a. 1. Brought forth prematurely. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. stopped prior to normal completion. [ PJC ]

The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ As if fr. abstort, fr. L. ab, abs + tortus, p. p. of torquere to twist. ] Wrested away. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } [ OF. advertence, avertence, LL. advertentia, fr. L. advertens. See Advertent. ] The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness. [ 1913 Webster ]

To this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. advertens, -entis, p. pr. of advertere. See Advert. ] Attentive; heedful; regardful. Sir M. Hale. -- Ad*vert"ent*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. a trademark for a loosely woven cotton fabric that is used to make shirts and underwear. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who animadverts; a censurer; also [ Obs. ], a chastiser. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. ] Before death; -- generally used adjectively; as, an ante-mortem statement; ante-mortem examination. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The ante-mortem statement, or dying declaration made in view of death, by one injured, as to the cause and manner of the injury, is often receivable in evidence against one charged with causing the death. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. apporter to bring in, fr. L. apportare; ad + portare to bear. ] A bringer in; an importer. [ Obs. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 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. Something which belongs or appertains to another thing; an appurtenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mysterious appurtenants and symbols of redemption. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. appartenant, p. pr. of appartenir. See Appurtenance. ] Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Common appurtenant. (Law) See under Common, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as artifact.
Syn. -- artifact. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an artefact.
Syn. -- artifactual [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. made by human actions. natural
Syn. -- artifactual [ PJC ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'A`rtemis, a Greek goddess. ] (Zool.) A genus of phyllopod Crustacea found in salt lakes and brines; the brine shrimp. See Brine shrimp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 the virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon in Greek mythology; one of the Olympian deities, daughter of Zeus and Leto and twin sister of Apollo; identified with the Roman Diana.
Syn. -- Cynthia, Diana. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. Artemisia, Gr. 'Artemisi`a. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these Artemisia absinthium, or common wormwood, is well known, and Artemisia tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body.
Syn. -- artery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. arteriacus, Gr. &unr_;. See Artery. ] Of or pertaining to the windpipe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. artériel. ] 1. Of or pertaining to an artery, or the arteries; as, arterial action; the arterial system. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to a main channel (resembling an artery), as a river, canal, or railroad. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arterial blood, blood which has been changed and vitalized (arterialized) during passage through the lungs. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. same as arterialize.
Syn. -- arterialize [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Physiol.) The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aëration and hematosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Arterialized; p. pr. & vb. n. Arterializing. ] To transform, as the venous blood, into arterial blood by exposure to oxygen in the lungs; to make arterial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; + -graphy. ] A systematic description of the arteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an arteriole. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

/mhw>, n. [ NL. arteriola, dim. of L. arteria: cf. F. artériole. ] A small artery with a muscular wall. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; + -logy. ] That part of anatomy which treats of arteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'arthri`a + -logy. ] (Med.) a form of arteriosclerosis which affects predominantly the arterioles, found especially in people with chronic hypertension. Stedman [ PJC ]

‖n. [ NL.; Gr. &unr_; artery + sclerosis. ] (Med.) a chronic disease characterized by abnormal thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries, esp. of the intima, occurring mostly in old age. Subtypes are distinguished, such as arteriolosclerosis and atherosclerosis. -- Ar*te`ri*o*scle*rot"ic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to arteriosclerosis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. arteriotomia, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; + &unr_; a cutting. ] 1. (Med.) The opening of an artery, esp. for bloodletting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That part of anatomy which treats of the dissection of the arteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. connecting an artery to a vein. an arteriovenous fistula [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Artery + -etis. ] Inflammation of an artery or arteries. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Arteries [ L. arteria windpipe, artery, Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. The trachea or windpipe. [ Obs. ] “Under the artery, or windpipe, is the mouth of the stomach.” Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) One of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In man and other mammals, the arteries which contain arterialized blood receive it from the left ventricle of the heart through the aorta. See Aorta. The pulmonary artery conveys the venous blood from the right ventricle to the lungs, whence the arterialized blood is returned through the pulmonary veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: Any continuous or ramified channel of communication; as, arteries of trade or commerce. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. artésien, fr. Artois in France, where many such wells have been made since the middle of the last century. ] Of or pertaining to Artois (anciently called Artesium), in France. [ 1913 Webster ]

Artesian wells, wells made by boring into the earth till the instrument reaches water, which, from internal pressure, flows spontaneously like a fountain. They are usually of small diameter and often of great depth. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. stated as a fact.
Syn. -- alleged. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who asserts; one who avers pr maintains; an assertor. [ 1913 Webster ]

The inflexible asserter of the rights of the church. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Selected; culled. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_; a Phœnician goddess. ] (Zool.) A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; not united, disconnected; 'a priv. + &unr_; with + &unr_; to fasten to. ] Disconnected; not fitted or adjusted. -- A*syn"ar*tet"ic a. [ 1913 Webster ]

Asynartete verse (Pros.), a verse of two members, having different rhythms; as when the first consists of iambuses and the second of trochees. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who scornful pass it with averted eye. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. A barkeeper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bartered (bär"t&etilde_;rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Bartering.] [OE. bartren, OF. barater, bareter, to cheat, exchange, perh. fr. Gr. pra`ttein to do, deal (well or ill), use practices or tricks, or perh. fr. Celtic; cf. Ir. brath treachery, W. brad. Cf. Barrator.] To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck. [1913 Webster]

v. t. To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

The spirit of huckstering and barter. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The thing given in exchange. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Exchange; dealing; traffic; trade; truck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who barters. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Barter. [ Obs. ] Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of plants comprising the hoary alyssum.
Syn. -- genus Berteroa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]