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English Roman Urdu اردو
Swan  
Hans ہنس
Swear  
qasam uthana قسم اٹھانا
Tabernacular  
Jali Dar جالی دار
Tabular  
Maiz Numa میز نما
Tactician  
Fanon Jung Ka Mahir فنون جنگ کا ماہر
Tan  
Khal Pakana کھال پکانا
Tar  
Tarkol, Parda تارکول٬ پردہ
Tarlatan  
Bareek Malmal باریک ململ
Tarpan  
Tatari Jungli Ghora تاتاری جنگلی گھوڑا
Tartan  
Cho Khana Oni Kapra چوخانہ اونی کپڑا

Definition & Synonyms
• Kibitkas
  1. (pl. ) of Kibitka
• Lacinulas
  1. (pl. ) of Lacinula
• Lacunas
  1. (pl. ) of Lacuna
• Lagenas
  1. (pl. ) of Lagena
• Lamellas
  1. (pl. ) of Lamella
• Laminas
  1. (pl. ) of Lamina
• Larvas
  1. (pl. ) of Larva
• Lemmas
  1. (pl. ) of Lemma
• Lenticulas
  1. (pl. ) of Lenticula
• Ligulas
  1. (pl. ) of Ligula
• Men-of-war
  1. (pl. ) of Manofwar
• Minas
  1. (pl. ) of Mina
• Myocommas
  1. (pl. ) of Myocomma
• Nassas
  1. (pl. ) of Nassa
  2. (pl. ) of Nassa
• Naticas
  1. (pl. ) of Natica
  2. (pl. ) of Natica
• Muhammadan
  1. (a. & n.) Alt. of Muhammedan


Synonyms:
Mohammedan, Moslem, Muhammedan, Muslim,
• Muhammedan
  1. (a. & n.) Mohammedan.


Synonyms:
Mohammedan, Moslem, Muhammadan, Muslim,
• Nematoidean
  1. (a. & n.) Nematoid.
  2. (a. & n.) Nematoid.
• Nemertian
  1. (a. & n.) Nemertean.
  2. (a. & n.) Nemertean.
• Ordovian
  1. (a. & n.) Ordovician.
• Lacertilian
  1. (a. & n.) Same as Lacertian.


Synonyms:
Saurian,
• Postocular
  1. (a. & n.) Same as Postorbital.
• Sabaean
  1. (a. & n.) Same as Sabian.
• Sabean
  1. (a. & n.) Same as Sabian.
• Sclavonian
  1. (a. & n.) Same as Slavonian.
• Thibetian
  1. (a. & n.) Same as Thibetan.
• Phenician
  1. (a. & n.) See Phoenician.
• Tamilian
  1. (a. & n.) Tamil.
• Meridian
  1. (a.) A great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of a given place. It is crossed by the sun at midday.
  2. (a.) Hence: The highest point, as of success, prosperity, or the like; culmination.
  3. (a.) Pertaining to the highest point or culmination; as, meridian splendor.
  4. (a.) Midday; noon.
  5. (a.) Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.
  6. (a.) A great circle on the surface of the earth, passing through the poles and any given place; also, the half of such a circle included between the poles.


Synonyms:
Longitude,
• Regular
  1. (a.) A member of any religious order or community who has taken the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly recognized by the church.
  2. (a.) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin.
  3. (a.) Same as Isometric.
  4. (a.) Governed by rule or rules; steady or uniform in course, practice, or occurence; not subject to unexplained or irrational variation; returning at stated intervals; steadily pursued; orderlly; methodical; as, the regular succession of day and night; regular habits.
  5. (a.) Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal; symmetrical; as, a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; a regular verb; regular practice of law or medicine; a regular building.
  6. (a.) Belonging to a monastic order or community; as, regular clergy, in distinction dfrom the secular clergy.
  7. (a.) Thorough; complete; unmitigated; as, a regular humbug.
  8. (a.) A soldier belonging to a permanent or standing army; -- chiefly used in the plural.
  9. (a.) Constituted, selected, or conducted in conformity with established usages, rules, or discipline; duly authorized; permanently organized; as, a regular meeting; a regular physican; a regular nomination; regular troops.


Synonyms:
Even, Fixture, Habitue, Steady, Veritable,
• Plan
  1. (a.) A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition.
  2. (a.) A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.
  3. (a.) A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
  4. (v. t.) To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country.
  5. (v. t.) To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.


Synonyms:
Contrive, Design, Program, Programme, Project,
• Vinegar
  1. (a.) A sour liquid used as a condiment, or as a preservative, and obtained by the spontaneous (acetous) fermentation, or by the artificial oxidation, of wine, cider, beer, or the like.
  2. (a.) Hence, anything sour; -- used also metaphorically.
  3. (v. t.) To convert into vinegar; to make like vinegar; to render sour or sharp.
• Sovran
  1. (a.) A variant of Sovereign.
• Superhuman
  1. (a.) Above or beyond what is human; sometimes, divine; as, superhuman strength; superhuman wisdom.
• Supraocular
  1. (a.) Above the eyes; -- said of certain scales of fishes and reptiles.
• Supersolar
  1. (a.) Above the sun.
• Stipendiarian
  1. (a.) Acting from mercenary considerations; stipendiary.
• Koluschan
  1. (a.) Alt. of Kolushan
• Laminar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Laminal


Synonyms:
Laminal,
• Lapponian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Lapponic
• Linnaean
  1. (a.) Alt. of Linnean


Synonyms:
Linnean,
• Lumbar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Lumbal
• Macaronian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Macaronic
• Madreporian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Madreporic
• Malarian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Malarious
• Manichaean
  1. (a.) Alt. of Manichean
  2. (n.) Alt. of Manichee
• Maxillar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Maxillary
• Megarian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Megaric
• Melibean
  1. (a.) Alt. of Melib/an
• Monadelphian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Monadelphous
• Monecian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Monecious
• Monogamian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Monogamic
• Monomyarian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Monomyary
• Monoousian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Monoousious
• Napierian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Naperian
  2. (a.) Alt. of Naperian
• Nummular
  1. (a.) Alt. of Nummulary
  2. (a.) Alt. of Nummulary
• Octandrian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Octandrous
• Octogynian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Octogynous
• Opisthocoelian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Opisthocoelous
• Ovarian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Ovarial
• Palestinian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Palestinean
• Palestrian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Palestrical
• Pelasgian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Pelasgic
• Pentagynian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Pentagynous
• Pentandrian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Pentandrous
• Petiolar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Petiolary
• Phaenogamian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Phaenogamic
• Phenogamian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Phenogamous
• Plumbean
  1. (a.) Alt. of Plumbeous
• Polyadelphian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Polyadelphous
• Polygynian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Polygynous
• Postexilian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Postexilic
• Proconsular
  1. (a.) Alt. of Proconsulary
• Pyrrhonean
  1. (a.) Alt. of Pyrrhonic
• Roborean
  1. (a.) Alt. of Roboreous
• Sarmatian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Sarmatic
• Sesquitertian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Sesquitertianal
• Skar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Skare
• Slavonian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Slavonic
  2. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Slavonia; ethnologically, a Slav.
• Stellar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Stellary


Synonyms:
Astral, Leading, Star, Starring,
• Sublunar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Sublunary


Synonyms:
Sublunary, Terrestrial,
• Suborbicular
  1. (a.) Alt. of Suborbiculate
• Subscapular
  1. (a.) Alt. of Subscapulary
• Subterranean
  1. (a.) Alt. of Subterraneous


Synonyms:
Ulterior,
• Suburbicarian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Suburbicary
• Superlunar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Superlunary


Synonyms:
Superlunary, Translunary,
• Supracondylar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Supracondyloid
• Supralunar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Supralunary
• Suprapubian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Suprapubic
• Suprascalpular
  1. (a.) Alt. of Suprascalpulary
• Syngenesian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Syngenesious
• Tartarean
  1. (a.) Alt. of Tartareous


Synonyms:
Plutonian,
• Tartarian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Tartaric
  2. (n.) The name of some kinds of cherries, as the Black Tartarian, or the White Tartarian.
• Tautoousian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Tautoousious
• Tetragynian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Tetragynous
• Tetrandrian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Tetrandrous
• Tintinnabular
  1. (a.) Alt. of Tintinnabulary
• Tolstoyan
  1. (a.) Alt. of Tolstoian
• Triandrian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Triandrous
• Tribunician
  1. (a.) Alt. of Tribunitian
• Trigynian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Trigynous
• Triluminar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Triluminous
• Triobolar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Triobolary
• Tutelar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Tutelary


Synonyms:
Custodial, Guardian, Tutelary,
• Uralian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Uralic
• Perivascular
  1. (a.) Around the blood vessels; as, perivascular lymphatics.
• Tabular
  1. (a.) Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics.
  2. (a.) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.
  3. (a.) Set in squares.
  4. (a.) Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word).
  5. (a.) Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as, tabular right ascension.
  6. (a.) Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock.
• Suffragan
  1. (a.) Assisting; assistant; as, a suffragan bishop.
  2. (a.) An assistant.
  3. (a.) A bishop considered as an assistant, or as subject, to his metropolitan; an assistant bishop.
• Superterranean
  1. (a.) Being above ground.
• Supravulgar
  1. (a.) Being above the vulgar or common people.
• Supersecular
  1. (a.) Being above the world, or secular things.
• Postdiluvian
  1. (a.) Being or happening after the flood in Noahs days.
  2. (n.) One who lived after the flood.
• Subtartarean
  1. (a.) Being or living under Tartarus; infernal.
• Siphonophoran
  1. (a.) Belonging to the Siphonophora.
  2. (n.) One of the Siphonophora.
• Tullian
  1. (a.) Belonging to, or in the style of, Tully (Marcus Tullius Cicero).
• Panpresbyterian
  1. (a.) Belonging to, or representative of, those who hold Presbyterian views in all parts of the world; as, a Panpresbyterian council.
• Pan-Anglican
  1. (a.) Belonging to, or representing, the whole Church of England; used less strictly, to include the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States; as, the Pan-Anglican Conference at Lambeth, in 1888.
• Latian
  1. (a.) Belonging, or relating, to Latium, a country of ancient Italy. See Latin.
• Popular
  1. (a.) Beloved or approved by the people; pleasing to people in general, or to many people; as, a popular preacher; a popular law; a popular administration.
  2. (a.) Devoted to the common people; studious of the favor of the populace.
  3. (a.) Prevailing among the people; epidemic; as, a popular disease.
  4. (a.) Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the popular voice; popular elections.
  5. (a.) Suitable to common people; easy to be comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain.
  6. (a.) Adapted to the means of the common people; possessed or obtainable by the many; hence, cheap; common; ordinary; inferior; as, popular prices; popular amusements.


Synonyms:
Democratic, Plain, Pop,
• Orphan
  1. (a.) Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.
  2. (v. t.) To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.
  3. (n.) A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.


Synonyms:
Orphaned,
• Unclean
  1. (a.) Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing.
  2. (a.) Morally impure.
  3. (a.) Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.


Synonyms:
Dirty, Impure, Soiled,
• Tubercular
  1. (a.) Characterized by the development of tubercles; as, tubercular diathesis.
  2. (a.) Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence.
  3. (a.) Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.


Synonyms:
Tuberculous,
• Phlyctenular
  1. (a.) Characterized by the presence of small pustules, or whitish elevations resembling pustules; as, phlyctenular ophthalmia.
• Rubican
  1. (a.) Colored a prevailing red, bay, or black, with flecks of white or gray especially on the flanks; -- said of horses.
• Postmeridian
  1. (a.) Coming after the sun has passed the meridian; being in, or belonging to, the afternoon. (Abbrev. P. M.)
  2. (a.) Fig., belonging to the after portion of life; late.
• Secular
  1. (a.) Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
  2. (n.) A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
  3. (n.) A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
  4. (a.) Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.
  5. (a.) Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe.
  6. (a.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest.
  7. (a.) Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
  8. (n.) A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.


Synonyms:
Laic, Lay,
• Puncticular
  1. (a.) Comprised in, or like, a point; exact.
• Subpetiolar
  1. (a.) Concealed within the base of the petiole, as the leaf buds of the plane tree.
• Particular
  1. (a.) Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise; as, a full and particular account of an accident; hence, nice; fastidious; as, a man particular in his dress.
  2. (n.) Special or personal peculiarity, trait, or character; individuality; interest, etc.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to a single person, class, or thing; belonging to one only; not general; not common; hence, personal; peculiar; singular.
  4. (a.) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject; as, a particular proposition; -- opposed to universal: e. g. (particular affirmative) Some men are wise; (particular negative) Some men are not wise.
  5. (a.) Holding a particular estate; as, a particular tenant.
  6. (a.) Containing a part only; limited; as, a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder.
  7. (n.) One of the details or items of grounds of claim; -- usually in the pl.; also, a bill of particulars; a minute account; as, a particular of premises.
  8. (n.) A separate or distinct member of a class, or part of a whole; an individual fact, point, circumstance, detail, or item, which may be considered separately; as, the particulars of a story.
  9. (a.) Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation.
  10. (a.) Separate or distinct by reason of superiority; distinguished; important; noteworthy; unusual; special; as, he brought no particular news; she was the particular belle of the party.


Synonyms:
Detail, Especial, Exceptional, Finical, Finicky, Fussy, Item, Peculiar, Special, Specific,
• Tumular
  1. (a.) Consisting in a heap; formed or being in a heap or hillock.
• Unilobar
  1. (a.) Consisting of a single lobe.
• Papular
  1. (a.) Consisting of papules; characterized by the presence of papules; as, a papular eruption.
  2. (a.) Covered with papules.
• Septinsular
  1. (a.) Consisting of seven islands; as, the septinsular republic of the Ionian Isles.
• Multicellular
  1. (a.) Consisting of, or having, many cells or more than one cell.
• Multilobar
  1. (a.) Consisting of, or having, many lobes.
• Myrmidonian
  1. (a.) Consisting of, or like, myrmidons.
• Polynuclear
  1. (a.) Containing many nuclei.
• Multinuclear
  1. (a.) Containing many nuclei; as, multinuclear cells.
• Valvular
  1. (a.) Containing valves; serving as a valve; opening by valves; valvate; as, a valvular capsule.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to a valve or valves; specifically (Med.), of or pertaining to the valves of the heart; as, valvular disease.
• Mixtilinear
  1. (a.) Containing, or consisting of, lines of different kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve.
• Unchristian
  1. (a.) Contrary to Christianity; not like or becoming a Christian; as, unchristian conduct.
  2. (v. t.) To make unchristian.
  3. (a.) Not Christian; not converted to the Christian faith; infidel.
• Postliminiar
  1. (a.) Contrived, done, or existing subsequently.
• Pustular
  1. (a.) Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustulate.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to pustules; as, pustular prominences; pustular eruptions.
• Salian
  1. (a.) Denoting a tribe of Franks who established themselves early in the fourth century on the river Sala [now Yssel]; Salic.
  2. (n.) A Salian Frank.
• Kolushan
  1. (a.) Designating, or pert. to, a linguistic stock of North American Indians comprising the Tlinkit tribes of the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska and adjacent coast lands. Their language bears some affinity to Mexican tongues.
• Tupian
  1. (a.) Designating, or pert. to, a linguistic stock of South American Indians comprising the most important Brazilian tribes. Agriculture, pottery, and stone working were practiced by them at the time of the conquest. The Tupi and the Guarani were originally the most powerful of the stock, which is hence also called Tupi-Guaranian.
• Neo-Malthusian
  1. (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a group of modern economists who hold to the Malthusianism doctrine that permanent betterment of the general standard of living is impossible without decrease of competition by limitation of the number of births.
• Wardian
  1. (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; -- so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman.
• Quichuan
  1. (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a linguistic stock of South American Indians, including the majority of the civilized tribes of the ancient Peruvian Empire with some wild tribes never subjugated by the Incas. Most of these Indians are short, but heavy and strong. They are brachycephalic and of remarkably low cranial capacity. Nevertheless, they represent one of the highest of native American civilizations, characterized by agricultural, military, and administrative skill rather than by science or literature, although they were adept potters, weavers, and goldsmiths, and preserved by the aid of the mnemonic quipu a body of legendary lore in part written down since the introduction of writing.
• Tai
  1. (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, the chief linguistic stock of Indo-China, including the peoples of Siamese and Shan speech.
  2. (n.) A member of one of the tribes of the Tai stock.


Synonyms:
Siamese,
• Nonvascular
  1. (a.) Destitute of vessels; extravascular.
  2. (a.) Destitute of vessels; extravascular.
• Venerean
  1. (a.) Devoted to the offices of Venus, or love; venereal.
• Schneiderian
  1. (a.) Discovered or described by C. V. Schneider, a German anatomist of the seventeenth century.
• Tenonian
  1. (a.) Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist.
• Wormian
  1. (a.) Discovered or described by Olanus Wormius, a Danish anatomist.
• Wolffian
  1. (a.) Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology.
• Singular
  1. (a.) Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular.
  2. (a.) Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon.
  3. (n.) An individual instance; a particular.
  4. (a.) Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique.
  5. (n.) The singular number, or the number denoting one person or thing; a word in the singular number.
  6. (a.) Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments.
  7. (a.) Engaged in by only one on a side; single.
  8. (a.) Existing by itself; single; individual.
  9. (a.) Separate or apart from others; single; distinct.
  10. (a.) Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; -- often implying disapproval or consure.
  11. (a.) Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; -- opposed to dual and plural.


Synonyms:
Curious, Funny, Odd, Peculiar, Queer, Remarkable, Rum, Rummy, Unique,
• Protean
  1. (a.) Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus.
• Titular
  1. (a.) Existing in title or name only; nominal; having the title to an office or dignity without discharging its appropriate duties; as, a titular prince.
  2. (n.) A titulary.


Synonyms:
Nominal, Titulary,
• Piacular
  1. (a.) Expiatory; atoning.
  2. (a.) Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad.
• Transisthmian
  1. (a.) Extending across an isthmus, as at Suez or Panama.
• Simular
  1. (a.) False; specious; counterfeit.
  2. (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender.
• Statarian
  1. (a.) Fixed; settled; steady; statary.
• Lamellar
  1. (a.) Flat and thin; lamelliform; composed of lamellae.
• Platycoelian
  1. (a.) Flat at the anterior and concave at the posterior end; -- said of the centra of the vertebrae of some extinct dinouaurs.
• Pharisean
  1. (a.) Following the practice of Pharisees; Pharisaic.
• Neptunian
  1. (a.) Formed by water or aqueous solution; as, Neptunian rocks.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the ocean or sea.
  3. (n.) Alt. of Neptunist
  4. (a.) Formed by water or aqueous solution; as, Neptunian rocks.
  5. (n.) Alt. of Neptunist
  6. (a.) Of or pertaining to the ocean or sea.
• Tesselar
  1. (a.) Formed of tesserae, as a mosaic.
• Pedestrian
  1. (a.) Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.
  2. (n.) A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.


Synonyms:
Prosaic, Prosy, Walker,
• Semibarbarian
  1. (a.) Half barbarous; partially civilized.
  2. (n.) One partly civilized.
• Semilenticular
  1. (a.) Half lenticular or convex; imperfectly resembling a lens.
• Semipagan
  1. (a.) Half pagan.
• Lunular
  1. (a.) Having a form like that of the new moon; shaped like a crescent.
• Monocardian
  1. (a.) Having a single heart, as fishes and amphibians.
  2. (n.) An animal having a single heart.
• Subcolumnar
  1. (a.) Having an imperfect or interrupted columnar structure.
• obtuse-angular
  1. (a.) Having an obtuse angle; as, an obtuse-angled triangle.
• Scutelliplantar
  1. (a.) Having broad scutella on the front, and small scales on the posterior side, of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.
• Unipolar
  1. (a.) Having but one pole or process; -- applied to those ganglionic nerve cells which have but one radiating process; -- opposed to multipolar.
  2. (a.) Having, or acting by means of, one pole only.
• Octangular
  1. (a.) Having eight angles; eight-angled.


Synonyms:
Octagonal,
• Octolocular
  1. (a.) Having eight cells for seeds.
• Octonocular
  1. (a.) Having eight eyes.
• Quinquangular
  1. (a.) Having five angles or corners.
• Pentacapsular
  1. (a.) Having five capsules.
• Quinquelocular
  1. (a.) Having five cells or loculi; five-celled; as, a quinquelocular pericarp.
• Pentangular
  1. (a.) Having five corners or angles.


Synonyms:
Pentagonal,
• Quinquevalvular
  1. (a.) Having five valves, as a pericarp.
• Quadrangular
  1. (a.) Having four angles, and consequently four sides; tetragonal.
• Quadricapsular
  1. (a.) Having four capsules.
• Quadrilocular
  1. (a.) Having four cells, or cavities; as, a quadrilocular heart.
• Quadrivalvular
  1. (a.) Having four valves; quadrivalve.
• Multangular
  1. (a.) Having many angles.
• Multocular
  1. (a.) Having many eyes, or more than two.
• Multilocular
  1. (a.) Having many or several cells or compartments; as, a multilocular shell or capsule.
• Multipolar
  1. (a.) Having many poles; -- applied especially to those ganglionic nerve cells which have several radiating processes.
  2. (a.) Having, or pertaining to, many poles, as a field magnet or armature of a dynamo, or a dynamo having such a field magnet or (sometimes) armature.
  3. (a.) Having many poles; in Anat., designating specif. a nerve cell which has several dendrites.
• Multititular
  1. (a.) Having many titles.
• Multitubular
  1. (a.) Having many tubes; as, a multitubular boiler.
• Multivalvular
  1. (a.) Having many valves.
  2. (a.) Many-valved; having more than two valves; -- said of certain shells, as the chitons.
• Multicapsular
  1. (a.) Having many, or several, capsules.
• Polynucleolar
  1. (a.) Having more than one nucleolus.
• Unilocular
  1. (a.) Having one cell or cavity only; as, a unilocular capsule or shell.
• Unimuscular
  1. (a.) Having only one adductor muscle, and one muscular impression on each valve, as the oyster; monomyarian.
• Monocular
  1. (a.) Having only one eye; with one eye only; as, monocular vision.
  2. (a.) Adapted to be used with only one eye at a time; as, a monocular microscope.
• Unifilar
  1. (a.) Having only one thread; involving the use of only one thread, wire, fiber, or the like; as, unifilar suspension.
• Tritubercular
  1. (a.) Having or designating teeth with three cusps or tubercles; tricuspid.
  2. (a.) Pertaining to trituberculy.
• Plurilocular
  1. (a.) having several divisions containing seeds; as, the lemon and the orange are plurilocular fruits.
  2. (a.) Having several cells or loculi
• Sexangular
  1. (a.) Having six angles; hexagonal.
• Sexlocular
  1. (a.) Having six cells for seeds; six-celled; as, a sexlocular pericarp.
• Senocular
  1. (a.) Having six eyes.
• Verisimilar
  1. (a.) Having the appearance of truth; probable; likely.
• Semitertian
  1. (a.) Having the characteristics of both a tertian and a quotidian intermittent.
  2. (n.) An intermittent combining the characteristics of a tertian and a quotidian.
• Semiannular
  1. (a.) Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle.
• Tubular
  1. (a.) Having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. Also, containing, or provided with, tubes.


Synonyms:
Cannular,
• Semicircular
  1. (a.) Having the form of half of a circle.
• Vesicular
  1. (a.) Having the form or structure of a vesicle; as, a vesicular body.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to vesicles; esp., of or pertaining to the air vesicles, or air cells, of the lungs; as, vesicular breathing, or normal breathing, in which the air enters freely the air vesicles of the lungs.
  3. (a.) Containing, or composed of, vesicles or vesiclelike structures; covered with vesicles or bladders; vesiculate; as, vesicular coral; vesicular lava; a vesicular leaf.
• Velar
  1. (a.) Having the place of articulation on the soft palate; guttural; as, the velar consonants, such as k and hard q.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to a velum; esp. (Anat.) of or pertaining to the soft palate.
• Pycnaspidean
  1. (a.) Having the posterior side of the tarsus covered with small irregular scales; -- said of certain birds.
• Taxaspidean
  1. (a.) Having the posterior tarsal scales, or scutella, rectangular and arranged in regular rows; -- said of certain birds.
• Panacean
  1. (a.) Having the properties of a panacea.
• Specular
  1. (a.) Having the qualities of a speculum, or mirror; having a smooth, reflecting surface; as, a specular metal; a specular surface.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to a speculum; conducted with the aid of a speculum; as, a specular examination.
  3. (a.) Affording view.
  4. (a.) Assisting sight, as a lens or the like.
• Periscian
  1. (a.) Having the shadow moving all around.
• Semiorbicular
  1. (a.) Having the shape of a half orb or sphere.
• Stellular
  1. (a.) Having the shape or appearance of little stars; radiated.
  2. (a.) Marked with starlike spots of color.
• Laminiplantar
  1. (a.) Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
• Trilocular
  1. (a.) Having three cells or cavities; as, a trilocular capsule; a trilocular heart.
• Trirectangular
  1. (a.) Having three right angles. See Triquadrantal.
• Trivalvular
  1. (a.) Having three valves; three-valved.
• Unicellular
  1. (a.) Having, or consisting of, but a single cell; as, a unicellular organism.
• Wean
  1. (a.) Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.
  2. (n.) A weanling; a young child.
  3. (a.) To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mothers milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.


Synonyms:
Ablactate,
• Septangular
  1. (a.) Heptagonal.
• Solifidian
  1. (a.) Holding the tenets of Solifidians; of or pertaining to the solifidians.
  2. (n.) One who maintains that faith alone, without works, is sufficient for justification; -- opposed to nullifidian.
• Similar
  1. (a.) Homogenous; uniform.
  2. (a.) Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like.
  3. (a.) Nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects; somewhat like; having a general likeness.
  4. (n.) That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.


