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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Entirely. "Too long to print in entire." Thackeray.

2. A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer. [Eng.] "Foker's Entire." Thackeray.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient; as, the entire control of a business; entire confidence, ignorance. That ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James i. 4. With strength entire and free will armed. Milton. One entire and perfect chrysolite. Shak.

2. Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful. Pure fear and entire cowardice. Shak. No man had ever a heart more entire to the king. Clarendon.

3. Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.

4. Having an evenly continuous edge, as a leaf which has no kind of teeth.

5. Not gelded; -- said of a horse.

6. Internal; interior. [Obs.] Spenser.

Synonyms: See Whole, and Radical.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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