Search the Dictionary

Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

98,828 entries. Headwords are matched first, then definition text.

21,849 words match “ALL”

CATEGORICALLY adv.

Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically.

A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead. Totten.

sil, supposed to be a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit. Gauda galli epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the begining of the Devonian age in eastern America, so named from the characteristic gritty sandstone marked with impressions of cauda galli. See the Diagram under Geology.…

CAUSALLY adv. 2 definitions

According to the order or series of causes; by tracing effects to causes.

CAUSTICALLY adv.

In a caustic manner.

A carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast (Caranx hippos): -- called also horse crevallé.

CELESTIALLY adv.

In a celestial manner.

CENTENNIALLY adv.

Once in a hundred years.

In a central manner or situation.

CEREMONIALLY adv.

According to rites and ceremonies; as, a person ceremonially unclean.

CHALLENGE n. 15 definitions

An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons. A challenge to controversy. Goldsmith.

CHALLENGEABLE a.

That may be challenged.

One who challenges.

oft and delicate woolen, or woolen and silk, fabric, for ladies' dresses. [Written also chally.]

CHAOTICALLY adv.

In a chaotic manner.

ving the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen.

CHARACTERISTICALLY adv.

In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.

CHEMICALLY adv.

According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation.

CHIMERICALLY adv.

Wildy; vainly; fancifully.

Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited;downcast. See Chapfallen.