Synonyms:
Alike, Exchangeable, Interchangeable, Like,
• Senonian
  1. (a.) In european geology, a name given to the middle division of the Upper Cretaceous formation.
• Latitudinarian
  1. (a.) Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology.
  2. (a.) Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.
  3. (n.) A member of the Church of England, in the time of Charles II., who adopted more liberal notions in respect to the authority, government, and doctrines of the church than generally prevailed.
  4. (n.) One who departs in opinion from the strict principles of orthodoxy.
  5. (a.) Lax in moral or religious principles.
  6. (n.) One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking.
• Lunar
  1. (a.) Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar herbs.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations.
  3. (n.) The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus; -- called also semilunar, and intermedium.
  4. (a.) Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month.
  5. (n.) A lunar distance.
  6. (a.) Resembling the moon; orbed.
• Mediterranean
  1. (a.) Inland; remote from the ocean.
  2. (a.) Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, with land; as, the Mediterranean Sea, between Europe and Africa.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea; as, Mediterranean trade; a Mediterranean voyage.
• Labyrinthian
  1. (a.) Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.


Synonyms:
Labyrinthine, Mazy,
• Lanceolar
  1. (a.) Lanceolate.
• Triduan
  1. (a.) Lasting three lays; also, happening every third day.
• Leguleian
  1. (a.) Lawyerlike; legal.
  2. (n.) A lawyer.
• Lacertian
  1. (a.) Like a lizard; of or pertaining to the Lacertilia.
  2. (n.) One of the Lacertilia.
• Lobular
  1. (a.) Like a lobule; pertaining to a lobule or lobules.
• Saccular
  1. (a.) Like a sac; sacciform.
• Semicolumnar
  1. (a.) Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.
• Supernacular
  1. (a.) Like supernaculum; first-rate; as, a supernacular wine.
• Lagenian
  1. (a.) Like, or pertaining to, Lagena, a genus of Foraminifera having a straight, chambered shell.
• Panorpian
  1. (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Panorpa.
  2. (n.) Same as Panorpid.
• Lucifrian
  1. (a.) Luciferian; satanic.
• Manganesian
  1. (a.) Manganic.
• Manipular
  1. (a.) Manipulatory; as, manipular operations.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the maniple, or company.
• Sesquipedalian
  1. (a.) Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygmy; -- sometimes humorously applied to long words.


Synonyms:
Polysyllabic,
• Militar
  1. (a.) Military.
• Lactean
  1. (a.) Milky; consisting of, or resembling, milk.
  2. (a.) Lacteal; conveying chyle.
• Miltonian
  1. (a.) Miltonic.
• Preterhuman
  1. (a.) More than human.
• Transhuman
  1. (a.) More than human; superhuman.
• Penannular
  1. (a.) Nearly annular; having nearly the form of a ring.
• Subcircular
  1. (a.) Nearly circular.
• Subglobular
  1. (a.) Nearly globular.
• Subpentangular
  1. (a.) Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.
• Subtriangular
  1. (a.) Nearly, but not perfectly, triangular.
• Neologian
  1. (a.) Neologic; neological.
  2. (n.) A neologist.
  3. (n.) A neologist.
  4. (a.) Neologic; neological.
• Neuromuscular
  1. (a.) Nervomuscular.
  2. (a.) Nervomuscular.
• Norweyan
  1. (a.) Norwegian.
  2. (a.) Norwegian.
• Unhuman
  1. (a.) Not human; inhuman.
• Nonvernacular
  1. (a.) Not vernacular.
  2. (a.) Not vernacular.
• Triangular
  1. (a.) Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem.
  2. (a.) Having three angles; having the form of a triangle.


Synonyms:
Three-sided, Three-way, Trilateral, Tripartite,
• Triarian
  1. (a.) Occupying the third post or rank.
• Quintan
  1. (a.) Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever.
  2. (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days.
• Quotidian
  1. (a.) Occurring or returning daily; as, a quotidian fever.
  2. (n.) Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day.


Synonyms:
Everyday, Mundane, Routine, Workaday,
• Valetudinarian
  1. (a.) Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm.
  2. (n.) A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health.
• Urban
  1. (a.) Of or belonging to a city or town; as, an urban population.
  2. (a.) Belonging to, or suiting, those living in a city; cultivated; polite; urbane; as, urban manners.
• Unguicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a claw or a nail; ungual.
• Orarian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a coast.
• Tussicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a cough.
• Ungular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a hoof, claw, or talon; ungual.
• Linear
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction; lineal.
  2. (a.) Like a line; narrow; of the same breadth throughout, except at the extremities; as, a linear leaf.


Synonyms:
Additive, Analogue, Elongate, Running,
• Lobar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes.
• Molar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a mass of matter; -- said of the properties or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of molecules or atoms.
  2. (n.) Any one of the teeth back of the incisors and canines. The molar which replace the deciduous or milk teeth are designated as premolars, and those which are not preceded by deciduous teeth are sometimes called true molars. See Tooth.
  3. (a.) Having power to grind; grinding; as, the molar teeth; also, of or pertaining to the molar teeth.


Synonyms:
Grinder,
• Nuclear
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a nucleus; as, the nuclear spindle (see Illust. of Karyokinesis) or the nuclear fibrils of a cell; the nuclear part of a comet, etc.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to a nucleus; as, the nuclear spindle (see Illust. of Karyokinesis) or the nuclear fibrils of a cell; the nuclear part of a comet, etc.


Synonyms:
Atomic,
• Perinuclear
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm.
• Pavonian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a peacock.
• Peduncular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a peduncle; growing from a peduncle; as, a peduncular tendril.
• Pellicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a pellicle.
• Peninsular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a peninsula; as, a peninsular form; peninsular people; the peninsular war.
• Polypean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a polyp, or polyps.
• Pygmean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a pygmy; resembling a pygmy or dwarf; dwarfish; very small.
• Vallar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a rampart.
  2. (n.) A vallar crown.
• Superparticular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is a unit, as the ratio of 1 to 2, or of 3 to 4.
• Reliquian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a relic or relics; of the nature of a relic.
• Republican
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a republic.
  2. (n.) One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.
  3. (n.) The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together.
  4. (n.) A South African weaver bird (Philetaerus socius). These weaver birds build many nests together, under a large rooflike shelter, which they make of straw.
  5. (a.) Consonant with the principles of a republic; as, republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners.
  6. (n.) A member of the Republican party.
• Reticular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a reticulum.
  2. (a.) Having the form of a net, or of network; formed with interstices; retiform; as, reticular cartilage; a reticular leaf.


Synonyms:
Reticulate, Reticulated,
• Spectacular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show.
  2. (a.) Adapted to excite wonder and admiration by a display of pomp or of scenic effects; as, a spectacular celebration of some event; a spectacular play.
  3. (a.) Pertaining to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.


Synonyms:
Dramatic, Outstanding, Prominent, Salient, Striking,
• Spiracular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a spiracle.
• Stentorian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs.


Synonyms:
Booming,
• Sylvan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic.
  2. (a.) Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.
  3. (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran.
  4. (a.) A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic.


Synonyms:
Silvan,
• Tentacular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.
• Tegular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile, or arranged like tiles; consisting of tiles; as, a tegular pavement.
• Oppidan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a town.
  2. (n.) A student of Eton College, England, who is not a Kings scholar, and who boards in a private family.
  3. (n.) An inhabitant of a town.
• Trabecular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a trabecula or trabeculae; composed of trabeculae.


Synonyms:
Trabeculate,
• Uvular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a uvula.
• Vehicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a vehicle; serving as a vehicle; as, a vehicular contrivance.
• Ventricular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a ventricle; bellied.
• Vestiarian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a vestiary or vestments.
• Vestibular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a vestibule; like a vestibule.
• Viraginian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a virago; having the qualities of a virago.
• Vermicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a worm or worms; resembling a worm; shaped like a worm; especially, resembling the motion or track of a worm; as, the vermicular, or peristaltic, motion of the intestines. See Peristaltic.


Synonyms:
Vermiculate, Vermiculated,
• Wernerian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to A. G. Werner, The German mineralogist and geologist, who classified minerals according to their external characters, and advocated the theory that the strata of the earths crust were formed by depositions from water; designating, or according to, Werners system.
• Mazdean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Ahura-Mazda, or Ormuzd, the beneficent deity in the Zoroastrian dualistic system; hence, Zoroastrian.
• Tennysonian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Alfred (Lord) Tennyson, the English poet (1809-92); resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.
• Ovioular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to an egg.
• Outlinear
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to an outline; being in, or forming, an outline.
• Umbellar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to an umbel; having the form of an umbel.


Synonyms:
Umbellate,
• Numidian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Numidia in Northern Africa.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Numidia in Northern Africa.
• Nervomuscular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles; of the nature of nerves and muscles; as, nervomuscular energy.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles; of the nature of nerves and muscles; as, nervomuscular energy.
• Pan-American
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to both North and South America.
• Temporo-auricular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to both the temple and the ear; as, the temporo-auricular nerve.
• Temporomalar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to both the temple and the region of the malar bone; as, the temporomalar nerve.
• Tauromachian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to bullfights.
  2. (n.) A bullfighter.
• Pythian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Delphi, to the temple of Apollo, or to the priestess of Apollo, who delivered oracles at Delphi.
• Sanitarian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to health, or the laws of health; sanitary.
  2. (n.) An advocate of sanitary measures; one especially interested or versed in sanitary measures.
• Tabernacular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence, common; low.
  2. (a.) Formed in latticework; latticed.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle.
• Maccabean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Judas Maccabeus or to the Maccabees; as, the Maccabean princes; Maccabean times.
• Lacedaemonian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Lacedaemon or Sparta, the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus.
  2. (n.) A Spartan.
• Laodicean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Laodicea, a city in Phrygia Major; like the Christians of Laodicea; lukewarm in religion.
• Laputan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gullivers Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy.
• Lethean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Lethe; resembling in effect the water of Lethe.
• Libyan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Libya, the ancient name of that part of Africa between Egypt and the Atlantic Ocean, or of Africa as a whole.
• Pedicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to lice; having the lousy distemper (phthiriasis); lousy.
• Linnean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Linnaeus, the celebrated Swedish botanist.


Synonyms:
Linnaean,
• Listerian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to listerism.
• Livonian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Livonia, a district of Russia near the Baltic Sea.
• Lydian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Lydia, a country of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants; hence, soft; effeminate; -- said especially of one of the ancient Greek modes or keys, the music in which was of a soft, pathetic, or voluptuous character.
• Machiavelian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Machiavel, or to his supposed principles; politically cunning; characterized by duplicity or bad faith; crafty.
  2. (n.) One who adopts the principles of Machiavel; a cunning and unprincipled politician.
• Madrilenian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Madrid in Spain, or to its inhabitants.
  2. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Madrid.
• Majorcan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Majorca.
  2. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Majorca.
• Mantuan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Mantua.
  2. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Mantua.
• Martian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Mars, the Roman god of war, or to the planet bearing his name; martial.
  2. (n.) An inhabitant of the planet Mars.
• Melanesian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Melanesia.
• Micronesian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Micronesia, a collective designation of the islands in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, embracing the Marshall and Gilbert groups, the Ladrones, the Carolines, etc.
• Modular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to mode, modulation, module, or modius; as, modular arrangement; modular accent; modular measure.
• Molluscan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to mollusks.
  2. (n.) A mollusk; one of the Mollusca.
• Mongolian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Mongolia or the Mongols.
  2. (n.) One of the Mongols.


Synonyms:
Mongol, Mongolic,
• Moravian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.
  2. (n.) One of a religious sect called the United Brethren (an offshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was reestablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also Herrnhuter.
• Moroccan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Morocco, or its inhabitants.
• Pentelican
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Mount Pentelicus, near Athens, famous for its fine white marble quarries; obtained from Mount Pentelicus; as, the Pentelic marble of which the Parthenon is built.
• Nebular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to nebulae; of the nature of, or resembling, a nebula.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to nebulae; of the nature of, or resembling, a nebula.
• Nemean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Nemea, in Argolis, where the ancient Greeks celebrated games, and Hercules killed a lion.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Nemea, in Argolis, where the ancient Greeks celebrated games, and Hercules killed a lion.
• Northumbrian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Northumberland in England.
  2. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Northumberland.
  3. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Northumberland.
  4. (a.) Of or pertaining to Northumberland in England.
• Ogygian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Ogyges, a mythical king of ancient Attica, or to a great deluge in Attica in his days; hence, primeval; of obscure antiquity.
• Polar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to one of the poles of the earth, or of a sphere; situated near, or proceeding from, one of the poles; as, polar regions; polar seas; polar winds.
  2. (a.) Pertaining to, reckoned from, or having a common radiating point; as, polar coordinates.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to the magnetic pole, or to the point to which the magnetic needle is directed.
  4. (n.) The right line drawn through the two points of contact of the two tangents drawn from a given point to a given conic section. The given point is called the pole of the line. If the given point lies within the curve so that the two tangents become imaginary, there is still a real polar line which does not meet the curve, but which possesses other properties of the polar. Thus the focus and directrix are pole and polar. There are also poles and polar curves to curves of higher degree than the second, and poles and polar planes to surfaces of the second degree.


Synonyms:
Arctic, Diametric, Diametrical, Freezing, Frigid, Gelid, Glacial, Icy, Opposite, Pivotal,
• Orphean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Orpheus, the mythic poet and musician; as, Orphean strains.
• Paleotherian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Paleotherium.
• Palestinean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Palestine.
• Paphian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Paphos, an ancient city of Cyprus, having a celebrated temple of Venus; hence, pertaining to Venus, or her rites.
  2. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Paphos.
• Papuan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Papua.
• Papyrean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to papyrus, or to paper; papyraceous.
• Parisian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Paris.
  2. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Paris, the capital of France.
• Parmesan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Parma in Italy.
• Pasteurian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Pasteur.
• Pegasean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Pegasus, or, figuratively, to poetry.
• Pelagian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Pelagius, or to his doctrines.
  2. (n.) A follower of Pelagius, a British monk, born in the later part of the 4th century, who denied the doctrines of hereditary sin, of the connection between sin and death, and of conversion through grace.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to the sea; marine; pelagic; as, pelagian shells.
• Peruvian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Peru, in South America.
  2. (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Peru.
• Pierian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Pierides or Muses.
• Pilular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to pills; resembling a pill or pills; as, a pilular mass.
• Polynesian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Polynesia (the islands of the eastern and central Pacific), or to the Polynesians.
• Pomeranian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Pomerania, a province of Prussia on the Baltic Sea.
  2. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Pomerania.
• Procrustean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Procrustes, or the mode of torture practiced by him; producing conformity by violent means; as, the Procrustean treatment; a Procrustean limit. See Procrustes.
• Pythagorean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Pythagoras (a Greek philosopher, born about 582 b. c.), or his philosophy.
  2. (n.) A follower of Pythagoras; one of the school of philosophers founded by Pythagoras.
• Radicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to roots, or the root of a plant.
• Saturnian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Saturn, whose age or reign, from the mildness and wisdom of his government, is called the golden age.
  2. (n.) Any one of numerous species of large handsome moths belonging to Saturnia and allied genera. The luna moth, polyphemus, and promethea, are examples. They belong to the Silkworn family, and some are raised for their silk. See Polyphemus.
  3. (a.) Hence: Resembling the golden age; distinguished for peacefulness, happiness, contentment.
  4. (a.) Of or pertaining to the planet Saturn; as, the Saturnian year.
• Seljukian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Seljuk, a Tartar chief who embraced Mohammedanism, and began the subjection of Western Asia to that faith and rule; of or pertaining to the dynasty founded by him, or the empire maintained by his descendants from the 10th to the 13th century.
• Siberian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Siberia, a region comprising all northern Asia and belonging to Russia; as, a Siberian winter.
  2. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Siberia.
• Sicilian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Sicily or its inhabitants.
  2. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Sicily.
• Silesian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Silesia.
  2. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Silesia.
• Societarian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to society; social.
• Socinian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Socinus, or the Socinians.
  2. (n.) One of the followers of Socinus; a believer in Socinianism.
• Somnambular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to somnambulism; somnambulistic.
• Spartan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Sparta, especially to ancient Sparta; hence, hardy; undaunted; as, Spartan souls; Spartan bravey.
  2. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Sparta; figuratively, a person of great courage and fortitude.


Synonyms:
Ascetic, Austere, Severe, Strict,
• Stipular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to stipules; resembling stipules; furnished with stipules; growing on stipules, or close to them; occupying the position of stipules; as, stipular glands and stipular tendrils.
• Lapidarian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to stone; inscribed on stone; as, a lapidarian record.
• Swedenborgian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Swedenborg or his views.
  2. (n.) One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, as comprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is the one only God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the Scriptures, which he (Swedenborg) was able to reveal, because he saw the correspondence between natural and spiritual things.
• Syrian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Syria; Syriac.
  2. (n.) A native of Syria.
• Tahitian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Tahiti, an island in the Pacific Ocean.
  2. (n.) A native inhabitant of Tahiti.
• Tasmanian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van Diemens Land. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Tasmania; specifically (Ethnol.), in the plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited Tasmania, but is now extinct.
• Tempean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Temple, a valley in Thessaly, celebrated by Greek poets on account of its beautiful scenery; resembling Temple; hence, beautiful; delightful; charming.
• Terpsichorean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Terpsichore; of or pertaining to dancing.
• Thalian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Thalia; hence, of or pertaining to comedy; comic.
• Memphian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Memphis in Egypt; hence, Egyptian; as, Memphian darkness.
• Riparian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the bank of a river; as, riparian rights.
• Primipilar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the captain of the vanguard of a Roman army.
• Pridian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the day before, or yesterday.
• Necessitarian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the doctrine of philosophical necessity in regard to the origin and existence of things, especially as applied to the actings or choices of the will; -- opposed to libertarian.
  2. (n.) One who holds to the doctrine of necessitarianism.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to the doctrine of philosophical necessity in regard to the origin and existence of things, especially as applied to the actings or choices of the will; -- opposed to libertarian.
  4. (n.) One who holds to the doctrine of necessitarianism.
• Paleogaean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Eastern hemisphere.
• Spenserian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faerie Queene."
• Smithsonian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Englishman J. L. M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D. C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports.
  2. (n.) The Smithsonian Institution.
• Simian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the family Simiadae, which, in its widest sense, includes all the Old World apes and monkeys; also, apelike.
  2. (n.) Any Old World monkey or ape.
• Merovingian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the first Frankish dynasty in Gaul or France.
  2. (n.) One of the kings of this dynasty.
• Quartan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.
  2. (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days.
  3. (n.) A measure, the fourth part of some other measure.
• Lesbian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the island anciently called Lesbos, now Mitylene, in the Grecian Archipelago.
  2. (a.) Amatory; erotic; -- in allusion to the reputed sensuality of the Lesbian people and literature; as, Lesbian novels.


Synonyms:
Sapphic,
• Samian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the island of Samos.
  2. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Samos.
• Lemnian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the isle of Lemnos.
• Ovidian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Latin poet Ovid; resembling the style of Ovid.
• Leiotrichan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Leiotrichi.
  2. (n.) One of the Leiotrichi.
• Lucernarian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Lucernarida.
  2. (n.) One of the Lucernarida.
• Lyncean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the lynx.
• Malayan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Malays or their country.
  2. (n.) The Malay language.


Synonyms:
Malay,
• Malleolar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the malleolus; in the region of the malleoli of the ankle joint.
• Mammalian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mammalia or mammals.
• Mayan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mayas.
  2. (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, an American Indian linguistic stock occupying the Mexican States of Veracruz, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatan, together with a part of Guatemala and a part of Salvador. The Mayan peoples are dark, short, and brachycephallic, and at the time of the discovery had attained a higher grade of culture than any other American people. They cultivated a variety of crops, were expert in the manufacture and dyeing of cotton fabrics, used cacao as a medium of exchange, and were workers of gold, silver, and copper. Their architecture comprised elaborately carved temples and places, and they possessed a superior calendar, and a developed system of hieroglyphic writing, with records said to go back to about 700 a. d.


Synonyms:
Maya,
• Mesoscapular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the mesoscapula.
• Moneran
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Monera.
  2. (n.) One of the Monera.


Synonyms:
Moneron,
• Lacasterian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster, of England, in which advanced pupils in a school teach pupils below them.
• Nemetean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Nemertina.
  2. (n.) One of the Nemertina.
  3. (n.) One of the Nemertina.
  4. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Nemertina.
• Novilunar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the new moon.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the new moon.
• Neogaean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the New World, or Western Hemisphere.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the New World, or Western Hemisphere.
• Nucleolar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the nucleolus of a cell.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the nucleolus of a cell.
• Orcadian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Orkney Islands.
• Orkneyan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Orkney islands.
• Topiarian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the ornamental cutting and trimming of trees, hedges, etc.; practicing ornamental gardening.
• Oscan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Osci, a primitive people of Campania, a province of ancient Italy.
  2. (n.) The language of the Osci.
• Volar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot.
• Patellar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.
• Noachian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the patriarch Noah, or to his time.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the patriarch Noah, or to his time.
• Phaeacian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Phaeacians, a fabulous seafaring people fond of the feast, the lyre, and the dance, mentioned by Homer.
• Uranian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus; as, the Uranian year.
• Malthusian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the political economist, the Rev. T. R. Malthus, or conforming to his views; as, Malthusian theories.
• Pontifician
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the pontiff or pope.
  2. (n.) One who adheres to the pope or papacy; a papist.
• Postscapular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the postscapula; infraspinous.
• Prescapular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the prescapula; supraspinous.
• Pterosaurian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Pterosauria.
• Puritan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Puritans; resembling, or characteristic of, the Puritans.
  2. (n.) One who is scrupulous and strict in his religious life; -- often used reproachfully or in contempt; one who has overstrict notions.
  3. (n.) One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England.


Synonyms:
Blue, Prude, Puritanic, Puritanical,
• Pyrenean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Pyrenees, a range of mountains separating France and Spain.
  2. (n.) The Pyrenees.
• Rachidian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian.
• Malar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the region of the cheek bone, or to the malar bone; jugal.
  2. (n.) The cheek bone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit.
• Victorian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England; as, the Victorian poets.


Synonyms:
Priggish, Prim, Prudish, Puritanical, Square-toed,
• Rhachidian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the rhachis; as, the rhachidian teeth of a mollusk.
• Stygian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal. See Styx.


Synonyms:
Acherontic,
• Patrician
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (fathers) or senators, or patricians.
  2. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian.
  3. (n.) A person of high birth; a nobleman.
  4. (n.) Originally, a member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the nobility.
  5. (n.) One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore.


Synonyms:
Aristocrat, Aristocratic, Aristocratical, Blue, Gentle,
• Plebeian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as, plebeian sports; a plebeian throng.
  3. (n.) One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in distinction from patrician.
  4. (n.) One of the common people, or lower rank of men.


Synonyms:
Common, Unwashed, Vulgar,
• Rotular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the rotula, or kneepan.
• Sabbatarian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sabbath, or the tenets of Sabbatarians.
  2. (n.) A strict observer of the Sabbath.
  3. (n.) One who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week as holy, agreeably to the letter of the fourth commandment in the Decalogue.
• Saturnalian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Saturnalia.
  2. (a.) Of unrestrained and intemperate jollity; riotously merry; dissolute.
• Scapholunar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the scaphoid and lunar bones of the carpus.
  2. (n.) The scapholunar bone.
• Siphuncular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the siphuncle.
• Plantar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.
• Stilar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the style of a dial.
• Solar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun; as, the solar system; solar light; solar rays; solar influence. See Solar system, below.
  2. (a.) A loft or upper chamber; a garret room.
  3. (a.) Produced by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence.
  4. (a.) Born under the predominant influence of the sun.
  5. (a.) Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.
• Teleostean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the teleosts.
  2. (n.) A teleostean fish.
• Testicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the testicle.
• Tonsilar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the tonsils; tonsilitic.
• Tractarian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Tractarians, or their principles.
  2. (n.) One of the writers of the Oxford tracts, called "Tracts for the Times," issued during the period 1833-1841, in which series of papers the sacramental system and authority of the Church, and the value of tradition, were brought into prominence. Also, a member of the High Church party, holding generally the principles of the Tractarian writers; a Puseyite.
• Tubularian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the tubularians.
  2. (n.) Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida.
• Ulnar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the ulna, or the elbow; as, the ulnar nerve.
• Ulotrichan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ulotrichi.
  2. (n.) One of the Ulotrichi.
• Palmar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the under side of the wings of birds.
  2. (a.) Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand.
• Urodelian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Urodela.
  2. (n.) One of the Urodela.
• Valkyrian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Valkyrias; hence, relating to battle.
• Vascular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions.
  2. (a.) Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the phaenogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only.
  4. (a.) Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc.
• Thespian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Thespis; hence, relating to the drama; dramatic; as, the Thespian art.
  2. (n.) An actor.


Synonyms:
Actor, Histrion, Player,
• Tironian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome.
• Petrean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to to rock.
• Tolstoian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Tolstoy (1828-1910).
  2. (n.) A follower of Tolstoy, who advocates and practices manual labor, simplicity of living, nonresistance, etc., holds that possession of wealth and ownership of property are sinful, and in religion rejects all teachings not coming from Christ himself.
• Torricellian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. See Barometer.
• Trappean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to trap; being of the nature of trap.
• Ordalian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
• Tribunitian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority.
• Tripolitan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Tripoli or its inhabitants; Tripoline.
  2. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Tripoli.
• Trophonian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Trophonius, his architecture, or his cave and oracle.
• Tuscan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Tuscany in Italy; -- specifically designating one of the five orders of architecture recognized and described by the Italian writers of the 16th century, or characteristic of the order. The original of this order was not used by the Greeks, but by the Romans under the Empire. See Order, and Illust. of Capital.
  2. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Tuscany.
• Typhoean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Typhoeus (t/*f/"/s), the fabled giant of Greek mythology, having a hundred heads; resembling Typhoeus.
• Universalian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Universalism; Universalist.
• Valsalvian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Valsalva, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century.
• Vegetarian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to vegetarianism; as, a vegetarian diet.
  2. (n.) One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man. Strict vegetarians eat no meat, eggs, or milk.
• Versicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to verses; designating distinct divisions of a writing.
• Virgilian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Virgil, the Roman poet; resembling the style of Virgil.
• Vitruvian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Vitruvius, an ancient Roman architect.
• Silvan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to woods; composed of woods or groves; woody.
  2. (n.) See Sylvanium.


