Search the Dictionary

A runt. [Obs.] Spenser.

Of or pertaining to the German physicist Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen, or the rays discovered by him; as, Röntgen apparatus.

Any of the rays produced when cathode rays strike upon surface of a solid (as the wall of the vacuum tube). Röntgen rays are noted for their penetration of many opaque substances, as wood and flesh, their action on photographic plates, and their fluorescent effects. They were called X rays by their discoverer, W. K. Rö…

To render (air or other gas) conducting by the passage of Röntgen rays.

Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.

To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face. [Obs.] All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant. Holland. That he, as 't were by accident, may here Affront Ophelia. Shak.

Face to face, or front to front; facing.

Shamelessly. [Obs.] Bacon.

One who receives an affront. Lytton.

One who affronts, or insults to the face.

In an affronting manner.

Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive. How affrontive it is to despise mercy. South.

The quality that gives an affront or offense. [R.] Bailey.

In front; face to face. -- prep. In front of. Shak.

Having two fronts. "Bifronted Janus." Massinger.

An instrument for making such tracings, as a recording brontometer.

An aërolite. [R.]

A treatise upon thunder.

An instrument for noting or recording phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.

A genus of American jurassic dinosaurs. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles.