n. [ Gr. &unr_; without head or chief; 'an priv. + &unr_; beginning, the first place, magistracy, government. ] The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Imperial anarchs doubling human woes. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Lawless; anarchical. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. anarchique. ] Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. anarchisme. ] The doctrine or practice of anarchists. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. anarchiste. ] An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To reduce to anarchy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. anarchie. See Anarch. ] 1. Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spread anarchy and terror all around. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, confusion or disorder, in general. [ 1913 Webster ]

There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it, in authors and their re&unr_;koning of years. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } Opposed to monarchial government. Bp. Benson. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An enemy to monarchial government. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, dog + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; bear + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; fight. ] Bear baiting with a dog. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of narcotine; as, to denarcotize opium. -- De*nar`co*ti*za"tion n. [1913 Webster]

n. See Diarchy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Irenarch. ] (Gr. Antiq.) A justice of the peace; irenarch. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To arch. [ Obs. ] Lydgate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Bent into a curve; -- said of a bend or other ordinary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; nation + &unr_; leader, commander. See -arch. ] (Gr. Antiq.) The governor of a province or people. Lew Wallace. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] The dominion of an ethnarch; principality and rule. Wright.

n. See Gynarchy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. gynh` a woman + -archy. ] Government by a woman. Chesterfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inarched p. pr. & vb. n. Inarching. ] To graft by uniting, as a scion, to a stock, without separating either from its root before the union is complete; -- also called to graft by approach. P. Miler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A method of ingrafting. See Inarch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. irenarcha, irenarches, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; peace + &unr_; to rule. ] (Gr. Antiq.) An officer in the Greek empire having functions corresponding to those of a justice of the peace. [ Written also eirenarch. ]

n. [ F. monarque, L. monarcha, fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;; mo`nos alone + &unr_; to be first, rule, govern. See Archi-. ] 1. A sole or supreme ruler; a sovereign; the highest ruler; an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief. [ 1913 Webster ]

He who reigns
Monarch in heaven, . . . upheld by old repute. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One superior to all others of the same kind; as, an oak is called the monarch of the forest. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A patron deity or presiding genius. [ 1913 Webster ]

Come, thou, monarch of the vine,
Plumpy Bacchus. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus); -- called also milkweed butterfly and monarch butterfly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Superior to others; preeminent; supreme; ruling. “Monarch savage.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to a monarch; suiting a monarch; sovereign; regal; imperial. [ 1913 Webster ]

Satan, whom now transcendent glory raised
Above his fellows, with monarchal pride. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus) having striking orange-brown wings with black veins in a reticulated pattern; -- called also milkweed butterfly and monarch. Its larvae feed on the leaves of the milkweed. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A female monarch. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Monarchic. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect in the early Christian church which rejected the doctrine of the Trinity; -- called also patripassian. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ F. monarchique, Gr. &unr_;. ] Of or pertaining to a monarch, or to monarchy. Burke. -- Mo*nar"chic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. The principles of, or preference for, monarchy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. monarchiste. ] An advocate of, or believer in, monarchy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Monarchized p. pr. & vb. n. Monarchizing ] To play the sovereign; to act the monarch. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To rule; to govern. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who monarchizes; also, a monarchist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The nickname of a crackbrained Italian who fancied himself an emperor. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Monarchies [ F. monarchie, L. monarchia, Gr. &unr_;. See Monarch. ] 1. A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A system of government in which the chief ruler is a monarch. [ 1913 Webster ]

In those days he had affected zeal for monarchy. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom. [ 1913 Webster ]

What scourage for perjury
Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fifth monarchy, a universal monarchy, supposed to be the subject of prophecy in Daniel ii.; the four preceding monarchies being Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, and Roman. See Fifth Monarchy men, under Fifth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. narce numbness, torpor, Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;: cf. F. narcéïne. ] (Chem.) An alkaloid found in small quantities in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a bitter astringent taste. It is a narcotic. Called also narceia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Narcissus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An exceptional interest in and admiration for oneself.
Syn. -- self-love, narcism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Someone in love with hisself or herself.
Syn. -- narcist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. Having an excessive love of oneself; egocentric; egoistic.
Syn. -- egotistic, egotistical, self-loving. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Narcissuses [ L. narcissus, and (personified) Narcissus, Gr. na`rkissos, Na`rkissos, fr. na`rkh torpor, in allusion to the narcotic properties of the flower. Cf. Narcotic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Bot.) A genus of endogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Classical Myth.) (Capitalized)A beautiful youth fabled to have been enamored of his own image as seen in a fountain, and to have been changed into the flower called Narcissus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Someone in love with themselves; a narcissist.
Syn. -- narcissist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. na`rkwsis. See Narcotic. ] (Med.) Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. narcotique, Gr. narkwtiko`s, fr. narkoy^n to benumb, na`rkh numbness, torpor. ] (Med.) Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Nar*cot"ic*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. (Med.) A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nercotykes and opye (opium) of Thebes. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Narcotic. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Nar*cot"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Cf. F. narcotine. Cf. Cotarnine. ] (Chem.) An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance, tasteless and less poisonous than morphine; -- called also narcotia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to narcotine. [ 1913 Webster ]