Synonyms:
Sylvan,
• Verbarian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to words; verbal.
  2. (n.) One who coins words.
• Xanthian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Xanthus, an ancient town on Asia Minor; -- applied especially to certain marbles found near that place, and now in the British Museum.
• New-year
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, the commencement of the year; as, New-year gifts or odes.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, the commencement of the year; as, New-year gifts or odes.
• Tribular
  1. (a.) Of or relating to a tribe; tribal; as, a tribual characteristic; tribular worship.
• Morphean
  1. (a.) Of or relating to Morpheus, to dreams, or to sleep.
• Locular
  1. (a.) Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as trilocular.
• Oxonian
  1. (a.) Of or relating to the city or the university of Oxford, England.
  2. (n.) A student or graduate of Oxford University, in England.
• Pandean
  1. (a.) Of or relating to the god Pan.
• Medicean
  1. (a.) Of or relating to the Medici, a noted Italian family; as, the Medicean Venus.
• Voltairean
  1. (a.) Of or relating to Voltaire, the French author.
• Pletinian
  1. (a.) Of pertaining to the Plotinists or their doctrines.
• Lilliputian
  1. (a.) Of very small size; diminutive; dwarfed.
  2. (n.) A person or thing of very small size.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to the imaginary island of Lilliput described by Swift, or to its inhabitants.
  4. (n.) One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swifts "Voyage to Lilliput."


Synonyms:
Bantam, Diminutive, Fiddling, Little, Midget, Niggling, Petite, Petty, Picayune, Piddling, Piffling, Tiny, Trivial,
• Nymphean
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, nymphs; inhabited by nymphs; as, a nymphean cave.
  2. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, nymphs; inhabited by nymphs; as, a nymphean cave.
• Microbian
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or caused by, microbes; as, the microbian theory; a microbian disease.
• Pompeian
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, Pompeii, an ancient city of Italy, buried by an eruption of Vesuvius in 79 a. d., and partly uncovered by modern excavations.
• Palladian
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a variety of the revived classic style of architecture, founded on the works of Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the 16th century.
• Turanian
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an extensive family of languages of simple structure and low grade (called also Altaic, Ural-Altaic, and Scythian), spoken in the northern parts of Europe and Asia and Central Asia; of pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these languages.
  2. (n.) One of the Turanians.
• Pacinian
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Filippo Pacini, an Italian physician of the 19th century.
• Mullerian
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Johannes Muller.
• Malpighian
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Marcello Malpighi, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century.
• Meibomian
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Meibomius.
• Naperian
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Napier, or Naper.
  2. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Napier, or Naper.
• Pabular
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or fit for, pabulum or food; affording food.
• Nodular
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the form of, a nodule or knot.
  2. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the form of, a nodule or knot.


Synonyms:
Noduled,
• Trilinear
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or included by, three lines; as, trilinear coordinates.
• Oparcular
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, an operculum.
• Wagnerian
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling the style of, Richard Wagner, the German musical composer.
• Navicular
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a boat or ship.
  2. (a.) Shaped like a boat; cymbiform; scaphoid; as, the navicular glumes of most grasses; the navicular bone.
  3. (n.) The navicular bone.
  4. (a.) Shaped like a boat; cymbiform; scaphoid; as, the navicular glumes of most grasses; the navicular bone.
  5. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a boat or ship.
  6. (n.) The navicular bone.


Synonyms:
Scaphoid,
• Uniocular
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or seated in, one eye; monocular.
• Optician
  1. (a.) One who deals in optical glasses and instruments.
  2. (a.) One skilled in optics.
• Opacular
  1. (a.) Opaque.
• Orbitar
  1. (a.) Orbital.
• Orchidean
  1. (a.) Orchidaceous.
• Pancratian
  1. (a.) Pancratic; athletic.
• Paradisean
  1. (a.) Paradisiacal.
• Paradisian
  1. (a.) Paradisiacal.
• Parochian
  1. (a.) Parochial.
  2. (n.) A parishioner.
• Peculiar
  1. (a.) Particular; individual; special; appropriate.
  2. (n.) That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.
  3. (a.) Ones own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation.
  4. (a.) Unusual; singular; rare; strange; as, the sky had a peculiarappearance.
  5. (n.) A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary.


Synonyms:
Curious, Funny, Odd, Particular, Queer, Rum, Rummy, Singular, Special,
• Pendular
  1. (a.) Pendulous.
• Pericardian
  1. (a.) Pericardiac.
• Mendelian
  1. (a.) Pert. to Mendel, or to Mendels law.
• Mausolean
  1. (a.) Pertaining to a mausoleum; monumental.
• Rostellar
  1. (a.) Pertaining to a rostellum.
• Libertarian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.
  2. (n.) One who holds to the doctrine of free will.
• Tarpeian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to or designating a rock or peak of the Capitoline hill, Rome, from which condemned criminals were hurled.
• Sonoran
  1. (a.) Pertaining to or designating the arid division of the Austral zone, including the warmer parts of the western United States and central Mexico. It is divided into the Upper Sonoran, which lies next to the Transition zone, and the Lower Sonoran, next to the Tropical.
• Regalian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to regalia; pertaining to the royal insignia or prerogatives.
• Laminarian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to that zone of the sea (from two to ten fathoms in depth) where the seaweeds of this genus grow.
• Sigaultian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to Sigault, a French physician. See Symphyseotomy.
• Rhetian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the ancient Rhaeti, or Rhaetians, or to Rhaetia, their country; as, the Rhetian Alps, now the country of Tyrol and the Grisons.
• Sabellian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.
  2. (n.) A follower of Sabellius, a presbyter of Ptolemais in the third century, who maintained that there is but one person in the Godhead, and that the Son and Holy Spirit are only different powers, operations, or offices of the one God the Father.
• Maxillo-mandibular
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the maxilla and mandible; as, the maxillo-mandibular nerve.
• Pactolian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the Pactolus, a river in ancient Lydia famous for its golden sands.
• Perigean
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the perigee.
• Receptacular
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as, the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower.
• Sacculo-cochlear
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the sacculus and cochlea of the ear.
• Sacculo-utricular
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the sacculus and utriculus of the ear.
• Syndyasmian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the state of pairing together sexually; -- said of animals during periods of procreation and while rearing their offspring.
• Substylar
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the substyle.
• Norian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the upper portion of the Laurentian rocks.
  2. (a.) Pertaining to the upper portion of the Laurentian rocks.
• Marian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the Virgin Mary, or sometimes to Mary, Queen of England, daughter of Henry VIII.
• Magnesian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, characterized by, or containing, magnesia or magnesium.
• Molecular
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, connected with, produced by, or consisting of, molecules; as, molecular forces; molecular groups of atoms, etc.
• Washingtonian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy.
  2. (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence.
  3. (n.) A member of the Washingtonian Society.
• Nicotian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, tobacco.
  2. (n.) Tobacco.
  3. (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, tobacco.
  4. (n.) Tobacco.
• Meckelian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or discovered by, J. F. Meckel, a German anatomist.
• Lacunar
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or having, lacunae; as, a lacunar circulation.
  2. (n.) One of the sunken panels in such a ceiling.
  3. (n.) The ceiling or under surface of any part, especially when it consists of compartments, sunk or hollowed without spaces or bands between the panels.
• Megalesian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or in honor of, Cybele; as, the Megalesian games at Rome.
• Lamarckian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or involved in, the doctrines of Lamarckianism.
• Laurentian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or near, the St. Lawrence River; as, the Laurentian hills.
• Marmorean
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, marble; made of marble.


Synonyms:
Marmoreal,
• Mephistophelian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the devil Mephistopheles, "a crafty, scoffing, relentless fiend;" devilish; crafty.


Synonyms:
Devilish, Diabolic, Diabolical,
• Scrobicular
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or surrounding, scrobiculae; as, scrobicular tubercles.
• Phalangian
  1. (a.) Phalangeal.
• Phanerogamian
  1. (a.) Phanerogamous.
• Plano-orbicular
  1. (a.) Plane or flat on one side, and spherical on the other.
• Polyandrian
  1. (a.) Polyandrous.
• Polygamian
  1. (a.) Polygamous.
• Proboscidean
  1. (a.) Proboscidian.


Synonyms:
Proboscidian,
• Rhizogan
  1. (a.) Prodicing roots.
• Ovular
  1. (a.) Relating or belonging to an ovule; as, an ovular growth.
• Plumular
  1. (a.) Relating to a plumule.
• Sisyphean
  1. (a.) Relating to Sisyphus; incessantly recurring; as, Sisyphean labors.
• Quinquarticular
  1. (a.) Relating to the five articles or points; as, the quinquarticular controversy between Arminians and Calvinists.
• Pedalian
  1. (a.) Relating to the foot, or to a metrical foot; pedal.
• Serbonian
  1. (a.) Relating to the lake of Serbonis in Egypt, which by reason of the sand blowing into it had a deceptive appearance of being solid land, but was a bog.
• Sabian
  1. (a.) Relating to the religion of Saba, or to the worship of the heavenly bodies.
  2. (n.) An adherent of the Sabian religion; a worshiper of the heavenly bodies.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to Saba in Arabia, celebrated for producing aromatic plants.
• Nestorian
  1. (a.) relating to, or resembling, Nestor, the aged warior and counselor mentioned by Homer; hence, wise; experienced; aged; as, Nestorian caution.
  2. (a.) Of or relating to the Nestorians.
  3. (n.) An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect established by the followers of Nestorius in Persia, india, and other Oriental countries, and still in existence. opposed to Eutychian.
  4. (a.) relating to, or resembling, Nestor, the aged warior and counselor mentioned by Homer; hence, wise; experienced; aged; as, Nestorian caution.
  5. (n.) An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect established by the followers of Nestorius in Persia, india, and other Oriental countries, and still in existence. opposed to Eutychian.
  6. (a.) Of or relating to the Nestorians.
• Spicular
  1. (a.) Resembling a dart; having sharp points.
• Lenticular
  1. (a.) Resembling a lentil in size or form; having the form of a double-convex lens.


Synonyms:
Biconvex, Convexo-convex, Lentiform,
• Utricular
  1. (a.) Resembling a utricle or bag, whether large or minute; -- said especially with reference to the condition of certain substances, as sulphur, selenium, etc., when condensed from the vaporous state and deposited upon cold bodies, in which case they assume the form of small globules filled with liquid.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to a utricle, or utriculus; containing, or furnished with, a utricle or utricles; utriculate; as, a utricular plant.
• Oracular
  1. (a.) Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.


Synonyms:
Delphic, Enigmatic,
• Nectarean
  1. (a.) Resembling nectar; very sweet and pleasant.
  2. (a.) Resembling nectar; very sweet and pleasant.
• Orbicular
  1. (a.) Resembling or having the form of an orb; spherical; circular; orbiculate.


Synonyms:
Globose, Globular, Orbiculate, Spheric, Spherical,
• Lunisolar
  1. (a.) Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon.
• Rectangular
  1. (a.) Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees.


Synonyms:
Orthogonal,
• Monandrian
  1. (a.) Same as Monandrous.
• Papillar
  1. (a.) Same as Papillose.
• Univalvular
  1. (a.) Same as Univalve, a.
• Sardonian
  1. (a.) Sardonic.
• Laryngean
  1. (a.) See Laryngeal.
• Medullar
  1. (a.) See Medullary.
• Obtusangular
  1. (a.) See Obstuseangular.
• Panslavonian
  1. (a.) See Panslavic.
• Praemolar
  1. (a.) See Premolar.
• Praetorian
  1. (a.) See Pretorian.


Synonyms:
Pretorial, Pretorian,
• Procrustesian
  1. (a.) See Procrustean.
• Pigmean
  1. (a.) See Pygmean.
• Sirbonian
  1. (a.) See Serbonian.
• Stylar
  1. (a.) See Stilar.
• Supra-angular
  1. (a.) See Surangular.
• Taliacotian
  1. (a.) See Tagliacotian.
• Trilinguar
  1. (a.) See Trilingual.
• Semifloscular
  1. (a.) Semiflosculous.
• Senatorian
  1. (a.) Senatorial.
• Modiolar
  1. (a.) Shaped like a bushel measure.
• Supraclavicular
  1. (a.) Situated above the clavicle.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the supraclavicle.
• Supraorbitar
  1. (a.) Situated above the orbit of the eye.
• Subpolar
  1. (a.) Situated below the poles.
• Subpeduncular
  1. (a.) Situated beneath the peduncle; as, the subpeduncular lobe of the cerebellum.
• Prelumbar
  1. (a.) Situated immediately in front of the loins; -- applied to the dorsal part of the abdomen.
• Preopercular
  1. (a.) Situated in front of the operculum; pertaining to the preoperculum.
  2. (n.) The preoperculum.
• Subhyoidean
  1. (a.) Situated or performed beneath the hyoid bone; as, subhyoidean laryngotomy.
• Supratrochlear
  1. (a.) Situated over or above a trochlea or trochlear surface; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.
• Suborbitar
  1. (a.) Situated under or below the orbit.
• Subclavian
  1. (a.) Situated under the clavicle, or collar bone; as, the subclavian arteries.
• Subcuticular
  1. (a.) Situated under the cuticle, or scarfskin.
• Sublobular
  1. (a.) Situated under, or at the bases of, the lobules of the liver.
• Subocular
  1. (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the eye.


Synonyms:
Suborbital,
• Sublumbar
  1. (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the lumbar region of the vertebral column.
• Submuscular
  1. (a.) Situated underneath a muscle or muscles.
• Subangular
  1. (a.) Slightly angular.
• Solidungular
  1. (a.) Solipedous.
• Subgranular
  1. (a.) Somewhat granular.
• Sotadean
  1. (a.) Sotadic.
• Rectilinear
  1. (a.) Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course.


Synonyms:
Rectilineal,
• Vertilinear
  1. (a.) Straight; rectilinear.
• Struthian
  1. (a.) Struthious.
• Suburbian
  1. (a.) Suburban.
• Rhetorician
  1. (a.) Suitable to a master of rhetoric.
  2. (n.) An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer.
  3. (n.) One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.
  4. (n.) A teacher of rhetoric.


Synonyms:
Orator, Speechifier, Speechmaker,
• Sustentacular
  1. (a.) Supporting; sustaining; as, a sustentacular tissue.
• Pericellular
  1. (a.) Surrounding a cell; as, the pericellular lymph spaces surrounding ganglion cells.
• Sylvestrian
  1. (a.) Sylvan.
• Limitarian
  1. (a.) Tending to limit.
• Lyterian
  1. (a.) Terminating a disease; indicating the end of a disease.
• Tessular
  1. (a.) Tesseral.
• Triplasian
  1. (a.) Three-fold; triple; treble.
• Titan
  1. (a.) Titanic.


Synonyms:
Behemoth, Colossus, Giant,
• Sear
  1. (a.) To burn (the surface of) to dryness and hardness; to cauterize; to expose to a degree of heat such as changes the color or the hardness and texture of the surface; to scorch; to make callous; as, to sear the skin or flesh. Also used figuratively.
  2. (n.) The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.
  3. (a.) To wither; to dry up.
  4. (a.) Alt. of Sere


Synonyms:
Parch, Scorch, Sere, Shriveled, Shrivelled, Singe, Withered,
• Tubicolar
  1. (a.) Tubicolous.
• Ubiquarian
  1. (a.) Ubiquitous.
• Subnuvolar
  1. (a.) Under the clouds; attended or partly covered or obscured by clouds; somewhat cloudy.
• Marcian
  1. (a.) Under the influence of Mars; courageous; bold.
• Roman
  1. (a.) Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters.
  2. (n.) A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans; as, Roman fortitude; a Roman aqueduct; Roman art.
  4. (n.) Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; -- in distinction from Italics.
  5. (a.) Expressed in letters, not in figures, as I., IV., i., iv., etc.; -- said of numerals, as distinguished from the Arabic numerals, 1, 4, etc.
  6. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion; professing that religion.


Synonyms:
Papist, Papistic, Papistical, Popish, Romanist, Romish,
• Urceolar
  1. (a.) Urceolate.
• Panomphean
  1. (a.) Uttering ominous or prophetic voices; divining.
• Valvar
  1. (a.) Valvular.
• Variolar
  1. (a.) Variolous.
• Volcanian
  1. (a.) Volcanic.
• Vulcanian
  1. (a.) Volcanic.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; hence, of or pertaining to works in iron or other metals.
• Muscular
  1. (a.) Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a muscular body or arm.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles; consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as, muscular fiber.
  3. (a.) Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.


Synonyms:
Brawny, Hefty, Powerful, Sinewy,
• Meandrian
  1. (a.) Winding; having many turns.
• Xiphoidian
  1. (a.) Xiphoid.
• Near
  1. (adv.) Next to the driver, when he is on foot; in the Unted States, on the left of an animal or a team; as, the near ox; the near leg. See Off side, under Off, a.
  2. (adv.) Not far distant in time, place, or degree; not remote; close at hand; adjacent; neighboring; nigh.
  3. (v. i.) To draw near; to approach.
  4. (a) Close-fisted; parsimonious.
  5. (adv.) Closely; intimately.
  6. (adv.) Nearly; almost; well-nigh.
  7. (a) Immediate; direct; close; short.
  8. (adv.) Close to ones interests, affection, etc.; touching, or affecting intimately; intimate; dear; as, a near friend.
  9. (adv.) Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling; as, a version near to the original.
  10. (adv.) Closely connected or related.
  11. (adv.) To approach; to come nearer; as, the ship neared the land.
  12. (adv.) So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow; as, a near escape.
  13. (adv.) At a little distance, in place, time, manner, or degree; not remote; nigh.
  14. (prep.) Adjacent to; close by; not far from; nigh; as, the ship sailed near the land. See the Note under near, a.
  15. (adv.) Closely connected or related.
  16. (adv.) Nearly; almost; well-nigh.
  17. (adv.) Close to ones interests, affection, etc.; touching, or affecting intimately; intimate; dear; as, a near friend.
  18. (a) Immediate; direct; close; short.
  19. (adv.) So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow; as, a near escape.
  20. (adv.) To approach; to come nearer; as, the ship neared the land.
  21. (v. i.) To draw near; to approach.
  22. (a) Close-fisted; parsimonious.
  23. (adv.) Closely; intimately.
  24. (adv.) Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling; as, a version near to the original.
  25. (adv.) At a little distance, in place, time, manner, or degree; not remote; nigh.
  26. (prep.) Adjacent to; close by; not far from; nigh; as, the ship sailed near the land. See the Note under near, a.
  27. (adv.) Not far distant in time, place, or degree; not remote; close at hand; adjacent; neighboring; nigh.
  28. (adv.) Next to the driver, when he is on foot; in the Unted States, on the left of an animal or a team; as, the near ox; the near leg. See Off side, under Off, a.


Synonyms:
About, Almost, Approach, Approximate, Cheeseparing, Close, Closer, Dear, Good, Most, Nearly, Nigh, Virtually, Well-nigh,
• Overseas
  1. (adv.) Over the sea; abroad.


Synonyms:
Abroad, Oversea,
• Than
  1. (adv.) Then. See Then.
  2. (conj.) A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I would rather suffer than that you should want.
• Toyear
  1. (adv.) This year.
• Whan
  1. (adv.) When.
• Whereas
  1. (conj.) When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that; although; -- implying opposition to something that precedes; or implying recognition of facts, sometimes followed by a different statement, and sometimes by inferences or something consequent.
  2. (adv.) At which place; where.
  3. (conj.) Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow.
• Whenas
  1. (conj.) Whereas; while
• Kneepan
  1. (n.) A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap.


Synonyms:
Kneecap, Patella,
• Sultan
  1. (n.) A ruler, or sovereign, of a Mohammedan state; specifically, the ruler of the Turks; the Padishah, or Grand Seignior; -- officially so called.
• Scimitar
  1. (n.) A saber with a much curved blade having the edge on the convex side, -- in use among Mohammedans, esp., the Arabs and persians.
  2. (n.) A long-handled billhook. See Billhook.
• Marai
  1. (n.) A sacred inclosure or temple; -- so called by the islanders of the Pacific Ocean.
• Landsman
  1. (n.) A sailor on his first voyage.
  2. (n.) One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.


Synonyms:
Landlubber, Landman, Lubber,
• Scripturian
  1. (n.) A Scripturist.
• Shipman
  1. (n.) A seaman, or sailor.
• Reloan
  1. (n.) A second lending of the same thing; a renewal of a loan.
• Sean
  1. (n.) A seine. See Seine.
• Serpulidan
  1. (n.) A serpula.
• Siphorhinian
  1. (n.) A siphorhinal bird.
• Wheatear
  1. (n.) A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail.
• Lochan
  1. (n.) A small lake; a pond.
• Statesman
  1. (n.) A small landholder.
  2. (n.) One occupied with the affairs of government, and influental in shaping its policy.
  3. (n.) A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities.


Synonyms:
Solon,
• Saucepan
  1. (n.) A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan.
• Viceman
  1. (n.) A smith who works at the vice instead of at the anvil.
• Rifleman
  1. (n.) A soldier armed with a rifle.
  2. (pl. ) of Rifleman
• Pretorian
  1. (n.) A soldier of the pretorian guard.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to a pretor or magistrate; judicial; exercised by, or belonging to, a pretor; as, pretorian power or authority.


Synonyms:
Praetorian, Pretorial,
• Swordsman
  1. (n.) A soldier; a fighting man.
  2. (n.) One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.


Synonyms:
Fencer,
• Seedsman
  1. (n.) A sower; one who sows or scatters seed.
  2. (n.) A person who deals in seeds.


Synonyms:
Seedman,
• Priapean
  1. (n.) A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each.
• Pecan
  1. (n.) A species of hickory (Carya olivaeformis), growing in North America, chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas, where it is one of the largest of forest trees; also, its fruit, a smooth, oblong nut, an inch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and well-flavored meat.
• Mechoacan
  1. (n.) A species of jalap, of very feeble properties, said to be obtained from the root of a species of Convolvulus (C. Mechoacan); -- so called from Michoacan, in Mexico, whence it is obtained.
• Sloakan
  1. (n.) A species of seaweed. [Spelled also slowcawn.] See 3d Laver.
• Woodman
  1. (n.) A sportsman; a hunter.
  2. (n.) A forest officer appointed to take care of the kings woods; a forester.
  3. (n.) One who dwells in the woods or forest; a bushman.
  4. (n.) One who cuts down trees; a woodcutter.


Synonyms:
Woodsman,
• Welshman
  1. (n.) A squirrel fish.
  2. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Wales; one of the Welsh.
  3. (n.) The large-mouthed black bass. See Black bass.


Synonyms:
Cambrian, Welsh,
• Stelleridean
  1. (n.) A starfish, or brittle star.
• Pavan
  1. (n.) A stately and formal Spanish dance for which full state costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock.
• Wealsman
  1. (n.) A statesman; a politician.
• Sternsman
  1. (n.) A steersman.
• Stercorarian
  1. (n.) A Stercoranist.
• Texas
  1. (n.) A structure on the hurricane deck of a steamer, containing the pilot house, officers cabins, etc.


Synonyms:
Lone-Star State,
• Stian
  1. (n.) A sty on the eye. See Styan.
• Trocar
  1. (n.) A stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy.
• Soldan
  1. (n.) A sultan.
• Soudan
  1. (n.) A sultan.
• Supra-auricular
  1. (n.) A supra-auricular feather.
  2. (a.) Situated above the ear coverts, or auriculars; -- said of certain feathers of birds.
• Swagsman
  1. (n.) A swagman.
• Sugar
  1. (n.) A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below.
  2. (v. i.) In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; -- with the preposition off.
  3. (v. t.) To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with.
  4. (n.) Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
  5. (v. t.) To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof.
  6. (n.) By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste.


Synonyms:
Carbohydrate, Saccharify,
• Leman
  1. (n.) A sweetheart, of either sex; a gallant, or a mistress; -- usually in a bad sense.
• Nectar
  1. (n.) A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.
  2. (n.) The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.
  3. (n.) The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.
  4. (n.) A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.


Synonyms:
Ambrosia,
• Swinglebar
  1. (n.) A swingletree.
• Swordman
  1. (n.) A swordsman.
• Syrphian
  1. (n.) A syrphus fly.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the syrphus flies.
• Technician
  1. (n.) A technicist; esp., one skilled particularly in the technical details of his work.
• Neocomian
  1. (n.) A term applied to the lowest deposits of the Cretaceous or chalk formation of Europe, being the lower greensand.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the lower greensand.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to the lower greensand.
  4. (n.) A term applied to the lowest deposits of the Cretaceous or chalk formation of Europe, being the lower greensand.
• Sea-bar
  1. (n.) A tern.
• Nehushtan
  1. (n.) A thing of brass; -- the name under which the Israelites worshiped the brazen serpent made by Moses.
  2. (n.) A thing of brass; -- the name under which the Israelites worshiped the brazen serpent made by Moses.
• Tiar
  1. (n.) A tiara.
• Pemmican
  1. (n.) A treatise of much thought in little compass.
  2. (n.) Meat, without the fat, cut in thin slices, dried in the sun, pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration.
  3. (n.) Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun.
• Mangostan
  1. (n.) A tree of the East Indies of the genus Garcinia (G. Mangostana). The tree grows to the height of eighteen feet, and bears fruit also called mangosteen, of the size of a small apple, the pulp of which is very delicious food.
• Medlar
  1. (n.) A tree of the genus Mespilus (M. Germanica); also, the fruit of the tree. The fruit is something like a small apple, but has a bony endocarp. When first gathered the flesh is hard and austere, and it is not eaten until it has begun to decay.
• Tewan
  1. (n.) A tribe of American Indians including many of the Pueblos of New Mexico and adjacent regions.
• Trudgeman
  1. (n.) A truchman.
• Tethydan
  1. (n.) A tunicate.
• Turcoman
  1. (n.) A Turcoman carpet.
  2. (n.) A member of a tribe of Turanians inhabiting a region east of the Caspian Sea.


Synonyms:
Turkoman,
• Turfman
  1. (n.) A turfite; a votary of the turf, or race course.
• Ottoman
  1. (n.) A Turk.
  2. (n.) A stuffed seat without a back, originally used in Turkey.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Turks; as, the Ottoman power or empire.


