n. [ L. ] 1. One who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mech.) An apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. adulari: cf. F. adulateur. ] A servile or hypocritical flatterer. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adulatorius, fr. adulari: cf. OF. adulatoire. ] Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. [ 1913 Webster ]

A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who walks about; a walker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) A beetle of the genus Lamia. (b) A genus of birds, or one of this genus. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An instrument for measuring distances; -- called also perambulator. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ambulatory; fitted for walking. Verrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ambulatorius. ] 1. Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places. [ 1913 Webster ]

The priesthood . . . before was very ambulatory, and dispersed into all families. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Pertaining to a walk. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Ambulatories [ Cf. LL. ambulatorium. ] (Arch.) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Annihilative. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. appellatorius, fr. appellare. ] Containing an appeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

An appellatory libel ought to contain the name of the party appellant. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation; as, assimilatory organs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L.: cf. F. calculateur. ] One who computes or reckons: one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ambition is no exact calculator. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. calculatorius. ] Belonging to calculation. Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. ] One who capitulates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Ciclatoun. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Gilded leather. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Ciclatoun. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of. ciclaton. ] A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages. [ Obs. ] [ Written also checklaton, chekelatoun. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His robe was of ciclatoun,
That coste many a Jane. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. L. circulator a peddler. ] One who, or that which, circulates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant. [ Obs. ] “Circulatorious jugglers.” Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. circulatorius pert. to a mountebank: cf. F. circulatoire. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Circular; as, a circulatory letter. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Circulating, or going round. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Anat.) Subserving the purposes of circulation; as, circulatory organs; of or pertaining to the organs of circulation; as, circulatory diseases. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A chemical vessel consisting of two portions unequally exposed to the heat of the fire, and with connecting pipes or passages, through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which causes coagulation. Hixley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving to coagulate; produced by coagulation; as, coagulatory effects. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] 1. One who collates manuscripts, books, etc. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl. Law) One who collates to a benefice. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who confers any benefit. [ Obs. ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving to compel; compulsory. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] Compiler. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Expressing condolence. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of familiar talk; in the form of a dialogue. Weever. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who offers congratulation. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Expressive of sympathetic joy; as, a congratulatory letter. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ It., the consulate of the sea. ] A collection of maritime laws of disputed origin, supposed to have been first published at Barcelona early in the 14th century. It has formed the basis of most of the subsequent collections of maritime laws. Kent. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who consoles or comforts. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. consolatorius. ] Of a consoling or comforting nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

The punishment of tyrants is a noble and awful act of justice; and it has with truth been said to be consolatory to the human mind. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which consoles; a speech or writing intended for consolation. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A constabulary. [ Obs. ] Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who contemplates. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to copulation; tending or serving to unite; copulative. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Used in sexual union; as, the copulatory organs of insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. LL. deambulator a traveler. ] Going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory. [ Obs. ] “Deambulatory actors.” Bp. Morton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. deambulatorium. ] A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a statistical factor designed to remove the effect of inflation; inflation adjusted variables are in constant dollars; as, the GNP deflator.. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. ] An accuser; an informer. [ R. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Electronics) An electronic device which extracts the modulation from a radio carrier wave, and outputs the original information-bearing signal.
Syn. -- detector. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. dépilatoire. ] Having the quality or power of removing hair. -- n. An application used to take off hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., pillager. ] One who depopulates; a dispeopler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] Same as Desolater. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. desolatorius. ] Causing desolation. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dilate + -meter. ] (Physiol.) An instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Dilate. ] 1. One who, or that which, widens or expands. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) A muscle that dilates any part. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) An instrument for expanding a part; as, a urethral dilator. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With delay; tardily. [ 1913 Webster ]