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an accommodation bill, esp. a mere paper credit. trough, a trough for kneading. (A.S. cnedan; Ice. *. Kito-fying, the dealing in fictitious accommoda. knoða, Ger, kneten, to knead.) lion paper to raise money. (A.S. cyta; cf. W. cud, Bret. kidel, a hawk.) Knee, nē, n. the joint between the thigh and shin bones : a piece of timber or metal like a bent Kite, kit, *. (Scot.) the belly.-Also Kyto. (A.S. knee : (Skak.) a genuflection. - v.t. (Shak.) 10 Civith, the womb.) Kith, kith, . kindred, acquaintance, obsolete except kneel to, to go over on one's knees.--n.pl. Kneo'. in the phrase Kith and kin, acquaintances and breech'es, breeches extending to just below the knee, as in court-dress.-1. Knoo-cap, the bone relatives. (A.S. cú8-cunnan, to know.) above the protuberance of the knee : a cap or Kitten, kit'n, n. a young cat. -7.1. to bring forth strong covering for the knees, used chiefly for young cars.-n. (Scot.) Kitling.--adj. Kitt'onish, horses, to save their knees in case of a fall. --~.pl. frolicsome.-».i. Kitt'le (Scot.), to bring forth kittens. Knee-cords, knee-breeches of corduroy. — adjs. (11. E. kiloun, dim. of cat.) Knee-crook'ing, obsequious: fawning; Kneed, Kittiwake, kit'i-wāk, n. a species of gull with long having knees : (bot.) having angular joints like wings and rudimentary hind-toe. (Imit.) the knee; Knee-deep, rising to the knees : sunk Kittle, kit'l, adj. (Scot.) ticklish, intractable.-9.t. to the knees; Knee-high, rising or reaching (Scot.) to tickle. --adj. Kitt'ly, casily tickled, sensi. to the knees. —Ms. Knoe' holl'y, butcher's broom : tive. -1. Kittly.bend'ers (Amer.), running on thin Knee'.joint, a joint with two pieces at bending ice. angle, so as to be very tight when pressed into a Kw, kē wi, n. a bird of the genus Apteryx found in straight line: Knoe-pan, a flat, round bone on New Zealand. the front of the knee-joint; Knee-piece, or -raft'or, Klang, klang, n. (mus.) a complex tone, composed of an angular piece of timber strengthening a joint fundamental and harmonics, as opposed to a simple where two roof-timbers meet : any defensive aptone. (Ger.) pliance covering the knee; Knee-stop, -swell, a Klepht, klest, n. a Greek or Albanian brigand. (Gr., lever worked by the performer's knee, for regulating from kle plein, to steal.) the wind-supply of a reed-organ, &c.; Knee'-tim' bor, Kleptomania, klep-to-mā'ni-a, n. a mania for stealing: timber bent into a shape suitable for a knee in ship a morbid impulse to secrete things. —-n. Kleptoma'. building, &c.; Knee' tributo (Milt.), the homage niac. [Gr. kleptein, to steal, mania, madness.) of kneeling.--Give, or Offer, a knee, to act as Klick, Same as Click second or bottle-holder in a fight, the principal Klipdas, klip'das, n. the rock badger. resting on the second's knee during the pauses Klipspringer, klip'spring-er, n. a small South African between the rounds. (A.S. creów, crið; Ger. knie, antelope I. genit, Gr. gonu.) Kloof, klaf, n. a mountain clest. (S. African Dutch.) | Kneel, nēl, v.i. to bend the knee: to rest or fall on the Knack, nak, n. a petty contrivance: a toy: a nice knee: pa.t. and pa.. kneeled, knelt.-». Kneel'er, trick: dexterity, adroitness. -n. Knack’iness. one who kncels. (Kner.) odje. Knack'ish, Knack'y, cunning, crafty. (Orig. Knell, nel, n. the stroke of a bell: the sound of a bell imit . ; cf. Gael. cnac, Dut. knak, a crack, Ger. at a death or funeral.-V.1. to sound as a bell: toll. kucken, to crack.) --v.t. to summon as by a tolling bell. (A.S.cnyllan, Knacker, nak'ér, n. anything that knocks: (2.) to beat noisily ; Dut. and Ger. knallen.) castanets or clappers, bones. Knelt, neli, pait, and pa.p. of kneel. Knacker, nak'ér, n. a dealer in old horses and dog's. Know, nů, pat, of know. meat: (prov.) a collier's horse. (From Ice. knakkr, Knickerbockers, nik-ér-bok'érz, n.pl. loose breeches a saddle.) gathered in at the knee. -Also Knick'ers. (From Knag, nag, n. a knot in wood : a peg.-n. Knaggi. the wide-breeched Dutchmen in Knickerbocker's' ness, state of being knaggy.