a. Capable of being acclimated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. acclimation. See Acclimate. ] Acclimatization. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Acclimated p. pr. & vb. n. Acclimating. ] [ F. acclimater; à (l. ad) + climat climate. See Climate. ] To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Acclimation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being acclimatized. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Acclimatized p. pr. & vb. n. Acclimatizing ] To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated. [ R. ] Caldwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Rhet.) A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect. Example: Next comes Dalhousie, the great god of war,
Lieutenant-colonel to the Earl of Mar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, prop., round of a ladder, fr. &unr_; ladder: cf. F. climactère. See Climax. ] See Climacteric, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. climactericus, Gr. &unr_;. See Climacter. ] Relating to a climacteric; critical. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any critical period. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one of the grand climacterics of the world. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. See Climacteric. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a climax; forming, or of the nature of, a climax, or ascending series.

A fourth kind of parallelism . . . is still sufficiently marked to be noticed by the side of those described by Lowth, viz., climactic parallelism (sometimes called “ascending rhythm”). S. R. Driver. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Climatic. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Climate + Gr. &unr_; to rule. ] Presiding over, or regulating, climates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. climat, L. clima, -atis, fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, slope, the supposed slope of the earth (from the equator toward the pole), hence a region or zone of the earth, fr. &unr_; to slope, incline, akin to E. lean, v. i. See Lean, v. i., and cf. Clime. ] 1. (Anc. Geog.) One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To dwell. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Climatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Climatized p. pr. & vb. n. Climatizing. ] To acclimate or become acclimated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Climate + -graphy. ] A description of climates. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. One versed in, or who studies, climatology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Climate + -logy: cf. F. climatologie. ] The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. climature. ] A climate. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., from Gr. &unr_; ladder, staircase, fr. &unr_; to make to bend, to lean. See Ladder, Lean, v. i. ] 1. Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Rhet.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness. [ 1913 Webster ]

“Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope” -- a happy climax. J. D. Forbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The highest point; the greatest degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

We must look higher for the climax of earthly good. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cap the climax, to surpass everything, as in excellence or in absurdity. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Collimated; p. p. & vb. n. Collimating. ] [ See Collimation. ] (Physics & Astron.) To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light. [ 1913 Webster ]

Collimating eyepiece, an eyepiece with a diagonal reflector for illumination, used to determine the error of collimation in a transit instrument by observing the image of a cross wire reflected from mercury, and comparing its position in the field with that of the same wire seen directly. --
Collimating lens (Optics), a lens used for producing parallel rays of light. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. collimation, fr. a false reading (collimare) for L. collineare to direct in a straight line; col- + linea line. Cf. Collineation. ] The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper position relative to the other parts of the instrument. [ 1913 Webster ]

Error of collimation, the deviation of the line collimation of an astronomical instrument from the position it ought to have with respect to the axis of motion of the instrument. --
Line of collimation, the axial line of the telescope of an astronomical or geodetic instrument, or the line which passes through the optical center of the object glass and the intersection of the cross wires at its focus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Astron.) A telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal. Nichol. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Optics) A tube having a convex lens at one end and at the other a small opening or slit which is at the principal focus of the lens, used for producing a beam of parallel rays; also, a lens so used. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. elimatus, p. p. of elimare to file up; e out + limare to file, fr. lima file. ] To render smooth; to polish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Foumart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] Nonsense; gibberish; confused and unmeaning talk; confused mixture. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her dress, like her talk, is a galimatias of several countries. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. Senseless talk. [ Obs. or R. ] See Galimatias. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Gallimaufries [ F. galimafrée a sort of ragout or mixed hash of different meats. ] 1. A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout. [ 1913 Webster ]

Delighting in hodge-podge, gallimaufries, forced meat. King. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any absurd medley; a hotchpotch. [ 1913 Webster ]

So in this installment I'd like to serve up a gallimaufry of tasty URLs that didn't quite fit anywhere else. James Patrick Kelly, (2003) in 'On the Net Gallimaufry' (https://web.archive.org/web/20060131120420/http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0403/onthenet.shtml) [ LM ]

a. [ See Hallowmas. ] The feast of All Saints; Hallowmas. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The capital city of Peru, in South America. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lima bean. (Bot.) (a) A variety of climbing or pole bean (Phaseolus lunatus), which has very large flattish seeds. (b) The seed of this plant, much used for food. --
Lima wood (Bot.), the beautiful dark wood of the South American tree Cæsalpinia echinata. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. limax, limacis, slug, snail: cf. F. limacé. ] (Zool.) Pertaining to, or like, Limax, or the slugs. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., From L. limax, limacis, a slug. ] (Zool.) A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic and Antarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. limaçon, lit., a snail. ] (Geom.) A curve of the fourth degree, invented by Pascal. Its polar equation is r = a cos θ + b. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. limer to file. See Limation. ] Filings of metal. [ Obs. ] “An ounce . . . of silver lymaille.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. limon, fr. L. limus slime. ] The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river; slime. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. limatus, p. p. of limare to file, fr. lima file : cf. F. limation. ] The act of filing or polishing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. limatura. See Limation. ] 1. The act of filing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is filed off; filings. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] (Zool.) A genus of airbreathing mollusks, including the common garden slugs. They have a small rudimentary shell. The breathing pore is on the right side of the neck. Several species are troublesome in gardens. See Slug. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ After Benjamin Siliman, an American meneralogist. ] (Min.) Same as Fibrolite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. sublimable. See Sublime., v. t. ] Capable of being sublimed or sublimated. -- Sub*lim"a*ble*ness, n. Boyle. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sublimated p. pr. & vb. n. Sublimating. ] [ L. sublimatus, p. p. of sublimare to raise, elevate, fr. sublimis high: cf. F. sublimer. See Sublime, a., and cf. Surlime, v. t. ] 1. To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To refine and exalt; to heighten; to elevate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The precepts of Christianity are . . . so apt to cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Psychology) To redirect the energy (of sexual or other biological drives) into a more socially acceptable or constructive form. [ PJC ]

n. [ LL. sublimatum. ] (Chem.) A product obtained by sublimation; hence, also, a purified product so obtained. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corrosive sublimate. (Chem.) mercuric chloride. See Corrosive sublimate under Corrosive. [ 1913 Webster ]