Search the Dictionary

An abuttal; a boundary. Without buttings or boundings on any side. Bp. Beveridge.

the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint.

A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium. See Bezant.

A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople. [ Written also Bizantine.] Byzantine church, the Eastern or Greek church, as distinguished from the Western or Roman or Latin church.See under Greek. -- Byzantine empire, the Eastern Roman…

A forest composed of stunted trees and thorny bushes, found in areas of small rainfall in Brazil.

Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition. Calculating machine, a machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high d…

The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement. [Cant, U. S.]

See Canteen.

tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone. - Cant"ing*ly, adv. -- Cant"ing*ness, n. Canting arms, Canting heraldry (Her.), bearings in the nature of a rebus alluding to the name of the bearer. Thus, the Castletons bear three castles, and Pope A…

A woman who carries a canteen for soldiers; a vivandière.

Having power to captivate or cham; fascinating; as, captivating smiles. -- Cap"tiva`ting*ly, adv.

A red crystallizable tasteless substance, extracted from the carrot.

Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general. The floor was covered with rich carpeting. Prescott.

That which is cast in a mold; esp. the mass of metal so cast; as, a casting in iron; bronze casting.

a glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic acid, and cathartina.

Originally, a melody of simpler form than the aria; a song without a second part and a da capo; -- a term now variously and vaguely used.

Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.

A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry.

Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms.

Sentinel. [Obs.] Sackville.