-adj. Knag gy, knotty : (Washington Irving's) humorous llistory of New rugged. (From a root found in Ir. and Gael. cnag, York, whence Knickerbocker has come to mean the a knob; cf. Dan. krag, Ger. knagge.} descendant of one of the original Dutch settlers of Knap, nap, v.t. to snap or break with a snapping New York.) noise : to break in pieces with blows, as stones : to Knick knack, nik'-nak, n. a trifle or toy.-n. Knick'. up flint: Knife, nif, n. an instrument for cutting: a sword or Aakes for gun-flints: Knapping-hamm'er (Scot.), dagger :-pl. Knives (nīvz).—v.t. to stab with a a hammer for breaking stones.-7.i. Knapʻple, to knite : (Amer.) to try to destroy a political candisibble. (Dut. knappen, to crack or crush.] date's chances by a treacherous attack.--»s. Knife'. Knap, nap, n. (Bacon) a protuberance, a hillock. -n. and-fork', a trencherman ; Knife’-board, a board on knapweed, a general name for plants of the genus which knives are cleaned : (coll.) the seat running Centaurea of the composite family--star-thistle, along the top of an omnibus ; Knife'-boy, a boy bachelor's bu tons. (Co with knob, knop.) employed in cleaning knives ; Knife'-edge (mech.), Knapsack, nap'sak, n, a provision-sack: a case for a sharp piece of steel like a knife's edge serving as necessaries borne by soldiers and travellers. (Dut. the axis of a balance, &c.; Knife’-grind'er, one who knappen, to crack, eat, sak, a sack.) grinds or sharpens knives; Knife'-mon'oy, a knifeKnapskuli, nap'skul, n. a helmet. (From knap (n.) shaped bronze currency formerly used in China ; and skull.) Knife’-rest, a glass or metal utensil on which to rest Enar, når, n. a knot on a tree.-n. Knarl = Gnarl.- a carving-knife or fork; Knife'-tray, a tray for adj. Knarred, gnarled, knotty: holding knives.-War to the knife, mortal combat. Anave, nāv, n. a false, deceitfúl fellow: a villain : a (A.S. cnif; Ger. kneif, knife, kneifen, to nip.) card bearing the picture of a servant or soldier: Knight, nit, n. one of gentle birth and bred to arms, (Skak.) a boy.-ns. Knave'-bairn, a male child; admitted in feudal times to a certain honourable Knavery, dishonesty ; Knavo'ship (Scot.), a cer. military rank : (Shak.) an attendant: a champion: tain quantity of grain, the due of the miller. the rank, with the title 'Sir,' next below baronets: a - adj. Knav'ish, fraudulent: villainous. --adv. piece used in the game of chess. ---v.t. to create a Knar ishly. - H. Knav'ishness. (A.S. cnafa, knight.-ns. Knight'age, the collective body of napa, a boy, a youth ; Ger, knabe, knappe.] knights; Knight-bach'elor, one who has been Knead, ned, o.t. to work and press together into a knighted merely, not made a member of any titular mass, as 'flour into dough :' to operate upon in order; Knight-bann'eret, a knight who carried massage: to mix. — 98. Knead'or; Knead'ing. banner, and who was superior in rank to the knightbachelor: Knight'-err'ant, a knight who travelled in Knoll, nol. Same as Knell. search of auventures ; Knight-err'antry; Knight'. Knop, nop, n. (B.) a knob, a bud. (A. S. chap; Dut. hood, the character or privilege of a knight: the knop, Ger, knopf.) order or fraternity of knights; Knight'hood-err'ant Knosp, nosp, n. the unopened bud of a flower: an archi. (Tenn.), the body of knights-errant.--adj. Knight'. tectural ornament resembling such. (Ger, krospe.) loss (Spens.), unbecoming a knight.-n. Knight'li | Knot, not, n. a wading.bird much resembling a swipe, ness, the bearing or duties of a knight.-adj. and sometimes said, but without evidence, to be named adv. Knightly. -Ls. Knight'-mar'shal, formerly from King Cnut or Canute. an officer of the royal household; Knight'-service, Knot, not, n. a bunch of threads or the like entangled tenure by a knight on condition of military service. or twisted : an interlacement of parts of a cord, &c., -Knight of industry, a footpad, thief, or sharper; by twisting the ends about each other, and then Knight of the carpet, a civil ight, as opposed to drawing right the loops thus formed a piece of a military, so called because created kneeling on ribbon, lace, &c., folded or tied upon itself in some a carpet, not the field; Knight of the postle, an particular form, as