Search the Dictionary

Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.

Like a buccaneer; piratical.

A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses.

A system of government in which unrestricted power is exercised by a single person, to whom, as Cæsar or emperor, it has been committed by the popular will; imperialism; also, advocacy or support of such a system of government.

An apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion.

A beetle (Lytta, or Cantharis, vesicatoria), having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blist…

Of or pertaining to a cantor; as, the cantoris side of a choir; a cantoris stall. Shipley.

of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative. Their horses clothed with rich caparison. Drylen.

The principles, practices, or organization of the Carbonari.

One who caricatures.

A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars. The catasterisms of Eratosthenes. Whewell.

One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies. Emerson.

One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.

The operation of introducing a catheter.

The use or application of a caustic; cautery. Ferrand.

Somewhat like a cavalier.

The practice or principles of cavaliers. Sir. W. Scott.

Same as Cellarer.

Allied to, or resembling, the genus Centriscus, of which the bellows fish is an example.

An historian who distinguishes time by centuries, esp. one of those who wrote the "Magdeburg Centuries." See under Century. [R.]