n. [ L. basanites lapis, Gr. ba`sanos the touchstone: cf. F. basanite. ] (Min.) Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. chryso`s gold + E. anilene. ] (Chem.) A yellow substance obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of rosaniline. It dyes silk a fine golden-yellow color. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disanimated p. pr. & vb. n. Disanimating ] 1. To deprive of life. [ R. ] Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deprive of spirit; to dishearten. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Privation of life. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being disanimated or discouraged; depression of spirits. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. dis- + en (L. in) + sanity. ] Insanity; folly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

What tediosity and disensanity
Is here among! Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gossan + -ferous. ] Containing or producing gossan. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To render unsound; to make mad. [ Obs. ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Insanity. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not sanitary; unhealthy; unsanitary; as, insanitary conditions of drainage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of sanitation; careless or dangerous hygienic conditions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. insanitas unsoundness; cf. insania insanity, F. insanite. ] 1. The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Without grace
The heart's insanity admits no cure. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility.

Syn. -- Insanity, Lunacy, Madness, Derangement, Alienation, Aberration, Mania, Delirium, Frenzy, Monomania, Dementia. Insanity is the generic term for all such diseases; lunacy has now an equal extent of meaning, though once used to denote periodical insanity; madness has the same extent, though originally referring to the rage created by the disease; derangement, alienation, are popular terms for insanity; delirium, mania, and frenzy denote excited states of the disease; dementia denotes the loss of mental power by this means; monomania is insanity upon a single subject. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Rose + aniline. ] (Chem.) A complex nitrogenous base, C20H21N3O, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, as a colorless crystalline substance which forms red salts. These salts are essential components of many of the socalled aniline dyes, as fuchsine, aniline red, etc. By extension, any one of the series of substances derived from, or related to, rosaniline proper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., from L. sanare to heal. ] (Bot.) Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sanicula, reputed to have healing powers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;. &unr_;, a board. So called in allusion to the tabular crystals. ] (Min.) A variety of orthoclase feldspar common in certain eruptive rocks, as trachyte; -- called also glassy feldspar. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] (Med.) A thin, serous fluid commonly discharged from ulcers or foul wounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. saniosus, fr. sanies: cf. F. sanieux. ] 1. (Med.) Pertaining to sanies, or partaking of its nature and appearance; thin and serous, with a slight bloody tinge; as, the sanious matter of an ulcer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (med.) Discharging sanies; as, a sanious ulcer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to health, or the laws of health; sanitary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An advocate of sanitary measures; one especially interested or versed in sanitary measures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sanitarian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. See Sanitary. ] A health station or retreat; a sanatorium. “A sanitarium for troops.” L. Oliphant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sanitas health: cf. F. sanitaire. See Sanity. ] Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under Sanatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sanitary Commission. See under Commission. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of rendering sanitary; the science of sanitary conditions; the preservation of health; the use of sanitary measures; hygiene. [ 1913 Webster ]

How much sanitation has advanced during the last half century. H. Hartshorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sanitas, from sanus sound, healthy. See Sane. ] The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transanimated p. pr. & vb. n. Transanimating. ] [ Trans- + animate. ] To animate with a soul conveyed from another body. [ R. ] Bp. J. King (1608). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. transanimation. ] The conveyance of a soul from one body to another. [ R. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

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