shoulder-knot, breast-knot, &c: apothecary: Knight of the post, one familiar with anything like a knot in form: a bond of union : a the whipping.post or pillory; Knight of the road, difficulty: the gist of a matter : a cluster: the part a highwayman; Knight of the shiro, a member of of a tree where a branch shoots out: an epaulet: parliament for a county: Knight's fee, the amount (nant.) a division of the knot.marked log-line: a of land with which a knight was invested on his nautical mile. ---v.t. to tie in a knot : to unite closely. creation; Knights of Labour, in the United --v... to form knots or joints: to knit knots for a States, a national labour organisation; Knights of fringe :--pr.p. knot'ting ; pa.t. and pa.p, knotted.Malta (see Hospitaller); Knights of St Crispin, n. Knot-grass, a common weed or grass, so called shoemakers; Knights of the rainbow, flunkeys from the numerous joints or knots of its stem.from their liveries; Knights of the shears, tailors; adjs. Knot'less, without knots; Knot'ted, full of, or Knights of the spigot, tapsters, publicans; Knights having, knots: having intersecting lines or figures. of the stick, compositors ; Knights of the whip, 11. Knot'tiness.--aulj, Knotty, containing knots: Page 3
Lanate, -d, lā'nāt, -ed, adis. woolly: (bot.) covered Land'ing-not, a kind of scoop-net for landing a fish with a substance resembling wool. -n. Lä'nary, a that has been caught; Landing place, a place for wool-store. (L. lanatus-iana, wool.) landing, as from a vessel ; Land'ing-stage, a plat. Lanoasterlan, lang-kas-te'ri-an, adj. pertaining, to form for landing passengers or goods carried by water, Joseph Lancaster (1778–1838), or the method of often rising and falling with the tide ; Landjob teaching younger pupils by those more advanced ber, a speculator in land; Land'-jobbing ; Land'. (monitors) in primary schools. lady, a woman who has property in land or houses : Lancastrian, lang-kas'tri-an, adj. pertaining to the the mistress of an inn or lodging-house. — adj. dukes or the royal house of Lancaster.-n, an ad- Land'less (Shak.), without land or property.--.. herent of the house of Lancaster, as against the Land'lock, to enclose by land.-adj. Land'-locked, Yorkists, in the Wars of the Roses (1455-85). almost shut in by land, protected by surrounding Lance, lans, n. (Spens.) balance, poise. (L. lanx, masses of land from the force of wind and waves. lancis, a dish or scale.) ns. Land'lord, the owner of land or houses: the Lance, lans, n. a long shaft of wood, with a spear. master of an inn or lodging house ; Land lordism, head, and bearing a small flag : the bearer of a lance. the authority or united action of the landholding -v.t. to pierce with a lance: to open with a lancet. class; Land'-lubber, a landsman (a terin used by -ns. Lance'-corporal, a private soldier doing the sailors); Land'mark, anything serving to mark the duties of a corporal; Lancoʻlet (see Amphioxus); boundaries of land : any object on land that serves Lan'cer, a lighi cavalry soldier armed with a lance: as a guide to seamen: any distinguishing character (PL.) a popular set of quadrilles, first in England istic; Land'-meas'ure, a system of square measure about 1820 : the music for such'; Lance'-wood, a used in the measurement of land ; Land'-measur. wood valuable for its great strength and elasticity, ing, the art of estimating the superficial content of brought chiefly from Jamaica, Guiana, &c.-adjs. portions of land; Land'-own'er, one who owns Lancif'erous, bearing a lance; Lan'ciform, lance- land; Land'-own'ership.-adj. Land'-own'ing. shaped. (Fr., -L. lancea; Gr. longchi, a lance.) ns. Land'-pilot, (Milt.), a guide on land ; Land'Lancogay, lans'gā, n. (obs.) a kind of spear. 10. Fr., pi'rate, a highway robber: a fellow who makes a -lance, a lance, zagaye, a pike. See Assagai.) practice of swindling sailors in port; Land'rall, the Lanceolate, -d, lan'se-o-lāt, -ed, adjs. (bot.) having crake or corncrake, so named from its cry; Land'. the form of a lance-head: tapering toward both rak'er (Shak.), a vagabond; Land-resve, the ends-also Lan'ceolar.