n. [ OF. See Amenable. ] Behavior; bearing. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. See Appurtenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. apurtenaunce, apartenance, F. appartenance, LL. appartenentia, from L. appertinere. See Appertain. ] That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlins. Bouvier. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances. Reid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
Syn. -- gear, paraphernalia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. assonance. See Assonant. ] 1. Resemblance of sound. “The disagreeable assonance of ‘sheath' and ‘sheathed.'” Steevens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Pros.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary. [ 1913 Webster ]

The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Incomplete correspondence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Assonance between facts seemingly remote. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ L. consonantia: cf. F. consonnance. ] 1. (Mus.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Friendship; concord. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By the consonancy of our youth. Shak.

Syn. -- Agreement; accord; consistency; unison; harmony; congruity; suitableness; agreeableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fitness, suitableness. ] That which is suitable, agreeable, or convenient. [ 1913 Webster ]

And they missed
Their wonted convenance, cheerly hid the loss. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Joint ordinance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. contenance, countenaunce, demeanor, composure, F. contenance demeanor, fr. L. continentia continence, LL. also, demeanor, fr. L. continere to hold together, repress, contain. See Contain, and cf. Continence. ] 1. Appearance or expression of the face; look; aspect; mien. [ 1913 Webster ]

So spake the Son, and into terror changed
His countenance. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The face; the features. [ 1913 Webster ]

In countenance somewhat doth resemble you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Approving or encouraging aspect of face; hence, favor, good will, support; aid; encouragement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast made him . . . glad with thy countenance. Ps. xxi. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the magistrate's peculiar province, to give countenance to piety and virtue, and to rebuke vice. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Superficial appearance; show; pretense. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The election being done, he made countenance of great discontent thereat. Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

In countenance, in an assured condition or aspect; free from shame or dismay. “It puts the learned in countenance, and gives them a place among the fashionable part of mankind.” Addison. --
Out of countenance, not bold or assured; confounded; abashed. “Their best friends were out of countenance, because they found that the imputations . . . were well grounded.” Clarendon. --
To keep the countenance, to preserve a composed or natural look, undisturbed by passion or emotion. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Countenanced p. pr. & vb. n. Countenancing. ] 1. To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet. [ 1913 Webster ]

This conceit, though countenanced by learned men, is not made out either by experience or reason. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Error supports custom, custom countenances error. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make a show of; to pretend. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Which to these ladies love did countenance. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who countenances, favors, or supports. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Demeanor. [ Obs. ] Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Discernment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Discountenanced p. pr. & vb. n. Discountenancing ] [ Pref. dis- + countenance: cf. OF. descontenancer, F. décontenancer. ] 1. To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash. [ 1913 Webster ]

How would one look from his majestic brow . . .
Discountenance her despised! Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To refuse to countenance, or give the support of one's approval to; to give one's influence against; to restrain by cold treatment; to discourage. [ 1913 Webster ]

A town meeting was convened to discountenance riot. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; cold treatment; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage. [ 1913 Webster ]

He thought a little discountenance on those persons would suppress that spirit. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who discountenances; one who disfavors. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disarrangement; disturbance. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dissonantia: cf. F. dissonance. ] 1. A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord. [ 1913 Webster ]

Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Want of agreement; incongruity. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Predominance; ascendency; authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Equi- + L. sonans, p. pr. of sonare to sound: cf. F. équisonnance. See Sonant. ] (Mus.) An equal sounding; the consonance of the unison and its octaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. LL. financia payment of money, money, fr. finare to pay a fine or subsidy (cf. OF. finer to finish, pay), fr. L. finis end. See Fine, n., Finish. ] 1. The income of a ruler or of a state; revenue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the finances or revenues of the imperial crown. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The science of raising and expending the public revenue. “Versed in the details of finance.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Financed p. pr. & vb. n. Financing. ] To conduct the finances of; to provide for, and manage, the capital for; to financier.

Securing foreign capital to finance multitudinous undertakings. B. H. Chamberlain. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. assets in the form of money.
Syn. -- funds, monetary resource, cash in hand, pecuniary resource. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. gouvernance. ] Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. Chaucer. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Government. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Lack of consonance or harmony of sound, action, or thought; disagreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Indignation. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) A phenomenon resulting from quantization in the magnetic field of electrons or atoms or molecules or nuclei exposed to an external magnetic field, by which a narrow frequency band of radio waves may be absorbed and re-emitted by the object. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. (Medicine) a medical diagnostic procedure utilizing the phenomenon of nuclear magnetic resonance to generate images of internal parts of the body. It depends on the differential absorption of electromagnetic radiation by different types of living tissue in a magnetic field. It is complementary to X-ray imaging in that the softer tissue show more prominently in magnetic resonance images, rather than bone, as with X-rays. It is a non-invasive procedure, allowing such images to be obtained without penetration of the tissue by objects. It is abbreviated MRI. As with computerized tomography, the results are usually presented as images of sequential planar sections of that part of the body of concern to the physician. [ PJC ]

n. [ OF. maintenance. See Maintain. ] 1. The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whatsoever is granted to the church for God's honor and the maintenance of his service, is granted to God. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which maintains or supports; means of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those of better fortune not making learning their maintenance. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Crim. Law) An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Those actions required for the care of machinery, a building, etc., to keep it clean and in proper functioning condition, and to prevent or forestall damage due to normal use. [ PJC ]

