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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,077 words match “ONY”

CONY-CATCHER n.

A cheat; a sharper; a deceiver. [Obs.] Minsheu.

An oily substance, C8H14, obtained from several derivatives of conine.

A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine.

on of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato. The cosmogony or creation of the world has puzzled philosophers of all ages. Goldsmith.

COTTONY a. 2 definitions

Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.

COUNTER-COMPONY a.

CRONY n. 2 definitions

A crone. [Obs.] "Marry not an old crony." Burton.

A colorless, volatile, pungent liquid, C4H6, produced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series, and analogous to crotonic acid.

CROWN COLONY n.

A colony of the British Empire not having an elective magistracy or a parliament, but governed by a chief magistrate (called Governor) appointed by the Crown, with executive councilors nominated by him and not elected by the people.

A secret name; a name by which a person is known only to the initiated.

Like a cushion; soft; pliable. A flat and cushiony noce. Dickens.

DESYNONYMIZATION n.

The act of desynonymizing.

DESYNONYMIZE v.

To deprive of synonymous character; to discriminate in use; -- applied to words which have been employed as synonyms. Coleridge. Trench.

A Ceylonese boat. See Doni.

Any of the festivals held in honor of the Olympian god Dionysus. They correspond to the Roman Bacchanalia; the greater Dionysia were held at Athens in March or April, and were celebrated with elaborate performances of both tragedies and comedies.

Of or pertaining to Dionysus or to the Dionysia; Bacchic; as, a Dionysiac festival; the Dionysiac theater at Athens.

Relating to Dionysius, a monk of the 6th century; as, the Dionysian, or Christian, era. Dionysian period, a period of 532 years, depending on the cycle of the sun, or 28 years, and the cycle of the moon, or 19 years; -- sometimes called the Greek paschal cycle, or Victorian period.

DIPLOSTEMONY n.

The condition of being diplostemonous.

Want of harmony; discord; incongruity. [R.] A disharmony in the different impulses that constitute it [our nature]. Coleridge.

Lady; mistress; madam; -- a title of respect used in Spain, prefixed to the Christian name of a lady.