Synonyms:
Footstool, Hassock, Pouf, Pouffe,
• Lar
  1. (n.) A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house.
  2. (n.) A species of gibbon (Hylobates lar), found in Burmah. Called also white-handed gibbon.
• Tyran
  1. (n.) A tyrant.
• Vanessian
  1. (n.) A vanessa.
• Shiver-spar
  1. (n.) A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
• Varietas
  1. (n.) A variety; -- used in giving scientific names, and often abbreviated to var.
• Venetian
  1. (n.) A Venetian blind.
  2. (n.) Galligaskins.
  3. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Venice.
  4. (a.) Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy.
• Tampan
  1. (n.) A venomous South African tick.
• Proatlas
  1. (n.) A vertebral rudiment in front of the atlas in some reptiles.
• Patamar
  1. (n.) A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon.
• Vas
  1. (n.) A vessel; a duct.


Synonyms:
Vessel,
• Vicarian
  1. (n.) A vicar.
• Subashdar
  1. (n.) A viceroy; a governor of a subah; also, a native captain in the British native army.
• Villan
  1. (n.) A villain.
• Upas
  1. (n.) A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute).
  2. (n.) A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas.
• Vulgarian
  1. (n.) A vulgar person; one who has vulgar ideas. Used also adjectively.
• Patas
  1. (n.) A West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ruber); the red monkey.
• Light-horseman
  1. (n.) A West Indian fish of the genus Ephippus, remarkable for its high dorsal fin and brilliant colors.
  2. (n.) A soldier who serves in the light horse. See under 5th Light.
• Mannitan
  1. (n.) A white amorphous or crystalline substance obtained by the partial dehydration of mannite.
• Koulan
  1. (n.) A wild horse (Equus, / Asinus, onager) inhabiting the plants of Central Asia; -- called also gour, khur, and onager.
• Tarpan
  1. (n.) A wild horse found in the region of the Caspian Sea.
• Stateswoman
  1. (n.) A woman concerned in public affairs.
• Needlewoman
  1. (n.) A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
  2. (n.) A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.


Synonyms:
Dressmaker, Modiste, Seamstress, Sempstress,
• Workwoman
  1. (n.) A woman who performs any work; especially, a woman skilled in needlework.
• Tradeswoman
  1. (n.) A woman who trades, or is skilled in trade.
• Washerwoman
  1. (n.) A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others.
  2. (n.) The pied wagtail; -- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants.


Synonyms:
Laundress,
• Saleswoman
  1. (n.) A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.
• Simar
  1. (n.) A womans long dress or robe; also light covering; a scarf.
• Norman
  1. (n.) A wooden bar, or iron pin.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Normandy or to the Normans; as, the Norman language; the Norman conquest.
  3. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Normandy; originally, one of the Northmen or Scandinavians who conquered Normandy in the 10th century; afterwards, one of the mixed (Norman-French) race which conquered England, under William the Conqueror.
  4. (n.) A wooden bar, or iron pin.
  5. (a.) Of or pertaining to Normandy or to the Normans; as, the Norman language; the Norman conquest.
  6. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Normandy; originally, one of the Northmen or Scandinavians who conquered Normandy in the 10th century; afterwards, one of the mixed (Norman-French) race which conquered England, under William the Conqueror.
• Woodsman
  1. (n.) A woodman; especially, one who lives in the forest.


Synonyms:
Woodman,
• Redan
  1. (n.) A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy.
  2. (n.) A step or vertical offset in a wall on uneven ground, to keep the parts level.
• Metalman
  1. (n.) A worker in metals.
• Staffman
  1. (n.) A workman employed in silk throwing.
• Supersedeas
  1. (n.) A writ of command to suspend the powers of an officer in certain cases, or to stay proceedings under another writ.
• Miscellanarian
  1. (n.) A writer of miscellanies.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to miscellanies.
• Proseman
  1. (n.) A writer of prose.
• Tragedian
  1. (n.) A writer of tragedy.
  2. (n.) An actor or player in tragedy.
• Nias
  1. (n.) A young hawk; an eyas; hence, an unsophisticated person.
  2. (n.) A young hawk; an eyas; hence, an unsophisticated person.
• Klipdas
  1. (n.) Alt. of Klipdachs
• Leban
  1. (n.) Alt. of Lebban
• Loadsman
  1. (n.) Alt. of Lodesman
• Loadstar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Lodestar


Synonyms:
Lodestar,
• Mahomedan
  1. (n.) Alt. of Mahometan
• Mahumetan
  1. (n.) Alt. of Mahumetanism
• Manichean
  1. (n.) Alt. of Manichee
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Manichaeans.
• Marsupialian
  1. (n.) Alt. of Marsupian
• Motor car
  1. (n.) Alt. of Motorcar
• Myrobalan
  1. (n.) Alt. of Myrobolan
• Odalman
  1. (n.) Alt. of Odalwoman
• Origan
  1. (n.) Alt. of Origanum
• Paulian
  1. (n.) Alt. of Paulianist
• Pedlar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Pedler


Synonyms:
Hawker, Packman, Peddler,
• Photometrician
  1. (n.) Alt. of Photometrist
  2. (n.) One engaged in the scientific measurement of light.
• Plowman
  1. (n.) Alt. of Ploughman


Synonyms:
Ploughman, Plower,
• Powan
  1. (n.) Alt. of Powen
• Puzzolan
  1. (n.) Alt. of Puzzolana
• Roberdsman
  1. (n.) Alt. of Robertsman
• Rubrician
  1. (n.) Alt. of Rubricist
• Salpian
  1. (n.) Alt. of Salpid
• Sardan
  1. (n.) Alt. of Sardel
• Sclav
  1. (n.) Alt. of Sclave
• Seawan
  1. (n.) Alt. of Seawant
• Seminarian
  1. (n.) Alt. of Seminarist


Synonyms:
Seminarist,
• Serpulian
  1. (n.) Alt. of Serpulidan
• Shaftman
  1. (n.) Alt. of Shaftment
• Shintiyan
  1. (n.) Alt. of Shintyan
• Stelleridan
  1. (n.) Alt. of Stelleridean
• Symar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Symarr
• Talookdar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Talukdar
• Thomaean
  1. (n.) Alt. of Thomean
• Toran
  1. (n.) Alt. of Torana
• Pogamoggan
  1. (n.) An aboriginal weapon consisting of a stone or piece of antler fastened to the end of a slender wooden handle, used by American Indians from the Great Plains to the Mackenzie River.
• Neo-Hegelian
  1. (n.) An adherent of Neo-Hegelianism.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Neo-Hegelianism.
• Neo-Kantian
  1. (n.) An adherent of Neo-Kantianism.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Neo-Kantianism.
• Oliverian
  1. (n.) An adherent of Oliver Cromwell.
• Necessarian
  1. (n.) An advocate of the doctrine of philosophical necessity; a nacessitarian.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to necessarianism.
  3. (n.) An advocate of the doctrine of philosophical necessity; a nacessitarian.
  4. (a.) Of or pertaining to necessarianism.
• Pestalozzian
  1. (n.) An advocate or follower of the system of Pestalozzi.
  2. (a.) Belonging to, or characteristic of, a system of elementary education which combined manual training with other instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi (1746-1827), a Swiss teacher.
• Skyman
  1. (n.) An aeronaut.
• Middleman
  1. (n.) An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.
  2. (n.) The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers.
  3. (n.) A person of intermediate rank; a commoner.


Synonyms:
Contact, Interlocutor, Jobber,
• Sassafras
  1. (n.) An American tree of the Laurel family (Sassafras officinale); also, the bark of the roots, which has an aromatic smell and taste.
• Par
  1. (n.) An amount which is taken as an average or mean.
  2. (n.) The number of strokes required for a hole or a round played without mistake, two strokes being allowed on each hole for putting. Par represents perfect play, whereas bogey makes allowance on some holes for human frailty. Thus if par for a course is 75, bogey is usually put down, arbitrarily, as 81 or 82.
  3. (n.) Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.
  4. (n.) See Parr.
  5. (prep.) By; with; -- used frequently in Early English in phrases taken from the French, being sometimes written as a part of the word which it governs; as, par amour, or paramour; par cas, or parcase; par fay, or parfay.
  6. (n.) Equality of condition or circumstances.


Synonyms:
Equality, Equation, Equivalence,
• Pykar
  1. (n.) An ancient English fishing boat.
• Paean
  1. (n.) An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities.
  2. (n.) See Paeon.
  3. (n.) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.


Synonyms:
Encomium, Eulogy, Panegyric, Pean,
• Tripodian
  1. (n.) An ancient stringed instrument; -- so called because, in form, it resembled the Delphic tripod.
• Premolar
  1. (n.) An anterior molar tooth which has replaced a deciduous molar. See Tooth.
  2. (a.) Situated in front of the molar teeth.


Synonyms:
Bicuspid,
• Promethean
  1. (n.) An apparatus for automatic ignition.
  2. (n.) A kind of lucifer match.
  3. (a.) Having a life-giving quality; inspiring.
  4. (a.) Of or pertaining to Prometheus. See Prometheus.
• Leviathan
  1. (n.) An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture.
  2. (n.) The whale, or a great whale.
• Overman
  1. (n.) An arbiter.
  2. (n.) In the philosophy of Nietzsche, a man of superior physique and powers capable of dominating others; one fitted to survive in an egoistic struggle for the mastery.
  3. (n.) One in authority over others; a chief; usually, an overseer or boss.
• Radian
  1. (n.) An arc of a circle which is equal to the radius, or the angle measured by such an arc.


Synonyms:
Rad,
• Underhangman
  1. (n.) An assistant or deputy hangman.
• Sidesman
  1. (n.) An assistant to the churchwarden; a questman.
  2. (n.) A party man; a partisan.
• Romajikai
  1. (n.) An association, including both Japanese and Europeans, having for its object the changing of the Japanese method of writing by substituting Roman letters for Japanese characters.
• Waterman
  1. (n.) An attendant on cab stands, etc., who supplies water to the horses.
  2. (n.) A water demon.
  3. (n.) A man who plies for hire on rivers, lakes, or canals, or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman.


Synonyms:
Boatman,
• Penman
  1. (n.) An author; a composer.
  2. (n.) One who uses the pen; a writer; esp., one skilled in the use of the pen; a calligrapher; a writing master.


Synonyms:
Scribbler, Scribe,
• Motorcar
  1. (n.) An automobile, locomobile, or locomotive designed to run and be steered on a street or roadway; esp., an automobile specially designed for passengers.
  2. (n.) Any car containing motors for propulsion.


Synonyms:
Automobile, Car, Machine,
• Partan
  1. (n.) An edible British crab.
• Verrugas
  1. (n.) An endemic disease occurring in the Andes in Peru, characterized by warty tumors which ulcerate and bleed. It is probably due to a special bacillus, and is often fatal.
• Orthoceras
  1. (n.) An extinct genus of Paleozoic Cephalopoda, having a long, straight, conical shell. The interior is divided into numerous chambers by transverse septa.
• Kolarian
  1. (n.) An individual of one of the races of aboriginal inhabitants which survive in Hindostan.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Kolarians.
• Lampas
  1. (n.) An inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the roof of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the horse; -- called also lampers.
• Townsman
  1. (n.) An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another.
  2. (n.) A selectman, in New England. See Selectman.
• Laconian
  1. (n.) An inhabitant of Laconia; esp., a Spartan.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Laconia, a division of ancient Greece; Spartan.
• Roumanian
  1. (n.) An inhabitant of Roumania; also, the language of Roumania, one of the Romance or Romanic languages descended from Latin, but containing many words from other languages, as Slavic, Turkish, and Greek.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Roumania.
• Lunarian
  1. (n.) An inhabitant of the moon.
• Samoan
  1. (n.) An inhabitant of the Samoan Islands.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Samoan Islands (formerly called Navigators Islands) in the South Pacific Ocean, or their inhabitants.
• Utopian
  1. (n.) An inhabitant of Utopia; hence, one who believes in the perfectibility of human society; a visionary; an idealist; an optimist.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Utopia; resembling Utopia; hence, ideal; chimerical; fanciful; founded upon, or involving, imaginary perfections; as, Utopian projects; Utopian happiness.
• Wallachian
  1. (n.) An inhabitant of Wallachia; also, the language of the Wallachians; Roumanian.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Wallachia, a former principality, now part of the kingdom, of Roumania.
• Portman
  1. (n.) An inhabitant or burgess of a port, esp. of one of the Cinque Ports.
• Tetrapteran
  1. (n.) An insect having four wings.
• Metabolian
  1. (n.) An insect which undergoes a metamorphosis.
• Loresman
  1. (n.) An instructor.
• Tellurian
  1. (n.) An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the earth.
  3. (n.) A dweller on the earth.


Synonyms:
Earthling, Telluric, Terrene, Terrestrial,
• Organ
  1. (n.) An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, etc., are organs of government.
  2. (n.) A wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ.
  3. (v. t.) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs; to organize.
  4. (n.) A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action (termed its function), which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs of plants.
  5. (n.) A medium of communication between one person or body and another; as, the secretary of state is the organ of communication between the government and a foreign power; a newspaper is the organ of its editor, or of a party, sect, etc.
  6. (n.) A component part performing an essential office in the working of any complex machine; as, the cylinder, valves, crank, etc., are organs of the steam engine.


Synonyms:
Harmonium,
• Psoas
  1. (n.) An internal muscle arising from the lumbar vertebrae and inserted into the femur. In man there are usually two on each side, and the larger one, or great psoas, forms a part of the iliopsoas.
• Truchman
  1. (n.) An interpreter. See Dragoman.
• Puddle-bar
  1. (n.) An iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle-ball hammering and rolling.
• Scar
  1. (n.) An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.
  2. (n.) A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.
  3. (n.) A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement.
  4. (n.) A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust.. under Axillary.
  5. (v. t.) To mark with a scar or scars.
  6. (v. i.) To form a scar.


Synonyms:
Cicatrice, Cicatrix, Mark, Pit, Pock, Scrape, Scratch,
• Musar
  1. (n.) An itinerant player on the musette, an instrument formerly common in Europe.
• Landman
  1. (n.) An occupier of land.
  2. (n.) A man who lives or serves on land; -- opposed to seaman.


Synonyms:
Landlubber, Landsman,
• Sacristan
  1. (n.) An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton.


Synonyms:
Sexton,
• Tineman
  1. (n.) An officer of the forest who had the care of vert and venison by night.
• Privateersman
  1. (n.) An officer or seaman of a privateer.


Synonyms:
Privateer,
• Meresman
  1. (n.) An officer who ascertains meres or boundaries.
• Pleaseman
  1. (n.) An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank.
• Picamar
  1. (n.) An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.
• Ranchman
  1. (n.) An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman.
• Oversman
  1. (n.) An umpire; a third arbiter, appointed when two arbiters, previously selected, disagree.
  2. (n.) An overseer; a superintendent.
• Nullifidian
  1. (n.) An unbeliever.
  2. (a.) Of no faith; also, not trusting to faith for salvation; -- opposed to solifidian.
  3. (n.) An unbeliever.
  4. (a.) Of no faith; also, not trusting to faith for salvation; -- opposed to solifidian.
• Subdean
  1. (n.) An under dean; the deputy or substitute of a dean.
• Sublibrarian
  1. (n.) An under or assistant librarian.
• Subsizar
  1. (n.) An under sizar; a student of lower rank than a sizar.
• Levulosan
  1. (n.) An unfermentable carbohydrate obtained by gently heating levulose.
• Regian
  1. (n.) An upholder of kingly authority; a royalist.
• Nereidian
  1. (n.) Any annelid resembling Nereis, or of the family Lycoridae or allied families.
  2. (n.) Any annelid resembling Nereis, or of the family Lycoridae or allied families.
• Pulmonarian
  1. (n.) Any arachnid that breathes by lunglike organs, as the spiders and scorpions. Also used adjectively.
• Meliphagan
  1. (n.) Any bird of the genus Meliphaga and allied genera; a honey eater; -- called also meliphagidan.
  2. (a.) Belonging to the genus Meliphaga.
• Siluridan
  1. (n.) Any fish of the family Siluridae or of the order Siluroidei.
• Sarcophagan
  1. (n.) Any fly of the genus Sarcophaga.
  2. (n.) Any animal which eats flesh, especially any carnivorous marsupial.
• Ptarmigan
  1. (n.) Any grouse of the genus Lagopus, of which numerous species are known. The feet are completely feathered. Most of the species are brown in summer, but turn white, or nearly white, in winter.
• Sao
  1. (n.) Any marine annelid of the genus Hyalinaecia, especially H. tubicola of Europe, which inhabits a transparent movable tube resembling a quill in color and texture.
• Sea saurian
  1. (n.) Any marine saurian; esp. (Paleon.) the large extinct species of Mosasaurus, Icthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, and related genera.
• Nonagrian
  1. (n.) Any moth of the genus Nonagria and allied genera, as the spindleworm and stalk borer.
  2. (n.) Any moth of the genus Nonagria and allied genera, as the spindleworm and stalk borer.
• Ostracean
  1. (n.) Any one of a family of bivalves, of which the oyster is the type.
• Pagurian
  1. (n.) Any one of a tribe of anomuran crustaceans, of which Pagurus is a type; the hermit crab. See Hermit crab, under Hermit.
• Trachelidan
  1. (n.) Any one of a tribe of beetles (Trachelides) which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples.
• Ortalidian
  1. (n.) Any one of numerous small two-winged flies of the family Ortalidae. The larvae of many of these flies live in fruit; those of others produce galls on various plants.
• Tettigonian
  1. (n.) Any one of numerous species of Hemiptera belonging to Tettigonia and allied genera; a leaf hopper.
• Scincoidian
  1. (n.) Any one of numerous species of lizards of the family Scincidae or tribe Scincoidea. The tongue is not extensile. The body and tail are covered with overlapping scales, and the toes are margined. See Illust. under Skink.
• Virgularian
  1. (n.) Any one of numerous species of long, slender Alcyonaria belonging to Virgularia and allied genera of the family Virgularidae. These corals are allied to the sea-pens, but have a long rodlike rhachis inclosing a slender, round or square, calcareous axis. The polyps are arranged in transverse rows or clusters along each side of the rhachis.
• Syllidian
  1. (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Syllidae.
• Pholas
  1. (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pholas, or family Pholadidae. They bore holes for themselves in clay, peat, and soft rocks.
• Mercaptan
  1. (n.) Any one of series of compounds, hydrosulphides of alcohol radicals, in composition resembling the alcohols, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen, and hence called also the sulphur alcohols. In general, they are colorless liquids having a strong, repulsive, garlic odor. The name is specifically applied to ethyl mercaptan, C2H5SH. So called from its avidity for mercury, and other metals.
• Tragopan
  1. (n.) Any one of several species of Asiatic pheasants of the genus Ceriornis. They are brilliantly colored with a variety of tints, the back and breast are usually covered with white or buff ocelli, and the head is ornamented with two bright-colored, fleshy wattles. The crimson tragopan, or horned pheasant (C. satyra), of India is one of the best-known species.
• Notodontian
  1. (n.) Any one of several species of bombycid moths belonging to Notodonta, Nerice, and allied genera. The caterpillar of these moths has a hump, or spine, on its back.
  2. (n.) Any one of several species of bombycid moths belonging to Notodonta, Nerice, and allied genera. The caterpillar of these moths has a hump, or spine, on its back.
• Notidanian
  1. (n.) Any one of several species of sharks of the family Notidanidae, or Hexanchidae. Called also cow sharks. See Shark.
  2. (n.) Any one of several species of sharks of the family Notidanidae, or Hexanchidae. Called also cow sharks. See Shark.
• Xylophagan
  1. (n.) Any one of the Xylophagides.
  2. (n.) One of a tribe of beetles whose larvae bore or live in wood.
  3. (n.) Any species of Xylophaga.
• Lepas
  1. (n.) Any one of various species of Lepas, a genus of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, Gulf weed, etc.; -- called also goose barnacle. See Barnacle.
• Lithosian
  1. (n.) Any one of various species of moths belonging to the family Lithosidae. Many of them are beautifully colored.
• Valerian
  1. (n.) Any plant of the genus Valeriana. The root of the officinal valerian (V. officinalis) has a strong smell, and is much used in medicine as an antispasmodic.
• Plumularian
  1. (n.) Any Plumularia. Also used adjectively.
• Thalassian
  1. (n.) Any sea tortoise.
• Psychian
  1. (n.) Any small moth of the genus Psyche and allied genera (family Psychidae). The larvae are called basket worms. See Basket worm, under Basket.
• Liparian
  1. (n.) Any species of a family (Liparidae) of destructive bombycid moths, as the tussock moths.
• Necrophagan
  1. (n.) Any species of a tribe (Necrophaga) of beetles which, in the larval state, feed on carrion; a burying beetle.
  2. (a.) Eating carrion.
  3. (n.) Any species of a tribe (Necrophaga) of beetles which, in the larval state, feed on carrion; a burying beetle.
  4. (a.) Eating carrion.
• Orchestian
  1. (n.) Any species of amphipod crustacean of the genus Orchestia, or family Orchestidae. See Beach flea, under Beach.
• Sea-ear
  1. (n.) Any species of ear-shaped shells of the genus Haliotis. See Abalone.


Synonyms:
Ormer,
• Rutilian
  1. (n.) Any species of lamellicorn beetles belonging to Rutila and allied genera, as the spotted grapevine beetle (Pelidnota punctata).
• Maldanian
  1. (n.) Any species of marine annelids of the genus Maldane, or family Maldanidae. They have a slender, round body, and make tubes in the sand or mud.
• Solenacean
  1. (n.) Any species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the family Solenidae.
• Spheniscan
  1. (n.) Any species of penguin.
• Phocacean
  1. (n.) Any species of Phoca; a seal.
• Sertularian
  1. (n.) Any species of Sertularia, or of Sertularidae, a family of hydroids having branched chitinous stems and simple sessile hydrothecae. Also used adjectively.
• Sirenian
  1. (n.) Any species of Sirenia.


Synonyms:
Sea cow,
• Thalassinian
  1. (n.) Any species of Thalaassinidae, a family of burrowing macrurous Crustacea, having a long and soft abdomen.
• Tinean
  1. (n.) Any species of Tinea, or of the family Tineidae, which includes numerous small moths, many of which are injurious to woolen and fur goods and to cultivated plants. Also used adjectively.
• Maian
  1. (n.) Any spider crab of the genus Maia, or family Maiadae.
• Violet-ear
  1. (n.) Any tropical humming bird of the genus Petasophora, having violet or purplish ear tufts.
• Realgar
  1. (n.) Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red orpiment. It is also an artificial product.
• Schwanpan
  1. (n.) Chinese abacus.
• Overwear
  1. (n.) Clothing worn over the ordinary indoor closing, as overcoats, wraps, etc.
  2. (v. t.) To wear too much; to wear out.
• Lebban
  1. (n.) Coagulated sour milk diluted with water; -- a common beverage among the Arabs. Also, a fermented liquor made of the same.
• Kyar
  1. (n.) Cocoanut fiber, or the cordage made from it. See Coir.
• Remblai
  1. (n.) Earth or materials made into a bank after having been excavated.
• Mudar
  1. (n.) Either one of two asclepiadaceous shrubs (Calotropis gigantea, and C. procera), which furnish a strong and valuable fiber. The acrid milky juice is used medicinally.
• Man
  1. (n.) Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.
  2. (n.) One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
  3. (n.) One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.
  4. (n.) A human being; -- opposed tobeast.
  5. (n.) An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
  6. (v. t.) To tame, as a hawk.
  7. (n.) The male portion of the human race.
  8. (v. t.) To furnish with a servants.
  9. (n.) A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.
  10. (v. t.) To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.
  11. (v. t.) To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.
  12. (n.) A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we ve no time to lose!
  13. (n.) One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
  14. (v. t.) To wait on as a manservant.
  15. (n.) The human race; mankind.


Synonyms:
Gentleman, Human, Humanity, Humankind, Mankind, Piece, Valet, World,
• Swan
  1. (n.) Fig.: An appellation for a sweet singer, or a poet noted for grace and melody; as Shakespeare is called the swan of Avon.
  2. (n.) Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. They have a large and strong beak and a long neck, and are noted for their graceful movements when swimming. Most of the northern species are white. In literature the swan was fabled to sing a melodious song, especially at the time of its death.
  3. (n.) The constellation Cygnus.


Synonyms:
Affirm, Assert, Aver, Avow, Cast, Drift, Ramble, Range, Roam, Rove, Stray, Swear, Tramp, Vagabond, Verify, Wander,
• Saltcellar
  1. (n.) Formerly a large vessel, now a small vessel of glass or other material, used for holding salt on the table.
• Midshipman
  1. (n.) Formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required.
  2. (n.) An American marine fish of the genus Porichthys, allied to the toadfish.
  3. (n.) In the United States navy, the lowest grade of officers in line of promotion, being graduates of the Naval Academy awaiting promotion to the rank of ensign.
  4. (n.) In the English naval service, the second rank attained by a combatant officer after a term of service as naval cadet. Having served three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant.
• Ligan
  1. (n.) Goods sunk in the sea, with a buoy attached in order that they may be found again. See Jetsam and Flotsam.


Synonyms:
Lagan,
• Uproar
  1. (n.) Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor.
  2. (v. t.) To throw into uproar or confusion.
  3. (v. i.) To make an uproar.