-adv. Lan'coolately. (L. assistant to the land-steward of a great estate; lanceolatus-lanceola, dim. of lancen.) Land'-roll, a clod-crusher; Land'-scrip (U.S.) Lancet, lan'set, n. a surgical instrument used for negotiable government certificate entitling to pos. opening veins, abscesses, &c.: a high and narrow session of certain public land by individuals or cor. window, terminating in porate bodies; Land'-shark, a land-grabber : one arch, acutely pointed, often who plunders sailors on shore ; Land'skip (same as double or triple, common in Landscape); Land'slide, Land'slip, a portion of the first half of the 13th cen land that falls down, generally from the side of a tury. (O. Fr. lancette, dim. hill, usually due to the undermining effect of water ; of lance.) Lands'man, Land'man, one who lives or serves on Lanch. Same as Launch. land: one inexperienced in seafaring: Land-spring Lancinate, lan'sin-āt, v.t. to water lying near the surface, easily drawn upon by lacerate. Lancinā'tion, shallow wells; Land'-steward, a person who mansharp, shooting pain. [L. lan ages a landed estate ; Land-surveying (see Sor cināre, -atum, to tear.] veying); Land'-tax, a tax upon land; Land-turn, Land, land, n. earth, the solid a land-breeze; Land'-wait'er, a custom-house ofice: portion of the surface of the who attends on the landing of goods from ships.globe: a country : a district : adv. Land'ward, toward the land. - adj. lying soil : real estate: a nation or toward the land, away from the sea-coast : situated people : (Scot.) a in or forming part of the country, as opposed to the dwellings or tenements under town: rural. -n. Land'wind, a wind blowing one roof and having a common the land.-Land League, an association founded entry. - v.t. to set on land Lancet Window. in Ireland by Michael Davitt in 1879. and organised or on shore.-0.i. to come on by C. S. Parnell, to procure reduction and re land or on shore. — us. Land'-a'gent, a person arrangement of rents, and to promote the substitute employed by the owner of an estate to let farms, tion of peasant-proprietors for landlords-condemned collect rents, &c.; Land'-breeze, a breeze setting as an illegal conspiracy in 1881 ; Landed interest from the land towards the sea; Land'-crab, a the combined interest of the land-holding class is family of crabs which live much or chiefly on land, a community.- Make the land, to discover the land -v.t. Land'damn (Shak.), to banish from the land. as the ship approaches it ; Set the land, to obsesse -adj. Land'ed, possessing land or estates : consiste by the compass how the shore bears from the ship ing in land or real estate. -ns. Land'er, one who (A.S. land; Dut., Ger. land.) lands; Land'fall, a landslip : an approach to land Landamman, lan'dam-man, n. the president of the after a voyage, also the land so approached ; Land'. Swiss Diet: the head official in some Swiss cantosis fish (Shak.), a fish on land, any one acting contrary Landau, lan'daw, n. a coach or carriage with a top to his usual character ; Land'-flood, a flooding or which may be opened and thrown back. (Ger. overflowing of land by water: inundation ; Land'. landauer, from Landau.) force, a military force serving on land, as distin. Lande, land, n. an uncultivated healthy plain, e a guished from a naval force ; Land'-grab'ber, one sandy track along the sea-shore in south-wesis who acquires land by harsh and grasping means : France. (Fr.) one who is eager to occupy land from which others Landgrave, land'grāv, n. a German graf, count have been evicted; Land-grab'bing, the act of the or earl -fem. Landgravine (land'gra.vētd land-grabber ; Land'-herd, a herd of animals which Landgrā'viāte, the territory of a landgrave. [Dus feed on land í Land-Lold'er, a holder or proprietor landgraaf-land, land, graaf, count.] of land ; Land-hung er, greed for the acquisition Land-loupor, land'-lowp'er, n. a vagabond or vagras of land; Land'ing, act of going on land from a -Also Land'-lop'er. *[Dut. landloopen-end, lap vessel : a place for getting on shore: the level part loopen, to ramble; cf. Ger. landläufer.] of a staircase between the flights of steps. -adj. Landscape, land'skāp, n, the appearance of that per relating to the unloading of a vessel's cargo.-ns. tion of land which the eye can at once view it Page 4
