a. [ L. acanthinus, Gr. &unr_;, thorny, fr. &unr_;. See Acanthus. ] Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. fitness to fly. “the plane received a certificate of airworthiness”. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to amaranth. “Amaranthine bowers.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. [ 1913 Webster ]

They only amaranthine flower on earth
Is virtue. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of a purplish color. Buchanan. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. 'amfi` + &unr_; sinew, nerve. ] (Zool.) A division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ Pref. apo- + morphia, morphine. ] (Chem.) A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Russ. arshin, of Turkish-Tartar origin; Turk. arshin, arshūn, ell, yard. ] A Russian measure of length = 2 ft. 4.246 inches. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shining; radiant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Beshone; p. pr. & vb. n. Beshining. ] To shine upon; to illumine. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Native bismuth sulphide; -- sometimes called bismuthite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fullness of branches. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition or quality of being bushy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Camphor. ] Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is also applied to a mixture of this substance with three times its volume of alcohol and sometimes a little ether, used as an illuminant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kata`rris with hanging or curved nose; kata` down + "ri`s, "rino`s nose. ] (Zool.) One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Chink. ] A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep. [ Prov. Eng. ] “The cottage in a chine.” J. Ingelow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. eschine, F. échine, fr. OHG. skina needle, prickle, shin, G. schiene splint, schienbein shin. For the meaning cf. L. spina thorn, prickle, or spine, the backbone. Cf. Shin. ] 1. The backbone or spine of an animal; the back. “And chine with rising bristles roughly spread.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [ See Illust. of Beef. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Chined ] 1. To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; -- used in composition. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Broken in the back. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He's chined, goodman. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chinese paper. See India paper, under India. --
Chinese wax, a snowy-white, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccidæ especially Coccus Sinensis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. 1. A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Any of several acts forbidding the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States, originally from 1882 to 1892 by act of May 6, 1882, then from 1892 to 1902 by act May 5, 1892. By act of April 29, 1902, all existing legislation on the subject was reënacted and continued, and made applicable to the insular possessions of the United States. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
Syn. -- vermilion, vermillion, cinibar. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

[ Sp. cochinilla, dim. from L. coccineus, coccinus, scarlet, fr. coccum the kermes berry, G. ko`kkos berry, especially the kermes insect, used to dye scarlet, as the cochineal was formerly supposed to be the grain or seed of a plant, and this word was formerly defined to be the grain of the Quercus coccifera; but cf. also Sp. cochinilla wood louse, dim. of cochina sow, akin to F. cochon pig. ] A dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ These insects are gathered from the plant, killed by the application of heat, and exposed to the sun to dry. When dried they resemble small, rough berries or seeds, of a brown or purple color, and form the cochineal of the shops, which is used for making carmine, and also as a red dye. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Cochineal contains as its essential coloring matter carminic acid, a purple red amorphous substance which yields carmine red. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A plant of Central and Southern America, of the Cactus family, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) a particle accelerator in which two separate beams of particles (usually of opposite charge) are circulated in opposite directions and directed so as to collide head on; -- called also colliding-beam accelerator and collider. This technique allows the production of collisions of higher energy than would be possible with a single beam produced by the same device.
Syn. -- particle collider; colliding-beam accelerator; collider. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

{ or , n. The title of the wife of the dauphin. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ See Dauphin. ] Pertaining to the dauphin of France; as, the Delphin classics, an edition of the Latin classics, prepared in the reign of Louis XIV., for the use of the dauphin (in usum Delphini). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. delphinus a dolphin, Gr. delfi`s, delfi`n. ] Pertaining to the dolphin, a genus of fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female dolphin. [ R. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness. [ 1913 Webster ]

See Earth light, under Earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; stag. ] (Zoöl.) Pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of, the stag, or Cervus elaphus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; in + &unr_;, &unr_;, nose: cf. F. errhin. ] (Med.) A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory. Coxe. -- a. Causing or increasing secretion of nasal mucus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) Acetylene. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Shortened form of telefax, from tele- and facsimile. ] A device which is designed to transmit and receive images by the facsimile{ 2 } process. Such a device may also be able to perform other functions, such as scanning an image or copying an image; a telefax device. [ PJC ]

n. 1. The state of being filthy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. 2 Cor. vii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is filthy, or makes filthy; foulness; nastiness; corruption; pollution; impurity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. 2 Chron. xxix. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike. Pennant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being flashy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State or quality of being frothy. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Aëronautics) A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Elec.) A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Hind a servant. ] A servant; a farm laborer; a peasant; a hind. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Bailiff, herd, nor other hine. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. hyacinthinus, Gr. &unr_;. ] Belonging to the hyacinth; resembling the hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

His curling locks like hyacinthine flowers. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hyacinthine boy, for whom
Morn well might break and April bloom. Emerson.

prop. a. [ Indo- + Chinese. ] 1. Of or pertaining to Indo-China (i. e., Farther India, or India beyond the Ganges). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pert. to the Mongoloid races of India, esp. Farther India, or designating, or of, their languages.

Tradition and comparative philology agree in pointing to northwestern China, between the upper courses of the Yang-tsekiang and of the Ho-ang-ho, as the original home of the Indo-Chinese race. Census of India, 1901. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]