Synonyms:
Garboil, Hubbub, Tumult,
• Padar
  1. (n.) Groats; coarse flour or meal.
• Workman
  1. (n.) Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
  2. (n.) A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker.
• Utas
  1. (n.) Hence, festivity; merriment.
  2. (n.) The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael.
• Ortolan
  1. (n.) In America, the sora, or Carolina rail (Porzana Carolina). See Sora.
  2. (n.) In England, the wheatear (Saxicola oenanthe).
  3. (n.) A European singing bird (Emberiza hortulana), about the size of the lark, with black wings. It is esteemed delicious food when fattened. Called also bunting.
• Taotai
  1. (n.) In China, an official at the head of the civil and military affairs of a circuit, which consists of two or more fu, or territorial departments; -- called also, by foreigners, intendant of circuit. Foreign consuls and commissioners associated with taotais as superintendants of trade at the treaty ports are ranked with the taotai.
• Sowar
  1. (n.) In India, a mounted soldier.
• Ressaldar
  1. (n.) In the Anglo-Indian army, a native commander of a ressala.
• Scalar
  1. (n.) In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction.
• Sirdar
  1. (n.) In Turkey, Egypt, etc., a commander in chief, esp. the one commanding the Anglo-Egyptian army.
  2. (n.) A native chief in Hindostan; a headman.
• Maidan
  1. (n.) In various parts of Asia, an open space, as for military exercises, or for a market place; an open grassy tract; an esplanade.
• Lopeman
  1. (n.) Leaper; ropedancer.
• Was
  1. (imp.) of Be
  2. (v.) The first and third persons singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, preterit (imperfect) tense; as, I was; he was.
• Outran
  1. (imp.) of Outrun
• Overran
  1. (imp.) of Overrun
• Wan
  1. (imp.) Won.
  2. (v. i.) To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.
  3. (n.) The quality of being wan; wanness.
  4. (a.) Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
  5. () of Win


Synonyms:
Pale, Pallid,
• Nan
  1. (inerj.) Anan.
  2. (inerj.) Anan.
• Manofwar
  1. (n) A government vessel employed for the purposes of war, esp. one of large size; a ship of war.
• Oar
  1. (n) An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar.
  2. (n) An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates.
  3. (v. t. & i.) To row.
  4. (n) An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom.
• Sublapsarian
  1. (n. & a.) Same as Infralapsarian.
• Othman
  1. (n. & a.) See Ottoman.
• Lagan
  1. (n. & v.) See Ligan.


Synonyms:
Ligan,
• Stean
  1. (n. & v.) See Steen.
• Tarbogan
  1. (n. & v.) See Toboggan.
• Samurai
  1. (n. pl. & sing.) In the former feudal system of Japan, the class or a member of the class, of military retainers of the daimios, constituting the gentry or lesser nobility. They possessed power of life and death over the commoners, and wore two swords as their distinguishing mark. Their special rights and privileges were abolished with the fall of feudalism in 1871.
• Ugrian
  1. (n. pl.) A Mongolian race, ancestors of the Finns.
• Oneidas
  1. (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the region near Oneida Lake in the State of New York, and forming part of the Five Nations. Remnants of the tribe now live in New York, Canada, and Wisconsin.
• Onondagas
  1. (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting what is now a part of the State of New York. They were the central or head tribe of the Five Nations.
• Wichitas
  1. (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians native of the region between the Arkansas and Red rivers. They are related to the Pawnees. See Pawnees.
• Senecas
  1. (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations.
• Omahas
  1. (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who inhabited the south side of the Missouri River. They are now partly civilized and occupy a reservation in Nebraska.
• Ottawas
  1. (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who, when first known, lived on the Ottawa River. Most of them subsequently migrated to the southwestern shore of Lake Superior.
• Tuscaroras
  1. (n. pl.) A tribe of North American Indians formerly living on the Neuse and Tar rivers in North Carolina. They were conquered in 1713, after which the remnant of the tribe joined the Five Nations, thus forming the Six Nations. See Six Nations, under Six.
• Pyjamas
  1. (n. pl.) Alt. of Pajamas


Synonyms:
Pajamas,
• Silvas
  1. (n. pl.) Alt. of Selvas
  2. (pl. ) of Silva
• Peorias
  1. (n. pl.) An Algonquin tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Illinois.
• Labras
  1. (n. pl.) Lips.
• Pajamas
  1. (n. pl.) Originally, in India, loose drawers or trousers, such as those worn, tied about the waist, by Mohammedan men and women; by extension, a similar garment adopted among Europeans, Americans, etc., for wear in the dressing room and during sleep; also, a suit consisting of drawers and a loose upper garment for such wear.
  2. (n. pl.) A garment, similar to the Oriental pyjama (which see), adopted among Europeans, Americans, and other Occidentals, for wear in the dressing room and during sleep; also, a suit of drawers and blouse for such wear.


Synonyms:
Pyjamas,
• Saan
  1. (n. pl.) Same as Bushmen.
• Osar
  1. (n. pl.) See 3d Os.
  2. (pl. ) of Os
• Upsarokas
  1. (n. pl.) See Crows.
• Witan
  1. (n. pl.) the members of the national, or kings, council which sat to assist the king in administrative and judicial matters; also, the council.
  2. (n. pl.) Lit., wise men;
• Pampas
  1. (n. pl.) Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia.
• Selvas
  1. (n. pl.) Vast woodland plains of South America.
• Loan
  1. (n. t.) To lend; -- sometimes with out.
  2. (n.) The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.
  3. (n.) That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan.
  4. (n.) A loanin.


Synonyms:
Lend,
• Superman
  1. (n.) = Overman, above.


Synonyms:
Demigod,
• Melolonthidian
  1. (n.) A beetle of the genus Melolontha, and allied genera. See May beetle, under May.
• Phlogistian
  1. (n.) A believer in the existence of phlogiston.
• Thomsonian
  1. (n.) A believer in Thomsonianism; one who practices Thomsonianism.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Thomsonianism.
• Traducian
  1. (n.) A believer in traducianism.
• Stahlian
  1. (n.) A believer in, or advocate of, Stahlism.
  2. (a.) Pertaining to, or taught by, Stahl, a German physician and chemist of the 17th century; as, the Stahlian theory of phlogiston.
• Mesomyodian
  1. (n.) A bird having a mesomyodous larynx.
• Merulidan
  1. (n.) A bird of the Thrush family.
• Lurdan
  1. (n.) A blockhead.
  2. (a.) Stupid; blockish.
• Wangan
  1. (n.) A boat for conveying provisions, tools, etc.; -- so called by Maine lumbermen.
• Randan
  1. (n.) A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle rower pulling two.
  2. (n.) The product of a second sifting of meal; the finest part of the bran.
• Robertsman
  1. (n.) A bold, stout robber, or night thief; -- said to be so called from Robin Hood.
• Mear
  1. (n.) A boundary. See Mere.
• Linkman
  1. (n.) A boy or man that carried a link or torch to light passengers.


Synonyms:
Linkboy,
• Stableman
  1. (n.) A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.


Synonyms:
Groom, Hostler, Ostler, Stableboy,
• Swagman
  1. (n.) A bushman carrying a swag and traveling on foot; -- called also swagsman, swagger, and swaggie.
• Predacean
  1. (n.) A carnivorous animal.
• Suctorian
  1. (n.) A cartilaginous fish with a mouth adapted for suction, as the lampery.
  2. (n.) One of the Suctoria.
• Seggar
  1. (n.) A case or holder made of fire clay, in which fine pottery is inclosed while baking in the kin.
• Subcellar
  1. (n.) A cellar beneath another story wholly or partly underground; usually, a cellar under a cellar.
• Parian
  1. (n.) A ceramic ware, resembling unglazed porcelain biscuit, of which are made statuettes, ornaments, etc.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Paros, an island in the Aegean Sea noted for its excellent statuary marble; as, Parian marble.
  3. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Paros.
• Landamman
  1. (n.) A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.
  2. (n.) The president of the diet of the Helvetic republic.
• Sampan
  1. (n.) A Chinese boat from twelve to fifteen feet long, covered with a house, and sometimes used as a permanent habitation on the inland waters.
• Questman
  1. (n.) A churchwardens assistant; a sidesman.
  2. (n.) One legally empowered to make quest of certain matters, esp. of abuses of weights and measures.
  3. (n.) A collector of parish rents.
• Moorpan
  1. (n.) A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc.
• Van
  1. (n.) A close railway car for baggage. See the Note under Car, 2.
  2. (n.) A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
  3. (v. t.) To fan, or to cleanse by fanning; to winnow.
  4. (n.) The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle.
  5. (n.) A shovel used in cleansing ore.
  6. (n.) A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others fore the transportation of goods.
  7. (n.) A large covered wagon for moving furniture, etc., also for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition.
  8. (v. t.) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
  9. (n.) A wing with which the air is beaten.


Synonyms:
Caravan, Vanguard,
• Moggan
  1. (n.) A closely fitting knit sleeve; also, a legging of knitted material.
• Neckwear
  1. (n.) A collective term for cravats, collars, etc.
  2. (n.) A collective term for cravats, collars, etc.
• Xiphias
  1. (n.) A comet shaped like a sword
  2. (n.) The constellation Dorado.
  3. (n.) A genus of fishes comprising the common swordfish.
• Oxalan
  1. (n.) A complex nitrogenous substance C3N3H5O3 obtained from alloxan (or when urea is fused with ethyl oxamate), as a stable white crystalline powder; -- called also oxaluramide.
• Murexan
  1. (n.) A complex nitrogenous substance obtained from murexide, alloxantin, and other ureids, as a white, or yellowish, crystalline which turns red on exposure to the air; -- called also uramil, dialuramide, and formerly purpuric acid.
• Metrician
  1. (n.) A composer of verses.
• Myophan
  1. (n.) A contractile striated layer found in the bodies and stems of certain Infusoria.
• Trepan
  1. (n.) A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
  2. (n.) A snare; a trapan.
  3. (v. t.) To insnare; to trap; to trapan.
  4. (n.) a deceiver; a cheat.
  5. (v. t. & i.) To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan.
  6. (n.) A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.


Synonyms:
Trephine,
• Rosarian
  1. (n.) A cultivator of roses.
• Tidesman
  1. (n.) A customhouse officer who goes on board of a merchant ship to secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.
• Silkman
  1. (n.) A dealer in silks; a silk mercer.
• Ptisan
  1. (n.) A decoction of barley with other ingredients; a farinaceous drink.
  2. (n.) An aqueous medicine, containing little, if any, medicinal agent; a tea or tisane.
• Mullar
  1. (n.) A die, cut in intaglio, for stamping an ornament in relief, as upon metal.
• Tertian
  1. (n.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.
  2. (a.) Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.
  3. (n.) A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.
• Ragman
  1. (n.) A document having many names or numerous seals, as a papal bull.
  2. (n.) A man who collects, or deals in, rags.
• Tire-woman
  1. (n.) A dresser in a theater.
  2. (n.) A ladys maid.
• Myrobolan
  1. (n.) A dried astringent fruit much resembling a prune. It contains tannin, and was formerly used in medicine, but is now chiefly used in tanning and dyeing. Myrobolans are produced by various species of Terminalia of the East Indies, and of Spondias of South America.
• Sheitan
  1. (n.) A dust storm.
  2. (n.) An evil spirit; the evil one; the devil.
  3. (n.) One of bad disposition; a fiend.
• Paralian
  1. (n.) A dweller by the sea.
• Publican
  1. (n.) A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation.
  2. (n.) The keeper of an inn or public house; one licensed to retail beer, spirits, or wine.
• Smear
  1. (n.) A fat, oily substance; oinment.
  2. (n.) Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain.
  3. (n.) To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy.
  4. (n.) To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.


Synonyms:
Asperse, Bedaub, Besmear, Besmirch, Blot, Blur, Calumniate, Daub, Defame, Denigrate, Slander, Slur, Smirch, Smudge, Smutch, Spot, Stain, Sully, Vilification,
• Trencher-man
  1. (n.) A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer.
  2. (n.) A cook.
  3. (n.) A table companion; a trencher mate.
• Noblewoman
  1. (n.) A female of noble rank; a peeress.
  2. (n.) A female of noble rank; a peeress.


Synonyms:
Lady, Peeress,
• Kinswoman
  1. (n.) A female relative.
• Penwoman
  1. (n.) A female writer; an authoress.
• Prian
  1. (n.) A fine, white, somewhat friable clay; also, the ore contained in a mixture of clay and pebbles.
• Ossean
  1. (n.) A fish having a bony skeleton; a teleost.
• Trawlerman
  1. (n.) A fisherman who used unlawful arts and engines to catch fish.
• Peterman
  1. (n.) A fisherman; -- so called after the apostle Peter.
• Tiebar
  1. (n.) A flat bar used as a tie.
• Mesohepar
  1. (n.) A fold of the peritoneum connecting the liver with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity.
• Southcottian
  1. (n.) A follower of Joanna Southcott (1750-1814), an Englishwoman who, professing to have received a miraculous calling, preached and prophesied, and committed many impious absurdities.
• Semi-Pelagian
  1. (n.) A follower of John Cassianus, a French monk (died about 448), who modified the doctrines of Pelagius, by denying human merit, and maintaining the necessity of the Spirits influence, while, on the other hand, he rejected the Augustinian doctrines of election, the inability of man to do good, and the certain perseverance of the saints.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Semi-Pelagians, or their tenets.
• Mathusian
  1. (n.) A follower of Malthus.
• Mohammedan
  1. (n.) A follower of Mohammed, the founder of Islamism; one who professes Mohammedanism or Islamism.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Mohammed, or the religion and institutions founded by Mohammed.


Synonyms:
Moslem, Muhammadan, Muhammedan, Muslim,
• Newtonian
  1. (n.) A follower of Newton.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, or his discoveries.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, or his discoveries.
  4. (n.) A follower of Newton.
• Paracelsian
  1. (n.) A follower of Paracelsus or his practice or teachings.
  2. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in conformity with, the practice of Paracelsus, a Swiss physician of the 15th century.
• Sandemanian
  1. (n.) A follower of Robert Sandeman, a Scotch sectary of the eighteenth century. See Glassite.
• Saint-Simonian
  1. (n.) A follower of the Count de St. Simon, who died in 1825, and who maintained that the principle of property held in common, and the just division of the fruits of common labor among the members of society, are the true remedy for the social evils which exist.
• Monothalaman
  1. (n.) A foraminifer having but one chamber.
• Tympan
  1. (n.) A frame covered with parchment or cloth, on which the blank sheets are put, in order to be laid on the form to be impressed.
  2. (n.) A drum.
  3. (n.) A panel; a tympanum.


Synonyms:
Drum,
• Oestrian
  1. (n.) A gadfly.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the gadflies.
• Tamias
  1. (n.) A genus of ground squirrels, including the chipmunk.
• Pteroceras
  1. (n.) A genus of large marine gastropods having the outer border of the lip divided into lobes; -- called also scorpion shell.
• Midas
  1. (n.) A genus of longeared South American monkeys, including numerous species of marmosets. See Marmoset.
• Monas
  1. (n.) A genus of minute flagellate Infusoria of which there are many species, both free and attached. See Illust. under Monad.


Synonyms:
Monad,
• Nuphar
  1. (n.) A genus of plants found in the fresh-water ponds or lakes of Europe, Asia, and North America; the yellow water lily. Cf. Nymphaea.
  2. (n.) A genus of plants found in the fresh-water ponds or lakes of Europe, Asia, and North America; the yellow water lily. Cf. Nymphaea.
• Phytelephas
  1. (n.) A genus of South American palm trees, the seeds of which furnish the substance called vegetable ivory.
• Thar
  1. (n.) A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of the Himalayas. It has small, flattened horns, curved directly backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the male is very long, reaching to the knees. Called also serow, and imo.
  2. (v. impersonal, pres.) It needs; need.
• Nightjar
  1. (n.) A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker.
  2. (n.) A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker.


Synonyms:
Goatsucker,
• Maximilian
  1. (n.) A gold coin of Bavaria, of the value of about 13s. 6d. sterling, or about three dollars and a quarter.
• Locao
  1. (n.) A green vegetable dye imported from China.
• Seminar
  1. (n.) A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; -- called also seminary.
• Polestar
  1. (n.) A guide or director.
  2. (n.) Polaris, or the north star. See North star, under North.


Synonyms:
Polaris,
• Xylan
  1. (n.) A gummy substance of the pentosan class, present in woody tissue, and yielding xylose on hydrolysis; wood gum.
• Turban
  1. (n.) A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck.
  2. (n.) A kind of headdress worn by women.
  3. (n.) The whole set of whorls of a spiral shell.


Synonyms:
Toque,
• Taas
  1. (n.) A heap. See Tas.
• Stockman
  1. (n.) A herdsman; a ranchman; one owning, or having charge of, herds of live stock.
• Solitarian
  1. (n.) A hermit; a solitary.
• Tintamar
  1. (n.) A hideous or confused noise; an uproar.
• Sircar
  1. (n.) A Hindoo clerk or accountant.
  2. (n.) The government; the supreme authority of the state.
  3. (n.) A district or province; a circar.
• Shandrydan
  1. (n.) A jocosely depreciative name for a vehicle.
• Orvietan
  1. (n.) A kind of antidote for poisons; a counter poison formerly in vogue.
• Quas
  1. (n.) A kind of beer. Same as Quass.
• Sumpitan
  1. (n.) A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, -- used by the savages of Borneo and adjacent islands.
• Wigan
  1. (n.) A kind of canvaslike cotton fabric, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers and of the skirts of womens dresses, etc.; -- so called from Wigan, the name of a town in Lancashire, England.
• Obsidian
  1. (n.) A kind of glass produced by volcanoes. It is usually of a black color, and opaque, except in thin splinters.
• Vesuvian
  1. (n.) A kind of match or fusee for lighting cigars, etc.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Vesuvius, a volcano near Naples.
  3. (a.) Vesuvianite.


Synonyms:
Idocrase, Vesuvianite,
• Tarlatan
  1. (n.) A kind of thin, transparent muslin, used for dresses.
• Shintyan
  1. (n.) A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.
• Struntian
  1. (n.) A kind of worsted braid, about an inch broad.
• Skean
  1. (n.) A knife or short dagger, esp. that in use among the Highlanders of Scotland. [Variously spelt.]
• Workingman
  1. (n.) A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.
• Laas
  1. (n.) A lace. See Lace.
• Laquear
  1. (n.) A lacunar.
• Pollan
  1. (n.) A lake whitefish (Coregonus pollan), native of Ireland. In appearance it resembles a herring.
• Trimyarian
  1. (n.) A lamellibranch which has three muscular scars on each valve.
• Shanghai
  1. (n.) A large and tall breed of domestic fowl.
  2. (v. t.) To intoxicate and ship (a person) as a sailor while in this condition.


Synonyms:
Impress,
• Sarplar
  1. (n.) A large bale or package of wool, containing eighty tods, or 2,240 pounds, in weight.
• Taguan
  1. (n.) A large flying squirrel (Pteromys petuarista). Its body becomes two feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long.
• Sporran
  1. (n.) A large purse or pouch made of skin with the hair or fur on, worn in front of the kilt by Highlanders when in full dress.
• Madras
  1. (n.) A large silk-and-cotton kerchief, usually of bright colors, such as those often used by negroes for turbans.
• Layman
  1. (n.) A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above).
  2. (n.) One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do.
• Sesban
  1. (n.) A leguminous shrub (Sesbania aculeata) which furnishes a fiber used for making ropes.
• Lemman
  1. (n.) A leman.
• Perpendicular
  1. (n.) A line at right angles to the plane of the horizon; a vertical line or direction.
  2. (a.) At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc.
  3. (a.) Exactly upright or vertical; pointing to the zenith; at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a right line from any point toward the center of the earth.
  4. (n.) A line or plane falling at right angles on another line or surface, or making equal angles with it on each side.


Synonyms:
Vertical,
• Pitpan
  1. (n.) A long, flat-bottomed canoe, used for the navigation of rivers and lagoons in Central America.
• Simpai
  1. (n.) A long-tailed monkey (Semnopitchecus melalophus) native of Sumatra. It has a crest of black hair. The forehead and cheeks are fawn color, the upper parts tawny and red, the under parts white. Called also black-crested monkey, and sinpae.
• Raglan
  1. (n.) A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general.
• Quean
  1. (n.) A low woman; a wench; a slut.
  2. (n.) A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl.
• Macao
  1. (n.) A macaw.
• Maracan
  1. (n.) A macaw.
• Macropodian
  1. (n.) A macropod.
• Talisman
  1. (n.) A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence.
  2. (n.) Hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to avert diseases.


Synonyms:
Amulet,
• Vatican
  1. (n.) A magnificent assemblage of buildings at Rome, near the church of St. Peter, including the popes palace, a museum, a library, a famous chapel, etc.
• Rambutan
  1. (n.) A Malayan fruit produced by the tree Nephelium lappaceum, and closely related to the litchi nut. It is bright red, oval in shape, covered with coarse hairs (whence the name), and contains a pleasant acid pulp. Called also ramboostan.
• Tableman
  1. (n.) A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10.
• Timberman
  1. (n.) A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine.
• Whaleman
  1. (n.) A man employed in the whale fishery.
• Staithman
  1. (n.) A man employed in weighing and shipping at a staith.
• Raftsman
  1. (n.) A man engaged in rafting.


Synonyms:
Rafter,
• Kinsman
  1. (n.) A man of the same race or family; one related by blood.
• Odalwoman
  1. (n.) A man or woman having odal, or able to share in it by inheritance.
• Tupman
  1. (n.) A man who breeds, or deals in tups.
• Logman
  1. (n.) A man who carries logs.
• Lightman
  1. (n.) A man who carries or takes care of a light.
• Motorman
  1. (n.) A man who controls a motor.
• Laceman
  1. (n.) A man who deals in lace.
• Laundryman
  1. (n.) A man who follows the business of laundering.


Synonyms:
Washerman,
• Pointsman
  1. (n.) A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
• Quarry-man
  1. (n.) A man who is engaged in quarrying stones; a quarrier.
• Madman
  1. (n.) A man who is mad; lunatic; a crazy person.


Synonyms:
Lunatic, Maniac,
• Wardsman
  1. (n.) A man who keeps ward; a guard.
• Pieman
  1. (n.) A man who makes or sells pies.
• Tripeman
  1. (n.) A man who prepares or sells tripe.
• Milkman
  1. (n.) A man who sells milk or delivers is to customers.
• Tillman
  1. (n.) A man who tills the earth; a husbandman.
• Washerman
  1. (n.) A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others.


Synonyms:
Laundryman,
• Signalman
  1. (n.) A man whose business is to manage or display signals; especially, one employed in setting the signals by which railroad trains are run or warned.
• Maltman
  1. (n.) A man whose occupation is to make malt.


Synonyms:
Maltster,
• Tinman
  1. (n.) A manufacturer of tin vessels; a dealer in tinware.
• Mar
  1. (n.) A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.
  2. (n.) A small lake. See Mere.
  3. (v.) To spoil; to ruin.
  4. (v.) To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface.


Synonyms:
Deflower, Impair, March, Mutilate, Spoil, Vitiate,
• Markman
  1. (n.) A marksman.
• Puppetman
  1. (n.) A master of a puppet show.
• Rampallian
  1. (n.) A mean wretch.
• Yojan
  1. (n.) A measure of distance, varying from four to ten miles, but usually about five.
• Median
  1. (n.) A median line or point.
  2. (a.) Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.
  3. (a.) Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts.


Synonyms:
Average, Medial,
• Medusian
  1. (n.) A medusa.
• Policeman
  1. (n.) A member of a body of police; a constable.


Synonyms:
Officer,
• Semi-Arian
  1. (n.) A member of a branch of the Arians which did not acknowledge the Son to be consubstantial with the Father, that is, of the same substance, but admitted him to be of a like substance with the Father, not by nature, but by a peculiar privilege.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Semi-Arianism.
• Schwenkfeldian
  1. (n.) A member of a religious sect founded by Kaspar von Schwenkfeld, a Silesian reformer who disagreed with Luther, especially on the deification of the body of Christ.
• Vestryman
  1. (n.) A member of a vestry; especially (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a member other than a warden. See Vestry.
• Turko-Iranian
  1. (n.) A member of any race of the Turko-Iranian type.
  2. (a.) Designating, or pert. to, a mixed racial type including the Afghans, and characterized chiefly by stature above mean, fair complexion, dark, or sometimes gray, eyes, brachycephaly, and very long, prominent, and moderately narrow nose.
• Vincentian
  1. (n.) A member of certain charitable sisterhoods.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Saint Vincent de Paul, or founded by him.
  3. (n.) Same as Lazarist.
• Thomean
  1. (n.) A member of the ancient church of Christians established on the Malabar coast of India, which some suppose to have been originally founded by the Apostle Thomas.
• Kirkman
  1. (n.) A member of the Church of Scotland, as distinguished from a member of another communion.
  2. (n.) A clergyman or officer in a kirk.
• Seljuckian
  1. (n.) A member of the family of Seljuk; an adherent of that family, or subject of its government; (pl.) the dynasty of Turkish sultans sprung from Seljuk.
• Visayan
  1. (n.) A member of the most numerous of the native races of the Philippines, occupying the Visayan Islands and the northern coast Mindanao; also, their language. The Visayans possessed a native culture and alphabet.
• Ribbonman
  1. (n.) A member of the Ribbon Society. See Ribbon Society, under Ribbon.
• Mercenarian
  1. (n.) A mercenary.
• Merchantman
  1. (n.) A merchant.
  2. (n.) A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war.


Synonyms:
Bottom, Freighter,
• Samovar
  1. (n.) A metal urn used in Russia for making tea. It is filled with water, which is heated by charcoal placed in a pipe, with chimney attached, which passes through the urn.
• Minuteman
  1. (n.) A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moments notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
• Pikeman
  1. (n.) A miner who works with a pick.
  2. (n.) A keeper of a turnpike gate.
  3. (pl. ) of Pikeman
  4. (n.) A soldier armed with a pike.
• Toucan
  1. (n.) A modern constellation of the southern hemisphere.
  2. (n.) Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidae. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast.
• Mussulman
  1. (n.) A Mohammedan; a Moslem.
• Toman
  1. (n.) A money of account in Persia, whose value varies greatly at different times and places. Its average value may be reckoned at about two and a half dollars.
• Unitarian
  1. (n.) A monotheist.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Unitarians, or their doctrines.
  3. (n.) One who rejects the principle of dualism.
  4. (n.) One who denies the doctrine of the Trinity, believing that God exists only in one person; a unipersonalist; also, one of a denomination of Christians holding this belief.
• Phrygian
  1. (n.) A Montanist.
  2. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to Phrygia, or to its inhabitants.
• Morian
  1. (n.) A Moor.
• Sitheman
  1. (n.) A mower.
• Sandman
  1. (n.) A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.
• Mythologian
  1. (n.) A mythologist.
• Sacramentarian
  1. (n.) A name given in the sixteenth century to those German reformers who rejected both the Roman and the Lutheran doctrine of the holy eucharist.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining a sacrament, or to the sacramentals; sacramental.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sacramentarians.
  4. (n.) One who holds extreme opinions regarding the efficacy of sacraments.
• Rix-dollar
  1. (n.) A name given to several different silver coins of Denmark, Holland, Sweden,, NOrway, etc., varying in value from about 30 cents to $1.10; also, a British coin worth about 36 cents, used in Ceylon and at the Cape of Good Hope. See Rigsdaler, Riksdaler, and Rixdaler.
• Primordian
  1. (n.) A name given to several kinds of plums; as, red primordian, amber primordian, etc.
• Sumerian
  1. (n.) A native of lower Babylonia, anciently called Sumer.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the region of lower Babylonia, which was anciently called Sumer, or its inhabitants or their language.
• Norwegian
  1. (n.) A native of Norway.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Norway, its inhabitants, or its language.
  3. (n.) That branch of the Scandinavian language spoken in Norway.
  4. (a.) Of or pertaining to Norway, its inhabitants, or its language.
  5. (n.) That branch of the Scandinavian language spoken in Norway.
  6. (n.) A native of Norway.


