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ First mentioned by Lutatius, or Lactantius Placidus, the scholiast on Statius, perh. fr. Gr. dai`mwn god, deity + gorgo`s fierce, terrible ] A mysterious, terrible, and evil divinity, regarded by some as the author of creation, by others as a great magician who was supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. See Gorgon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name
Of Demogorgon. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disgorged p. pr. & vb. n. Disgorging. ] [ F. dégorger, earlier desgorger; pref. dé-, des- (L. dis-) + gorge. See Gorge. ] 1. To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place. [ 1913 Webster ]

This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

They loudly laughed
To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To vomit forth what anything contains; to discharge; to make restitution. [ 1913 Webster ]

See where it flows, disgorging at seven mouths
Into the sea. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dégorgement. ] The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To enervate; to weaken. [ R. ] Sydney Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To gore; to pierce; to lacerate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Deadly engored of a great wild boar. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make bloody. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Engorged p. pr. & vb. n. Engorging ] [ Pref. en- + gorge: cf. F. engorger to obstruct, cram. ] 1. To gorge; to glut. Mir. for Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food. Beaumont. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. 1. Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Filled to excess with blood or other liquid; congested. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. engorgement. ] 1. The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) An overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in some part of the system; congestion. Hoblyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Metal.) The clogging of a blast furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To invigorate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., a breaking to pieces, fr. frangere to break. ] 1. A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Due to confusion with fragrant. ] A strong or sweet scent. [ Obs. & Illegitimate. ] Sir T. Herbert.

{ a. [ L. frigorificus; frigus, frigoris, cold + facere to make: cf. F. frigorifique. ] Causing cold; producing or generating cold. Quincy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. fulgor, fr. fulgere to shine. ] Dazzling brightness; splendor. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An affected elegance or euphuism of style, for which the Spanish poet Gongora y Argote (1561-1627), among others of his time, was noted.

Gongorism, that curious disease of euphuism, that broke out simultaneously in Italy, England, and Spain. The Critic.

The Renaissance riots itself away in Marinism, Gongorism, Euphuism, and the affectations of the Hôtel Rambouillet. J. A. Symonds. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in hookahs in Western India. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) An Indian goat antelope (Nemorhedus goral), resembling the chamois. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. Bog-bellied. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]