n. 1. the position or state of being a member of an honorary academy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ From Adanson, a French botanist. ] (Bot.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, Adansonia digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and Adansonia Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C. Eaton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Art, skill, or ability in the practice of aerial navigation; aircraft piloting. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. The condition, position, or office of an alderman. Fabyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska.
Syn. -- Aleutian Islands. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ ‖ } n. pl. [ Gr. &unr_; throwing a shadow both ways; 'amfi` + &unr_; shadow. ] The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Ansæ [ L., a handle. ] (Astron.) A name given to either of the projecting ends of Saturn's ring. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ansatus, fr. ansa a handle. ] Having a handle. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.; as, an anserated cross. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L., geese. ] (Zool.) A Linnæan order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. (Zool.) A division of birds including the geese, ducks, and closely allied forms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a family name used in some classifications for the swans.
Syn. -- subfamily Anserinae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. anserinus, fr. anser a goose. ] 1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Pertaining to the Anseres. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. anser a goose. ] Resembling a goose; silly; simple. Sydney Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Answered p. pr. & vb. n. Answering. ] [ OE. andswerien, AS. andswerian, andswarian, to answer, fr. andswaru, n., answer. See Answer, n. ] 1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to. [ 1913 Webster ]

She answers him as if she knew his mind. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . .
And him thus answered soon his bold compeer. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute. [ 1913 Webster ]

No man was able to answer him a word. Matt. xxii. 46. [ 1913 Webster ]

These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The reasoning was not and could not be answered. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To be or act in return or response to. Hence: (a) To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell. [ 1913 Webster ]

This proud king . . . studies day and night
To answer all the debts he owes unto you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) To render account to or for. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will . . . send him to answer thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) To atone; to be punished for. [ 1913 Webster ]

And grievously hath Cæzar answered it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(d) To be opposite to; to face. [ 1913 Webster ]

The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon them. Gilpin. [ 1913 Webster ]

(e) To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Money answereth all things. Eccles. x. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

(f) To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response. [ 1913 Webster ]

There was no voice, nor any that answered. 1 Kings xviii. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make a satisfactory response or return. Hence: To render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be or act in return. Hence: (a) To be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils. [ 1913 Webster ]

Do the strings answer to thy noble hand? Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) To be opposite, or to act in opposition. (c) To be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer. (d) To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to. [ 1913 Webster ]

That the time may have all shadow and silence in it, and the place answer to convenience. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

If this but answer to my just belief,
I 'll remember you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. Prov. xxvii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. andsware, AS. andswaru; and against + swerian to swear. √177, 196. See Anti-, and Swear, and cf. 1st un-. ] 1. A reply to a charge; a defense. [ 1913 Webster ]

At my first answer no man stood with me. 2 Tim. iv. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply. [ 1913 Webster ]

A soft answer turneth away wrath. Prov. xv. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

I called him, but he gave me no answer. Cant. v. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action. [ 1913 Webster ]

Great the slaughter is
Here made by the Roman; great the answer be
Britons must take. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Reply; rejoinder; response. See Reply. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. [ 1913 Webster ]

Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God? Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable. [ 1913 Webster ]

What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course? Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

This revelation . . . was answerable to that of the apostle to the Thessalonians. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Equal; equivalent; adequate. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Had the valor of his soldiers been answerable, he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who answers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Antœcians. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. pl. [ L. antiscii, Gr. &unr_;, pl.; 'anti` against + &unr_; shadow. ] The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions. [ 1913 Webster ]

The inhabitants of the north and south temperate zones are always Antiscians. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. pl. [ NL. antoeci, fr. Gr. pl. 'a`ntoiki; 'anti` opposite + o'ikei^n to live. ] Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a resident of Arkansas.
Syn. -- Arkansawyer [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a resident of Arkansas.
Syn. -- Arkansan [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ ‖ } n. pl. [ L. ascii, pl. of ascius, Gr. &unr_; without shadow; 'a priv. + &unr_; shadow. ] Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Auto- + transformer. ] (Elec.) A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

prop. n. pl. 1. The countries occupying the Balkan Peninsula.
Syn. -- Balkan countries, Balkan nations, Balkan states. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The Balkan mountains. [ PJC ]

{ , n. [ Gael. bean-shith fairy; Gael. & Ir. bean woman + Gael. sith fairy. ] (Celtic Folklore) A supernatural being supposed to warn a family of the approaching death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice, as under the windows of the house. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. ban, bon, bone + stickle prickle, sting. See Bone, n., Stickleback. ] (Zool.) A small fish, the three-spined stickleback. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. stem of a bean plant. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl. a tight-fitting trousers made of blue denim or a similar fabric, designed originally to serve as inexpensive durable workclothes, and often having metal rivets for reinforcement. They have become very popular as casual wear for all age groups, and more expensive and more carefully styled and tailored versions called designer jeanshave also become popular among girls and women.
Syn. -- jeans, Levis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art of managing a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Brawl a dance. ] A brawl or dance. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ brink + -manship. (1956). ] the policy or practise of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety), in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome; -- used especially of diplomatic maneuvers in crisis situations, and originally applied to the policies of John Foster Dulles under President Eisenhower. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. a genus of plants of the nightshade family, including some plants often placed in the genus Datura, such as the angel's trumpets.
Syn. -- genus Brugmansia. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primævus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. cadran. Cf. Quadrant. ] An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n.; pl. Caravansaries [ F. caravansérai, fr. Per. karwānsarāï; karwān caravan + -sarāï palace, large house, inn. ] A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court. [ Written also caravanserai and caravansera. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. A telephone transmitter in which a carbon contact is used. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. cantion song. See Cantion, Canzone. ] A song. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F., prop., song of history. ] Any Old French epic poem having for its subject events or exploits of early French history, real or legendary, and written originally in assonant verse of ten or twelve syllables. The most famous one is the Chanson de Roland.

Langtoft had written in the ordinary measure of the later chansons de geste. Saintsbury. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n.; pl. Chansonnettes [ F., dim. of chanson. ] A little song. [ 1913 Webster ]

These pretty little chansonnettes that he sung. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being a churchman; attachment to the church. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of being united together as in a clan; an association under a chieftain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Clansmen One belonging to the same clan with another. [ 1913 Webster ]