n. Renunciation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an item of clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of one's main clothing.
Syn. -- accessory, accouterment [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. pl. [ F. accoutrement, earlier also accoustrement, earlier also accoustrement. See Accouter. ] Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers. [ 1913 Webster ]

How gay with all the accouterments of war! [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) Pertaining to accremention. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See accresce, Increment. ] (Physiol.) The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respects like the individual from which it proceeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment. “Rules for the acquirement of a taste.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

His acquirements by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Acquisition, Acquirement. Acquirement is used in opposition to a natural gift or talent; as, eloquence, and skill in music and painting, are acquirements; genius is the gift or endowment of nature. It denotes especially personal attainments, in opposition to material or external things gained, which are more usually called acquisitions; but this distinction is not always observed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of adoring; adoration. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L., according to the value. ] (Com.) A term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods, at a certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their invoice, -- in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Previously mentioned; before-mentioned. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. origin unknown. ] Charcoal prepared for making powder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act alluring; temptation; enticement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which allures; any real or apparent good held forth, or operating, as a motive to action; as, the allurements of pleasure, or of honor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Longshoreman. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ Ampère + meter. ] (Physics) An instrument for measuring the strength of an electrical current in ampères. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Aspiration. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Attire; adornment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The presence of bacteria in the blood.
Syn. -- bacteriemia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. Of or pertaining to bacteremia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the branch of biotechnology that uses biological processes to overcome environmental problems. [ WordNet 1.6 ]

n. [ L. biremis; bis twice + remus oar: cf. F. birème. ] An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. breme, brime, fierce, impetuous, glorious, AS. brēme, br&ymacr_;me, famous. Cf. Brim, a. ] 1. Fierce; sharp; severe; cruel. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

From the septentrion cold, in the breme freezing air. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Famous; renowned; well known. Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Written also brim and brimme. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; predicate. See Category. ] (Logic.) Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cera wax: cf. F. cirement. ] (a) A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed. (b) Any shroud or wrapping for the dead. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. caerimonialis: cf. F. cérimonial. See Ceremony. ] 1. Relating to ceremony, or external rite; ritual; according to the forms of established rites. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ceremonial observances and outward show. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Observant of forms; ceremonious. [ In this sense ceremonious is now preferred. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

He moves in the dull ceremonial track. Druden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A system of rules and ceremonies, enjoined by law, or established by custom, in religious worship, social intercourse, or the courts of princes; outward form. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gorgeous ceremonial of the Burgundian court. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The order for rites and forms in the Roman Catholic church, or the book containing the rules prescribed to be observed on solemn occasions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Adherence to external rites; fondness for ceremony. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. According to rites and ceremonies; as, a person ceremonially unclean. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being ceremonial. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. cérémonieux, L. Caerimoniosus. ] 1. Consisting of outward forms and rites; ceremonial. [ In this sense ceremonial is now preferred. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The ceremonious part of His worship. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. According to prescribed or customary rules and forms; devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful; punctilious. “Ceremonious phrases.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Too ceremonious and traditional. Shak.

Syn. -- Formal; precise; exact. See Formal. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a ceremonious way. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality, or practice, of being ceremonious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Ceremonies [ F. cérémonie, L. caerimonia; perh. akin to E. create and from a root signifying to do or make. ] 1. Ar act or series of acts, often of a symbolical character, prescribed by law, custom, or authority, in the conduct of important matters, as in the performance of religious duties, the transaction of affairs of state, and the celebration of notable events; as, the ceremony of crowning a sovereign; the ceremonies observed in consecrating a church; marriage and baptismal ceremonies. [ 1913 Webster ]

According to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof shall ye keep it [ the Passover ]. Numb. ix. 3 [ 1913 Webster ]

Bring her up the high altar, that she may
The sacred ceremonies there partake. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ The heralds ] with awful ceremony
And trumpet's sound, throughout the host proclaim
A solemn council. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Behavior regulated by strict etiquette; a formal method of performing acts of civility; forms of civility prescribed by custom or authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ceremony was but devised at first
To set a gloss on . . . hollow welcomes . . .
But where there is true friendship there needs none. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Al ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet a man of the world should know them. Chesterfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A ceremonial symbols; an emblem, as a crown, scepter, garland, etc. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Disrobe the images,
If you find them decked with ceremonies.
. . . Let no images
Be hung with Cæsar's trophies. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A sign or prodigy; a portent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Cæsar, I never stood on ceremonies,
Yet, now they fright me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Master of ceremonies, an officer who determines the forms to be observed, or superintends their observance, on a public occasion. --
Not to stand on ceremony, not to be ceremonious; to be familiar, outspoken, or bold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; 9sc. &unr_;) the art of traffic, fr. &unr_; goods, money, fr. &unr_; to use. ] The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. concrematio, fr. concremare. See Cremate. ] The act of burning different things together. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. concrementum, fr. concrescere. See Concrete. ] A growing together; the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The concrement of a pebble or flint. Sir M. Hale [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who remonstrates in opposition or answer to a remonstrant. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They did the synod wrong to make this distinction of contraremonstrants and remonstrants. Hales. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Fort.) An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, fr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to hang. ] 1. (Anat.) A thin muscle which serves to draw up the testicle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The apex of the last abdominal segment of an insect. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. crematus, p. p. of cremare to burn; cf. Skr. cr&unr_; to cook. ] To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. crematio. ] A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead. [ 1913 Webster ]

Without cremation . . . of their bodies. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who advocates the practice of cremation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who, or that which, cremates or consumes to ashes. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n.; pl. Crematoriums (-ŭmz), Crematories [ NL. crematorium, fr. L. cremator. ] A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or employed in, cremation. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] Cream; -- a term used esp. in cookery, names of liqueurs, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. kremanny`nai to hang + karpo`s fruit. ] (Bot.) The peculiar fruit of fennel, carrot, parsnip, and the like, consisting of a pair of carpels pendent from a supporting axis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A superior kind of violin, formerly made at Cremona, in Italy. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. CF. Cream. ] Cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum. [ 1913 Webster ]