v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Adverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Adverting. ] [ L. advertere, v. t., to turn to; ad + vertere to turn: cf. F. avertir. See Advertise. ] To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said. [ 1913 Webster ]

I may again advert to the distinction. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn.- To refer; allude; regard. See Refer. [ 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]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Advertised p. pr. & vb. n. Advertising ] [ F. avertir, formerly also spelt advertir, to warn, give notice to, L. advertere to turn to. The ending was probably influenced by the noun advertisement. See Advert. ] To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I will advertise thee what this people shall do. Num. xxiv. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To apprise; inform; make known; notify; announce; proclaim; promulgate; publish. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. called to public attention. these advertised products [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. avertisement, formerly also spelled advertissement, a warning, giving notice, fr. avertir. ] 1. The act of informing or notifying; notification. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An advertisement of danger. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Admonition; advice; warning. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Therefore give me no counsel:
My griefs cry louder than advertisement. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A public notice, especially a paid notice in some public print; anything that advertises; as, a newspaper containing many advertisements. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. 1. a communication publicly promoting some product or service.
Syn. -- ad, advertisement, advert [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. 1 the business of advertising; the activity engaged in by professional publicists for pay.
Syn. -- advertizing, publicizing, the advertising profession, the advertising industry [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. same as advertise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Animadverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Animadverting. ] [ L. animadvertere; animus mind + advertere to turn to; ad to + vertere to turn. ] 1. To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by that. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To consider or remark by way of criticism or censure; to express censure; -- with on or upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

I should not animadvert on him . . . if he had not used extreme severity in his judgment of the incomparable Shakespeare. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To take cognizance judicially; to inflict punishment. [ Archaic ] Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To remark; comment; criticise; censure. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

v. t. [ L. antevertere; ante + vertere to turn. ] 1. To prevent. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) To displace by anteversion. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bend forward. [ R. ] Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Averted; p. pr. & vb. n. Averting. ] [ L. avertere; a, ab + vertere to turn: cf. OF. avertir. See Verse, n. ] To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averted? “To avert his ire.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Till ardent prayer averts the public woe. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To turn away. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Cold and averting from our neighbor's good. Thomson. [ 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 ]

a. Capable of being averted; preventable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Advertisement. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ Russ. chetverte one fourth. ] A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels. [ Russia ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Controverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Controverting. ] [ See Controversy. ] To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some controverted points had decided according to the sense of the best jurists. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question. -- Con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist. [ 1913 Webster ]

How unfriendly is the controvertist to the discernment of the critic! Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Converted; p. pr. & vb. n. Converting. ] [ L. convertere, -versum; con- + vertere to turn: cf. F. convertir. See Verse. ] 1. To cause to turn; to turn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

O, which way shall I first convert myself? B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the whole atmosphere were converted into water. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

That still lessens
The sorrow, and converts it nigh to joy. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

No attempt was made to convert the Moslems. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death. Lames v. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally. [ 1913 Webster ]

When a bystander took a coin to get it changed, and converted it, [ it was ] held no larceny. Cooley. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To turn into another language; to translate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Converted guns, cast-iron guns lined with wrought-iron or steel tubes. Farrow. --
Converting furnace (Steel Manuf.), a furnace in which wrought iron is converted into steel by cementation.

Syn. -- To change; turn; transmute; appropriate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally. [ 1913 Webster ]

If Nebo had had the preaching that thou hast, they [ the Neboites ] would have converted. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

A red dust which converth into worms. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

The public hope
And eye to thee converting. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Jesuits did not persuade the converts to lay aside the use of images. Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.

Syn. -- Proselyte; neophyte. -- Convert, Proselyte, Pervert. A convert is one who turns from what he believes to have been a decided error of faith or practice. Such a change may relate to religion, politics, or other subjects. properly considered, it is not confined to speculation alone, but affects the whole current of one's feelings and the tenor of his actions. As such a change carries with it the appearance of sincerity, the term convert is usually taken in a good sense. Proselyte is a term of more ambiguous use and application. It was first applied to an adherent of one religious system who had transferred himself externally to some other religious system; and is also applied to one who makes a similar transfer in respect to systems of philosophy or speculation. The term has little or no reference to the state of the heart. Pervert is a term of recent origin, designed to express the contrary of convert, and to stigmatize a person as drawn off perverted from the true faith. It has been more particulary applied by members of the Church of England to those who have joined the Roman Catholic Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. spiritually reborn or converted; as, a converted sinner.
Syn. -- born-again, reborn. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. convertenus to be converted. ] (Logic) Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse. See Converse, n. (Logic). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who converts; one who makes converts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Steel Manuf.) A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. convertibilis: cf. F. convertible. ] 1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable. [ 1913 Webster ]

So long as we are in the regions of nature, miraculous and improbable, miraculous and incredible, may be allowed to remain convertible terms. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being convertible; convertibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a convertible manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. It. convertito, p. p. of convertire to convert. ] A convert. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a device for changing one substance or form or state into another.
Syn. -- converter. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ OF. covert, F. couvert, p. p. of couvrir. See Cover, v. t. ] 1. Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised. [ 1913 Webster ]

How covert matters may be best disclosed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whether of open war or covert guile. Milton [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband. [ 1913 Webster ]

Covert way, (Fort.) See Covered way, under Covered.

Syn. -- Hidden; secret; private; covered; disguised; insidious; concealed. See Hidden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. See Covert, a. ] 1. A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense. [ 1913 Webster ]

A tabernacle . . . for a covert from storm. Is. iv. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

The highwayman has darted from his covered by the wayside. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. F. couverte. ] (Zool.) One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Law) Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Secretly; in private; insidiously. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Secrecy; privacy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. coverture, F.couverture. ] 1. Covering; shelter; defense; hiding. [ 1913 Webster ]

Protected by walls or other like coverture. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beatrice, who even now
Is couched in the woodbine coverture. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. from OF. coulouere, F. couloir, channel, gutter, gallery, fr. couler to flow. See Cullis. ] A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Carp.) Dovetail. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. United or fastened by a dovetailed joint. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. découvert uncovered, OF. descovert. See Discover, Covert. ] (Law) Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An uncovered place or part. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

At discovert, uncovered. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. dis- + coverture: cf. OF. descoverture. ] 1. Discovery. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Diverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Diverting. ] [ F. divertir, fr. L. divertere, diversum, to go different ways, turn aside; di- = dis- + vertere to turn. See Verse, and cf. Divorce. ] 1. To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course. [ 1913 Webster ]

That crude apple that diverted Eve. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are amused by a tale, diverted by a comedy. C. J. Smith.

Syn. -- To please; gratify; amuse; entertain; exhilarate; delight; recreate. See Amuse. [ 1913 Webster ]