1. (Anat.) One of the spaces in different parts of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connected with the air passages of the lungs; an air cell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An alveolus. [ PJC ]

n. 1. 1 a region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
Syn. -- Alsatia, Elsass [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Hostile to priests or the priesthood. Waterland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + saccate. ] (Bot.) Having two little bags, sacs, or pouches. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Byssus. ] (Bot.) Byssuslike; consisting of fine fibers or threads, as some very delicate filamentous algæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Coal + 2d sack. ] (Astron.) Any one of the spaces in the Milky Way which are very black, owing to the nearly complete absence of stars; esp., the large space near the Southern Cross sometimes called the Black Magellanic Cloud. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) The corsak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Russ. kozak', kazak': cf. Turk. kazāk. ] One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen, inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Mil.) An outpost consisting of four men, forming one of a single line of posts substituted for the more formal line of sentinels and line of pickets. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n.; pl. Culs-de-sac [ F., lit., bottom of a bag. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) a position in which an army finds itself with no way of exit but to the front. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Anat.) Any bag-shaped or tubular cavity, vessel, or organ, open only at one end. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + accommodate. ] To put to inconvenience; to incommode. [ R. ] Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of being unaccommodated or unsuited. [ R. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. F. désaccorder to cause discord. ] To refuse to assent. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disagreement. Pop. Sci. Monthly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not accordant. Fabyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. désaccoutumer. ] To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free from acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disacknowledged p. pr. & vb. n. Disacknowledging. ] To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + acquaint: cf. OF. desacointier. ] To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

While my sick heart
With dismal smart
Is disacquainted never. Herrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. dis- (Gr. di`s- twice) + acrolein + -yl. ] (Chem.) A white amorphous substance obtained as a polymeric modification of acrolein. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G. dudelsack. ] The Scotch bagpipe. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) See under Embryonic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A traveler's handbag. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Haemato- + sac. ] (Anat.) A vascular sac connected, beneath the brain, in many fishes, with the infundibulum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. havresac, G. habersack, sack for oats. See 2d Haver, and Sack a bag. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A bag for oats or oatmeal. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bag or case, usually of stout cloth, in which a soldier carries his rations when on a march; -- distinguished from knapsack. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A gunner's case or bag used to carry cartridges from the ammunition chest to the piece in loading. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen, used in clothing.
Syn. -- hopsack. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Ethnol.) Same as Cossack. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. knapzak; knappen to eat + zak a bag. See Knap, v. t., and Sack. ] A case of canvas, leather, nylon, or other sturdy fabric, fitted with straps, for carrying on the back the food, clothing, or other supplies for a soldier or a traveler; as, to hike up the mountain with lunch in a knapsack. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

And each one fills his knapsack or his scrip
With some rare thing that on the field is found. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A natural family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and Southern Arabia.
Syn. -- family Loasaceae, loasa family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. lumbus loin + E. sacral. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the loins and sacrum; as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. LL. mazacrium; cf. Prov. G. metzgern, metzgen, to kill cattle, G. metzger a butcher, and LG. matsken to cut, hew, OHG. meizan to cut, Goth. máitan. ] 1. The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day; the St. Valentine's Day massacre; the Amritsar massacre; the Wounded Knee massacre. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. Murder. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Massacre, Butchery, Carnage. Massacre denotes the promiscuous slaughter of many who can not make resistance, or much resistance. Butchery refers to cold-blooded cruelty in the killing of men as if they were brute beasts. Carnage points to slaughter as producing the heaped-up bodies of the slain. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll find a day to massacre them all,
And raze their faction and their family. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds,
Brhold this pattern of thy butcheries. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such a scent I draw
Of carnage, prey innumerable! Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Massacred p. pr. & vb. n. Massacring ] [ Cf. F. massacrer. See Massacre, n. ] To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings. [ 1913 Webster ]

If James should be pleased to massacre them all, as Maximian had massacred the Theban legion. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who massacres. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of mesaconic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Mes- + -aconic, as in citraconic. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, one of several isomeric acids obtained from citric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of spiny woody plants (usually shrubs or small trees) whose leaves mimic animals in sensitivity to touch; commonly included in the family Leguminosae.
Syn. -- family Mimosaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Wrong acceptation; understanding in a wrong sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To account or reckon wrongly. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of treelike tropical Asian herbs including the banana tree.
Syn. -- family Musaceae, banana family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the genus Musa. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. nhkto`s swimming + E. sac, sack. ] (Zool.) The cavity of a nectocalyx. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Nitro- + saccharin. ] (Chem.) An explosive nitro derivative of certain sugars, analogous to nitroglycerin, gun cotton, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of succulent ferns cosmopolitan in distribution.
Syn. -- family Ophioglossaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Ovum + sac. ] (Anat.) (a) A Graafian follicle; any sac containing an ovum or ova. (b) The inner layer of the fibrous wall of a Graafian follicle. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖‖ } n. [ Sp. pasacalle a certain tune on the guitar, prop., a tune played in passing through the streets. ] (Mus.) An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; the wood pigeon + &unr_; the agate. ] (Min.) The lead-colored agate; -- so called in reference to its color. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make a thorough search. [ 1913 Webster ]

To ransack in the tas [ heap ] of bodies dead. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Even your father's house
Shall not be free from ransack. J. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]