n. Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding. [ R. ] Phillips. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who absconds. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F. beau fine + monde world. ] The fashionable world; people of fashion and gayety. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bewondered ] 1. To fill with wonder. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To wonder at; to admire. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ F., fair, light, of uncertain origin; cf. AS. blonden-feax gray-haired, old, prop. blended-haired, as a mixture of white and brown or black. See Blend, v. t. ] Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] 1. A person of very fair complexion, with light hair and light blue eyes. [ Written also blond. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ So called from its color. ] A kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk, now sometimes dyed; -- called also blond lace. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to certain regulations. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bonded goods, goods placed in a bonded warehouse; goods, for the duties on which bonds are given at the customhouse. --
Bonded warehouse, a warehouse in which goods on which the duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs officers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Masonry) A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Norwegian bonde. ] A freeholder on a small scale. [ Norway ] Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Condemned p. pr. & vb. n. Condemning ] [ L. condemnare; con- + damnare to condemn: cf. F. condamner. See Damn. ] 1. To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it!
Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wilt thou condemn him that is most just? Job xxxiv. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it. Matt. xii. 42. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Driven out from bliss, condemned
In this abhorred deep to utter woe. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

To each his sufferings; all are men,
Condemned alike to groan. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

And they shall condemn him to death. Matt. xx. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

The thief condemned, in law already dead. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

No flocks that range the valley free,
To slaughter I condemn. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king of Egypt . . . condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver. 2 Cron. xxxvi. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Law) To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.

Syn. -- To blame; censure; reprove; reproach; upbraid; reprobate; convict; doom; sentence; adjudge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. condemnabilis. ] Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. condemnatio. ] 1. The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation. [ 1913 Webster ]

In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture. [ 1913 Webster ]

A legal and judicial condemnation. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose condemnation is pronounced. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The state of being condemned. [ 1913 Webster ]

His pathetic appeal to posterity in the hopeless hour of condemnation. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The ground or reason of condemning. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather light, because their deeds were evil. John iii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Used for condemned persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

Richard Savage . . . had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs in the condemned ward of Newgate. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who condemns or censures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capability of being condensed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. condensable. ] Capable of being condensed; as, vapor is condensable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. condensatus, p. p. of condensare. See Condense, v. t. ] Made dense; condensed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Water . . . thickened or condensate. Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Condensated; p. pr. & vb. n. Condensating. ] To condense. [ R. ] Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. condensatio: cf. F. condensation. ] 1. The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Goldsmith ] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) The act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Chem.) A rearrangement or concentration of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in an increase of density, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene. [ 1913 Webster ]

Condensation product (Chem.), a substance obtained by the polymerization of one substance, or by the union of two or more, with or without separation of some unimportant side products. --
Surface condensation, the system of condensing steam by contact with cold metallic surfaces, in distinction from condensation by the injection of cold water. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. condensatif. ] Having the property of condensing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Condensed p. pr. & vb. n. Condensing. ] [ L. condensare; con- + densare to make thick or dense, densus thick, dense: cf. F. condenser. See Dense, and cf. Condensate. ] 1. To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize. [ 1913 Webster ]

In what shape they choose,
Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem. & Physics) To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water. [ 1913 Webster ]

Condensed milk, milk reduced to the consistence of very thick cream by evaporation (usually with addition of sugar) for preservation and transportation. --
Condensing engine, a steam engine in which the steam is condensed after having exerted its force on the piston.

Syn. -- To compress; contract; crowd; thicken; concentrate; abridge; epitomize; reduce. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nitrous acid is gaseous at ordinary temperatures, but condenses into a very volatile liquid at the zero of Fahrenheit. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) (a) To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products. (b) To undergo polymerization. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. condensus. ] Condensed; compact; dense. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The huge condense bodies of planets. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. (Psychol) representing two or more ideas or emotions by a single symbol; as, a condensed expression of various feelings and ideas. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. shortened by rewriting with fewer words; -- used of texts; as, a condensed book. Opposite of unabridged.
Syn. -- abridged. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

3. reduced to a stronger or more concentrated form; as, condensed milk. Opposite of uncondensed.
Syn. -- concentrated[ 5 ]. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. narrower than usual for a particular height; -- of printers' type. Opposite of expanded. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, condenses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physic) (a) An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the air into a receiver, and a valve to prevent its escape. (b) An instrument for concentrating electricity by the effect of induction between conducting plates separated by a nonconducting plate. (c) A lens or mirror, usually of short focal distance, used to concentrate light upon an object. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Chem.) An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Steam Engine) An apparatus, separate from the cylinder, in which the exhaust steam is condensed by the action of cold water or air. See Illust. of Steam engine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Achromatic condenser (Optics), an achromatic lens used as a condenser. --
Bull's-eye condenser, or
Bull's-eye (Optics), a lens of short focal distance used for concentrating rays of light. --
Injection condenser, a vessel in which steam is condensed by the direct contact of water. --
Surface condenser, an apparatus for condensing steam, especially the exhaust of a steam engine, by bringing it into contact with metallic surface cooled by water or air. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being condensed; as, a gas condensible to a liquid by cold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Cond. ] One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Condescended; p. pr. & vb. n. Condescending. ] [ F. condescendre, LL. condescendere, fr. L. con- + descendere. See Descend. ] 1. To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior. “Condescend to men of low estate.” Rom. xii. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

Can they think me so broken, so debased
With corporal servitude, that my mind ever
Will condescend to such absurd commands? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spain's mighty monarch,
In gracious clemency, does condescend,
On these conditions, to become your friend. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Often used ironically, implying an assumption of superiority. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those who thought they were honoring me by condescending to address a few words to me. F. W. Robinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To consent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All parties willingly condescended heruento. R. Carew.

Syn. -- To yield; stoop; descend; deign; vouchsafe. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Cf. F. condescendance. ] Condescension. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. exhibiting an attitude of superiority; patronizing; -- used of behavior or attitude.
Syn. -- arch, patronizing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In a condescending manner. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. condescensio. ] The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors. [ 1913 Webster ]

It forbids pride . . . and commands humility, modesty, and condescension to others. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such a dignity and condescension . . . as are suitable to a superior nature. Addison.

Syn. -- Complaisance; courtesy; affability. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Condescend, Descent. ] An act of condescension. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. correspondance. ] 1. Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

To facilitate correspondence between one part of London and another, was not originally one of the objects of the post office. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The letters which pass between correspondents. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school may be used to include any educational institution or department for instruction by correspondence, as in a university or other educational bodies, but the term is commonly applied to various educational institutions organized on a commercial basis, some of which offer a large variety of courses in general and technical subjects, conducted by specialists. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Correspondencies Same as Correspondence, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

The correspondencies of types and antitypes . . . may be very reasonable confirmations. S. Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. correspondant. ] Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

As fast the correspondent passions rise. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will be correspondent to command. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Com.) One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F.; demi + monde world, L. mundus. ] Persons of doubtful reputation; esp., women who are kept as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps. [ 1913 Webster ]

Literary demimonde, writers of the lowest kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Despondency. [ 1913 Webster ]

The people, when once infected, lose their relish for happiness [ and ] saunter about with looks of despondence. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

The unhappy prince seemed, during some days, to be sunk in despondency. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. despondens, -entis, p. pr. of despondēre. ] Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner. -- De*spond"ent*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. One who desponds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having figures like a diamond or lozenge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Adorned with diamonds; diamondized. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incongruous. W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dispondeus, Gr. &unr_;; di- = di`s- twice + &unr_; spondee. ] (Gr. &unr_; Lat. Pros.) A double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables. [ 1913 Webster ]