prop. n. A natural family of fish comprising the bonefish.
Syn. -- family Albulidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ LL. alidada, alhidada, fr. Ar. al-'idāda a sort of rule: cf. F. alidade. ] The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a family of flowering plants including the snowdrop, narcissus, and daffodil; in some classification systems considered a subfamily of the Liliaceae.
Syn. -- family Amaryllidaceae, amaryllis family [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the petals. The narcissus and daffodil are members of this family. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn.
Syn. -- family Anguillidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Annelid. ] (Zool.) A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chætopoda, including the Oligochæta or earthworms and Polychæta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chætopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ F. annélide, fr. anneler to arrange in rings, OF. anel a ring, fr. L. anellus a ring, dim. of annulus a ring. ] (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Annelida. -- n. One of the Annelida. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of soil and freshwater protozoa; cosmopolitan.
Syn. -- family Arcellidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL.; pref. archi- + annelida. ] (Zool.) A group of Annelida remarkable for having no external segments or distinct ventral nerve ganglions. [ 1913 Webster ]

The time between daylight and candle light. [ Humorous ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of chiefly deep-sea fishes related to the Ophidiidae.
Syn. -- family Brotulidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family comprising the camels and llamas and vicunas.
Syn. -- family Camelidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a group of families of mostly flowers having basal or free-central placentation and trinucleate pollen (binucleate pollen is commoner in flowering plants); it contains 14 families including: Caryophyllaceae (carnations and pinks); Aizoaceae; Amaranthaceae; Batidaceae; Chenopodiaceae; Cactaceae (order Opuntiales); Nyctaginaceae; Phytolaccaceae; it corresponds approximately to order Caryophyllales; it is sometimes classified as a superorder.
Syn. -- subclass Caryophyllidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family of small bushy-tailed South American burrowing rodents.
Syn. -- family Chinchillidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family comprising the leafhoppers.
Syn. -- family Cicadellidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family of birds comprising the water ouzels, also called dippers, which dive under water in flowing streams.
Syn. -- family Cinclidae. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖n. [ NL., prob. from Gr. klei`s key. ] (Paleon.) A genus of extinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of insects including the ladybugs.
Syn. -- family Coccinellidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. consolidans, p. pr. of consolidare: cf. F. consolidant. ] Serving to unite or consolidate; having the quality of consolidating or making firm. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. consolidatus, p. pr. of consolidare to make firm; con- + solidare to make firm; solidus solid. See Solid, and cf. Consound. ] Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A gentleman [ should learn to ride ] while he is tender and the brawns and sinews of his thighs not fully consolidate. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Consolidated p. pr. & vb. n. Consolidating ] 1. To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm. [ 1913 Webster ]

He fixed and consolidated the earth. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To unite, as various particulars, into one mass or body; to bring together in close union; to combine; as, to consolidate the armies of the republic. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consolidating numbers into unity. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Surg.) To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound. [ R. ]

Syn. -- To unite; combine; harden; compact; condense; compress. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying. [ 1913 Webster ]

In hurts and ulcers of the head, dryness maketh them more apt to consolidate. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. 1. Made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Aggregate Fund . . . consisted of a great variety of taxes and surpluses of taxes and duties which were [ in 1715 ] consolidated. Rees. [ 1913 Webster ]

A mass of partially consolidated mud. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787) three public funds (the Aggregate Fund, the General Fund, and the South Sea Fund). In 1816, the larger part of the revenues of Great Britian and Ireland was assigned to what has been known as the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, out of which are paid the interest of the national debt, the salaries of the civil list, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. consolidatio a confirming: cf. F. consolidation. ] 1. The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. [ 1913 Webster ]

The consolidation of the marble and of the stone did not fall out at random. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