the presence of the disease. [L. latens, pr.p. of Catholic Church ; Latin Empire, that portion of the latère, to lie hid; Gr. lanthanein, to be hidden.) Byzantine Empire seized in 1204 by the Crusaders, Lateral, lat'er-al, adj. belonging to the side : proceed. and overthrown by the Greeks in 1261; Latin king. ing from or in the direction of the side : (anat, and dom, the Christian kingdom of Jerusalem ruled by sool.) situated on one of the sides of the median French or Latin kings, and lasting from 1999 to vertical longitudinal plane of the body : (physics) at 1187.-Classical Latin, the Latin of the writers who right angles to a line of motion or strain. -1.. Later- flourished from about 75 B.C. to 200 A.D.; Dog ality.--adv. Laterally. - atj . Lateriföʻllous (bot.), Latin, barbarous Latin; Late Latin, the Latiu growing by the side of a leaf at its base.-Lateral written by authors between 200 and (circ.) 600 A.D.; fin, one of the paired side fins of a fish :-opp; to Middle, Medieval, or Low Latin, the Latin of the Vertical fin. (L. lateralis-latus, latěris, a side.) middle age between 600 and 1500 A.D. ; New, Lateran, lat'er-an, adj. pertaining to the Church of Modern, Latin, Latin as written between 1500 and St John Lateran at Rome, the Pope's cathedral the present time, mostly used as a scientific medium; church, on the site of the splendid palace or basilica Thieves' Latin, thieves' cant. (L. Latinus, belong of Plautius Lateranus (executed 66 A.D.).-Lateran ing to Latium, the district round Rome.) Councils, five general councils of the Western Latipennate, lat•i-pen'āt, adj. broad-winged. Church, held in the Lateran basilica (1123, 1139, Latirostral, lat-i-ros'tral, adj. broad-billed. — Also 1179, 1215, and 1512-17), regarded by Roman La tiros'trate. Catholics as ecumenical: also an important synod Latissimus, lā-tis'i-mus, 11. the broadest muscle which against the Monothelites in 649. lies upon the back. Latoriceous, lat-ér-ish'us, adj. of brick, or brick. Latitude, lat'i-tâd, n. the distance of a place north or coloured. --Also Laterit'lous. (L. latericius-later, south from the equator, measured in degrees of the lateris, a brick.) meridian: a place as indicated by latitude: the Laterite, lat'er-it, n. an argillaceous sandstone of a angular distance of a celestial body above the plane reddish or brick colour found in India, esp. in of the ecliptic (apparent when the point of view is Ceylon. [L. later, lateris, a brick.). on the earth's surface, geocentric when at the earth's Latescent, lä-tes'ent, adj. becoming hidden.-n. La- centre, heliocentric when at the centre of the sun): tesc'ence. (L. latescăre--latëre, to lie hid.) (fig.) extent of signification : freedom from restraint: Latest, lāt'est, adj. superl. of late. scope : (obs.) width. - autis. Latitud'inal, pertaining Latex, la'teks, 11. (bot.) the sap of plants.after it has to latitude: in the direction of latitude ; Latitudina been elaborated in the leaves.--vid;. Laticif'erous, rian, broad or liberal, esp. in religious belief: laxcontaining or conveying latex. (L.) n. a name applied by contemporaries to a member Lath, läth, n, a thin cleft slip of wood used in slating, of a school of liberal and philosophical theologians plastering, &c. :--01. Laths (läthz). - v.t. to cover within the English Church in the later half of the with laths.-adj. Lath'en.-ns. Lath'ing, the act 17th century: one who affects to regard specific or process of covering with laths: a covering of creeds, methods of church government, &c. with laths; Lath'-split'ter, one who splits wood into indifference. -- n. Latitudinā'rianism. - adj. Lati. laths.-adj. Lath'y, like a lath.-Dagger of lath, tud'inous, having latitude or large extent.