A New Random Definition Added Every Hour. Word Meaning Unlocks Concepts and Ideas, Web and Text Mining, Reference, Value, Knowledge Discovery, Creativity, Dictionary, Thesaurus, Ideas http://www.conceptexplore.com/feed.xml en-us Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:30:04 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com founder@conceptexplore.com Mastress (?), n. Mistress. [Obs.] Chaucer. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Mastress Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:30:04 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Pomeranian (?), a. Of or pertaining to Pomerania, a province of Prussia on the Baltic Sea. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Pomerania. [ Webster] Pomeranian dog (Zol.), the loup-loup, or Spitz dog. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Pomeranian Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:30:05 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Pisophalt (?), n. [For pissasphalt.] (Min.) Pissasphalt. [Obs.] [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Pisophalt Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:30:07 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Concertative (?), a. [L. concertativus.] Contentious; quarrelsome. [Obs.] Bailey. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Concertative Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:03 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Limning (lmnng or lmng), n. The act, process, or art of one who limns; the picture or decoration so produced. [ Webster] Adorned with illumination which we now call limning. Wood. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Limning Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:30:03 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com erysipelas (rspls), n. [L., fr. Gr. 'erysipelas; 'eryqros red + pella hide, skin. See Red, and Pell, n.] (Med.) St. Anthony's fire; a febrile disease accompanied with a diffused red edematous inflammation of the skin, which, starting usually from a single point, spreads gradually over its surface. It is often accompanied by severe constitutional symptoms. It is caused by a group A hemolytic streptococcus (Streptococcus pyogenes), is contagious, and formerly often occured epidemically. [ Webster +PJC] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=erysipelas Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:30:05 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Domineering, a. Ruling arrogantly; overbearing. [ Webster] A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate. Blackw. Mag. Syn. -- Haughty; overbearing; lordly. See Imperious. -- Dom`i*neer"ing*ly, adv. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Domineering Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:30:03 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Commandership, n. The office of a commander. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Commandership Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:30:04 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Merrymaker (?), n. One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Merrymaker Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:30:04 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Overdraft (?), n. (Banking) The act of overdrawing; a draft in excess of the credit balance; also, the amount or sum overdrawn. [Webster Suppl.] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Overdraft Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:30:06 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Earcap (?), n. A cap or cover to protect the ear from cold. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Earcap Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:30:04 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Scythe (sth), n. [OE. sithe, AS. se, sige; akin to Icel. sigr a sickle, LG. segd, seged, seed, seid, OHG. segansa sickle, scythe, G. sense scythe, and to E. saw a cutting instrument. See Saw.] [Written also sithe and sythe.] 1. An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use. [ Webster] The sharp-edged scythe shears up the spiring grass. Drayton. [ Webster] Whatever thing The scythe of Time mows down. Milton. [ Webster] 2. (Antiq.) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Scythe Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:30:09 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Overlap (?), n. 1. The lapping of one thing over another; as, an overlap of six inches; an overlap of a slate on a roof. [ Webster] 2. (Geol.) An extension of geological beds above and beyond others, as in a conformable series of beds, when the upper beds extend over a wider space than the lower, either in one or in all directions. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Overlap Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:30:04 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Anacanthous (), a. Spineless, as certain fishes. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Anacanthous Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:30:01 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Mediocre, n. 1. A mediocre person; a mediocrity. [R.] [ Webster] 2. A young monk who was excused from performing a portion of a monk's duties. Shipley. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Mediocre Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:30:05 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Flukan (?), n. (Mining) Flucan. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Flukan Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:30:03 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Assistant (), n. 1. One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help. [ Webster] Four assistants who his labor share. Pope. [ Webster] Rhymes merely as assistants to memory. Mrs. Chapone. [ Webster] 2. An attendant; one who is present. Dryden. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Assistant Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:30:05 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Sporting, a. Of, pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sports; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. [ Webster] Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers, and the like. -- Sporting man, one who practices field sports; also, a horse racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like. -- Sporting plant (Bot.), a plant in which a single bud or offset suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very different, character from that of the rest of the plant. Darwin. