a. Melancholy; atrabilious. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to atra bilis or black bile, a fluid formerly supposed to be produced by the kidneys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania. [ 1913 Webster ]

Atrabiliary arteries,
capsules, and
veins (Anat.), those pertaining to the kidney; -- called also renal arteries, capsules, and veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An auxiliary. [ Archaic ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. auxiliaris: cf. F. auxiliaire. See Auxiliary. ] Auxiliary. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The auxiliar troops and Trojan hosts appear. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By way of help. Harris. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. auxiliarius, fr. auxilium help, aid, fr. augere to increase. ] Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops. [ 1913 Webster ]

Auxiliary scales (Mus.), the scales of relative or attendant keys. See under Attendant, a. --
Auxiliary verbs (Gram.). See Auxiliary, n., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Auxiliaries 1. A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) pl. Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gram.) A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; être and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Math.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulæ. Math. Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bilis bile: cf. F. biliaire. ] (Physiol.) Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Biliary calculus (Med.), a gallstone, or a concretion formed in the gall bladder or its duct. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the game of billiards. “Smooth as is a billiard ball.” B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. billiard billiards, OF. billart staff, cue form playing, fr. bille log. See Billet a stick. ] A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;; chi`lioi a thousand + &unr_; leader, &unr_; to lead. ] The commander or chief of a thousand men. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] A body consisting of a thousand men. Mitford. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. ciliaire. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Anat.) Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms; as, ciliary motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cimeliarcha, Gr. &unr_;, treasurer. ] A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ a. [ Cf. F. conciliare. ] Of or pertaining to, or issued by, a council. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of a household; a domestic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. familer, familier, F. familier, fr. L. familiaris, fr. familia family. See Family. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a family; domestic. “Familiar feuds.” Byron.
Syn. -- familial. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject of study; as, familiar with the Scriptures. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Characterized by, or exhibiting, the manner of an intimate friend; not formal; unconstrained; easy; accessible. “In loose, familiar strains.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Well known; well understood; common; frequent; as, a familiar illustration. [ 1913 Webster ]

That war, or peace, or both at once, may be
As things acquainted and familiar to us. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is nothing more familiar than this. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Improperly acquainted; wrongly intimate. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Familiar spirit, a demon or evil spirit supposed to attend at call. 1 Sam. xxviii. 3, 7-9. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An intimate; a companion. [ 1913 Webster ]

All my familiars watched for my halting. Jer. xx. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An attendant demon or evil spirit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Court of Inquisition) A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to make familiar or acquainted; same as familiarize. [ chiefly Brit. ]
Syn. -- familiarize, acquaint. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Familiarities [ OE. familarite, F. familiaritéfr. L. faniliaritas. See Familiar. ] 1. The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp., in the pl., such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties.

Syn. -- Acquaintance; fellowship; affability; intimacy. See Acquaintance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Familiarized p. pr. & vb. n. Familiarizing ] [ Cf. F. familiariser. ] 1. To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress; we familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self with a business, a book, or a science. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having become familiar.
Syn. -- adjusted, acquainted. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. serving to familiarize. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adv. In a familiar manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Familiarity. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. familiaris. See Familiar. ] Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Consisting of, or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages. [ 1913 Webster ]

Foliar gap (Bot.), an opening in the fibrovascular system of a stem at the point of origin of a leaf. --
Foliar trace (Bot.), a particular fibrovascular bundle passing down into the stem from a leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ See Galliard a dance. ] A lively French and Italian dance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE., fr. F. gaillard, perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. galach valiant, or AS. gagol, geagl, wanton, lascivious. ] Gay; brisk; active. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A brisk, gay man. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Selden is a galliard by himself. Cleveland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gaillarde, cf. Sp. gallarda. See Galliard, a. ] A gay, lively dance. Cf. Gailliarde. [ 1913 Webster ]

Never a hall such a galliard did grace. Sir. W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gaillardise. See Galliard, a. ] Excessive gayety; merriment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The mirth and galliardise of company. Sir. T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Gayety. [ Obs. ] Gayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From OF. goliart glutton, buffoon, riotous student, Goliard, LL. goliardus, prob. fr. L. gula throat. Cf. Gules. ] A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Halyard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. liere. See Lie to falsify. ] A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. liart, LL. liardus gray, dapple. ] Gray. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Used by Chaucer as an epithet of a gray or dapple gray horse. Also used as a name for such a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A French copper coin of one fourth the value of a sou. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. frequently seen or experienced; as, a long-familiar face.
Syn. -- well-known(prenominal), well known(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL. See Miliary. ] (Med.) A fever accompanied by an eruption of small, isolated, red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. miliarius, fr. milium millet: cf. F. miliaire. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Like millet seeds; as, a miliary eruption. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Accompanied with an eruption like millet seeds; as, a miliary fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) Small and numerous; as, the miliary tubercles of Echini. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the small tubercles of Echini. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., from mille, mil, thousand, L. mille. ] A thousand millions; -- usually called billion in the United States. See Billion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. milliarius containing a thousand, fr. mille thousand: cf. F. milliaire milliary. See Mile. ] Of or pertaining to a mile, or to distance by miles; denoting a mile or miles. [ 1913 Webster ]

A milliary column, from which they used to compute the distance of all the cities and places of note. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Milliaries [ L. milliarium. See Milliary, a. ] A milestone. [ 1913 Webster ]

fld>(Gram.), n. Any one of the auxiliary verbs of English, such as can, may, will, shall, must, might, could, would, or should, which are used together with the infinitive form of another verb to express distinctions of mood{ 2 }, such as uncertainty, possibility, command, emphasis, and obligation. [ PJC ]

n. A history of noble families. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. nobiliare. See Noble. ] Of or pertaining to the nobility. Fitzed. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]