Synonyms:
Norse, Norseman,
• Nubian
  1. (n.) A native of Nubia.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Nubia in Eastern Africa.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to Nubia in Eastern Africa.
  4. (n.) A native of Nubia.
• Patagonian
  1. (n.) A native of Patagonia.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Patagonia.
• Sumatran
  1. (n.) A native of Sumatra.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Sumatra or its inhabitants.
• Tyrian
  1. (n.) A native of Tyre.
  2. (a.) Being of the color called Tyrian purple.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to Tyre or its people.
• Livinian
  1. (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Livonia; the language (allied to the Finnish) of the Livonians.
• Philadelphian
  1. (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Philadelphia.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Ptolemy Philadelphus, or to one of the cities named Philadelphia, esp. the modern city in Pennsylvania.
  3. (n.) One of a society of mystics of the seventeenth century, -- called also the Family of Love.
• Philippian
  1. (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Philippi.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Philippi, a city of ancient Macedonia.
• Kurilian
  1. (n.) A native or an inhabitant of the Kurile Islands.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Kurile Islands, a chain of islands in the Pacific ocean, extending from the southern extremity of Kamschatka to Yesso.
• Peloponnesian
  1. (n.) A native or an inhabitant of the Peloponnesus.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Peloponnesus, or southern peninsula of Greece.
• Neapolitan
  1. (n.) A native or citizen of Naples.
  2. (a.) Of of pertaining to Naples in Italy.
  3. (a.) Of of pertaining to Naples in Italy.
  4. (n.) A native or citizen of Naples.
• Panamanian
  1. (n.) A native or citizen of Panama.
  2. (a.) Of or pert. to Panama.
• Limenean
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Lima.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Lima, or to the inhabitants of Lima, in Peru.
• Macedonian
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Macedonia.
  2. (n.) One of a certain religious sect, followers of Macedonius, Bishop of Constantinople, in the fourth century, who held that the Holy Ghost was a creature, like the angels, and a servant of the Father and the Son.
  3. (a.) Belonging, or relating, to Macedonia.
• Mexican
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Mexico.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Mexico or its people.
• Milesian
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Miletus.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Miletus, a city of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants.
  3. (a.) Descended from King Milesius of Spain, whose two sons are said to have conquered Ireland about 1300 b. c.; or pertaining to the descendants of King Milesius; hence, Irish.
  4. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Ireland.
• Paraguayan
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Paraguay.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Paraguay.
• Persian
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Persia.
  2. (n.) The language spoken in Persia.
  3. (n.) A thin silk fabric, used formerly for linings.
  4. (a.) Of or pertaining to Persia, to the Persians, or to their language.
  5. (n.) See Persian columns, under Persian, a.


Synonyms:
Iranian,
• Phoenician
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Phoenica.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Phoenica.
• Prussian
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Prussia.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Prussia.
• Rhodian
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Rhodes.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Rhodes, an island of the Mediterranean.
• Russian
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Russia; the language of Russia.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Russia, its inhabitants, or language.
• Samaritan
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Samaria; also, the language of Samaria.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Samaria, in Palestine.
• Sardinian
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Sardinia.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the island, kingdom, or people of Sardinia.
• Scandinavian
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Scandinavia.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, that is, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.


Synonyms:
Norse, Northman,
• Scotchman
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Scotland; a Scot; a Scotsman.
  2. (n.) A piece of wood or stiff hide placed over shrouds and other rigging to prevent chafe by the running gear.


Synonyms:
Scot, Scotsman,
• Scythian
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Scythia; specifically (Ethnol.), one of a Slavonic race which in early times occupied Eastern Europe.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Scythia (a name given to the northern part of Asia, and Europe adjoining to Asia), or its language or inhabitants.
  3. (n.) The language of the Scythians.
• Servian
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Servia.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Servia, a kingdom of Southern Europe.
• Theban
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Thebes; also, a wise man.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Thebes.
• Thessalonian
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Thessalonica.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Thessalonica, a city of Macedonia.
• Thessalian
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Thessaly.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Thessaly in Greece.
• Thibetan
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Thibet.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Thibet.
• Thracian
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Thrace.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Thrace, or its people.
• Parthian
  1. (n.) A native Parthia.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia.


Synonyms:
Parting,
• Lascar
  1. (n.) A native sailor, employed in European vessels; also, a menial employed about arsenals, camps, camps, etc.; a camp follower.
• Thuringian
  1. (n.) A native, or inhabitant of Thuringia.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Thuringia, a country in Germany, or its people.
• Lithuanian
  1. (n.) A native, or one of the people, of Lithuania; also, the language of the Lithuanian people.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Lithuania (formerly a principality united with Poland, but now Russian and Prussian territory).
• Neoplatonician
  1. (n.) A neoplatonist.
  2. (n.) A neoplatonist.
• Neuropteran
  1. (n.) A neuropter.
  2. (n.) A neuropter.
• Nomadian
  1. (n.) A nomad.
  2. (n.) A nomad.
• Pas
  1. (n.) A pace; a step, as in a dance.
  2. (n.) Right of going foremost; precedence.
• Serai
  1. (n.) A palace; a seraglio; also, in the East, a place for the accommodation of travelers; a caravansary, or rest house.
• Stewpan
  1. (n.) A pan used for stewing.
• Paraphrasian
  1. (n.) A paraphraser.
• Mean
  1. (n.) A part, whether alto or tenor, intermediate between the soprano and base; a middle part.
  2. (superl.) Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
  3. (n.) That through which, or by the help of which, an end is attained; something tending to an object desired; intermediate agency or measure; necessary condition or coagent; instrument.
  4. (v. i.) To have a purpose or intention.
  5. (n.) Meantime; meanwhile.
  6. (n.) That which is mean, or intermediate, between two extremes of place, time, or number; the middle point or place; middle rate or degree; mediocrity; medium; absence of extremes or excess; moderation; measure.
  7. (superl.) Wanting dignity of mind; low-minded; base; destitute of honor; spiritless; as, a mean motive.
  8. (a.) Average; having an intermediate value between two extremes, or between the several successive values of a variable quantity during one cycle of variation; as, mean distance; mean motion; mean solar day.
  9. (n.) A quantity having an intermediate value between several others, from which it is derived, and of which it expresses the resultant value; usually, unless otherwise specified, it is the simple average, formed by adding the quantities together and dividing by their number, which is called an arithmetical mean. A geometrical mean is the square root of the product of the quantities.
  10. (v. t.) To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?
  11. (a.) Occupying a middle position; middle; being about midway between extremes.
  12. (v. t.) To signify; to indicate; to import; to denote.
  13. (n.) A mediator; a go-between.
  14. (superl.) Penurious; stingy; close-fisted; illiberal; as, mean hospitality.
  15. (superl.) Destitute of distinction or eminence; common; low; vulgar; humble.
  16. (superl.) Of poor quality; as, mean fare.
  17. (a.) Intermediate in excellence of any kind.
  18. (n.) Hence: Resources; property, revenue, or the like, considered as the condition of easy livelihood, or an instrumentality at command for effecting any purpose; disposable force or substance.


Synonyms:
Average, Base, Beggarly, Entail, Hateful, Imply, Intend, Miserly, Signify, Think, Tight,
• Tear
  1. (n.) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
  2. (v. t.) Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.
  3. (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.
  4. (n.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.
  5. (n.) Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
  6. (v. t.) To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
  7. (v. t.) To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.
  8. (v. i.) To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.
  9. (v. t.) To move violently; to agitate.
  10. (n.) That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
  11. (v. t.) To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh.
  12. (v. i.) To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.


Synonyms:
Bout, Buck, Bust, Charge, Deplumate, Deplume, Displume, Pluck, Pull, Rent, Rip, Rupture, Shoot, Snap, Split,
• Roundsman
  1. (n.) A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
• Pattypan
  1. (n.) A patty.
  2. (n.) A pan for baking patties.
• Perfectibilian
  1. (n.) A perfectionist.
• Peripatecian
  1. (n.) A peripatetic.
• Melancholian
  1. (n.) A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic.
• Talesman
  1. (n.) A person called to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded.
• Octogenarian
  1. (n.) A person eighty years, or more, of age.
• Lighterman
  1. (n.) A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter.


Synonyms:
Bargee, Bargeman,
• Lazar
  1. (n.) A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.


Synonyms:
Leper,
• Marchman
  1. (n.) A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales.
• Nonagenarian
  1. (n.) A person ninety years old.
  2. (n.) A person ninety years old.
• Logician
  1. (n.) A person skilled in logic.
• Physician
  1. (n.) A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.
  2. (n.) Hence, figuratively, one who ministers to moral diseases; as, a physician of the soul.


Synonyms:
Doctor,
• Theologian
  1. (n.) A person well versed in theology; a professor of theology or divinity; a divine.


Synonyms:
Theologist, Theologizer,
• Septuagenarian
  1. (n.) A person who is seventy years of age; a septuagenary.
• Liar
  1. (n.) A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.


Synonyms:
Prevaricator,
• Philohellenian
  1. (n.) A philhellenist.
• Philologian
  1. (n.) A philologist.
• Lodesman
  1. (n.) A pilot.
  2. (n.) Same as Loadsman.
• Teetan
  1. (n.) A pipit.
• Tutsan
  1. (n.) A plant of the genus Hypericum (H. Androsoemum), from which a healing ointment is prepared in Spain; -- called also parkleaves.
• Tetradynamian
  1. (n.) A plant of the order Tetradynamia.
  2. (a.) Alt. of Tetradynamous
• Plenitudinarian
  1. (n.) A plenist.
• Plesiosaurian
  1. (n.) A plesiosaur.
• Plutonian
  1. (n.) A Plutonist.
  2. (a.) Plutonic.


Synonyms:
Tartarean,
• Polyzoan
  1. (n.) A polyzoon.
  2. (n.) Any species of Polyzoa; one of the Polyzoa.


Synonyms:
Bryozoan, Sea mat, Sea moss,
• Sedan
  1. (n.) A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. Called also sedan chair.
• Postman
  1. (n.) A post or courier; a letter carrier.
  2. (n.) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions; -- so called from the place where he sits. The other of the two is called the tubman.


Synonyms:
Carrier,
• Potman
  1. (n.) A pot companion.
  2. (n.) A servant in a public house; a potboy.


Synonyms:
Potboy,
• Spleuchan
  1. (n.) A pouch, as for tobacco.
• Preachman
  1. (n.) A preacher; -- so called in contempt.
• Shaman
  1. (n.) A priest of Shamanism; a wizard among the Shamanists.
• Proletarian
  1. (n.) A proletary.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar.


Synonyms:
Worker,
• Pulvinar
  1. (n.) A prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the human brain.
• Shoar
  1. (n.) A prop. See 3d Shore.
• Spaeman
  1. (n.) A prophet; a diviner.
• Talukdar
  1. (n.) A proprietor of a talook.
• Prosodian
  1. (n.) A prosodist.
• Protopapas
  1. (n.) A protopope.
• Lockman
  1. (n.) A public executioner.
• Longan
  1. (n.) A pulpy fruit related to the litchi, and produced by an evergreen East Indian tree (Nephelium Longan).
• Pyrotechnian
  1. (n.) A pyrotechnist.
• Pyrotechnician
  1. (n.) A pyrotechnist.
• Quar
  1. (n.) A quarry.
• Phanar
  1. (n.) A quarter of Constantinople which, after the Turkish conquest of the city, became the chief Greek quarter; hence, the Greek officials of Turkey, or phanariots, as a class.
• Minyan
  1. (n.) A quorum, or number necessary, for conducting public worship.
• Superaltar
  1. (n.) A raised shelf or stand on the back of an altar, on which different objects can be placed; a predella or gradino.
• Ramean
  1. (n.) A Ramist.
• Tartar
  1. (n.) A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also argol, wine stone, etc.
  2. (n.) A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.
  4. (n.) A person of a keen, irritable temper.
  5. (n.) See Tartarus.
  6. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Tartary in Asia; a member of any one of numerous tribes, chiefly Moslem, of Turkish origin, inhabiting the Russian Europe; -- written also, more correctly but less usually, Tatar.


Synonyms:
Calculus, Dragon, Tophus,
• Malabar
  1. (n.) A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea.
• Procoelian
  1. (n.) A reptile having procoelian vertebrae; one of the Procoelia.
  2. (a.) Concave in front; as, procoelian vertebrae, which have the anterior end of the centra concave and the posterior convex.
• Pelican
  1. (n.) A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.
  2. (n.) Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored.
• Potamian
  1. (n.) A river tortoise; one of a group of tortoises (Potamites, or Trionychoidea) having a soft shell, webbed feet, and a sharp beak. See Trionyx.
• Logan
  1. (n.) A rocking or balanced stone.
• Platitudinarian
  1. (n.) One addicted to uttering platitudes, or stale and insipid truisms.
• Templar
  1. (n.) One belonged to a certain order or degree among the Freemasons, called Knights Templars. Also, one of an order among temperance men, styled Good Templars.
  2. (n.) One of a religious and military order first established at Jerusalem, in the early part of the 12th century, for the protection of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher. These Knights Templars, or Knights of the Temple, were so named because they occupied an apartment of the palace of Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to a temple.
  4. (n.) A student of law, so called from having apartments in the Temple at London, the original buildings having belonged to the Knights Templars. See Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, under Temple.


Synonyms:
Knight Templar,
• Precoetanean
  1. (n.) One contemporary with, but older than, another.
• Symmetrian
  1. (n.) One eminently studious of symmetry of parts.
• Slaughterman
  1. (n.) One employed in slaughtering.
• Trackman
  1. (n.) One employed on work on the track; specif., a trackwalker.
• Waldensian
  1. (n.) One Holding the Waldensian doctrines.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Waldenses.
• Selectman
  1. (n.) One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town.
• Patripassian
  1. (n.) One of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent preexistent personality of Christ, and who, accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian.
• Waterlandian
  1. (n.) One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; -- so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland.
• Sizar
  1. (n.) One of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge (Eng.) and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford.
• Morgan
  1. (n.) One of a celebrated breed of American trotting horses; -- so called from the name of the stud from which the breed originated in Vermont.
• Pedarian
  1. (n.) One of a class eligible to the office of senator, but not yet chosen, who could sit and speak in the senate, but could not vote; -- so called because he might indicate his opinion by walking over to the side of the party he favored when a vote was taken.
• Longshoreman
  1. (n.) One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.


Synonyms:
Loader, Lumper, Stevedore,
• Lernean
  1. (n.) One of a family (Lernaeidae) of parasitic Crustacea found attached to fishes and other marine animals. Some species penetrate the skin and flesh with the elongated head, and feed on the viscera. See Illust. in Appendix.
• Scyllarian
  1. (n.) One of a family (Scyllaridae) of macruran Crustacea, remarkable for the depressed form of the body, and the broad, flat antennae. Also used adjectively.
• Meropidan
  1. (n.) One of a family of birds (Meropidae), including the bee-eaters.
• Melanian
  1. (n.) One of a family of fresh-water pectinibranchiate mollusks, having a turret-shaped shell.
• Procellarian
  1. (n.) One of a family of oceanic birds (Procellaridae) including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters. They are often seen in great abundance in stormy weather.
• Marcosian
  1. (n.) One of a Gnostic sect of the second century, so called from Marcus, an Egyptian, who was reputed to be a margician.
• Phyllophagan
  1. (n.) One of a group of marsupials including the phalangists.
  2. (n.) One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon the leaves of plants, as the chafers.
• Neogrammarian
  1. (n.) One of a group of philologists who apply phonetic laws more widely and strictly than was formerly done, and who maintain that these laws admit of no real exceptions.
• Uhlan
  1. (n.) One of a kind of light cavalry of Tartaric origin, first introduced into European armies in Poland. They are armed with lances, pistols, and sabers, and are employed chiefly as skirmishers.
  2. (n.) One of a certain description of militia among the Tartars.
• Krooman
  1. (n.) One of a negro tribe of Liberia and the adjacent coast, whose members are much employed on shipboard.
• Slav
  1. (n.) One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc.
• Premonstratensian
  1. (n.) One of a religious order of regular canons founded by St. Norbert at Premontre, in France, in 1119. The members of the order are called also White Canons, Norbertines, and Premonstrants.
• Parnassian
  1. (n.) One of a school of French poets of the Second Empire (1852-70) who emphasized metrical form and made the little use of emotion as poetic material; -- so called from the name (Parnasse contemporain) of the volume in which their first poems were collected in 1866.
  2. (n.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to the genus Parnassius. They inhabit the mountains, both in the Old World and in America.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to Parnassus.
• Valentinian
  1. (n.) One of a school of Judaizing Gnostics in the second century; -- so called from Valentinus, the founder.
• Ubiquitarian
  1. (n.) One of a school of Lutheran divines which held that the body of Christ is present everywhere, and especially in the eucharist, in virtue of his omnipresence. Called also ubiquitist, and ubiquitary.
• Orangeman
  1. (n.) One of a secret society, organized in the north of Ireland in 1795, the professed objects of which are the defense of the regning sovereign of Great Britain, the support of the Protestant religion, the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.; -- so called in honor of William, Prince of Orange, who became William III. of England.
• Monarchian
  1. (n.) One of a sect in the early Christian church which rejected the doctrine of the Trinity; -- called also patripassian.
• Paulician
  1. (n.) One of a sect of Christian dualists originating in Armenia in the seventh century. They rejected the Old Testament and the part of the New.
• Racovian
  1. (n.) One of a sect of Socinians or Unitarians in Poland.
• Sectarian
  1. (n.) One of a sect; a member or adherent of a special school, denomination, or religious or philosophical party; one of a party in religion which has separated itself from established church, or which holds tenets different from those of the prevailing denomination in a state.
  2. (n.) Pertaining to a sect, or to sects; peculiar to a sect; bigotedly attached to the tenets and interests of a denomination; as, sectarian principles or prejudices.
• Scapular
  1. (n.) One of a special group of feathers which arise from each of the scapular regions and lie along the sides of the back.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the scapula or the shoulder.
  3. (n.) Alt. of Scapulary


Synonyms:
Scapulary,
• Xylophilan
  1. (n.) One of a tribe of beetles (Xylophili) whose larvae live on decayed wood.
• Saprophagan
  1. (n.) One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon decaying animal and vegetable substances; a carrion beetle.
• Ocypodian
  1. (n.) One of a tribe of crabs which live in holes in the sand along the seashore, and run very rapidly, -- whence the name.
• Thelphusian
  1. (n.) One of a tribe of fresh-water crabs which live in or on the banks of rivers in tropical countries.
• Mosasaurian
  1. (n.) One of an extinct order of reptiles, including Mosasaurus and allied genera. See Mosasauria.
• Muggletonian
  1. (n.) One of an extinct sect, named after Ludovic Muggleton, an English journeyman tailor, who (about 1657) claimed to be inspired.
• Sulpician
  1. (n.) One of an order of priests established in France in 1642 to educate men for the ministry. The order was introduced soon afterwards into Canada, and in 1791 into the United States.
• Nicolaitan
  1. (n.) One of certain corrupt persons in the early church at Ephesus, who are censured in rev. ii. 6, 15.
  2. (n.) One of certain corrupt persons in the early church at Ephesus, who are censured in rev. ii. 6, 15.
• Nothingarian
  1. (n.) One of no certain belief; one belonging to no particular sect.
  2. (n.) One of no certain belief; one belonging to no particular sect.
• Rubian
  1. (n.) One of several color-producing glycosides found in madder root.
• Ortygan
  1. (n.) One of several species of East Indian birds of the genera Ortygis and Hemipodius. They resemble quails, but lack the hind toe. See Turnix.
• Supralapsarian
  1. (n.) One of that class of Calvinists who believed that Gods decree of election determined that man should fall, in order that the opportunity might be furnished of securing the redemption of a part of the race, the decree of salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or fall. Cf. Infralapsarian.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Supralapsarians, or their doctrine.
• Norseman
  1. (n.) One of the ancient Scandinavians; a Northman.
  2. (n.) One of the ancient Scandinavians; a Northman.


Synonyms:
Norse, Norwegian,
• Sturionian
  1. (n.) One of the family of fishes of which the sturgeon is the type.
• Luciferian
  1. (n.) One of the followers of Lucifer, bishop of Cagliari, in the fourth century, who separated from the orthodox churches because they would not go as far as he did in opposing the Arians.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Lucifer; having the pride of Lucifer; satanic; devilish.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Luciferians or their leader.
• Noetian
  1. (n.) One of the followers of Noetus, who lived in the third century. He denied the distinct personality of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
  2. (n.) One of the followers of Noetus, who lived in the third century. He denied the distinct personality of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
• Simonian
  1. (n.) One of the followers of Simon Magus; also, an adherent of certain heretical sects in the early Christian church.
• Pean
  1. (n.) One of the furs, the ground being sable, and the spots or tufts or.
  2. (n.) A song of praise and triumph. See Paean.


Synonyms:
Encomium, Eulogy, Paean, Panegyric,
• Northman
  1. (n.) One of the inhabitants of the north of Europe; esp., one of the ancient Scandinavians; a Norseman.
  2. (n.) One of the inhabitants of the north of Europe; esp., one of the ancient Scandinavians; a Norseman.


Synonyms:
Norse, Scandinavian,
• Ocean
  1. (n.) One of the large bodies of water into which the great ocean is regarded as divided, as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans.
  2. (n.) An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream.
  4. (n.) The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the sea, or great sea.


Synonyms:
Sea,
• Leptocardian
  1. (n.) One of the Leptocardia.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Leptocardia.
• Rattan
  1. (n.) One of the long slender flexible stems of several species of palms of the genus Calamus, mostly East Indian, though some are African and Australian. They are exceedingly tough, and are used for walking sticks, wickerwork, chairs and seats of chairs, cords and cordage, and many other purposes.


Synonyms:
Ratan,
• Macruran
  1. (n.) One of the Macrura.
• Magian
  1. (n.) One of the Magi, or priests of the Zoroastrian religion in Persia; an adherent of the Zoroastrian religion.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Magi.
• Malacopterygian
  1. (n.) One of the Malacopterygii.
• Malacostracan
  1. (n.) One of the Malacostraca.
• Marsupian
  1. (n.) One of the Marsupialia.
• Metazoan
  1. (n.) One of the Metazoa.
• Monodelphian
  1. (n.) One of the Monodelphia.
• Monoecian
  1. (n.) One of the Monoecia.
  2. (n.) A monoecious animal, as certain mollusks.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Monoecia; monoecious.
• Monogynian
  1. (n.) One of the Monogynia.
  2. (a.) Pertaining to the Monogynia; monogynous.
• Nobleman
  1. (n.) One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.
  2. (n.) One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.


Synonyms:
Lord, Noble,
• Varangian
  1. (n.) One of the Northmen who founded a dynasty in Russia in the 9th century; also, one of the Northmen composing, at a later date, the imperial bodyguard at Constantinople.
• Ophidian
  1. (n.) One of the Ophidia; a snake or serpent.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ophidia; belonging to serpents.


Synonyms:
Serpent, Snake,
• Ophiuran
  1. (n.) One of the Ophiurioidea.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ophiurioidea.
• Orthopteran
  1. (n.) One of the Orthoptera.
• Oscinian
  1. (n.) One of the Oscines, or singing birds.
  2. (n.) Any one of numerous species of dipterous files of the family Oscinidae.
• Pentameran
  1. (n.) One of the Pentamera.
• Lusitanian
  1. (n.) One of the people of Lusitania.
  2. (a.) Pertaining to Lusitania, the ancient name of the region almost coinciding with Portugal.


Synonyms:
Portuguese,
• Picarian
  1. (n.) One of the Picariae.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Picariae.
• Placoidian
  1. (n.) One of the placoids.
• Planarian
  1. (n.) One of the Planarida, or Dendrocoela; any turbellarian worm.


Synonyms:
Planaria,
• Poriferan
  1. (n.) One of the Polifera.


Synonyms:
Sponge,
• Polygastrian
  1. (n.) One of the Polygastrica.
• Proboscidian
  1. (n.) One of the Proboscidea.
  2. (a.) Pertaining to the Proboscidea.


Synonyms:
Proboscidean,
• Protozoan
  1. (n.) One of the Protozoa.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Protozoa.


Synonyms:
Protozoic, Protozoon,
• Radiolarian
  1. (n.) One of the Radiolaria.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Radiolaria.
• Reptilian
  1. (n.) One of the Reptilia; a reptile.
  2. (a.) Belonging to the reptiles.


Synonyms:
Reptile,
• Reticularian
  1. (n.) One of the Reticularia.
• Saurian
  1. (n.) One of the Sauria.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, the Sauria.


Synonyms:
Lacertilian,
• Preocular
  1. (n.) One of the scales just in front of the eye of a reptile or fish.
  2. (a.) Placed just in front of the eyes, as the antennae of certain insects.
• Scutibranchian
  1. (n.) One of the Scutibranchiata.
• Novatian
  1. (n.) One of the sect of Novatius, or Novatianus, who held that the lapsed might not be received again into communion with the church, and that second marriages are unlawful.
  2. (n.) One of the sect of Novatius, or Novatianus, who held that the lapsed might not be received again into communion with the church, and that second marriages are unlawful.
• Selachian
  1. (n.) One of the Selachii. See Illustration in Appendix.


