n. [ From the introducer, a German named Baunscheidt. ] (Med.) A form of acupuncture, followed by the rubbing of the part with a stimulating fluid. [ 1913 Webster ]

See Japan black. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ G. Braunschweiger grün, first made at Brunswick, in Germany. ] An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. the buttocks. [ Slang ]
Syn. -- buttocks, arse, butt, backside, bum, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. same as bunsen burner; a gas burner used in laboratories; has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air.
Syn. -- bunsen burner, etna. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Elec.) A zinc-carbon cell in which the zinc (amalgamated) is surrounded by dilute sulphuric acid, and the carbon by nitric acid or a chromic acid mixture, the two plates being separated by a porous cup. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

See under Battery. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Chem.), a kind of burner, invented by Professor Bunsen of Heidelberg, consisting of a straight tube, four or five inches in length, having small holes for the entrance of air at the bottom. Illuminating gas being also admitted at the bottom, a mixture of gas and air is formed which burns at the top with a feebly luminous but intensely hot flame. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. conseil, F. conseil, fr. L. consilium, fr. the root of consulere to consult, of uncertain origin. Cf. Consult, Consul. ] 1. Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the chief priest and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death. Matt. xxvii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Examination of consequences; exercise of deliberate judgment; prudence. [ 1913 Webster ]

They all confess, therefore, in the working of that first cause, that counsel is used. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Result of consultation; advice; instruction. [ 1913 Webster ]

I like thy counsel; well hast thou advised. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was ill counsel had misled the girl. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan. [ 1913 Webster ]

The counsel of the Lord standeth forever. Ps. xxxiii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

The counsels of the wicked are deceit. Prov. xii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thilke lord . . . to whom no counsel may be hid. Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. One who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel. [ 1913 Webster ]

The King found his counsel as refractory as his judges. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In some courts a distinction is observed between the attorney and the counsel in a cause, the former being employed in the management of the more mechanical parts of the suit, the latter in attending to the pleadings, managing the cause at the trial, and in applying the law to the exigencies of the case during the whole progress of the suit. In other courts the same person can exercise the powers of each. See Attorney. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

In counsel, in secret. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. --
To keep counsel, or
To keep one's own counsel, to keep one's thoughts, purposes, etc., undisclosed. [ 1913 Webster ]

The players can not keep counsel: they 'll tell all. Shak.

Syn. -- Advice; consideration; consultation; purpose; scheme; opinion. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Counseled i>or Counselled; p. pr. & vb. n. Counseling or Counselling. ] [ OE. conseilen, counseilen, F. conseiller, fr. L. consiliari, fr. consilium counsel. ] 1. To give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person. [ 1913 Webster ]

Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you
To leave this place. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To advise or recommend, as an act or course. [ 1913 Webster ]

They who counsel war. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb,
Counseled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Written also counsellable. ] 1. Willing to receive counsel or follow advice. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Few men of so great parts were upon all occasions more counselable than he. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Suitable to be advised; advisable, wise. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He did not believe it counselable. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. direction or advice as to a decision or course of action.
Syn. -- guidance, counsel, direction. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. same as counselor.
Syn. -- counselor. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the position of counselor; same as counselorship.
Syn. -- counselorship. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Written also counsellor. ] [ OE. conseiler, F. conseiller, fr. L. consiliarius, fr. consilium counsel. ] 1. One who counsels; an adviser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Can he that speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good counselor, or no? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign or chief magistrate. [ See under Consilor. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One whose profession is to give advice in law, and manage causes for clients in court; a barrister.
Syn. -- advocate, counsel, counselor, counselor-at-law; attorney. [ 1913 Webster ]

Good counselors lack no clients. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp. [ PJC ]

n. a lawyer who pleads cases in court.
Syn. -- advocate, counsel, counselor, counsellor. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The function and rank or office of a counselor. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + counsel: cf. OF. desconseiller. ] To dissuade. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Geol.) A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Act of firing a gun; a shot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun, so as to be effective; the reach or range of a gun. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those who are come over to the royal party are supposed to be out of gunshot. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Made by the shot of a gun; as, a gunshot wound. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sight{ 9 } attached to a gun, used for aiming it at the target. Same as sight{ 9 }. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One whose occupation is to make or repair small firearms; an armorer.