The consolidation of the great European monarchies. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) The combination of several actions into one. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. consolidatif. ] Tending or having power to consolidate; healing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small family of spiny ovoviviparous African lizards.
Syn. -- family Cordylidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A natural family of insects including the dobsonflies.
Syn. -- family Corydalidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family of oceanic tunicates.
Syn. -- family Doliolidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family of insects including some of those called fruit flies.
Syn. -- family Drosophilidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zoöl.) A tribe of Ophiuroidea, including the genera Euryale, Astrophyton, etc. They generally have the arms branched. See Astrophyton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of lithe-bodied round-headed fissiped mammals, including the cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; and saber-toothed tigers.
Syn. -- family Felidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family of marine limpets.
Syn. -- family Fissurellidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A natural family of insects incliuding the typical earwigs.
Syn. -- family Forficulidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A natural family of birds of the finch group having short conical bills adapted for eating seeds, including finches, goldfinches, bullfinches, chaffinches, siskins, canaries, cardinals, grosbeaks, crossbills, linnets, and buntings. This family at one time included the sparrows of the family Emberizinae, but has more recently been restricted in usage.
Syn. -- family Fringillidae. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. A natural family of tropical American birds comprising the jacamars.
Syn. -- family Galbulidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A natural family of small extremely elongate earth-living centipedes.
Syn. -- family Geophilidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A natural family of Old World shorebirds: pratincoles and coursers.
Syn. -- family Glareolidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a day on which half of the day is free from work or duty; a holiday of one half of a day. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A natural family of plants comprising the genera Hamamelis; Corylopsis; Fothergilla; Liquidambar; Parrotia; and other small genera.
Syn. -- family Hamamelidaceae, witch-hazel family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a group of chiefly woody plants considered among the most primitive of angiosperms; they have a perianth poorly developed or lacking, and flowers often unisexual and often in catkins and often wind pollinated. The group contains 23 families including the Betulaceae and Fagaceae (includes the Amentiferae); sometimes it is classified as a superorder.
Syn. -- subclass Hamamelidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A genus of fossil plants of the Oligocene having flowers resembling those of the witch hazel; found in Baltic region.
Syn. -- genus Hamamelidanthum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. one of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Lily family Liliaceae, but not widely accepted; it includes the genus Hemerocallis.
Syn. -- family Hemerocallidaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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

n. [ Holy + day. ] 1. A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day. [ 1913 Webster ]

And young and old come forth to play
On a sunshine holiday. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the United States legal holidays, so called, are determined by law, commonly by the statutes of the several States. The holidays most generally observed are: the 22d day of February (Washington's birthday), the 30th day of May (Memorial day), the 4th day of July (Independence day), the 25th day of December (Christmas day). In most of the States the 1st day of January is a holiday. When any of these days falls on Sunday, usually the Monday following is observed as the holiday. In many of the States a day in the spring (as Good Friday, or the first Thursday in April), and a day in the fall (as the last Thursday in November) are now regularly appointed by Executive proclamation to be observed, the former as a day of fasting and prayer, the latter as a day of thanksgiving and are kept as holidays. In England, the days of the greater church feasts (designated in the calendar by a red letter, and commonly called red-letter days) are observed as general holidays. Bank holidays are those on which, by act of Parliament, banks may suspend business. Although Sunday is a holiday in the sense of a day when business is legally suspended, it is not usually included in the general term, the phrase “Sundays and holidays” being more common. [ 1913 Webster ]

The holidays, any fixed or usual period for relaxation or festivity; especially, Christmas and New Year's day with the intervening time. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Courage is but a holiday kind of virtue, to be seldom exercised. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Invalidated p. pr. & vb. n. Invalidating. ] [ From Invalid null. ] To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an agreement or argument. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. deprived of legal force.
Syn. -- nullified. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. tending to invalidate or prove false.
Syn. -- disconfirming. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. The act of inavlidating, or the state of being invalidated. [ 1913 Webster ]

So many invalidations of their right. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Iulus. ] (Zool.) One of the Iulidæ, a family of myriapods, of which the genus Iulus is the type. See Iulus. [ 1913 Webster ]