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Especially, an adherent; one who sustains, advocates, and defends; as, the supporter of a party, faction, or candidate.

n which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms exhibited. Like the sick man, we are expiring with all sorts of good symptoms. Swift.…

One who advocates or practices syndicalism. --Syn`dic*al*is"tic (#), a.

driven by the shaft, and the action of which by change of speed moves a pointer which indicates the speed on a graduated dial.

One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief. Spies and talebearers, encouraged by her father, did their best to inflame her resentment. Macaulay.

One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.

One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.

polished portion, or by the burning of oil. Tempering color, the shade of color that indicates the degree of temper in tempering steel, as pale straw yellow for lancets, razors, and tools for metal; dark straw yellow for penknives, screw taps, etc.; brown yellow for axes, chisels, and plane irons; yellow tinged with p…

One who advocates, or believes in, theanthropism.

alled rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as time unit for the beat, and the numerator, the number of these to the measure.

The preposition to primarily indicates approach and arrival, motion made in the direction of a place or thing and attaining it, access; and also, motion or tendency without arrival; movement toward; -- opposed to Ant: from. "To Canterbury they wend." Chaucer. Stay with us, go not to Wittenberg. Shak. So to the sylvan l…

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.

Animal cellulose; a substance present in the mantle, or tunic, of the Tunicates, which resembles, or is identical with, the cellulose of the vegetable kingdom.

One who advocates extreme measures; an ultraist; an extremist; a radical. Brougham.

The depression, or mark, in the median line of the abdomen, which indicates the point where the umbilical cord separated from the fetus; the navel.

One who advocates the undulatory theory of light. Whewell.

] If they [pearls] be white, great, round, smooth, and weighty . . . our dainties and delicates here at Rome . . . call them unions, as a man would say "singular," and by themselves alone. Holland. In the cup an union shall he throw, Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have worn. Shak.…

One who advocates or promotes union; especially a loyal supporter of a federal union, as that of the United States.

The central axis or cord in the tail of larval ascidians and of certain adult tunicates. [Written also urocord.]

To defeat; to put an end to. [R.] He vacates my revenge. Dryden.