a. [ L. aqua water + parere to bring forth. ] (Med.) Secreting water; -- applied to certain glands. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Equipped p. pr. & vb. n. Equipping. ] [ F. équiper to supply, fit out, orig. said of a ship, OF. esquiper to embark; of German origin; cf. OHG. scif, G. schiff, Icel. skip, AS. scip. See Ship. ] 1. To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dress up; to array; accouter. [ 1913 Webster ]

The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. équipage, fr. équiper. See Equip. ] 1. Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire. [ 1913 Webster ]

Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

First strip off all her equipage of Pride. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Retinue; train; suite. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rumbling equipages of fashion . . . were unknown in the settlement of New Amsterdam. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with equipage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Well dressed, well bred.
Well equipaged, is ticket good enough. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. [ L. aequiparabilis. ] Comparable. [ Obs. or R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>v. t. [ L. aequiparatus, p. p. of aequiparare. ] To compare. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Equi- + L. pes, pedis, foot. ] (Zoöl.) Equal-footed; having the pairs of feet equal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Equi- + pendency. ] The act or condition of hanging in equipoise; not inclined or determined either way. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Equi- + pensatus, p. p. of pensare to weigh. Cf. Equipoise. ] To weigh equally; to esteem alike. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. équipement. See Equip. ] 1. The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments. [ 1913 Webster ]

Armed and dight,
In the equipments of a knight. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Equi- + poise. ] 1. Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; -- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces. [ 1913 Webster ]

The means of preserving the equipoise and the tranquillity of the commonwealth. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our little lives are kept in equipoise
By opposite attractions and desires. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Counterpoise. [ 1913 Webster ]

The equipoise to the clergy being removed. Buckle.

{ , n. [ Cf. F. équipollence. See Equipollent. ] 1. Equality of power, force, signification, or application. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Logic) Sameness of signification of two or more propositions which differ in language. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aequipollens; aequus equal + pollens, -entis, p. pr. of pollere to be strong, able: cf. F. équipollent. ] 1. Having equal power or force; equivalent. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Logic) Having equivalent signification and reach; expressing the same thing, but differently. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With equal power. Barrow.

{ , n. [ Equi- + ponderance: cf. F. équipondérance. ] Equality of weight; equipoise. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. équipondérant. ] Being of the same weight. [ 1913 Webster ]

A column of air . . . equiponderant to a column of quicksilver. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Equi- + L. ponderare to weigh. See Ponderate. ] To be equal in weight; to weigh as much as another thing. Bp. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make equal in weight; to counterbalance. “More than equiponderated the declension in that direction.” De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Equi- + L. pondus, ponderis, weight. ] Having equal weight. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aequipondium an equal weight; aequus equal + pondus weight. ] Of equal weight on both sides; balanced. [ Obs. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Equi- + potential. ] (Mech. & Physics) Having the same potential. [ 1913 Webster ]

Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. W. chwip a quick flirt or turn, chwipio to whip, to move briskly, and E. whip. Cf. Quib, Quibble. ] 1. A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was full of joke and jest,
But all his merry quips are o'er. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A short humorous or witty comment or observation, usually spontaneously formed in response to a prior comment. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Quipped p. pr. & vb. n. Quipping ] To taunt; to treat with quips. [ 1913 Webster ]

The more he laughs, and does her closely quip. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To scoff; to use taunts. Sir H. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Quipu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person who frequently makes quips. [ PJC ]

‖n.; pl. Quipus [ Peruv. quipu a knot. ] A contrivance employed by the ancient Peruvians, Mexicans, etc., as a substitute for writing and figures, consisting of a main cord, from which hung at certain distances smaller cords of various colors, each having a special meaning, as silver, gold, corn, soldiers. etc. Single, double, and triple knots were tied in the smaller cords, representing definite numbers. It was chiefly used for arithmetical purposes, and to register important facts and events. [ Written also quipo. ] Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mysterious science of the quipus . . . supplied the Peruvians with the means of communicating their ideas to one another, and of transmitting them to future generations. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. 1 to furnish with new equipment. Forms with and without the hyphen are common.
Syn. -- rejig. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ Sesqui- + pedal: cf. F. sesquipédal, L. sesquipedalis. ] Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygmy; -- sometimes humorously applied to long words. [ 1913 Webster ]

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{ } n. Sesquipedality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality or condition of being sesquipedal. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The use of sesquipedalian words; style characterized by the use of long words; sesquipedalism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Sesqui- + plicate. ] (Math.) Subduplicate of the triplicate; -- a term applied to ratios; thus, a and a′ are in the sesquiplicate ratio of b and b′, when a is to a′ as the square root of the cube of b is to the square root of the cube of b′, or a:a′::√b3:√b′3. [ 1913 Webster ]

The periodic times of the planets are in the sesquiplicate ratio of their mean distances. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]