n. A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. “The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. [ Amer. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Attachment to the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process of Americanizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Americanizer p. pr. & vb. n. Americanizing. ] To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The principles of the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Attachment to England or English institutions. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. canicula, lit., a little dog, a diminutive of canis dog; cf. F. canicule. ] (Astron.) The Dog Star; Sirius. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. canicularis; cf. F. caniculaire. ] Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canicular days, the dog days, See Dog days. --
Canicular year, the Egyptian year, computed from one heliacal rising of the Dog Star to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Canicula. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any doglike animal of the family canidae. [ PJC ]

n. a natural family of doglike mammals including the domestic dogs, wolves, jackals, foxes, hyenas, and coyotes.
Syn. -- family Canidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. See Canine, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. something made of interlaced slender branches of especially willow.
Syn. -- wicker, wickerwork. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n.; pl. Canes [ L., a dog. ] (Zool.) A genus of carnivorous mammals, of the family Canidæ, including the dogs and wolves. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖Canis major [ L., larger dog ], a constellation to the southeast of Orion, containing Sirius or the Dog Star. --
‖Canis minor [ L., smaller dog ], a constellation to the east of Orion, containing Procyon, a star of the first magnitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a tropical tree of Florida and West Indies (Pouteria campechiana nervosa) yielding edible fruit.
Syn. -- canistel tree. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. an ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies.
Syn. -- eggfruit. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. canistrum a basket woven from reeds Gr. &unr_;, fr. ka`nh, ka`nna reed; cf. F. canistre. See Cane, and Canaster. ] 1. A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mil.) A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ L., lit., of the dean. ] Used of the side of the choir on which the dean's stall is placed; decanal; -- correlative to cantoris; as, the decanal, or decani, side. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to Hyrcania, an ancient country or province of Asia, southeast of the Caspian (which was also called the Hyrcanian) Sea. “The Hyrcan tiger.” “Hyrcanian deserts.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Leuc- + aniline. ] (Chem.) A colorless, crystalline, organic base, obtained from rosaniline by reduction, and also from other sources. It forms colorless salts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Menaccan, in Cornwall, where it was first found. ] (Min.) An iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive, but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also titanic iron ore, and ilmenite. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. v. t. To cause to be like the Mexicans, or their country. At one time this word referred to frequent revolutions of government, considered characteristic of Mexican politics. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

prop. v. i. To become like the Mexicans, or their country or government. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The principle or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the states of America. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

prop. n. A natural family of birds consisting of the pelicans.
Syn. -- family Pelecanidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Pelican, and -form. ] (Zool.) Those birds that are related to the pelican; the Totipalmi. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. républicanisme. ] 1. A republican form or system of government; the principles or theory of republican government. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Attachment to, or political sympathy for, a republican form of government. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The principles and policy of the Republican party, so called [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Republicanized p. pr. & vb. n. Republicanizing ] [ Cf. F. républicaniser. ] To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles; as, France was republicanized; to republicanize the rising generation. D. Ramsay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrine of papal supremacy; extreme views in support of the authority of the pope; ultramontanism; -- a term used only by persons who are not Roman Catholics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who strongly adheres to the papal authority; an ultramontanist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Volcanic. [ R. ] Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. volcanique, It. vulcanico. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies; as, volcanic tufa. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano. [ 1913 Webster ]

Volcanic bomb, a mass ejected from a volcano, often of molten lava having a rounded form. --
Volcanic cone, a hill, conical in form, built up of cinders, tufa, or lava, during volcanic eruptions. --
Volcanic foci, the subterranean centers of volcanic action; the points beneath volcanoes where the causes producing volcanic phenomena are most active. --
Volcanic glass, the vitreous form of lava, produced by sudden cooling; obsidian. See Obsidian. --
Volcanic mud, fetid, sulphurous mud discharged by a volcano. --
Volcanic rocks, rocks which have been produced from the discharges of volcanic matter, as the various kinds of basalt, trachyte, scoria, obsidian, etc., whether compact, scoriaceous, or vitreous. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Like a volcano. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. volcanicité. ] Quality or state of being volcanic; volcanic power. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Geol.) A column of igneous rock formed by congelation of lava in the conduit of a volcano and later exposed by the removal of surrounding rocks. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Meteorol.) A wind associated with a volcanic outburst and due to the eruption or to convection currents over hot lava. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Volcanic power or action; volcanicity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. volcaniste, vulcaniste. ] 1. One versed in the history and phenomena of volcanoes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who believes in the igneous, as opposed to the aqueous, origin of the rocks of the earth's crust; a vulcanist. Cf. Neptunist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Volcanic, and Volcanicity. ] The quality or state of being volcanic, or volcanic origin; volcanicity. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of volcanizing, or the state of being volcanized; the process of undergoing volcanic heat, and being affected by it. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Volcanized p. pr. & vb. n. Volcanizing ] [ Cf. Vulcanize. ] To subject to, or cause to undergo, volcanic heat, and to be affected by its action. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Vulcanius. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; hence, of or pertaining to works in iron or other metals. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ingenious allusions to the Vulcanian panoply which Achilles lent to his feebler friend. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) Volcanic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; Vulcanian. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to volcanoes; specifically, relating to the geological theory of the Vulcanists, or Plutonists. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Volcanicity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Volcanism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A volcanist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Hard rubber produced by vulcanizing with a large proportion of sulphur. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Vulcan. ] The act or process of imparting to caoutchouc, gutta-percha, or the like, greater elasticity, durability, or hardness by heating with sulphur under pressure. [ 1913 Webster ]