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A respecter of personsRespecter Re*spect"er (-?r), n.
One who respects.
A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with
partiality.
Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of
persons. --Acts x. 34. AbsonantAbsonant Ab"so*nant, a. [L. ab + sonans, p. pr. of sonare to
sound.]
Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant. ``Absonant
to nature.' --Quarles. Absonous
Absonous Ab"so*nous, a. [L. absonus; ab + sonus sound.]
Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous. [Obs.] ``Absonous to
our reason.' --Glanvill.
Acacia AdansoniiGonakie Go"na*kie, n. (Bot.)
An African timber tree (Acacia Adansonii). Acceptance of persons Note: In modern law, proposal and acceptance are the
constituent elements into which all contracts are
resolved.
Acceptance of a bill of exchange, check, draft, or
order, is an engagement to pay it according to the terms.
This engagement is usually made by writing the word
``accepted' across the face of the bill.
Acceptance of goods, under the statute of frauds, is an
intelligent acceptance by a party knowing the nature of
the transaction.
6. Meaning; acceptation. [Obs.]
Acceptance of persons, partiality, favoritism. See under
Accept. Acception of personsAcception Ac*cep"tion, n. [L. acceptio a receiving, accepting:
cf. F. acception.]
Acceptation; the received meaning. [Obs.]
Here the word ``baron' is not to be taken in that
restrictive sense to which the modern acception hath
confined it. --Fuller.
Acception of persons or faces (Eccl.), favoritism;
partiality. [Obs.] --Wyclif. Acrid poisonAcrid Ac"rid, a. [L. acer sharp; prob. assimilated in form to
acid. See Eager.]
1. Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to the taste; pungent;
as, acrid salts.
2. Causing heat and irritation; corrosive; as, acrid
secretions.
3. Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating; as, acrid temper,
mind, writing.
Acrid poison, a poison which irritates, corrodes, or burns
the parts to which it is applied. AdansoniaAdansonia Ad`an*so"ni*a, n. [From Adanson, a French botanist.]
(Bot.)
A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two
species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa
and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or
cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of
moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a
wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with
pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is
used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. --D. C.
Eaton. Adansonia digitataBaobab Ba"o*bab, n. [The native name.] (Bot.)
A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also
naturalized in India. See Adansonia. Adansonia GregoriiSour Sour, a. [Compar. Sourer; superl. Sourest.] [OE.
sour, sur, AS. s?r; akin to D. zuur, G. sauer, OHG. s?r,
Icel. s?rr, Sw. sur, Dan. suur, Lith. suras salt, Russ.
surovui harsh, rough. Cf. Sorrel, the plant.]
1. Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and
the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.
All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.
--Bacon.
2. Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or
musty, turned.
3. Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish;
morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply. ``A sour
countenance.' --Swift.
He was a scholar . . . Lofty and sour to them that
loved him not, But to those men that sought him
sweet as summer. --Shak.
4. Afflictive; painful. ``Sour adversity.' --Shak.
5. Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.
Sour dock (Bot.), sorrel.
Sour gourd (Bot.), the gourdlike fruit Adansonia
Gregorii, and A. digitata; also, either of the trees
bearing this fruit. See Adansonia.
Sour grapes. See under Grape.
Sour gum (Bot.) See Turelo.
Sour plum (Bot.), the edible acid fruit of an Australian
tree (Owenia venosa); also, the tree itself, which
furnished a hard reddish wood used by wheelwrights.
Syn: Acid; sharp; tart; acetous; acetose; harsh; acrimonious;
crabbed; currish; peevish. AdvowsonAdvowson Ad*vow"son (?; 277), n. [OE. avoweisoun, OF.
avo["e]son, fr. L. advocatio. Cf. Advocation.] (Eng. Law)
The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the
church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or
protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or
present to it.]
Note: The benefices of the Church of England are in every
case subjects of presentation. They are nearly 12,000
in number; the advowson of more than half of them
belongs to private persons, and of the remainder to the
crown, bishops, deans and chapters, universities, and
colleges. --Amer. Cyc. Advowson in grossGross Gross, n. [F. gros (in sense 1), grosse (in sense 2).
See Gross, a.]
1. The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass. ``The gross
of the enemy.' --Addison.
For the gross of the people, they are considered as
a mere herd of cattle. --Burke.
2. sing. & pl. The number of twelve dozen; twelve times
twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.