-Latiany insufficient means of attack or defence. (A.S. tude by account, in navigation, the latitude calcu. laitu; Dut. lat, Ger. latte, a lath.) lated from the course and distance sailed since last Lathe, läth, n. a machine for turning and shaping observation ; Latitude by observation, the latitude articles of wood, metal, &c. : the movable swing: deterinined from an observation of a licavenly body; frame of a loom carrying the reed for separating the Middle latitude, the latitude of the parallel midway warp threads and beating up the west. [Ice. 108.) between two places situated in the saine hemisphere. Lathe, läth, n. a part or division of a county, now (Fr., -L. latitudo, •inis-larus, broad.] existing only in Kent, and consisting of four or Latria, la-trī'a, .. the kind of supreme worship law five hundreds. (A.S. láth, a district.) fully offered to God alone-opposed to Drizi, that Lather, latl'er, n. a foam or froth made with water given to saints and angels, and to Perduik, that and soap : froth from sweat.—2.1. to spread over given to the Virgin. (Gr., latrenein, to serve.] with lather. -v.i. to form a lather: to become frothy. Latrine, lat'rin, n. a privy or water-closet in barracks, (A.S. ledfor, lather; Ice. lauðr, foam.) factories, hospitals, &c. (Fr.,-L. lazatrina, 2.s. rina-laváre, to wash.) Latibulum, lā-tib'ū-lum, 1. a hiding-place, burrow : Latrobe, la-trob', n. a form of stove set into a fireplace, pl. Latib'ula.—v.1. Latib'ulise, to hibernate. (L.) heating the room byradiation, and the rooms Laticlave, lat'i-klâv, n. a broad vertical purple stripe above by hot air--from I. Latrobe of Baltimore. running down the front of a Roman senator's tunic. Latrocinium, lat-rð-sin'i-uim, n. the Robber-Councy (L. latus, broad, clavus, a stripe.) that held at Ephesus in 449, in which the doctries Laticostate, lat.i-kos'rāt, adj. broad-ribbed. of the heretic Eutyches were upheld by means Latidentate, lat-i-den':āt, adj. broad-toothed. intimidation-its acts revoked at the æcumenca Latifoliate, lat.i.foʻli-āt, adj. broad-leafed. Also council of Chalcedon in 451: larceny: right of Latifõ'lious. adjudging and executing thieves. [L., robbery.) Latin, lat'in, ad;. pertaining to ancient Latium (esp. Latten, lai'en, r. brass or bronze used for cruises: Rome) or its inhabitants, also to all races claiming sheet tin, tinned iron-plate. 10. Fr. laton (Fr. affinity with the Latins by language, race, or civilisa. laiton)-Ger. latte, a lath, thin plate. ) tion: written or spoken in Latin.-n, an inhabitant Latter, lat'ér, adj. later: coming or existing after : of ancient Latium: a member of a modern race mentioned the last of two: modern: recent : (Skit) ethnically or linguistically related to the ancient last.-adjs. Latt'er-born (Shak.), younger ;Latter: Romans or Italians : the language of ancient Rome day, belonging to recent times-adir. Latterly, the foundation of the modern Romance tongues: a in latter time: of late. -Latter-day Saints (te member of the Latin or Roman Catholic Church.- Mormon); Latter end (see End); Latter-mint, a adj. Lā'tian.-n. Lat'iner, one who knows Latin : late kind of mint.--TE. former and the latter (obs.) an interpreter.---v.t. Latinise, to give Latin rain (see Rain). (A variant of later.) forms to: to render into Latin.-ns. Latinism, a Lattice, lat'is, n. a network of crossed laths or barn Latin idiom; Lat’inist, one skilled in Latin : called also Lattice-work: anything of latrice-wor's, Latin'ity, the Latin tongue, style, or idiom.-Latin as a window : (her.) a bearing of vertical and hori Church, the Western Church as distinguished from zontal bars crossing each other. -7.1. to form ines the Greek or Oriental Church, so named as having open work: to furnish with a lattice. - 15. Lattios employed Latin as its official language : the Roman bridge, a bridge with its sides consisting of cross framing like lattice-work; Lattice-gird'or, a girder | Laureate, law're-āt, adj. crowned with laurel.--. of which the web consists of diagonal pieces arranged one crowned with laurel : a poet-laureate.--v.t. to like lattice-work; Lattice-leaf, an aquatic plant, crown with laurel, in token of literary merit: to palive to Madagascar, so called from the singular confer a degree upon.-19. Lau'reateship, office resemblance of the leaves to open lattice-work- of a laureate; Laureā'tion, act of laureating or cherwise Lattice-plant, Lace-leaf, Water-yam, or conferring a degree; Poet-lau’reato, formerly one Osirandrano.