{ } n. The art or business of a gunsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A gunner. [ R. ] Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cannon ball; -- so called because originally made of stone. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A follower of John Hutchinson of Yorkshire, England, who believed that the Hebrew Scriptures contained a complete system of natural science and of theology. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or . [ From Loreto, a city in Italy famous for its Holy House, said to be that in which Jesus lived, brought by angels from Nazareth. ] (R. C. Ch.) Members of a congregation of nuns founded by Mrs. Mary Teresa Ball, near Dublin, Ireland, in 1822, and now spread over Ireland, India, Canada, and the United States. The nuns are called also Ladies of Loreto. They are engaged in teaching girls. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To counsel or advise wrongly. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ From Chinese. ] Powdered fledspar, kaolin, or quartz, used in the manufacture of porcelain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who puns, or is skilled in, or given to, punning; a quibbler; a low wit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ransom. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Soused. See Souse. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A contraction of Studding sail. [ 1913 Webster ]

With every rag set, stunsails, sky scrapers and all. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. 1. The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore. Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, the region where the sun sets; the west. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sunset shell (Zool.), a West Indian marine bivalve (Tellina radiata) having a smooth shell marked with radiating bands of varied colors resembling those seen at sunset or before sunrise; -- called also rising sun. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Anything used as a protection from the sun's rays. Specifically: (a) A small parasol. (b) An awning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, the place where they fall, or the warmth and light which they give. [ 1913 Webster ]

But all sunshine, as when his beams at noon
Culminate from the equator. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything which has a warming and cheering influence like that of the rays of the sun; warmth; illumination; brightness. [ 1913 Webster ]

That man that sits within a monarch's heart,
And ripens in the sunshine of his favor. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Sunshiny; bright. Shak. “Sunshine hours.” Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Bright with the rays of the sun; clear, warm, or pleasant; as, a sunshiny day. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Bright like the sun; resplendent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flashing beams of that sunshiny shield. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Beaming with good spirits; cheerful. “Her sunshiny face.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any large jellyfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sun + stead a place. ] Solstice. [ Obs. ] “The summer sunsted.” Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) Aventurine feldspar. See under Aventurine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) Any affection produced by the action of the sun on some part of the body; especially, a sudden prostration of the physical powers, with symptoms resembling those of apoplexy, occasioned by exposure to excessive heat, and often terminating fatally; coup de soleil. [ 1913 Webster ]

See abolishable.
See absolvable.
See absurd.
See abundant.
See accordant.
See adoptable.
See adventurous.
See affable.
See affectionate.
See afraid.
See alliable.
See allowable.
See alterable.
See ambiguous.
See ambitious.
See amendable.
See -American.
See amusive.
See angular.
See anxious.
See apocryphal.
See apostolic.
See apparent.
See appeasable.
See applausive.
See appreciable.
See apprehensible.
See apprehensive.
See approachable.
See artificial.
See artistic.
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See authentic.
See available.
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See bearable.
See beautiful.
See beliefful.
See believable.
See beneficial.
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See blissful.
See boastful.
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See bookish.
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See brotherly.
See burdensome.
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See canonical.
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See careful.
See celestial.
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See challengeable.
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See cheerful.
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See collectible.
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See compact.
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See concealable.
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See congenial.
See conjugal.
See conjunctive.
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See contradictable.
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See coquettish.
See cordial.
See corpulent.
See correspondent.
See corruptible.
See corruptive.
See costly.
See counselable.
See countable.
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See courtierlike.
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See creatable.
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See delightful.
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See desirable.
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See despondent.
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See diaphanous.
See diligent.
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See discernible.
See disciplinable.
See discordant.
See discoverable.
See dissolvable.
See distinguishable.
See dividable.
See divine.
See domestic.
See doubtful.
[ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + sacrament. ] To deprive of sacramental character or efficacy; as, to unsacrament the rite of baptism. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. unsæd unsated, insatiable. See Un- not, and Sad. ] Unsteady; fickle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

O, stormy people, unsad and ever untrue. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + sadden. ] To relieve from sadness; to cheer. [ R. ] Whitlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + saddle. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To strip of a saddle; to take the saddle from, as a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To throw from the saddle; to unhorse. [ 1913 Webster ]