n. 1. a cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a raspberrylike flavor. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a large raspberry-flavored bramble fruit; a cross between blackberries and raspberries. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Australia. Population (2000) = 307, 700. [ PJC ]

n.; pl. Cranberries (-r&ibreve_;z). [ So named from its fruit being ripe in the spring when the cranes return. Dr. Prior. ] (Bot.) A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also, the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or cranberry tree is a species of Viburnum (Viburnum Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub (Viburnum opulus) with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries. It is sometimes called high cranberry to distinguish it from the marsh cranberry or low cranberry.
Syn. -- guelder rose, European cranberrybush, European cranberry bush, crampbark, Viburnum opulus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads.
Syn. -- crown beard. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To bear down; to depress. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Music) the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Tajikistan. Population (2000) = 524, 000. [ PJC ]

prop. n. A small genus of Australian woody vines with small violet flowers; closely related to genus Kennedia.
Syn. -- genus Hardenbergia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In the preceding part of this (writing, document, book, etc.). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fish. See Hornfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Beam. ] (Bot.) A tree of the genus Carpinus (Carpinus Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is Carpinus Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hop hornbeam. (Bot.) See under Hop. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Shining in. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Inherence; inherent existence. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. low evergreen shrub (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries.
Syn. -- cowberry, mountain cranberry, lingonberry, lingberry, foxberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A tree (Dimocarpus longan) of Southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet translucent-fleshed edible fruit (the longan) resembling litchi nuts; -- it is sometimes placed in genera Euphoria or Nephelium.
Syn. -- longan, lungen, Dimocarpus longan, Euphoria litchi, Nephelium longana. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Asian fruit similar to litchi.
Syn. -- dragon's eye. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A ray of light from the moon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. (Arch.) supporting no vertical weight other than its own; -- of a structural member; as, a non-bearing wall. [ Narrower terms: dividing(prenominal) ] bearing [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. not directly at war; as, nonbelligerent nations. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A country which is not involved in a war. [ PJC ]

n. [ G. rheinbeere. ] (Bot.) One of the berries or drupes of the European buckthorn; also, the buckthorn itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. & Pg. sambenito, contr. from L. saccus sack + benedictus blessed. ] 1. Anciently, a sackcloth coat worn by penitents on being reconciled to the church. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A garnment or cap, or sometimes both, painted with flames, figures, etc., and worn by persons who had been examined by the Inquisition and were brought forth for punishment at the auto-da-fé. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So named after Count Kaspar Sternberg of Prague. ] (Min.) A sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft flexible laminae varying in color from brown to black. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. sunnebeam. ] A beam or ray of the sun. “Evening sunbeams.” Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thither came Uriel, gliding through the even
On a sunbeam. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who holds up a train, as of a robe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + be. ] To cause not to be; to cause to be another. [ Obs. & R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

How oft, with danger of the field beset,
Or with home mutinies, would he unbe
Himself! Old Play. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + bear to support. ] To remove or loose the bearing rein of (a horse). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + beast. ] To deliver from the form or nature of a beast. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + become. ] To misbecome. [ Obs. ] Bp. Sherlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. un- not + becoming. ] Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. [ 1913 Webster ]

My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + bed. ] To raise or rouse from bed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Eels unbed themselves and stir at the noise of thunder. Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not filled with din. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + befool. ] To deliver from the state of a fool; to awaken the mind of; to undeceive. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + beget. ] To deprive of existence. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not gilded; hence, not rewarded with gold. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Pref. un- not + begot, begotten. ] Not begot; not yet generated; also, having never been generated; self-existent; eternal. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Unbeguiled p. pr. & vb. n. Unbeguiling. ] [ 1st pref. un- + beguile. ] To set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. “Then unbeguile thyself.” Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not yet begun; also, existing without a beginning. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not behooving or becoming; unseemly. [ Obs. & R. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not existing. [ Obs. ] “Beings yet unbeing.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not known; unknown. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. un- not + belief: cf. AS. ungeleáfa. ] 1. The withholding of belief; doubt; incredulity; skepticism. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disbelief; especially, disbelief of divine revelation, or in a divine providence or scheme of redemption. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan his work in vain. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Disbelief. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not believed; disbelieved. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who does not believe; an incredulous person; a doubter; a skeptic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A disbeliever; especially, one who does not believe that the Bible is a divine revelation, and holds that Christ was neither a divine nor a supernatural person; an infidel; a freethinker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Infidel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not believing; incredulous; doubting; distrusting; skeptical. [ 1913 Webster ]

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2. Believing that the thing alleged is not true; disbelieving; especially, believing that the Bible is not a divine revelation, or that Christ was not a divine or a supernatural person. “Unbelieving Jews.” Acts xiv. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Un`be*liev"ing*ly adv. -- Un`be*liev"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + belt. ] To remove or loose the belt of; to ungird. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Unbent p. pr. & vb. n. Unbending. ] [ 1st pref. un- + bend. ] 1. To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A remit from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax; as, to unbend the mind from study or care. [ 1913 Webster ]

You do unbend your noble strength. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) (a) To unfasten, as sails, from the spars or stays to which they are attached for use. (b) To cast loose or untie, as a rope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To cease to be bent; to become straight or relaxed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To relax in exertion, attention, severity, or the like; hence, to indulge in mirth or amusement. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ In senses 1, 2, and 3, pref. un- not + bending; in sense 4, properly p. pr. of unbend. ] 1. Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unyielding in will; not subject to persuasion or influence; inflexible; resolute; -- applied to persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Unyielding in nature; unchangeable; fixed; -- applied to abstract ideas; as, unbending truths. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Devoted to relaxation or amusement. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It may entertain your lordships at an unbending hour. Rowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Un*bend"ing*ly, adv. -- Un*bend"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Absence or want of benevolence; ill will. [ 1913 Webster ]