-Rod lattice (Shak.), a frame of who received a degree in grammar (i.e. poetry and lattice-work painted red, formerly used to fill the rhetoric) at the English universities : a poet bearing sindows of an ale-house. (Fr. lattis-latte, a lath.) that honorary title, a salaried officer in the royal Laud, lawd, v.t. to praise in words or with singing : household, appointed to compose annually an ode o celebrate.-*. commendation: praise in divine for the king's birthday and other suitable occasions. Worship: (1.) in the R.C. Church, the prayers Laurel, law'rel, r, the bay-tree, used by the ancients immediately following matins, constituting, with for making honorary wreaths: a crown of laurel, the latter the first of the seven canonical hours. honours gained (freq. in pl.): any species of the -adj. Laud'able, worthy of being praised.-». genus Laurus. -djs. Lau'rel; Lau'relled, crowned Laud'ableness. - adv. Laud'ably. - ns. Laudā'. with laurel. – n. Lau'rel - water, a sedative and tion, praise : honour paid ; Laud'ative, a panegyric, narcotic water distilled from the leaves of the cherrya eulogium.-adj. Laud'atory, containing praise : laurel.-adis. Lauriferous, producing laurel; Lau'. expressing praise. -*. that which contains praise.- riger, laurel-wearing.--». Laurustinus, an ever. 4. Laud'er. [L. laudäre_laus, laudis, praise.) green shrub. [Fr. laurier-L. laurus.) Laudanum, lawd'a-num, n. a preparation of opium : Laurentian, law-ren'shi-an, adj. pertaining to Lorenzo tiocture of opium. (Same word as ladanum, trans- or Laurentius dci Medici, or to the Laurentian ferred to a different drug.) Page 5
ists or supporters of the descendants of the Duke of continuance : detail: (prosody) time occupied in Orleans, Louis XIV.'s brother. --Legitimate drama, uttering a vowel or syllable: the quality of a vowel a designation frequently applied to the representation as long or short : any definite portion of a known of Shakespeare's plays-often employed as vaguely extent.--v.t. Length'en, to increase in length : to indicating approval of the drama of some former draw out.-9.1. to grow longer.-adv. Length'lly. time. (Low L. legitimare, atum--L. legitimus, --n. Length'inoss. - adv. Longth'wise, in the lawful-ler, law.] direction of the length.-adj. Length'y, of great Legume, leg'ûm, n. a seed-vessel which splits into two length : rather longobs.) Length'ful. --Length of valves, having the seeds attached to the ventral days, prolonged lite. --At length, in the full extent : suture only: a pod, as of the pea, bean, &c. -also at last; Go great longths, Go to all lengths, to Legú'mon :- pl. Legu'mens, Legü'mina. — adj; use extreme efforts : Go to the length of, to proLogū’minar.---n. Legü'mine, a nitrogerious proteid ceed as far as. (A.S.,-lang, long.) substance in the seeds of most leguminous plants, Lenient, lē'ni-ent, adj. softening : mild: merciful.Corresponding with the casein of milk.--adj. Legü'- n. (ned.) that which softens: an emollient. -- ns. minous, pertaining to pulse : bearing legumes. (Fr., Lönience, Lē'niency. - adv. Lē'niently. - iegumen-legăre, to gather.) Lö'nify (rare), to assuage.-adj. Len'itive, mitigatLeibnitzian, līb-nit zi-an, adj. pertaining to the great ing: laxative. -n. any palliative : (med.) an appli. German philosopher and mathematician, Gottfried cation for easing pain : a mild purgative.-». Len'ity, Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646–1716).-». Leibnit’zianism, mildness: clemency. (L. leniens, entis, pr.p. of the philosophy of Leibnitz-the doctrine of primor- lenire, to soften-lenis, soft. ) dial monads, pre-establishod harmony, fundamental Lono, lé'nő, n. a thin linen like muslin. optimism on the principle of sufficient reason. Lenocinium, lë-no-sin'i-um, n. (Scots law) a hus. Leiger, lej'ér, n. (Shak.) a resident ambassador. - band's connivance at his wife's adultery. (L.) Abo Leidger. (See Lodger.) Lens, lenz, ". (optics) a piece of transparent substance Lolotrichous, li-ot'ri-kus, adj. of the smooth-haired with one or both sides convex or concave, the object races. (Gr. leios, smooth, thrix, trichos, hair.) refract Laipoa, li-po'a, n. a genus of Australian mound-birds. rays of light Leister, les'tèr, n. (Scot.) a salmon-spear. [Cf. Ice. really or apljóstr; Din. lyster, a salmon-spear.) parently raLeisure, le'zhoor, or lezh's, n. time free from employ. diating from ment: freedom from occupation, convenient oppor. a point, and tunity, ease-ij. unoccupied.