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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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115 words match “URBAN”

ctus; Turk's head. See Melon cactus, under Melon. -- Turk's head. (a) (Naut.) A knot of turbanlike form worked on a rope with a piece of small line. R. H. Dana, Jr. (b) (Bot.) See Turk's cap (c) above. -- Turk's turban (Bot.), a plant of the genus Ranunculus; crowfoot.

Harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult; disturbance; worrying confusion. And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil, A blessed soul doth in Elysium. Shak.

A turban. [Obs.] With hundred turrets like a turribant. Spenser.

UNCONFORMABILITY n.

ant of parallelism between one series of strata and another, especially when due to a disturbance of the position of the earlier strata before the latter were deposited.

UNSETTLEMENT n.

The act of unsettling, or state of being unsettled; disturbance. J. H. Newman.

Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor. But the Jews which believed not, . . . set all the city on an uproar. Acts xvii. 5.

Insurrection; commotion; disturbance. [Obs.] Sir J. Cheke.

Of or pertaining to a city; urban. [R.]

Double-beat valve, a kind of balance valve usually consisting of a movable, open-ended, turban-shaped shell provided with two faces of nearly equal diameters, one above another, which rest upon two corresponding seats when the valve is closed. -- Equilibrium valve. (a) A balance valve. See under Balance. (b) A valve…

A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance. Dryden. Cowper.

Interruption, as of sleep or peace; disturbance.

Disturbance of the stomach; a feeling of nausea. Holland.

WEIL'S DISEASE n.

An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.

A state of undue solicitude; a state of disturbance from care and anxiety; vexation; anxiety; fret; as, to be in a worry. "The whir and worry of spindle and of loom." Sir T. Browne.

circle; to infold. Each wreathed in the other's arms. Shak. Dusk faces with withe silken turbants wreathed. Milton. And with thy winding ivy wreathes her lance. Dryden.