n. [ Aldehyde + the ending -ine. The -n- is a euphonic insertion. ] (Chem.) one of the natural amino acids found combined in the proteins of most living tissues. It can be isolated as a white crystalline base, C3H7NO2. The natural form is the L-configuration. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. [ L. Apenninus, fr. Celtic pen, or ben, peak, mountain. ] Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. asininus, fr. asinus ass. See Ass. ] Of or belonging to, or having the qualities of, the ass, as stupidity and obstinacy. “Asinine nature.” B. Jonson. “Asinine feast.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Benin. Beninese bronzes
Syn. -- Benin. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a native or inhabitant of Benin. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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

n. The quality of being bonny; gayety; handsomeness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. The state or quality of being briny; saltness; brinishness. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. relating to or resembling a hawk of the genus Buteo. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. any hawk of the genus Buteo. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An amino acid found in the jack bean. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. caninus, fr. canis dog: cf. F. canin. See Hound. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the family Canidæ, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pointed tooth on each side the incisors. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canine appetite, a morbidly voracious appetite; bulimia. --
Canine letter, the letter r. See R. --
Canine madness, hydrophobia. --
Canine tooth, a tooth situated between the incisor and bicuspid teeth, so called because well developed in dogs; usually, the third tooth from the front on each side of each jaw; an eyetooth, or the corresponding tooth in the lower jaw. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Anat.) A canine tooth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Caution; crafty management. [ N. of Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a whip used as an instrument of punishment consisting of nine pieces of knotted line or cord fastened to a handle; -- formerly used to flog offenders on the bare back; -- called also the cat. It was used in the British Navy to maintain discipline on board sailing ships.
Syn. -- cat. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ From Cinchona: cf. F. cinchonine. ] (Chem.) One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a state of extreme or perfect happiness; used especially in the phrase on cloud nine.
Syn. -- bliss, blissfulness, seventh-heaven. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ Formed by transposition fr. cinchonine. ] See Quinidine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Conium. ] (Chem.) A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. narcotine, by transposition of letters. ] (Chem.) A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and is usually regarded as an alkaloid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A supposed alkaloid obtained from croton oil by boiling it with water and magnesia, since found to be merely a magnesia soap of the oil. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. delphinine. ] (Chem.) A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. Of or pertaining to ivory. “[ She ] read from tablet eburnine.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'e`kgonos sprung from. ] (Chem.) A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Echidna. ] (Chem.) The clear, viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents; also, a nitrogenous base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus. Brande & C.

a. (Zool.) Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconidæ [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. femininus, fr. femina woman; prob. akin to L. fetus, or to Gr. qh^sqai to suck, qh^sai to suckle, Skr. dhā to suck; cf. AS. f&aemacr_;mme woman, maid: cf. F. féminin. See Fetus. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her heavenly form
Angelic, but more soft and feminine. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether feminine, and subject to ease and delicacy. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

Feminine rhyme. (Pros.) See Female rhyme, under Female, a.

Syn. -- See Female, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A woman. [ Obs. or Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They guide the feminines toward the palace. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix. [ 1913 Webster ]

There are but few true feminines in English. Latham. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a feminine manner. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being feminine; womanliness; womanishness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Fescenninus, fr. Fescennia, a city of Etruria. ] Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines. -- n. A style of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fescennine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One the miners who took part in the California gold rush in 1849; an argonaut. [ Colloq., U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a comic incident or series of incidents.
Syn. -- drollery, clowning, comedy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Chem.) A bitter, crystallizable substance obtained from gentian. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Geranium. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Med.) A valuable astringent obtained from the root of the Geranium maculatum or crane's-bill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) A liquid terpene, obtained from the crane's-bill (Geranium maculatum), and having a peculiar mulberry odor. [ Written also geraniin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the quality of being composed of relatively large particles.
Syn. -- coarseness, granularity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Chem.) An alkaloid extracted from guarana. Same as Caffeine. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. characteristic of humankind. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Iodo- + quinine. ] (Chem.) A iodide of quinine obtained as a brown substance, . It is the base of herapathite. See Herapathite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A poisonous alkaloid found in the unripe seeds of the laburnum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Laudanum. ] (Chem.) A white organic base, resembling morphine, and obtained from certain varieties of opium. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. leoninus, fr. leo, leonis, lion: cf. F. léonin. See Lion. ] Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leonine look; leonine rapacity. -- Le"o*nine*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Leonine verse, a kind of verse, in which the end of the line rhymes with the middle; -- so named from Leo, or Leoninus, a Benedictine and canon of Paris in the twelfth century, who wrote largely in this measure, though he was not the inventor. The following line is an example: [1913 Webster]

Gloria factorum temere conceditur horum. [1913 Webster]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Longipennes; longipennate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An alkaloid found in several species of lupine (Lupinus luteus, Lupinus albus, etc.), and extracted as a bitter crystalline substance, having a formula C10H19NO. Called also l-lupinine [ 1913 Webster ]

Chemically it is a a bicyclic saturated quinolizine [ 1-R-trans ]-Octahydro-2H-quinolizine-1-methanol, with the structure:
CH2OH | /\ H /\ / \|/ \ | | | | N | \ / \ / \/ \/
[ MI11 ] [ PJC ]

n. [ F. mezzanine, It. mezzanino, fr. mezzano middle, fr. mezzo middle, half. See Mezzo. ] 1. (Arch.) (a) Same as Entresol. (b) A partial story which is not on the same level with the story of the main part of the edifice, as of a back building, where the floors are on a level with landings of the staircase of the main house. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A flooring laid over a floor to bring it up to some height or level. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. Also
mezzanine floor. (Theat.) A floor under the stage, from which various contrivances, as traps, are worked. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. The lowest balcony in a theater, or the forward part of the first balcony. [ PJC ]

n. the time of life between 90 and 100.
Syn. -- nineties. [ WordNet 1.5 ]