5. Payments, such as child support or alimony, to a dependent child not living with one or to a divorced wife. [ PJC ]

Cap of maintenance. See under Cap. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A worker, usually in an enterprise or apartment building, whose job is to repair damaged parts of a building or its fixtures, and sometimes to make improvements or other changes to the building. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Those persons in a business responsible for maintaining the physical plant in good condition.
Syn. -- service staff, maintenance crew. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ See Malignant. ] 1. The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; disposition toward evil; intense ill will; as, malignancy of heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unfavorableness; evil nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner yours. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Hence: (Med.) A cancerous tumor that is spreading beyond the point of origin.
Syn. -- malignant tumor, malignant neoplasm, metastatic tumor. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

5. The state of being a malignant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Misgovernment; misconduct; misbehavior. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) The specific absorption and re-emission of electromagnetic radiation at characteristic wavelengths by atomic nuclei in a magnetic field. It is abbreviated NMR. The wavelength of the radiation absorbed depends on the type of nucleus, the intensity of the magnetic field, and the local chemical environment in which the nucleus resides. It is the latter effect (called the chemical shift), by which atoms of specific elements in different chemical compounds show a different resonance frequency, which gives rise to the greatest utility of this phenomenon in analyzing the chemical structure of substances. Similar effects of the chemical environment permit the discrimination of different types of living tissue by virtue of their different chemical composition, thus permitting utilization of the phenomenon in medical diagnostic instruments, especially for magnetic resonance imaging. [ PJC ]

n. (Physics) The resonance absorption of a gamma ray by a nucleus identical to the nucleus that emitted the gamma ray. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. ordenance, OF. ordenance, F. ordonnance. See Ordain, and cf. Ordnance, Ordonnance. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

They had made their ordinance
Of victual, and of other purveyance. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rule established by authority; a permanent rule of action; a statute, law, regulation, rescript, or accepted usage; an edict or decree; esp., a local law enacted by a municipal government; as, a municipal ordinance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou wilt die by God's just ordinance. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

By custom and the ordinance of times. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. Luke i. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Acts of Parliament are sometimes called ordinances; also, certain colonial laws and certain acts of Congress under Confederation; as, the ordinance of 1787 for the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio River; the colonial ordinance of 1641, or 1647. This word is often used in Scripture in the sense of a law or statute of sovereign power. Ex. xv. 25. Num. x. 8. Ezra iii. 10. Its most frequent application now in the United States is to laws and regulations of municipal corporations. Wharton (Law Dict.). [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eccl.) An established rite or ceremony. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Rank; order; station. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. [ See Ordnance. ] Ordnance; cannon. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From OE. ordenance, referring orig. to the bore or size of the cannon. See Ordinance. ] Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons, ammunitiion, and appliances used in war. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the battlements their ordnance fire. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his [ Rufus Choate's ] rifled ordnance. E. Everett. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ordnance survey, the official survey of Great Britain and Ireland, conducted by the ordnance department. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Ordinance. ] (Fine Arts) The disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their dramatic ordonnance of the parts. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. penance, peneance, L. paenitentia repentance. See Penitence. ] 1. Repentance. [ Obs. ] Wyclif (Luke xv. 7). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pain; sorrow; suffering. [ Obs. ] “Joy or penance he feeleth none.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eccl.) A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression, imposed by a confessor or other ecclesiastical authority. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

And bitter penance, with an iron whip. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Quoth he, “The man hath penance done,
And penance more will do.” Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Hence: Any act performed by a person to atone for an offense to another; an act of atonement. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Penanced ] To impose penance; to punish. “Some penanced lady elf.” Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Free from penance. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. prédominance. ] 1. The quality or state of being predominant; superiority; ascendency; prevalence; predomination. [ 1913 Webster ]

The predominance of conscience over interest. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astrol.) The superior influence of a planet. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Pregnancy. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Antecedent decree or determination. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. prévenance. ] (Metaph.) A going before; anticipation in sequence or order. “The law of prevenance is simply the well-known law of phenomenal sequence.” Ward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. provenir to originate, to come forth, L. provenire. Cf. Provenience. ] Origin; source; provenience.

Their age attested by their provenance and associations. A. H. Keane. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Abbrev. fr. appurtenance. ] That which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the heard, liver, and lungs of an animal. [ Obs. ] “ The purtenaunces of purgatory.” Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Roast [ it ] with fire, his head with his legs, and with the purtenance [ Rev. Ver., inwards ] thereof. Ex. xii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. répugnance, L. repugnantia. ] The state or condition of being repugnant; opposition; contrariety; especially, a strong instinctive antagonism; aversion; reluctance; unwillingness, as of mind, passions, principles, qualities, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

That which causes us to lose most of our time is the repugnance which we naturally have to labor. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the foes quietly cut their throats,
Without repugnancy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Aversion; reluctance; unwillingness; dislike; antipathy; hatred; hostility; irreconcilableness; contrariety; inconsistency. See Dislike. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. résonance, L. resonantia an echo. ] 1. The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Acoustics) A prolongation or increase of any sound, either by reflection, as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Physics) A phenomenon in which a vibration or other cyclic process (such as tide cycles) of large amplitude is produced by smaller impulses, when the frequency of the external impulses is close to that of the natural cycling frequency of the process in that system. The shattering of a glass object when impinged upon by sound of a certain frequency is one example of this phenomenon; another is the very large tides in certain basins such as that of the Bay of Fundy, which has a natural cycling frequency close to that of the tidal cycle. [ PJC ]

4. (Electronics) An electric phenomenon corresponding to that of acoustic resonance, due to the existance of certain relations of the capacity, inductance, resistance, and frequency of an alternating circuit; the tuning of a radio transmitter or receiver to send or detect waves of specific frequencies depends on this phenomenon. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

Pulmonary resonance (Med.), the sound heard on percussing over the lungs. --
Vocal resonance (Med.), the sound transmitted to the ear when auscultation is made while the patient is speaking. [ 1913 Webster ]