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A simpleton. L'Estrange. A pattern and companion fit For all the keeping tonies of the pit. Dryden.

A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym. [R.] C. J. Smith.

To stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay. [Archaic] The captain of the Helots . . . strake Palladius upon the side of his head, that he reeled astonied. Sir P. Sidney. This sodeyn cas this man astonied so, That reed he wex, abayst, and al quaking. Chaucer.

Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile.

A plant of the genus Betonica (Linn.).

ud 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.

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

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

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

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

Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. Milton.

The operation of removing a cataract by thrusting a needle through the cornea of the eye, and breaking up the opaque mass.

Used by way of metonymy. -- Met`o*nym"ic*al*ly, adv.

A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections.

Any irksome sameness, or want of variety. At sea, everything that breaks the monotony of the surrounding expanse attracts attention. W. Irving.

Like mutton; having a flavor of mutton.

to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.

State of being adjusted to a certain wave length; agreement or tuning between the time period of an apparatus emitting electric oscillations and that of a receiving apparatus, esp. in wireless telegraphy.

object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. Antony, most large in his abominations. Shak.