n. [ OE. abregement. See Abridge. ] 1. The act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form, esp. of a written work; an abbreviation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ancient coins as abridgments of history. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

What abridgment have you for this evening? What mask? What music? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. a diminution or curtailment, as of legal rights. [ PJC ]

Syn. -- Abridgment, Compendium, Epitome, Abstract, Synopsis. An abridgment is made by omitting the less important parts of some larger work; as, an abridgment of a dictionary. A compendium is a brief exhibition of a subject, or science, for common use; as, a compendium of American literature. An epitome corresponds to a compendium, and gives briefly the most material points of a subject; as, an epitome of history. An abstract is a brief statement of a thing in its main points. A synopsis is a bird's-eye view of a subject, or work, in its several parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>, n. 1. The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. “An acknowledgment of fault.” Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of owning or recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness; a statement acknowledging something or someone. [ 1913 Webster +WordNet 1.5 ]

Immediately upon the acknowledgment of the Christian faith, the eunuch was baptized by Philip. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The owning of a benefit received; courteous recognition; the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged; an expression of thanks. Shak.
Syn. -- recognition [ 1913 Webster +WordNet 1.5 ]

4. Something given or done in return for a favor, message, etc. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Acknowledgment money, in some parts of England, a sum paid by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lords. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Confession; concession; recognition; admission; avowal; recognizance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of adjudging; judicial decision; adjudication. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. agminalis; agmen, agminis, a train. ] Pertaining to an army marching, or to a train. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. agmen, agminis, a train, crowd. ] (Physiol.) Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'an priv. + &unr_; a change. ] (Math.) Not changed in form by inversion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Anallagmatic curves, a class of curves of the fourth degree which have certain peculiar relations to circles; -- sometimes called bicircular quartics. --
Anallagmatic surfaces, a certain class of surfaces of the fourth degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Pref. an-not + astigmatic. ] (Optics) Not astigmatic; free of astigmatism; -- pertaining to a lens or lens system, and used especially of a lens system which consists of a converging lens and a diverging lens of equal and opposite astigmatism but different focal lengths, and sensibly free from astigmatism. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; from + &unr_; full of phlegm. See Phlegmatic. ] (Med.) Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from mouth or nostrils. -- n. An apophlegmatic medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, Galen. ] 1. (Med.) The action of apophlegmatics. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An apophlegmatic. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) An apophlegmatic. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Apothegm. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. 'apo`fqegma thing uttered, apothegm, from 'apofqe`ggesqai to speak out; 'apo` from + fqe`ggesqai to speak. ] A short, pithy, and instructive saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim. [ Apothegm is now the prevalent spelling in the United States. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Apothegmatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. 'apofqegmatiko`s. ] Pertaining to, or in the manner of, an apothegm; sententious; pithy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A collector or maker of apothegms. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To utter apothegms, or short and sententious sayings. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med. & Opt.) Affected with, or pertaining to, astigmatism; as, astigmatic eyes; also, remedying astigmatism; as, astigmatic lenses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_;, &unr_;, a prick of a pointed instrument, a spot, fr. &unr_; to prick: cf. F. astigmatisme. ] (Med. & Opt.) A defect of the eye or of a lens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thus causing imperfect images or indistinctness of vision. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term is applied especially to the defect causing images of lines having a certain direction to be indistinct, or imperfectly seen, while those of lines transverse to the former are distinct, or clearly seen. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Augmented; p. pr. & vb. n. Augmenting. ] [ L. augmentare, fr. augmentum an increase, fr. augere to increase; perh. akin to Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, E. wax, v., and eke, v.: cf. F. augmenter. ] 1. To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reëforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil. [ 1913 Webster ]

But their spite still serves
His glory to augment. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) To add an augment to. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. augmentum: cf. F. augment. ] 1. Enlargement by addition; increase. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In Greek, the syllabic augment is a prefixed &unr_;, forming an intial syllable; the temporal augment is an increase of the quantity (time) of an initial vowel, as by changing &unr_; to &unr_;. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of augmentation. Walsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. augmentatio: cf. F. augmentation. ] 1. The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being augmented; enlargement. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The thing added by way of enlargement. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Her.) A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor. Cussans. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Med.) The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Mus.) In counterpoint and fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length. [ 1913 Webster ]

Augmentation court (Eng. Hist.), a court erected by Stat. 27 Hen. VIII., to augment the revenues of the crown by the suppression of monasteries. It was long ago dissolved. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Increase; enlargement; growth; extension; accession; addition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. augmentatif. ] Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation. -- Aug*ment"a*tive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. (Gram.) A word which expresses with augmented force the idea or the properties of the term from which it is derived; as, dullard, one very dull. Opposed to diminutive. Gibbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, augments or increases anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Orpiment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Bagmen A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Barmaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. berg mountain + mehl meal. ] (Min.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Barmote. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. bi- + segment. ] One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. borborygme, fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to rumble in the bowels. ] (Med.) A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_; the front part of the head: cf. F. bregma. ] (Anat.) The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the bregma. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. A tough old goose; hence, coarse, bad food of any kind. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A combination of cardiograph and sphygmograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; fracture, fr. &unr_; to break in places; kata` down + 'agny`nai to break: cf. F. catagmatique. ] (Med.) Having the quality of consolidating broken bones. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. coagmentare, fr. coagmentum a joining together, fr. cogere. See Cogent. ] To join together. [ Obs. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. coagmentatio. ] The act of joining, or the state of being joined, together; union. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dealer in cogware or coarse cloth. [ Obs. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. [ Obs. ] Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. de- + phlegm water; cf. F. déphlegmer, déflegmer. ] (O. Chem.) To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dephlegmated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dephlegmating. ] [ See Dephlegm. ] (Chem.) To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; -- used of spirits and acids. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. déflegmation. ] (Chem.) The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; -- called also concentration, especially when acids are the subject of it. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or producing, dephlegmation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of being freed from water. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]