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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,077 words match “ONY”

BARONY n. 2 definitions

The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.

Difficulty of speech.

A plant of the genus Betonica (Linn.).

BONY a. 2 definitions

Having large or prominent bones. Bony fish (Zoöl.), the menhaden. -- Bony pike (Zoöl.), the gar pike (Lepidosteus).

BOTTONY; BOTTONE a.

d or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons. Cross bottony (Her.), a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.

Containing or resembling brimstone; sulphurous. B. Jonson.

See Bryony. Tennyson.

BRONCHOPHONY n.

A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the chest in certain cases of intro-thoracic disease.

everal cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Bryonia. The root of B. alba (rough or white bryony) and of B. dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic. Black bryony, a plant (Tamus communis) so named from its dark glossy leaves and black root; black bindweed.

Ornamented with a large number of buttons. "The buttony boy." Thackeray. "My coat so blue and buttony." W. S. Gilbert.

CACOPHONY n. 3 definitions

An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables. "Cacophonies of all kinds." Pope.

7, occuring, always combined, in many compounds, as the aldehydes, the ketones, urea, carbonyl chloride, etc.

CASSIDONY n. 2 definitions

The French lavender (Lawandula Stachas).

CEREMONY n. 4 definitions

the transaction of affairs of state, and the celebration of notable events; as, the ceremony of crowning a sovereign; the ceremonies observed in consecrating a church; marriage and baptismal ceremonies. According to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof shall ye keep it [the Passover]. Numb.…

quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax. [Written also calcedony.]

COLONY n. 4 definitions

en, well educated, devout Christians, and zealous lovers of liberty. There was never a colony formed of better materials. Ames.

COMPONY; COMPONE a.

s of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony.

CONY n. 5 definitions

A simpleton. [Obs.] It is a most simple animal; whence are derived our usual phrases of cony and cony catcher. Diet's Dry Dinner (1599).

To deceive; to cheat; to trick. [Obs.] Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business. Shak.