Synonyms:
Elasmobranch,
• Strepsipteran
  1. (n.) One of the Strepsiptera.
• Subbrachian
  1. (n.) One of the Subbrachiales.
• Turonian
  1. (n.) One of the subdivisions into which the Upper Cretaceous formation of Europe is divided.
• Tetrapnuemonian
  1. (n.) One of the Tetrapneumona.
• Thysanopteran
  1. (n.) One of the Thysanoptera.
• Thysanuran
  1. (n.) One of the Thysanura. Also used adjectively.
• Trimeran
  1. (n.) One of the Trimera. Also used adjectively.
• Tubulibranchian
  1. (n.) One of the Tubulibranchiata.
• Turbellarian
  1. (n.) One of the Turbellaria. Also used adjectively.
• Tubman
  1. (n.) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer. Cf. Postman, 2.
• Textman
  1. (n.) One ready in quoting texts.
• Watchman
  1. (n.) One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.
  2. (n.) Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.


Synonyms:
Watcher,
• Mintman
  1. (n.) One skilled in coining, or in coins; a coiner.
• Magician
  1. (n.) One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.


Synonyms:
Conjurer, Conjuror, Illusionist, Necromancer, Prestidigitator, Sorcerer, Wizard,
• Obstetrician
  1. (n.) One skilled in obstetrics; an accoucheur.


Synonyms:
Accoucheur,
• Musician
  1. (n.) One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.


Synonyms:
Instrumentalist, Player,
• Veterinarian
  1. (n.) One skilled in the diseases of cattle or domestic animals; a veterinary surgeon.


Synonyms:
Veterinary,
• Mechanician
  1. (n.) One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; a machinist.
• Marksman
  1. (n.) One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well.
  2. (n.) One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents.


Synonyms:
Sharpshooter,
• Leetman
  1. (n.) One subject to the jurisdiction of a court-leet.
• Mathematician
  1. (n.) One versed in mathematics.
• Phonetician
  1. (n.) One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.
• Statistician
  1. (n.) One versed in statistics; one who collects and classifies facts for statistics.


Synonyms:
Actuary,
• Tactician
  1. (n.) One versed in tactics; hence, a skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager.
• Schoolman
  1. (n.) One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity.


Synonyms:
Academician,
• Magnetician
  1. (n.) One versed in the science of magnetism; a magnetist.
• Politician
  1. (n.) One versed or experienced in the science of government; one devoted to politics; a statesman.
  2. (a.) Cunning; using artifice; politic; artful.
  3. (n.) One primarily devoted to his own advancement in public office, or to the success of a political party; -- used in a depreciatory sense; one addicted or attached to politics as managed by parties (see Politics, 2); a schemer; an intriguer; as, a mere politician.
• Lutheran
  1. (n.) One who accepts or adheres to the doctrines of Luther or the Lutheran Church.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Luther; adhering to the doctrines of Luther or the Lutheran Church.
• Uniformitarian
  1. (n.) One who accepts uniformitarianism, or the uniformitarian doctrine.
  2. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the view or doctrine that existing causes, acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at the present time, are sufficient to account for all geological changes.
• Parliamentarian
  1. (n.) One who adhered to the Parliament, in opposition to King Charles I.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Parliament.
  3. (n.) One versed in the rules and usages of Parliament or similar deliberative assemblies; as, an accomplished parliamentarian.
• Wesleyan
  1. (n.) One who adopts the principles of Wesleyanism; a Methodist.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Wesley or Wesleyanism.


Synonyms:
Methodist,
• Neonomian
  1. (n.) One who advocates adheres to new laws; esp. one who holds or believes that the gospel is a new law.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Neonomians, or in accordance with their doctrines.
  3. (n.) One who advocates adheres to new laws; esp. one who holds or believes that the gospel is a new law.
  4. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Neonomians, or in accordance with their doctrines.
• Mootman
  1. (n.) One who argued moot cases in the inns of court.
• Sayman
  1. (n.) One who assays.
• Scholar
  1. (n.) One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.
  2. (n.) One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant.
  3. (n.) In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.
  4. (n.) A man of books.


Synonyms:
Learner, Student,
• Packman
  1. (n.) One who bears a pack; a peddler.


Synonyms:
Hawker, Peddler, Pedlar,
• Predestinarian
  1. (n.) One who believes in or supports the doctrine of predestination.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to predestination; as, the predestinarian controversy.
• Trinitarian
  1. (n.) One who believes in the doctrine of the Trinity.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Trinity, the doctrine of the Trinity, or believers in that doctrine.
  3. (n.) One of a monastic order founded in Rome in 1198 by St. John of Matha, and an old French hermit, Felix of Valois, for the purpose of redeeming Christian captives from the Mohammedans.
• Millenarian
  1. (n.) One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast.
  2. (a.) Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.


Synonyms:
Chiliastic,
• Militiaman
  1. (n.) One who belongs to the militia.
• Newsman
  1. (n.) One who brings news.
  2. (n.) A man who distributes or sells newspapers.
  3. (n.) A man who distributes or sells newspapers.
  4. (n.) One who brings news.


Synonyms:
Reporter,
• Rodsman
  1. (n.) One who carries and holds a leveling staff, or rod, in a surveying party.
• Lineman
  1. (n.) One who carries the line in surveying, etc.
  2. (n.) A man employed to examine the rails of a railroad to see if they are in good condition; also, a man employed to repair telegraph lines.


Synonyms:
Electrician,
• Librarian
  1. (n.) One who copies manuscript books.
  2. (n.) One who has the care or charge of a library.


Synonyms:
Bibliothec,
• Nurseryman
  1. (n.) One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc.
  2. (n.) One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc.


Synonyms:
Gardener,
• Oilman
  1. (n.) One who deals in oils; formerly, one who dealt in oils and pickles.
• Sundryman
  1. (n.) One who deals in sundries, or a variety of articles.
• Toyman
  1. (n.) One who deals in toys.
• Woolman
  1. (n.) One who deals in wool.
• Wordsman
  1. (n.) One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist.
• Quodlibetarian
  1. (n.) One who discusses any subject at pleasure.
• Truckman
  1. (n.) One who does business in the way of barter or exchange.
  2. (n.) One who drives a truck, or whose business is the conveyance of goods on trucks.
• Tut-workman
  1. (n.) One who does tut-work.
• Stagecoachman
  1. (n.) One who drives a stagecoach.
• Suburban
  1. (n.) One who dwells in the suburbs.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city.
• Showman
  1. (n.) One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.


Synonyms:
Impresario, Promoter,
• Phalansterian
  1. (n.) One who favors the system of phalansteries proposed by Fourier.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to phalansterianism.
• Remainder-man
  1. (n.) One who has an estate after a particular estate is determined. See Remainder, n., 3.
• Veteran
  1. (n.) One who has been long exercised in any service or art, particularly in war; one who has had.
  2. (a.) Long exercised in anything, especially in military life and the duties of a soldier; long practiced or experienced; as, a veteran officer or soldier; veteran skill.


Synonyms:
Seasoned, Stager,
• Tacksman
  1. (n.) One who holds a tack or lease from another; a tenant, or lessee.
• Socman
  1. (n.) One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager.
• Low-churchman
  1. (n.) One who holds low-church principles.
• Placeman
  1. (n.) One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government.
• Utilitarian
  1. (n.) One who holds the doctrine of utilitarianism.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to utility; consisting in utility; /iming at utility as distinguished from beauty, ornament, etc.; sometimes, reproachfully, evincing, or characterized by, a regard for utility of a lower kind, or marked by a sordid spirit; as, utilitarian narrowness; a utilitarian indifference to art.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to utilitarianism; supporting utilitarianism; as, the utilitarian view of morality; the Utilitarian Society.


Synonyms:
Useful,
• Purgatorian
  1. (n.) One who holds to the doctrine of purgatory.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory.
• Mnemonician
  1. (n.) One who instructs in the art of improving or using the memory.
• Practician
  1. (n.) One who is acquainted with, or skilled in, anything by practice; a practitioner.


Synonyms:
Practitioner,
• Spearman
  1. (n.) One who is armed with a spear.
• Lumberman
  1. (n.) One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment.


Synonyms:
Faller, Feller,
• Simplician
  1. (n.) One who is simple.
• Metaphysician
  1. (n.) One who is versed in metaphysics.
• Stallman
  1. (n.) One who keeps a stall for the sale of merchandise, especially books.
• Warehouseman
  1. (n.) One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store.
  2. (n.) One who keeps a wholesale shop or store for Manchester or woolen goods.
• Tallyman
  1. (n.) One who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks.
  2. (n.) One who keeps a tally shop, or conducts his business as tally trade.
• Leadman
  1. (n.) One who leads a dance.
• Lademan
  1. (n.) One who leads a pack horse; a millers servant.
• Precisian
  1. (n.) One who limits, or restrains.
  2. (n.) An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to the English Puritans.
• Plainsman
  1. (n.) One who lives in the plains.
• Presbyterian
  1. (n.) One who maintains the validity of ordination and government by presbyters; a member of the Presbyterian church.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to a presbyter, or to ecclesiastical government by presbyters; relating to those who uphold church government by presbyters; also, to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of a communion so governed.
• Yachtsman
  1. (n.) One who owns or sails a yacht; a yachter.
• Passman
  1. (n.) One who passes for a degree, without honors. See Classman, 2.
• Patrolman
  1. (n.) One who patrols; a watchman; especially, a policeman who patrols a particular precinct of a town or city.
• Ploughman
  1. (n.) One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman.
  2. (n.) A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer.


Synonyms:
Plower, Plowman,
• Pressman
  1. (n.) One who presses clothes; as, a tailors pressman.
  2. (n.) One of a press gang, who aids in forcing men into the naval service; also, one forced into the service.
  3. (n.) One who manages, or attends to, a press, esp. a printing press.


Synonyms:
Correspondent, Printer,
• Valedictorian
  1. (n.) One who pronounces a valedictory address; especially, in American colleges, the student who pronounces the valedictory of the graduating class at the annual commencement, usually the student who ranks first in scholarship.
• Sportsman
  1. (n.) One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc.


Synonyms:
Sport,
• Sightsman
  1. (n.) One who reads or performs music readily at first sight.
• Tollman
  1. (n.) One who receives or collects toll; a toll gatherer.


Synonyms:
Toller,
• Trisacramentarian
  1. (n.) One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lords Supper, and penance. See Sacrament.
• Registrar
  1. (n.) One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3.


Synonyms:
Recorder,
• Wheelman
  1. (n.) One who rides a bicycle or tricycle; a cycler, or cyclist.
• Salesman
  1. (n.) One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.
• Spoilsman
  1. (n.) One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service.
• Surfman
  1. (n.) One who serves in a surfboat in the life-saving service.
• Trojan
  1. (n.) One who shows the pluck, endurance, determined energy, or the like, attributed to the defenders of Troy; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase like a Trojan; as, he endured the pain like a Trojan; he studies like a Trojan.
  2. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Troy.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Troy or its inhabitants.


Synonyms:
Dardanian,
• Spokesman
  1. (n.) One who speaks for another.
• Steersman
  1. (n.) One who steers; the helmsman of a vessel.


Synonyms:
Helmsman, Steerer,
• Switchman
  1. (n.) One who tends a switch on a railway.
• Tradesman
  1. (n.) One who trades; a shopkeeper.
  2. (n.) A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands.


Synonyms:
Shopkeeper, Storekeeper,
• Scytheman
  1. (n.) One who uses a scythe; a mower.
• Sickleman
  1. (n.) One who uses a sickle; a reaper.
• Oarsman
  1. (n.) One who uses, or is skilled in the use of, an oar; a rower.


Synonyms:
Rower,
• Pernoctalian
  1. (n.) One who watches or keeps awake all night.
• Liveryman
  1. (n.) One who wears a livery, as a servant.
  2. (n.) One who keeps a livery stable.
  3. (n.) A freeman of the city, in London, who, having paid certain fees, is entitled to wear the distinguishing dress or livery of the company to which he belongs, and also to enjoy certain other privileges, as the right of voting in an election for the lord mayor, sheriffs, chamberlain, etc.
• Pitman
  1. (n.) One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc.
  2. (n.) The connecting rod in a sawmill; also, sometimes, a connecting rod in other machinery.


Synonyms:
Collier,
• Pagan
  1. (n.) One who worships false gods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew.
  2. (n.) Of or pertaining to pagans; relating to the worship or the worshipers of false goods; heathen; idolatrous, as, pagan tribes or superstitions.


Synonyms:
Gentile, Heathen, Heathenish, Infidel,
• Rosicrucian
  1. (n.) One who, in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th, claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply versed in the secrets of nature, -- the alleged society having existed, it was stated, several hundred years.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Rosicrucians, or their arts.
• Nightman
  1. (n.) One whose business is emptying privies by night.
  2. (n.) One whose business is emptying privies by night.
• Seaman
  1. (n.) One whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and common mariners, but especially to the latter. Opposed to landman, or landsman.
  2. (n.) A merman; the male of the mermaid.


Synonyms:
Gob, Jack, Mariner, Sea dog, Seafarer, Tar,
• Testacean
  1. (n.) Onr of the Testacea.
• Paas
  1. (n.) Pace
  2. (n.) The Easter festival.
• Pallas
  1. (n.) Pallas Athene, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva.
• Pholadean
  1. (n.) Pholad.
• Puplican
  1. (n.) Publican.
• Resalgar
  1. (n.) Realgar.
• Rosalgar
  1. (n.) realgar.
• Rowan
  1. (n.) Rowan tree.


Synonyms:
Rowan tree,
• Oulachan
  1. (n.) Same as Eulachon.
• Liegeman
  1. (n.) Same as Liege, n., 2.


Synonyms:
Feudatory, Liege, Vassal,
• Lodestar
  1. (n.) Same as Loadstar.
  2. (n.) A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure.


Synonyms:
Loadstar,
• Pandar
  1. (n.) Same as Pander.


Synonyms:
Pander, Pimp, Procurer,
• Pirai
  1. (n.) Same as Piraya.
• Rhipipteran
  1. (n.) Same as Rhipipter.
• Symmetrician
  1. (n.) Same as Symmetrian.
• Tugan
  1. (n.) Same as Tucan.
• Turkoman
  1. (n.) Same as Turcoman.


Synonyms:
Turcoman,
• Verseman
  1. (n.) Same as Versemonger.
• Lakao
  1. (n.) Sap green.
• Sathanas
  1. (n.) Satan.
• Terras
  1. (n.) See /rass.
• Serpentinian
  1. (n.) See 2d Ophite.
• Ras
  1. (n.) See 2d Reis.
• Terrar
  1. (n.) See 2d Terrier, 2.
• Windas
  1. (n.) See 3d Windlass.
• Ottar
  1. (n.) See Attar.


Synonyms:
Attar,
• Sai
  1. (n.) See Capuchin, 3 (a).
• Segar
  1. (n.) See Cigar.
• Ksar
  1. (n.) See Czar.
• Oratorian
  1. (n.) See Fathers of the Oratory, under Oratory.
  2. (a.) Oratorical.
• Pekan
  1. (n.) See Fisher, 2.


Synonyms:
Fisher,
• Knar
  1. (n.) See Gnar.
• Keelman
  1. (n.) See Keeler, 1.
• Pucras
  1. (n.) See Koklass.
• Quran
  1. (n.) See Koran.


Synonyms:
Book, Koran,
• Kulan
  1. (n.) See Koulan.
• Loggan
  1. (n.) See Logan.
• Mangan
  1. (n.) See Mangonel.
• Martlemas
  1. (n.) See Martinmas.
• Materiarian
  1. (n.) See Materialist.
• Melliphagan
  1. (n.) See Meliphagan.
• Mahometan
  1. (n.) See Mohammedan.
• Nyas
  1. (n.) See Nias.
  2. (n.) See Nias.
• Oliban
  1. (n.) See Olibanum.
• Pattemar
  1. (n.) See Patamar.
• Pavian
  1. (n.) See Pavan.
• Pelecan
  1. (n.) See Pelican.
• Petar
  1. (n.) See Petard.
• Pryan
  1. (n.) See Prian.
• Rhamadan
  1. (n.) See Ramadan.
• Ratan
  1. (n.) See Rattan.


Synonyms:
Rattan,
• Riban
  1. (n.) See Ribbon.
• Sacar
  1. (n.) See Saker.
• Shwan-pan
  1. (n.) See Schwan-pan.
• Scymetar
  1. (n.) See Scimiter.
• Simitar
  1. (n.) See Scimiter.
• Scotsman
  1. (n.) See Scotchman.


Synonyms:
Scot, Scotchman,
• Skidpan
  1. (n.) See Skid, n., 1.
• Sokeman
  1. (n.) See Socman.
• Styan
  1. (n.) See Sty, a boil.
• Soubahdar
  1. (n.) See Subahdar.
• Topman
  1. (n.) See Topsman, 2.
  2. (n.) A man stationed in the top.
• Tarras
  1. (n.) See Trass.
• Trochar
  1. (n.) See Trocar.
• Urao
  1. (n.) See Trona.
• Ulan
  1. (n.) See Uhlan.
• Welchman
  1. (n.) See Welshman.
• Yachtman
  1. (n.) See Yachtsman.
• Trochlear
  1. (n.) Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; as, a trochlear articular surface; the trochlear muscle of the eye.
• Solas
  1. (n.) Solace.
• Star
  1. (n.) Specifically, a radiated mark in writing or printing; an asterisk [thus, *]; -- used as a reference to a note, or to fill a blank where something is omitted, etc.
  2. (n.) A person of brilliant and attractive qualities, especially on public occasions, as a distinguished orator, a leading theatrical performer, etc.
  3. (n.) One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.
  4. (n.) That which resembles the figure of a star, as an ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honor.
  5. (n.) The polestar; the north star.
  6. (n.) A planet supposed to influence ones destiny; (usually pl.) a configuration of the planets, supposed to influence fortune.
  7. (n.) A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.
  8. (v. t.) To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle; as, a robe starred with gems.
  9. (v. i.) To be bright, or attract attention, as a star; to shine like a star; to be brilliant or prominent; to play a part as a theatrical star.


Synonyms:
Ace, Adept, Asterisk, Genius, Lead, Leading, Principal, Sensation, Starring, Stellar, Virtuoso, Whiz, Wizard,
• Strontian
  1. (n.) Strontia.
• Sowdan
  1. (n.) Sultan.
• Underwear
  1. (n.) That which is worn under the outside clothing; underclothes.


Synonyms:
Underclothes, Underclothing,
• Vanjas
  1. (n.) The Australian pied crow shrike (Strepera graculina). It is glossy bluish black, with the under tail coverts and the tips and bases of the tail feathers white.
• Liquidambar
  1. (n.) The balsamic juice which is obtained from these trees by incision. The liquid balsam of the Oriental tree is liquid storax.
  2. (n.) A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star-shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and L. Orientalis is found in Asia Minor.
• Pan
  1. (n.) The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel.
  2. (n.) The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.
  3. (n.) A leaf of gold or silver.
  4. (n.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherds pipe, which he is said to have invented.
  5. (n.) A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.
  6. (v. i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.
  7. (n.) A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing.
  8. (n.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
  9. (v. i.) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.
  10. (n.) The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.
  11. (v. t.) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.
  12. (n.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
  13. (n.) A part; a portion.
  14. (n.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.
  15. (v. t. & i.) To join or fit together; to unite.
  16. (n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.


Synonyms:
Trash,
• Mentomeckelian
  1. (n.) The bone or cartilage forming the anterior extremity of the lower jaw in some adult animals and the young of others.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the chin and lower jaw.
• Upeygan
  1. (n.) The borele.
• Veritas
  1. (n.) The Bureau Veritas. See under Bureau.
• Tithingman
  1. (n.) The chief man of a tithing; a headborough; one elected to preside over the tithing.
  2. (n.) A parish officer elected annually to preserve good order in the church during divine service, to make complaint of any disorderly conduct, and to enforce the observance of the Sabbath.
  3. (n.) A peace officer; an under constable.
• Swanpan
  1. (n.) The Chinese abacus; a schwanpan.
• Moutan
  1. (n.) The Chinese tree peony (Paeonia Mountan), a shrub with large flowers of various colors.
• Lateran
  1. (n.) The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world.
• Lyerman
  1. (n.) The cicada.
• Roan
  1. (n.) The color of a roan horse; a roan color.
  2. (a.) Made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding.
  3. (n.) A roan horse.
  4. (a.) Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse.
  5. (n.) A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.
• Oenocyan
  1. (n.) The coloring matter of red wines.
• Partisan
  1. (n.) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
  2. (a.) Serving as a partisan in a detached command; as, a partisan officer or corps.
  3. (a.) Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded by partisan zeal.
  4. (n.) An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest.
  5. (n.) A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff.
  6. (n.) Any member of such a corps.


Synonyms:
Denominational, Enthusiast, Zealot,
• Pluvian
  1. (n.) The crocodile bird.
• Liman
  1. (n.) The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river; slime.
• Pulas
  1. (n.) The East Indian leguminous tree Butea frondosa. See Gum Butea, under Gum.
• Tzar
  1. (n.) The emperor of Russia. See Czar.


Synonyms:
Czar, Tsar,
• Ocular
  1. (n.) The eyepiece of an optical instrument, as of a telescope or microscope.
  2. (a.) Depending on, or perceived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to the eye; optic.


Synonyms:
Eyepiece, Optic, Optical, Visual,
• Martinmas
  1. (n.) The feast of St. Martin, the eleventh of November; -- often called martlemans.
• Michaelmas
  1. (n.) The feat of the archangel Michael, a church festival, celebrated on the 29th of September. Hence, colloquially, autumn.
• Tisar
  1. (n.) The fireplace at the side of an annealing oven.
• Lammas
  1. (n.) The first day of August; -- called also Lammas day, and Lammastide.
• Nisan
  1. (n.) The first month of the jewish ecclesiastical year, formerly answering nearly to the month of April, now to March, of the Christian calendar. See Abib.
  2. (n.) The first month of the jewish ecclesiastical year, formerly answering nearly to the month of April, now to March, of the Christian calendar. See Abib.
• Pear
  1. (n.) The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below.
• Mouse-ear
  1. (n.) The forget-me-not (Myosotis palustris) and other species of the same genus.
  2. (n.) A European species of hawkweed (Hieracium Pilosella).
• Trias
  1. (n.) The formation situated between the Permian and Lias, and so named by the Germans, because consisting of three series of strata, which are called in German the Bunter sandstein, Muschelkalk, and Keuper.
• Pasan
  1. (n.) The gemsbok.
• Pillar
  1. (n.) The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament.
  2. (n.) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
  3. (n.) Figuratively, that which resembles such a pillar in appearance, character, or office; a supporter or mainstay; as, the Pillars of Hercules; a pillar of the state.
  4. (a.) Having a support in the form of a pillar, instead of legs; as, a pillar drill.
  5. (n.) The center of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.


Synonyms:
Column, Mainstay, Tower,
• Vulcan
  1. (n.) The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; -- answering to the Greek Hephaestus.
• Satan
  1. (n.) The grand adversary of man; the Devil, or Prince of darkness; the chief of the fallen angels; the archfiend.


Synonyms:
Beelzebub, Devil, Lucifer,
• Ramadan
  1. (n.) The great annual fast of the Mohammedans, kept during daylight through the ninth month.
  2. (n.) The ninth Mohammedan month.
• Nenuphar
  1. (n.) The great white water lily of Europe; the Nymphaea alba.
  2. (n.) The great white water lily of Europe; the Nymphaea alba.
• Paterfamilias
  1. (n.) The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master.


Synonyms:
Patriarch,
• Vicar
  1. (n.) The incumbent of an appropriated benefice.
  2. (n.) One deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office; a deputy.
• Rataplan
  1. (n.) The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse.
• Tavernman
  1. (n.) The keeper of a tavern; also, a tippler.
• Maidmarian
  1. (n.) The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in womans clothes.
  2. (n.) A kind of dance.
• Magyar
  1. (n.) The language of the Magyars.
  2. (n.) One of the dominant people of Hungary, allied to the Finns; a Hungarian.


Synonyms:
Hungarian,
• Mardi gras
  1. (n.) The last day of Carnival; Shrove Tuesday; -- in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking.
• Lias
  1. (n.) The lowest of the three divisions of the Jurassic period; a name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones underlying the Oolite. See the Chart of Geology.
• Merman
  1. (n.) The male corresponding to mermaid; a sea man, or man fish.
• Leadsman
  1. (n.) The man who heaves the lead.
• Sceneman
  1. (n.) The man who manages the movable scenes in a theater.
• Strokesman
  1. (n.) The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest.
  2. (pl. ) of Strokesman
• Messias
  1. (n.) The Messiah.
• Tucan
  1. (n.) The Mexican pocket gopher (Geomys Mexicanus). It resembles the common pocket gopher of the Western United States, but is larger. Called also tugan, and tuza.
• Varan
  1. (n.) The monitor. See Monitor, 3.


Synonyms:
Monitor,
• Mias
  1. (n.) The orang-outang.
• Ordovician
  1. (n.) The Ordovician formation.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to a division of the Silurian formation, corresponding in general to the Lower Silurian of most authors, exclusive of the Cambrian.
• Toftman
  1. (n.) The owner of a toft. See Toft, 3.
• Trillachan
  1. (n.) The oyster catcher.
• Thenar
  1. (n.) The palm of the hand.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the thenar; corresponding to thenar; palmar.
  3. (n.) The prominence of the palm above the base of the thumb; the thenar eminence; the ball of the thumb. Sometimes applied to the corresponding part of the foot.


Synonyms:
Palm, Thenal,
• Pindar
  1. (n.) The peanut (Arachis hypogaea); -- so called in the West Indies.
• Permian
  1. (n.) The Permian period. See Chart of Geology.
  2. (a.) Belonging or relating to the period, and also to the formation, next following the Carboniferous, and regarded as closing the Carboniferous age and Paleozoic era.
• Platan
  1. (n.) The plane tree.


