n. an airheaded person. [ disparaging ] [ PJC ]

adj. 1. lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; scatterbrained; stupid; simple-minded; as, airheaded teenagers. Contrasted with serious, solemn
Syn. -- dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, lightheaded, light-headed, silly [ WordNet 1.5 ]

Amenorrhea AS
‖ n. [ Gr. 'a priv. + mh`n month + "rei^n to flow: cf. F. aménorrhée.] (Med.) Pathological or physiological absence of menstruation. [1913 Webster + AS]

a. Pertaining to amenorrhoea. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'amfi` + &unr_;, &unr_;, nose. ] (Zool.) A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Efficacious against catarrh. -- n. An anticatarrhal remedy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Tending to stop hemorrhage. -- n. A remedy for hemorrhage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
Syn. -- Arhat, lohan. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 a Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
Syn. -- Arhant, lohan. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

/mhw>, a. See Arrhizal, Arrhizous, Arrhythmic, Arrhythmous. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Arrhæ /plu>. [ L. Cf. Earnest. ] (Law) Money or other valuable thing given to evidence a contract; a pledge or earnest. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_; to sew together. ] Seamless. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_; not rooted; 'a priv. + &unr_; a root. ] (Bot.) Destitute of a true root, as a parasitical plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_; rhythm. ] (Med.) Being without rhythm or regularity, as the pulse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_; rhythm. ] Want of rhythm. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a family of small motile sulphur bacteria.
Syn. -- family Athiorhodaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. genus of coarse West American herbs with large roots containing an aromatic balsam.
Syn. -- genus Balsamorhiza. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A man who tends a bear. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hound for baiting or hunting bears. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Berhymed p. pr. & vb. n. Berhyming. ] To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about. [ Sometimes use depreciatively. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_; mucus + &unr_; to flow. ] (Med.) (a) An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus. (b) Gonorrhea. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Blunder + head. ] A stupid, blundering fellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Brother + -hood. ] 1. The state of being brothers or a brother. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

A brotherhood of venerable trees. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Fraternity; association; fellowship; sodality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. a natural family of large wading birds resembling the plovers; the stone curlews.
Syn. -- family Burhinidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. type genus of the Burhinidae, comprising the stone curlews.
Syn. -- genus Burhinus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. (Zool.) The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep (Ovis burrhel). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. small genus of North American herbs having usually red or purple flowers.
Syn. -- genus Callirhoe. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genu sof fur seals.
Syn. -- genus Callorhinus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an alternative genus classification for the cactus wrens.
Syn. -- genus Campylorhynchus, Heleodytes, genus Heleodytes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. catarrhus, Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, a running down, rheum, fr. &unr_;; kata` down + &unr_; to flow. See Stream. ] (Med.) An inflammatory affection of any mucous membrane, in which there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as, catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In America, the term catarrh is applied especially to a chronic inflammation of, and hypersecretion fron, the membranes of the nose or air passages; in England, to an acute influenza, resulting a cold, and attended with cough, thirst, lassitude, and watery eyes; also, to the cold itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, produced by, or attending, catarrh; of the nature of catarrh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kata`rris with hanging or curved nose; kata` down + "ri`s, "rino`s nose. ] (Zool.) One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Catarrhal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Chlorine + hydrogen + -ic. ] (Chem.) Same as Hydrochloric. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) One of a class of compounds formed from certain polybasic alcohols (and especially glycerin) by the substitution of chlorine for one or more hydroxyl groups. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Nothingness. [ R. ] Goodwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Cirriferous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Cirrose. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; orange-colored: cf. F. cirrhose. So called from the yellowish appearance which the diseased liver often presents when cut. ] (Med.) A disease of the liver in which it usually becomes smaller in size and more dense and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimes applied to similar changes in other organs, caused by increase in the fibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance of the organ. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, caused by, or affected with, cirrhosis; as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Cirrose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Cirrus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. kli`nein to incline + E. rhombic: cf. F. clinorhombique. ] (Crystallog.) Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; sheath + &unr_; root. ] A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]