‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; on both ends + &unr_; to go. ] 1. A fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A genus of harmless lizards, serpentlike in form, without legs, and with both ends so much alike that they appear to have a head at each, and ability to move either way. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Gordius aquaticus, or hairworm, has been called an amphisbaena; but it belongs among the worms. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ NL., fr. L. amphisbaena + -oid. ] (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the lizards of the genus Amphisbæna. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits.
Syn. -- busbar, bus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) A Species of duck (Aythya vallisneria), esteemed for the delicacy of its flesh. It visits the United States in autumn; particularly Chesapeake Bay and adjoining waters; -- so named from the markings of the plumage on its back. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down. Russell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Crossbar shot, a projectile which folds into a sphere for loading, but on leaving the gun expands to a cross with a quarter ball at the end of each arm; -- used in naval actions for cutting the enemy's rigging. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Made or patterned in lines crossing each other; as, crossbarred muslin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disbanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Disbanding. ] [ Pref. dis- + band: cf. OF. desbander, F. débander, to unbind, unbend. See Band, and cf. Disbend, Disbind. ] 1. To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military service; as, to disband an army. [ 1913 Webster ]

They disbanded themselves and returned, every man to his own dwelling. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

And therefore . . . she ought to be disbanded. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization. [ 1913 Webster ]

When both rocks and all things shall disband. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

Human society would in a short space disband. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disbanding. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disbarred p. pr. & vb. n. Disbarring. ] (Law) To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + bark a small ship: cf. OF. desbarquer, F. débarquer. Cf. Debark, Disembark. ] To disembark. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + bark rind. ] To strip of bark; to bark. [ R. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of disbarring. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Debase. ] To debase or degrade. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
Syn. -- windbag. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the bag containing the gas in a balloon.
Syn. -- envelope. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. hosebonde, husbonde, a husband, the master of the house or family, AS. h&unr_;sbonda master of the house; h&unr_;s house + bunda, bonda, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. h&unr_;sbōndi house master, husband; h&unr_;s house + b&unr_;andi dwelling, inhabiting, p. pr. of b&unr_;a to dwell; akin to AS. b&unr_;an, Goth. bauan. See House Be, and cf. Bond a slave, Boor. ] 1. The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The painful husband, plowing up his ground. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestic and field accommodations. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant left me. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife. [ 1913 Webster ]

The husband and wife are one person in law. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The male of a pair of animals. [ R. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

A ship's husband (Naut.), an agent representing the owners of a ship, who manages its expenses and receipts. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Husbanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Husbanding. ] 1. To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy. [ 1913 Webster ]

For my means, I'll husband them so well,
They shall go far. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cultivate, as land; to till. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Land so trim and rarely husbanded. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To furnish with a husband. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of a husband. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Frugal; thrifty. [ R. ] Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Husbandmen 1. The master of a family. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift. [ 1913 Webster ]

There's husbandry in heaven;
Their candles are all out. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming. [ 1913 Webster ]

Husbandry supplieth all things necessary for food. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss. [ Political Slang, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Zool.) The menhaded. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Rat + bane. ] Rat poison; white arsenic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Poisoned by ratsbane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. Ar. saisabān, seisebān, a kind of tree, fr. Per. sīsabān seed of cinquefoil. ] (Bot.) A leguminous shrub (Sesbania aculeata) which furnishes a fiber used for making ropes. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is applied also to the similar plant, Sesbania Aegyptiaca, and other species of the same genus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Auer von Welsbach or the incandescent gas burner invented by him. --
Welsbach burner, a burner in which the combustion of a mixture of air and gas or vapor is employed to heat to incandescence a mantle composed of thoria and ceria. The mantle is made by soaking a “stocking” in a solution of nitrates of thorium and cerium (approx. 99:1), drying, and, for use, igniting to burn the thread and convert the nitrates into oxides, which remain as a fragile ash. The light far exceeds that obtained from the same amount of gas with the ordinary fishtail burner, but has a slight greenish hue. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Bot.) A poisonous plant (Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus Aconitum. See Aconite. [ 1913 Webster ]