Synonyms:
Plane tree, Sycamore,
• Pocan
  1. (n.) The poke (Phytolacca decandra); -- called also pocan bush.
• Mandibular
  1. (n.) The principal mandibular bone; the mandible.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to a mandible; like a mandible.


Synonyms:
Inframaxillary,
• Opercular
  1. (n.) The principal opercular bone or operculum of fishes.
• Wear
  1. (n.) The result of wearing or use; consumption, diminution, or impairment due to use, friction, or the like; as, the wear of this coat has been good.
  2. (n.) A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.
  3. (n.) A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.
  4. (n.) A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.
  5. (v. t.) To use up by carrying or having upon ones self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.
  6. (v. i.) To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance.
  7. (v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.
  8. (v. t.) To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon ones self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to ones body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle.
  9. (n.) The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion.
  10. (n.) Same as Weir.
  11. (n.) The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.
  12. (v. t.) To form or shape by, or as by, attrition.
  13. (v. t.) To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessels bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer.
  14. (v. t.) To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.
  15. (v. i.) To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually.
  16. (v. t.) To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.


Synonyms:
Apparel, Assume, Bear, Break, Bust, Clothes, Clothing, Don, Endure, Fag, Fatigue, Jade, Outwear, Tire, Vesture, Wearing, Weary,
• Ringman
  1. (n.) The ring finger.
• Koran
  1. (n.) The Scriptures of the Mohammedans, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran.


Synonyms:
Book, Quran,
• Semilunar
  1. (n.) The semilunar bone.
  2. (a.) Shaped like a half moon.


Synonyms:
Bicephalous, Crescent, Lunate,
• Silurian
  1. (n.) The Silurian age.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the country of the ancient Silures; -- a term applied to the earliest of the Paleozoic eras, and also to the strata of the era, because most plainly developed in that country.
• Salutatorian
  1. (n.) The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college, -- an honor commonly assigned to that member of the graduating class who ranks second in scholarship.
• Subopercular
  1. (n.) The suboperculum.
  2. (a.) Situated below the operculum; pertaining to the suboperculum.
• Mithras
  1. (n.) The sun god of the Persians.
• Metropolitan
  1. (n.) The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.
  2. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority.
  3. (n.) A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.
  4. (a.) Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.
  5. (n.) An archbishop.
• Surangular
  1. (n.) The surangular bone.
  2. (a.) Above the angular bone; supra-angular; -- applied to a bone of the lower jaw in many reptiles and birds.
• Pancreas
  1. (n.) The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is a powerful aid in digestion. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.
• Sivan
  1. (n.) The third month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year; -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of June.
• Veadar
  1. (n.) The thirteenth, or intercalary, month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, which is added about every third year.
• Poplar
  1. (n.) The timber of the tulip tree; -- called also white poplar.
  2. (n.) Any tree of the genus Populus; also, the timber, which is soft, and capable of many uses.
• Tsar
  1. (n.) The title of the emperor of Russia. See Czar.


Synonyms:
Czar, Tzar,
• Topsman
  1. (n.) The uppermost sawyer in a saw pit; a topman.
  2. (n.) The chief drover of those who drive a herd of cattle.
• Sallyman
  1. (n.) The velella; -- called also saleeman.
• Vernacular
  1. (n.) The vernacular language; ones mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality.
  2. (a.) Belonging to the country of ones birth; ones own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language.


Synonyms:
Argot, Cant, Common, Jargon, Lingo, Patois, Slang, Vulgar,
• Vulgar
  1. (n.) The vernacular, or common language.
  2. (n.) One of the common people; a vulgar person.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular.
  4. (a.) Belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of little or no value.
  5. (a.) Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or manners.


Synonyms:
Coarse, Common, Crude, Earthy, Gross, Plebeian, Uncouth, Unwashed, Vernacular,
• Slogan
  1. (n.) The war cry, or gathering word, of a Highland clan in Scotland; hence, any rallying cry.


Synonyms:
Catchword, Motto, Shibboleth,
• White-ear
  1. (n.) The wheatear.
• Prizeman
  1. (n.) The winner of a prize.
• Pian
  1. (n.) The yaws. See Yaws.
• Tartan
  1. (n.) Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern.
  2. (n.) A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib.


Synonyms:
Plaid,
• Ampullar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Ampullary


Synonyms:
Ampullary,
• An
  1. () This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every.
  2. (conj.) If; -- a word used by old English authors.
• Anabas
  1. (n.) A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.
• Anan
  1. (interj.) An expression equivalent to What did you say? Sir? Eh?
• Ananas
  1. (n.) The pineapple (Ananassa sativa).


Synonyms:
Pineapple,
• Anangular
  1. (a.) Containing no angle.
• Anas
  1. (n.) A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.
• Anathemas
  1. (pl. ) of Anathema
• Anchovy pear
  1. () A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.
• Andean
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the Andes.
• Anear
  1. (v. t. & i.) To near; to approach.
  2. (prep. & adv.) Near.
• Anglian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Angles.
  2. (n.) One of the Angles.
• Anglican
  1. (a.) English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc.
  2. (n.) In a restricted sense, a member of the High Church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the Church of England.
  3. (a.) Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England.
  4. (n.) A member of the Church of England.
• Angular
  1. (n.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
  2. (a.) Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.
  3. (a.) Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female.
  4. (a.) Measured by an angle; as, angular distance.


Synonyms:
Angulate,
• Animalcular
  1. (a.) Alt. of Animalculine
• Annelidan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Annelida.
  2. (n.) One of the Annelida.


Synonyms:
Annelid,
• Annular
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers.
  2. (a.) Banded or marked with circles.


Synonyms:
Annulate, Annulated, Circinate, Circular, Ringed,
• Annulosan
  1. (n.) One of the Annulosa.
• Anomuran
  1. (a.) Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans.
  2. (n.) One of the Anomura.
• Antaean
  1. (a.) Pertaining to Antaeus, a giant athlete slain by Hercules.
• Ant-bear
  1. (n.) An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.
• Antediluvian
  1. (n.) One who lived before the Deluge.
  2. (a.) Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noahs time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle.


Synonyms:
Antediluvial, Antiquated, Archaic,
• Antelucan
  1. (a.) Held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning.
• Antemeridian
  1. (a.) Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m.)
• Anthobian
  1. (n.) A beetle which feeds on flowers.
• Anthokyan
  1. (n.) The blue coloring matter of certain flowers. Same as Cyanin.
• Anthozoan
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the Anthozoa.
  2. (n.) One of the Anthozoa.
• Anthropophaginian
  1. (n.) One who east human flesh.
• Anti-American
  1. (a.) Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions.
• Antiar
  1. (n.) A Virulent poison prepared in Java from the gum resin of one species of the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria).
• Antichristian
  1. (a.) Opposed to the Christian religion.
• Anti-Gallican
  1. (a.) Opposed to what is Gallic or French.
• Antimacassar
  1. (n.) A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, etc., to prevent them from being soiled by macassar or other oil from the hair.
• Antinomian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory.
  2. (n.) One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535.
• Antiochian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the city of Antioch, in Syria.
  2. (a.) Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.
• Antiphlogistian
  1. (n.) An opposer of the theory of phlogiston.
• Antipodean
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the antipodes, or the opposite side of the world; antipodal.


Synonyms:
Antipodal,
• Antiquarian
  1. (n.) An antiquary.
  2. (a.) Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature.
  3. (n.) A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n.


Synonyms:
Antiquary,
• Antiquitarian
  1. (n.) An admirer of antiquity. [Used by Milton in a disparaging sense.]
• Antisabbatarian
  1. (n.) One of a sect which opposes the observance of the Christian Sabbath.
• Antisolar
  1. (a.) Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180í distant from the sun.
• Anythingarian
  1. (n.) One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• Aonian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to Aonia, in B/otia, or to the Muses, who were supposed to dwell there.
• Apalachian
  1. (a.) See Appalachian.
• Apar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Apara
• Aphidian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the family Aphidae.
  2. (n.) One of the aphides; an aphid.
• Aphrodisian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to Aphrodite or Venus. "Aphrodisian dames" [that is, courtesans].
• Apian
  1. (a.) Belonging to bees.
• Apiarian
  1. (a.) Of or relating to bees.
• Apician
  1. (a.) Belonging to Apicius, a notorious Roman epicure; hence applied to whatever is peculiarly refined or dainty and expensive in cookery.
• Apicular
  1. (a.) Situated at, or near, the apex; apical.
• Apocryphas
  1. (pl. ) of Apocrypha
• Apodan
  1. (a.) Apodal.
• Apogean
  1. (a.) Connected with the apogee; as, apogean (neap) tides, which occur when the moon has passed her apogee.
• Apolar
  1. (a.) Having no radiating processes; -- applied particularly to certain nerve cells.
• Apollinarian
  1. (a.) In honor of Apollo; as, the Apollinarian games.
  2. (n.) A follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ.
• Apollonian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Apollonic
• Aporias
  1. (pl. ) of Aporia
• Appalachian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains.
• Appear
  1. (v. i.) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
  2. (v. i.) To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time.
  3. (v. i.) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest.
  4. (v. i.) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.
  5. (v. i.) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present ones self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.
  6. (n.) Appearance.


Synonyms:
Look, Seem,
• Appendicular
  1. (a.) Relating to an appendicle; appendiculate.
• Appian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Appius.
• Apron man
  1. () A man who wears an apron; a laboring man; a mechanic.
• Apteran
  1. (n.) One of the Aptera.
• Aquarian
  1. (n.) One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lords Supper.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to an aquarium.
• Aquitanian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Aquitania, now called Gascony.
• Ar
  1. (conj.) Ere; before.


Synonyms:
Are, Argon,
• Arabian
  1. (n.) A native of Arabia; an Arab.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants.


Synonyms:
Arab,
• Arachnidan
  1. (n.) One of the Arachnida.
• Aramaean
  1. (a.) Alt. of Aramean


Synonyms:
Aramean,
• Aramean
  1. (n.) A native of Aram.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic.


Synonyms:
Aramaean,
• Araneidan
  1. (n.) One of the Araneina; a spider.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Araneina or spiders.
• Araucarian
  1. (a.) Relating to, or of the nature of, the Araucaria. The earliest conifers in geological history were mostly Araucarian.
• Arbuscular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a dwarf tree; shrublike.
• Arcadian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Arcadic


Synonyms:
Bucolic, Pastoral, Rustic,
• Archaean
  1. (n.) The earliest period in geological period, extending up to the Lower Silurian. It includes an Azoic age, previous to the appearance of life, and an Eozoic age, including the earliest forms of life.
  2. (a.) Ancient; pertaining to the earliest period in geological history.
• Archaeologian
  1. (n.) An archaeologist.
• Archilochian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter.
• Archimedean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc.
• Arear
  1. (v. t. & i.) To raise; to set up; to stir up.
  2. (adv.) Backward; in or to the rear; behindhand.
• Areas
  1. (pl. ) of Area
• Arenas
  1. (pl. ) of Arena
• Areolar
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolae.


Synonyms:
Areolate,
• Argas
  1. (n.) A genus of venomous ticks which attack men and animals. The famous Persian Argas, also called Miana bug, is A. Persicus; that of Central America, called talaje by the natives, is A. Talaje.
• Argean
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the ship Argo. See Argo.
• Argentan
  1. (n.) An alloy of nickel with copper and zinc; German silver.
• Argoan
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the ship Argo.
• Arian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in the fourth century, or to the doctrines of Arius, who held Christ to be inferior to God the Father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings.
  2. (a. & n.) See Aryan.
  3. (n.) One who adheres to or believes the doctrines of Arius.
• Ariman
  1. (n.) See Ahriman.
• Aristarchian
  1. (a.) Severely critical.
• Aristotelian
  1. (n.) A follower of Aristotle; a Peripatetic. See Peripatetic.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher (384-322 b. c.).


Synonyms:
Peripatetic,
• Arithmetician
  1. (n.) One skilled in arithmetic.
• Armenian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Armenia.
  2. (n.) An adherent of the Armenian Church, an organization similar in some doctrines and practices to the Greek Church, in others to the Roman Catholic.
  3. (n.) A native or one of the people of Armenia; also, the language of the Armenians.
• Armillas
  1. (pl. ) of Armilla
• Arminian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Arminius of his followers, or to their doctrines. See note under Arminian, n.
  2. (n.) One who holds the tenets of Arminius, a Dutch divine (b. 1560, d. 1609).
• Armorican
  1. (n.) A native of Armorica.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the northwestern part of France (formerly called Armorica, now Bretagne or Brittany), or to its people.
  3. (n.) The language of the Armoricans, a Celtic dialect which has remained to the present times.
• Arras
  1. (v. t.) To furnish with an arras.
  2. (n.) Tapestry; a rich figured fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures.


Synonyms:
Tapestry,
• Arrear
  1. (n.) That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes.
  2. (adv.) To or in the rear; behind; backwards.
• Arriere-ban
  1. (n.) A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France.
• Artesian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Artois (anciently called Artesium), in France.


Synonyms:
Flowing,
• Arthurian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to King Arthur or his knights.
• Articular
  1. (n.) Alt. of Articulary
  2. (n.) Of or pertaining to the joints; as, an articular disease; an articular process.


Synonyms:
Articulary,
• Artilleryman
  1. (n.) A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing.


Synonyms:
Cannoneer, Gunner,
• Artisan
  1. (n.) One trained to manual dexterity in some mechanic art or trade; and handicraftsman; a mechanic.
  2. (n.) One who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist.


Synonyms:
Artificer, Craftsman, Journeyman,
• Artsman
  1. (n.) A man skilled in an art or in arts.
• Arundelian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to an Earl of Arundel; as, Arundel or Arundelian marbles, marbles from ancient Greece, bought by the Earl of Arundel in 1624.
• Aryan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages.
  2. (n.) The language of the original Aryans.
  3. (n.) One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic.


Synonyms:
Indo-Aryan, Indo-European,
• As
  1. (adv. & conj.) Than.
  2. (adv. & conj.) As if; as though.
  3. (n.) An ace.
  4. (adv. & conj.) Expressing concession. (Often approaching though in meaning).
  5. (adv. & conj.) Expressing a wish.
  6. (adv. & conj.) In the idea, character, or condition of, -- limiting the view to certain attributes or relations; as, virtue considered as virtue; this actor will appear as Hamlet.
  7. (adv. & conj.) For instance; by way of example; thus; -- used to introduce illustrative phrases, sentences, or citations.
  8. (adv. & conj.) While; during or at the same time that; when; as, he trembled as he spoke.
  9. (adv. & conj.) Because; since; it being the case that.
  10. (adv. & conj.) That, introducing or expressing a result or consequence, after the correlatives so and such.
  11. (n.) A Roman copper coin, originally of a pound weight (12 oz.); but reduced, after the first Punic war, to two ounces; in the second Punic war, to one ounce; and afterwards to half an ounce.
  12. (n.) A Roman weight, answering to the libra or pound, equal to nearly eleven ounces Troy weight. It was divided into twelve ounces.
  13. (adv. & conj.) Denoting equality or likeness in kind, degree, or manner; like; similar to; in the same manner with or in which; in accordance with; in proportion to; to the extent or degree in which or to which; equally; no less than; as, ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil; you will reap as you sow; do as you are bidden.


Synonyms:
Arsenic, Equally,
• Ascian
  1. (n.) One of the Ascii.
• Ascidian
  1. (n.) One of the Ascidioidea, or in a more general sense, one of the Tunicata. Also as an adj.
• Asclepias
  1. (n.) A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties.
• Ashlar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Ashler
• Asian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Asia; Asiatic.
  2. (n.) An Asiatic.


Synonyms:
Asiatic, Oriental,
• Asmear
  1. (a.) Smeared over.
• Asmonean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the patriotic Jewish family to which the Maccabees belonged; Maccabean; as, the Asmonean dynasty.
  2. (n.) One of the Asmonean family. The Asmoneans were leaders and rulers of the Jews from 168 to 35 b. c.
• Assagai
  1. (n.) Alt. of Assegai


Synonyms:
Assegai,
• Assai
  1. () A direction equivalent to very; as, adagio assai, very slow.
• Assamar
  1. (n.) The peculiar bitter substance, soft or liquid, and of a yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are roasted till they turn brown.
• Assapan
  1. (n.) Alt. of Assapanic
• Assegai
  1. (n.) A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin.
  2. (n.) Same as Assagai.


Synonyms:
Assagai,
• Assemblyman
  1. (n.) A member of an assembly, especially of the lower branch of a state legislature.
• Assidean
  1. (n.) One of a body of devoted Jews who opposed the Hellenistic Jews, and supported the Asmoneans.
• Assyrian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants.
  2. (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Assyria; the language of Assyria.
• Asterias
  1. (n.) A genus of echinoderms.
• Asteridian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Asterioidea.
  2. (n.) A starfish; one of the Asterioidea.
• Astrachan
  1. (a. & n.) See Astrakhan.
• Astraean
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the genus Astraea or the family Astraeidae.
  2. (n.) A coral of the family Astraeidae; a star coral.
• Astragalar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the astragalus.
• Astrakhan
  1. (n.) The skin of stillborn or young lambs of that region, the curled wool of which resembles fur.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Astrakhan in Russia or its products; made of an Astrakhan skin.
• Astrologian
  1. (n.) An astrologer.
• Astronomian
  1. (n.) An astrologer.
• Asturian
  1. (n.) A native of Asturias.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Asturias in Spain.
• Astylar
  1. (a.) Without columns or pilasters.
• Ataghan
  1. (n.) See Yataghan.
• Ataman
  1. (n.) A hetman, or chief of the Cossacks.
• Atellan
  1. (n.) A farcical drama performed at Atella.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Atella, in ancient Italy; as, Atellan plays; farcical; ribald.
• Athanasian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria in the 4th century.
• Athenian
  1. (n.) A native or citizen of Athens.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Athens, the metropolis of Greece.
• Atlantean
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean.
  2. (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, Atlas; strong.
• Atman
  1. (n.) The life principle, soul, or individual essence.
  2. (n.) The universal ego from whom all individual atmans arise. This sense is a European excrescence on the East Indian thought.
• Atomician
  1. (n.) An atomist.
• Atrabilarian
  1. (a.) Alt. of Atrabilarious
  2. (n.) A person much given to melancholy; a hypochondriac.
• Atrabiliar
  1. (a.) Melancholy; atrabilious.
• Attagas
  1. (n.) Alt. of Attagen
• Attaghan
  1. (n.) See Yataghan.
• Attar
  1. (n.) A fragrant essential oil; esp., a volatile and highly fragrant essential oil obtained from the petals of roses.


Synonyms:
Ottar,
• Attitudinarian
  1. (n.) One who attitudinizes; a posture maker.
• Augean
  1. (a.) Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day.
• Augustan
  1. (n.) Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg.
  2. (n.) Of or pertaining to Augustus Caesar or to his times.
• Augustinian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo in Northern Africa (b. 354 -- d. 430), or to his doctrines.
  2. (n.) A member of one of the religious orders called after St. Augustine; an Austin friar.
  3. (n.) One of a class of divines, who, following St. Augustine, maintain that grace by its nature is effectual absolutely and creatively, not relatively and conditionally.
• Aularian
  1. (a.) Relating to a hall.
  2. (n.) At Oxford, England, a member of a hall, distinguished from a collegian.
• Aurelian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the aurelia.
  2. (n.) An amateur collector and breeder of insects, esp. of butterflies and moths; a lepidopterist.
• Auricular
  1. (a.) Recognized by the ear; known by the sense of hearing; as, auricular evidence.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the ear, or to the sense of hearing; as, auricular nerves.
  3. (a.) Received by the ear; known by report.
  4. (a.) Told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest.
  5. (a.) Pertaining to the auricles of the heart.


Synonyms:
Otic,
• Auriculas
  1. (pl. ) of Auricula
• Auroras
  1. (pl. ) of Aurora
• Ausonian
  1. (a.) Italian.
• Australasian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Australasia; as, Australasian regions.
  2. (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Australasia.
• Australian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Australia.
  2. (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Australia.
• Austrian
  1. (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Austria.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Austria, or to its inhabitants.
• Austro-Hungarian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the monarchy composed of Austria and Hungary.
• Autocarpian
  1. (a.) Consisting of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.
• Auxiliar
  1. (n.) An auxiliary.
  2. (a.) Auxiliary.
• Avatar
  1. (n.) The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu.
  2. (n.) Incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or admiration.


Synonyms:
Embodiment, Incarnation,
• Avernian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.
• Avestan
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Avesta or the language of the Avesta.
  2. (n.) The language of the Avesta; -- less properly called Zend.


Synonyms:
Zend,
• Avian
  1. (a.) Of or instrument to birds.
• Avicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a bird or to birds.
• Avuncular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to an uncle.
• Axeman
  1. () See Ax, Axman.
• Axillar
  1. (a.) Axillary.
• Axman
  1. (n.) One who wields an ax.
• Azaleas
  1. (pl. ) of Azalea
• Azorian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the Azores.
  2. (n.) A native of the Azores.
• Baas
  1. (pl. ) of Baa
• Babian
  1. (n.) Alt. of Babion
• Babylonian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean.
  2. (n.) An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
  3. (n.) An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean.
• Bacchanalian
  1. (n.) A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.


Synonyms:
Bacchanal, Bacchic, Carousing, Orgiastic,
• Bacillar
  1. (a.) Shaped like a rod or staff.
  2. (a.) Pertaining to, or produced by, the organism bacillus; bacillary.


Synonyms:
Bacillary,
• Backwoodsman
  1. (n.) A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States.
• Baconian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy.
  2. (n.) One who maintains that Lord Bacon is the author of the works commonly attributed to Shakespeare.
  3. (n.) One who adheres to the philosophy of Lord Bacon.
• Bactrian
  1. (n.) A native of Bactria.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia.
• Badian
  1. (n.) An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise.
• Bagman
  1. (n.) A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen.
• Bahai
  1. (n.) A member of the sect of the Babis consisting of the adherents of Baha (Mirza Husain Ali, entitled "Baha u llah," or, "the Splendor of God"), the elder half brother of Mirza Yahya of Nur, who succeeded the Bab as the head of the Babists. Baha in 1863 declared himself the supreme prophet of the sect, and became its recognized head. There are upwards of 20,000 Bahais in the United States.
• Bahar
  1. (n.) A weight used in certain parts of the East Indies, varying considerably in different localities, the range being from 223 to 625 pounds.
• Ban
  1. (n.) Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).
  2. (v. t.) To forbid; to interdict.
  3. (v. t.) To curse; to invoke evil upon.
  4. (v. i.) To curse; to swear.
  5. (n.) A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.
  6. (n.) A curse or anathema.
  7. (n.) A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
  8. (n.) A calling together of the kings (esp. the French kings) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army.
  9. (n.) An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription.
  10. (n.) An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.


Synonyms:
Banish, Banning, Blackball, Censor, Forbiddance, Forbidding, Interdiction, Ostracize, Prohibition, Proscription, Shun,
• Banian
  1. (n.) A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.
  2. (n.) A mans loose gown, like that worn by the Banians.
  3. (n.) The Indian fig. See Banyan.


Synonyms:
Banyan,
• Banyan
  1. (n.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.


Synonyms:
Banian,
• Bar
  1. (n.) To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiffs recovery; -- sometimes with up.
  2. (n.) Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.
  3. (n.) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
  4. (n.) A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.
  5. (n.) A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.
  6. (n.) A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar.
  7. (n.) To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.
  8. (n.) A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.
  9. (n.) The part of the crust of a horses hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the center of the sole.
  10. (n.) The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence.
  11. (n.) The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.
  12. (n.) Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
  13. (n.) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
  14. (n.) A drilling or tamping rod.
  15. (n.) Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God.
  16. (n.) An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.
  17. (n.) To except; to exclude by exception.
  18. (n.) An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.
  19. (n.) The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court.
  20. (n.) A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.
  21. (n.) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
  22. (n.) To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
  23. (n.) A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiffs action.
  24. (n.) A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.


Synonyms:
Banish, Barricade, Barroom, Block, Blockade, Cake, Debar, Exclude, Measure, Prevention, Relegate, Saloon, Taproom,
• Barbacan
  1. (n.) See Barbican.
  2. (n.) A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own.
  3. (n.) An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.


Synonyms:
Barbican,
• Barbadian
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Barbados.
  2. (n.) A native of Barbados.
• Barbarian
  1. (n.) A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.
  2. (n.) A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.
  3. (n.) A foreigner.
  4. (n.) A person destitute of culture.
  5. (a.) Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.


Synonyms:
Boor, Churl, Goth, Peasant, Savage, Tike, Tyke, Uncivilized, Wild,
• Barbican
  1. (n.) Alt. of Barbacan


Synonyms:
Barbacan,
• Bargeman
  1. (n.) The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.


Synonyms:
Bargee, Lighterman,
• Barracan
  1. (n.) A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.
• Barras
  1. (n.) A resin, called also galipot.
• Bartizan
  1. (n.) A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.
• Basan
  1. (n.) Same as Basil, a sheepskin.
• Basilar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Basilary


Synonyms:
Basilary,
• Basilican
  1. (a.) Of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica; basilical.
• Basilicas
  1. (pl. ) of Basilica
• Batatas
  1. (n.) Alt. of Batata
• Batavian
  1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Batavia or Holland.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to (a) the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe; or to (b) /atavia or Holland; as, a Batavian legion.
• Batman
  1. (n.) A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.
  2. (n.) A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.
• Batrachian
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the Batrachia.
  2. (n.) One of the Batrachia.


Synonyms:
Frog, Toad,
• Batsman
  1. (n.) The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.


Synonyms:
Batter, Hitter, Slugger,
• Bavarian
  1. (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to Bavaria.
• Bavian
  1. (n.) A baboon.
• Bayman
  1. (n.) In the United States navy, a sick-bay nurse; -- now officially designated as hospital apprentice.
• Bazaar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Bazar


Synonyms:
Bazar, Fair,
• Bazar
  1. (n.) A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods, as at a fair.
  2. (n.) In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale.
  3. (n.) A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly for a charitable objects.


Synonyms:
Bazaar,
• Beadsman