a. [ L. adulterinus, fr. adulter. ] Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal. [ 1913 Webster ]

When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An illegitimate child. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. [ Obs. ] Grose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A bacterial vaccine. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. the act or process of subjecting to strong repeated blows.
Syn. -- banging. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. (Mil.) An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It was a large beam, with a head of iron, which was sometimes made to resemble the head of a ram. It was suspended by ropes to a beam supported by posts, and so balanced as to swing backward and forward, and was impelled by men against the wall. Grose. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Mil.) A train of artillery for siege operations. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. changing for the better; -- antonym of worsening. [ Narrower terms: ameliorating(prenominal), ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Senseless babble or boasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. harshly or corrosively critical in tone; -- of comments about people or their actions. blistering criticism
Syn. -- acerb, acerbic, acid, bitter, caustic, scathing, venomous, virulent, vitriolic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. intensely hot. blistering sun
Syn. -- blistery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. very fast; as, a blistering pace.
Syn. -- red-hot, scorching. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. [ 1913 Webster ]

A tempest and a blustering day. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. “A blustering fellow.” L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a blustering manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A substance prepared from animal fat with some other ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter. [ 1913 Webster ]

The manufacturers ship large quantities of oleomargarine to England, Holland, and other countries, to be manufactured into butter, which is sold as butterine or suine. Johnson's Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of working in timber; carpentry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) Same as Center, n., 6. [ Written also centring. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; bile + &unr_; stiff fat: F. cholestérine. See Stearin. ] (Chem.) A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With clattering. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In clusters. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. incoming; -- of a person or group assuming a role. Opposite of leaving and outgoing. [ predicate ]
Syn. -- ingoing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ or }. same as Advancing edge. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Anat. & Med.) Outside of the uterus, or womb. [ 1913 Webster ]

Extra-uterine pregnancy (Med.), a condition of pregnancy in which the fetus is not in the uterus, but in the Fallopian tube or in the abdominal cavity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Hesitating; trembling. “With faltering speech.” Milton. -- n. Falter; halting; hesitation. -- Fal"ter*ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A flattering painter, who made it his care,
To draw men as they ought be, not as they are. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With flattery. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a fluttering manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a glistering manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a glittering manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Within the uterus or womb; as, intrauterine hemorrhage; an intrauterine device. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A contraceptive device consisting of a small, usually plastic object placed within the uterus to prevent conception; also called IUD. [ PJC ]

n. 1. The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The letters made; as, the lettering of a sign. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a loitering manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The brightening of a metal in the crucible when it becomes pure, as in certain refining processes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Masseteric. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. producing mood changes or distorted perception; -- used mostly of psychoactive substances; as, hallucinogenic drugs are mind-altering substances. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. With a low voice and indistinct articulation; in a muttering manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The sterilization of an animal.
Syn. -- fixing, altering. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Gathering, or dredging for, oysters. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Surrounding the uterus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Same as Plaster, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act or process of overlaying with plaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A covering of plaster; plasterwork. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. (Naut.) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mach.) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A station. [ Obs. ] Bp. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Her.) (a) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments. (b) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Arch.) A series of quarters, or small upright posts. See Quarter, n., 1 (m) (Arch.) Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Quartering block, a block on which the body of a condemned criminal was quartered. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the uterus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Calico Printing.) The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Going or falling in various directions; not united or aggregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of strewing about; something scattered. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a scattering manner; dispersedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]