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Sporting Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:30:04 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com { Geologic (?), Geological (?), } a. [Cf. F. gologique.] Of or pertaining to geology, or the science of the earth. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Geologic Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:18 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Or, n. [F., fr. L. aurum gold. Cf. Aureate.] (Her.) Yellow or gold color, -- represented in drawing or engraving by small dots. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Or Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:30:09 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Pelagic (?), a. [L. pelagicus.] Of or pertaining to the ocean; -- applied especially to animals that live at the surface of the ocean, away from the coast. Compare benthic. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Pelagic Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:30:15 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Unamended http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Unamended Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:30:09 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Treasonous (?), a. Treasonable. Shak. [ Webster] The treasonous book of the Court of King James. Pepys. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Treasonous Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:30:05 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com Serve (?), v. t. [imp. p. p. Served (?); p. pr. vb. n. Serving.] [OE. serven, servien, OF. F. servir, fr. L. servire; akin to servus a servant or slave, servare to protect, preserve, observe; cf. Zend har to protect, haurva protecting. Cf. Conserve, Desert merit, Dessert, Observe, Serf, Sergeant.] 1. To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, as an inferior, domestic, serf, slave, hired assistant, official helper, etc.; specifically, in a religious sense, to obey and worship. [ Webster] God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit. Rom. i. 9. [ Webster] Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. Gen. xxix. 18. [ Webster] No man can serve two masters. Matt. vi. 24. [ Webster] Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. Shak. [ Webster] 2. To be subordinate to; to act a secondary part under; to appear as the inferior of; to minister to. [ Webster] Bodies bright and greater should not serve The less not bright. Milton. [ Webster] 3. To be suitor to; to profess love to. [Obs.] [ Webster] To serve a lady in his beste wise. Chaucer. [ Webster] 4. To wait upon; to supply the wants of; to attend; specifically, to wait upon at table; to attend at meals; to supply with food; as, to serve customers in a shop. [ Webster] Others, pampered in their shameless pride, Are served in plate and in their chariots ride. Dryden. [ Webster] 5. Hence, to bring forward, arrange, deal, or distribute, as a portion of anything, especially of food prepared for eating; -- often with up; formerly with in. [ Webster] Bid them cover the table, serve in the meat, and we will come in to dinner. Shak. [ Webster] Some part he roasts, then serves it up so dressed. Dryde. [ Webster] 6. To perform the duties belonging to, or required in or for; hence, to be of use to; as, a curate may serve two churches; to serve one's country. [ Webster] 7. To contribute or conduce to; to promote; to be sufficient for; to satisfy; as, to serve one's turn. [ Webster] Turn it into some advantage, by observing where it can serve another end. Jer. Taylor. [ Webster] 8. To answer or be (in the place of something) to; as, a sofa serves one for a seat and a couch. [ Webster] 9. To treat; to behave one's self to; to requite; to act toward; as, he served me very ill. [ Webster] 10. To work; to operate; as, to serve the guns. [ Webster] 11. (Law) (a) To bring to notice, deliver, or execute, either actually or constructively, in such manner as the law requires; as, to serve a summons. (b) To make legal service opon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.); as, to serve a witness with a subpna. [ Webster] 12. To pass or spend, as time, esp. time of punishment; as, to serve a term in prison. [ Webster] 13. To copulate with; to cover; as, a horse serves a mare; -- said of the male. [ Webster] 14. (Tennis) To lead off in delivering (the ball). [ Webster] 15. (Naut.) To wind spun yarn, or the like, tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather. See under Serving. [ Webster] To serve an attachment or To serve a writ of attachment (Law), to levy it on the person or goods by seizure, or to seize. -- To serve an execution (Law), to levy it on a lands, goods, or person, by seizure or taking possession. -- To serve an office, to discharge a public duty. -- To serve a process (Law), in general, to read it, so as to give due notice to the party concerned, or to leave an attested copy with him or his attorney, or his usual place of abode. -- To serve a warrant, to read it, and seize the person against whom it is issued. -- To serve a writ (Law), to read it to the defendant, or to leave an attested copy at his usual place of abode. -- To serve one out, to retaliate upon; to requite. I'll serve you out for this. C. Kingsley. -- To serve one right, to treat, or cause to befall one, according to his deserts; -- used commonly of ill deserts; as, it serves the scoundrel right. -- To serve one's self of, to avail one's self of; to make use of. [A Gallicism] [ Webster] I will serve myself of this concession. Chillingworth. [ Webster] -- To serve out, to distribute; as, to serve out rations. -- To serve the time or To serve the hour, to regulate one's actions by the requirements of the time instead of by one's duty; to be a timeserver. [Obs.] [ Webster] They think herein we serve the time, because thereby we either hold or seek preferment. Hooker. [ Webster] Syn. -- To obey; minister to; subserve; promote; aid; help; assist; benefit; succor. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Serve Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:30:05 -0500 founder@conceptexplore.com