Advowson in gross (Law), an advowson belonging to a person,
and not to a manor.
A great gross, twelve gross; one hundred and forty-four
dozen.
By the gross, by the quantity; at wholesale.
Common in gross. (Law) See under Common, n.
In the gross, In gross, in the bulk, or the undivided
whole; all parts taken together. Altisonant
Altisonant Al*tis"o*nant ([a^]l*t[i^]s"[-o]*nant), a. [L.
altus high + sonans, p. pr. of sonare to sound.]
High-sounding; lofty or pompous. --Skelton.
Altisonous
Altisonous Al*tis"o*nous (-n[u^]s), a. [L. altisonus.]
Altisonant.
AntimasonAntimason An`ti*ma"son, n.
One opposed to Freemasonry. -- An`ti*ma*son"ic, a. AntimasonicAntimason An`ti*ma"son, n.
One opposed to Freemasonry. -- An`ti*ma*son"ic, a. Antimasonry
Antimasonry An`ti*ma"son*ry, n.
Opposition to Freemasonry.
Armisonant
Armisonant Ar*mis"o*nant, Armisonous Ar*mis"o*nous, a. [L.
armisonus; arma arms + sonare (p. pr. sonans) to sound.]
Rustling in arms; resounding with arms. [Obs.]
Armisonous
Armisonant Ar*mis"o*nant, Armisonous Ar*mis"o*nous, a. [L.
armisonus; arma arms + sonare (p. pr. sonans) to sound.]
Rustling in arms; resounding with arms. [Obs.]
Artificial personArtificial Ar`ti*fi"cial, a. [L. artificialis, fr. artificium:
cf. F. artificiel. See Artifice.]
1. Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human
skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial
heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers.
Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier
than life. --Shak.
2. Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.
``Artificial tears.' --Shak.
3. Artful; cunning; crafty. [Obs.] --Shak.
4. Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as,
artificial grasses. --Gibbon.
Artificial arguments (Rhet.), arguments invented by the
speaker, in distinction from laws, authorities, and the
like, which are called inartificial arguments or proofs.
--Johnson.
Artificial classification (Science), an arrangement based
on superficial characters, and not expressing the true
natural relations species; as, ``the artificial system'
in botany, which is the same as the Linn[ae]an system.
Artificial horizon. See under Horizon.
Artificial light, any light other than that which proceeds
from the heavenly bodies.
Artificial lines, lines on a sector or scale, so contrived
as to represent the logarithmic sines and tangents, which,
by the help of the line of numbers, solve, with tolerable
exactness, questions in trigonometry, navigation, etc.
Artificial numbers, logarithms.
Artificial person (Law). See under Person.
Artificial sines, tangents, etc., the same as logarithms
of the natural sines, tangents, etc. --Hutton. Asonant
Asonant As"o*nant, a. [Pref. a- not + sonant.]
Not sounding or sounded. [R.] --C. C. Felton.
AssonantAssonant As"so*nant, a. [L. assonans, p. pr. of assonare to
sound to, to correspond to in sound; ad + sonare to sound,
sonus sound: cf. F. assonant. See Sound.]
1. Having a resemblance of sounds.
2. (Pros.) Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called
assonance; not consonant. Assonantal
Assonantal As`so*nan"tal, a.
Assonant.
Assonate
Assonate As"so*nate, v. i. [L. assonare, assonatum, to respond
to.]
To correspond in sound.
Ausonian
Ausonian Au*so"ni*an, a. [L. Ausonia, poetic name for Italy.]
Italian. --Milton.
Bason
Bason Ba"son, n.
A basin. [Obs. or Special form]
Bawson
Bawsin Baw"sin, Bawson Baw"son, n. [OE. bawson, baucyne,
badger (named from its color), OF. bauzan, baucant, bauchant,
spotted with white, pied; cf. It. balzano, F. balzan, a
white-footed horse, It. balza border, trimming, fr. L.
balteus belt, border, edge. Cf. Belt.]
1. A badger. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
2. A large, unwieldy person. [Obs.] --Nares.
BenisonBenison Ben"i*son, n. [OE. beneysun, benesoun, OF.
bene["i]?un, bene["i]son, fr. L. benedictio, fr. benedicere
to bless; bene (adv. of bonus good) + dicere to say. See
Bounty, and Diction, and cf. Benediction.]
Blessing; beatitude; benediction. --Shak.
More precious than the benison of friends. --Talfourd.
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