n. 1. recklessness in politics or foreign affairs. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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

n. Agriculture. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. [ 1913 Webster ]

The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur. -- Am`a*teur"ish*ly, adv. -- Am`a*teur"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Behavior that demonstrates a lack of professional competency. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The practice, habit, or work of an amateur. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'aney`rysma, 'aneyrysmo`s, a widening, an opening; 'ana` up + e'yry`s wide. ] (Med.) A soft, usually pulsating, sac, containing blood or blood clot, arising from the abnormal dilation of the walls of an artery, vein or heart. The more common spelling is aneurysm. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to an aneurism; as, an aneurismal tumor; aneurismal diathesis. The more common spelling is aneurysmal. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an aneurysm.
Syn. -- aneurismal [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a sac-like widening of a blood vessel. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a farmer who keeps bees for their honey.
Syn. -- beekeeper, apiarist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who cultivates trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An augur. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. auris ear + scalpere to scrape. ] An earpick. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. auris + -scope. ] (Med.) An instrument for examining the condition of the ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Examination of the ear by the aid of the auriscope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. auris ear. ] One skilled in treating and curing disorders of the ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as behaviorism.
Syn. -- behaviorism, behavioristic psychology, behaviouristic psychology. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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

n. One who caricatures. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. centuriateur. ] An historian who distinguishes time by centuries, esp. one of those who wrote the “Magdeburg Centuries.” See under Century. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A painter who cares for and studies light and shade rather than color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A cultivator. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is an advocate of culture. [ 1913 Webster ]

The culturists, by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does not&unr_;) but those its exclusive advocates who recommend it as the panacea for all the ills of humanity, for its effects in cultivating the whole man. J. C. Shairp [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. épicurisme. ] 1. The doctrines of Epicurus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Epicurean habits of living; luxury. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who uses or interprets figurative expressions. Waterland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. [ Obs. ] Fenton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sith that the justice of your title to him
Doth flourish the deceit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish. [ 1913 Webster ]

And flourishes his blade in spite of me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To develop; to make thrive; to expand. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Bottoms of thread . . . which with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Flourished p. pr. & vb. n. Flourishing. ] [ OE. florisshen, flurisshen, OF. flurir, F. fleurir, fr. L. florere to bloom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See Flower, and -ish. ] 1. To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. [ 1913 Webster ]

A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil. Bp. Horne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production. [ 1913 Webster ]

When all the workers of iniquity do flourish. Ps. xcii 7 [ 1913 Webster ]

Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of their wickedness. Nelson. [ 1913 Webster ]

We say
Of those that held their heads above the crowd,
They flourished then or then. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery. [ 1913 Webster ]

They dilate . . . and flourish long on little incidents. J. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Impetuous spread
The stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To boast; to vaunt; to brag. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Flourishes 1. A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The Roman monarchy, in her highest flourish, never had the like. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Decoration; ornament; beauty. [ 1913 Webster ]

The flourish of his sober youth
Was the pride of naked truth. Crashaw. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit. [ 1913 Webster ]

He lards with flourishes his long harangue. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure. [ 1913 Webster ]

The neat characters and flourishes of a Bible curiously printed. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare. [ 1913 Webster ]

A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who flourishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Painting) 1. A movement or phase of post-impressionism (which see, below). [ PJC ]

2. A point of view that finds meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present. The philosophy of a futurist. MW10 [ PJC ]

n. 1. One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Theol.) One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. e"yri`skein to discover.] 1. Serving to promote discovery or learning; -- used especially of thories or paradigms which stimulate new ideas for discovering facts in experimental sciences. [1913 Webster +PJC]

2. Serving to stimulate people to learn and discover on their own, especially by encouraging experimental and trial-and-error methods for solving problems. [PJC]

3. Pertaining to or based on trial-and-error and experimental methods of learning and evaluation. [PJC]

4. (Computers) Based on the use of an efficient trial-and error method to search a space of possible solutions to a problem, or to find an acceptable approximate solution, when an exact algorithmic method is unavailable or too time-consuming. [PJC]

n. 1. A heuristic method; a specific heuristic procedure. [ PJC ]

2. A theory or approach which serves to promote discovery or learning by encouraging experimentation. [ PJC ]

n. In a heuristic manner; by using a heuristic method; by serving as a heuristic method; as, a heuristically guided search technique; a heuristically valuable theory. [ PJC ]

n. One who practices horticulture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. jurisconsultus; jus, juris, right + consulere, consultum, to consult: cf. F. jurisconsulte. ] (Law) A man learned in the civil law; an expert in juridical science; a professor of jurisprudence; a jurist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. jurisdictio; jus, juris, right, law + dictio a saying, speaking: cf. OF. jurisdiction, F. juridiction. See Just, a., and Diction. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Law) The legal power, right, or authority of a particular court to hear and determine causes, to try criminals, or to execute justice; judicial authority over a cause or class of causes; as, certain suits or actions, or the cognizance of certain crimes, are within the jurisdiction of a particular court, that is, within the limits of its authority or commission. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate; the right of making or enforcing laws; the power or right of exercising authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

To live exempt
From Heaven's high jurisdiction. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

You wrought to be a legate; by which power
You maim'd the jurisdiction of all bishops. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Sphere of authority; the limits within which any particular power may be exercised, or within which a government or a court has authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Jurisdiction, in its most general sense, is the power to make, declare, or apply the law. When confined to the judiciary department, it is what we denominate the judicial power, the right of administering justice through the laws, by the means which the laws have provided for that purpose. Jurisdiction is limited to place or territory, to persons, or to particular subjects. Duponceau. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. LL. jurisdictionalis, F. juridictionnel. ] Of or pertaining to jurisdiction; as, jurisdictional rights. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having jurisdiction. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. jurisprudentia; jus, juris, right, law + prudentia a foreseeing, knowledge of a matter, prudence: cf. F. jurisprudence. See Just, a., and Prudence. ] The science of juridical law; the knowledge of the laws, customs, and rights of men in a state or community, necessary for the due administration of justice. [ 1913 Webster ]

The talents of Abelard were not confined to theology, jurisprudence, philosophy. J. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Medical jurisprudence, that branch of juridical law which concerns questions of medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Jurisprudence. ] Understanding law; skilled in jurisprudence. G. West. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. jurisprudent. ] One skilled in law or jurisprudence. [ R. ] De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to jurisprudence. Stewart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. juriste, LL. jurista, fr. L. jus, juris, right, law. See Just, a. ] One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law, such as a judge, lawyer, or legal scholar; a writer on civil and international law. [ 1913 Webster ]

It has ever been the method of public jurists to draw a great part of the analogies on which they form the law of nations from the principles of law which prevail in civil community. Burke.

{ } a. Of or pertaining to a jurist, to the legal profession, or to jurisprudence. [ R. ] “Juristic ancestry.” Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One given to luxury. [ Obs. ] Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Not getting adequate food; suffering from malnutrition; underfed. [ Narrower terms: starved, starving; unfed; foodless ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F., fr. L. manus hand + curare to cure. ] A person who makes a business of taking care of people's hands, especially their fingernails; -- formerly called a manicure. [ PJC ]