- adj. Loi'sured, not make them Occupied with business. -adj. and adv. Loi'surely, deviate so as 3 с d not hasty or hastily.--At leisure, At one's leisure, to pass, or free from occupation, at one's ease or convenience. travel on Various kinds of Lenses: 10. Fr. leisir-L. licêre, to be permitted.] as if they a, double convex; b, plano-convex ; Laman, lésman, or lem'., n. a sweetheart : paramour. had passed, c, double concave ; d, plano-con(A.S. leof, loved, mann, man.) through an: cave; e, convex meniscus ; , conLenima, lern'a, n. (math.) a preliminary proposition other point: vexo-concave. demonstrated for the purpose of being used in a the crystalsubsequent proposition : sometimes in logic a pre- line humour of the eye : a genus of leguminous mise taken for granted : a theme :-Pl. Lomm'as, plants : -pl. Lens'es. (L. lens, lentis, the lentil.) Lomm'ata. (L.,-Gr. limma-lambanein, to take.) Lent, lent, n. an annual fast of forty days in com. Lamming, lem'ing, n. a genus of rodents, nearly allied memoration of the fast of our Saviour (Matt. iv, 2), to voles, migrating southward in great numbers. from Ash-Wednesday to Easter.-adj. Lent'on, re(Norw. lemende, lemming-lemja, to beat. Perh. lating to, or used in, Lent: sparing. -n. Lont-lily, Lapp. lonmek, a lemming.) the daffodil, as flowering in Lent. (A.S. lencten, Lemnian, lein'ni-an, adj. pertaining to Lemnos in the the spring : Dut, lente, Ger. lenz.) Ægean Sea.-Lomnian earth, cimolite; Lomnian Lontamente, len-ta-men'te, adv. (mus.) slowly, in raddle, a red chalk found in Lemnos. slow time. --advs. Lentan'do, becoming slower by Lemniscato, lem-niskāt, n. a curve in general form degrees; Lon'to, slow, slowly. (lt.) like the figure 8-also adj. -n. Lomnis'cus, a Lonticular, len-tik'ü-lar, adj. resembling, a lens or woollen fillet attached to the back of crowns, dia- lentil seed : double-convex - also Len'tiform. -. dems, &c. (Gr. lēmniskos.! Len'ticel (bot.), a loose, lens-shaped mass of cells Lamon, lem'un, n. an oval fruit resembling the orange, belonging to the corky layer or periderm of plants.-- with an acid pulp: the tree that bears lemons.-n. ad;. Lonticel'lato.-n. Lenticula, a small lens : a Lemonade', a drink made of lemon-juice, water, and lenticel : a freckle-also Len'ticule.-adv. Lentio'. sugar.--. Lem'on-coloured, having the colour of ularly.-adjs. Lontig'erous, having a crystalline a ripe lemon. --115. Lem'on-grass, a fragrant perennial lens ; Lon'toid, lens-shaped. (L. lenticularis grass, in India, Arabia, &c., yielding an essential oil lenticula, dim. of lens, a lentil.) used in perfumery: Lem'on-squash, unfervescent Lontigo, len-ti'go, n. a freckle.-adjs. Lentigʻinose, lemonade; Lom'on-squeez'er, a small hand-press for Lentiginous (bot.), covered with minute dots as ir extracting the juice of lemons; Lem'on-yell'ow, a dusted. (L) clear, pale yellow colour. (Fr. limon-- Ar. limin.) Lontil, len'til, n. an annual plant, common near the Lemur, lëmur, n. a genus of manimals appearing to Mediterranean, bearing pulse used for food. 10. Fr. stand between the Insectivora and the monkeys, lentille-L. lens, lentis, the lentil.) forest dwellers, mainly nocturnal in habits, common Lontisk, len'tisk, n, the mastic-tree. [L. lentiscus.] in Madagascar. (L. lemur, a ghost.). Lentor, len'tor, n. tenacity, viscidity. -adj. Lon'tous. Lamures, lem'ü-rēz, n.pl. (Milt.) spirits of the de. (L. lentus, slow.) parted i spectres. (L.) Lonvoy, len-voi', n. a kind of postscript appended to a Land, lend, v.1. to give for a short time something to literary composition: an envoy. (O. Fr: l'envoi.) be returned: to afford, grant, or furnish, in general : Leo, lē'o, n. the Lion, the 5th sign of the zodiac. to let for hire.-0.1. to make a loan :-pr.p. lend'. Leonine, lē'o-nin, adj. of or like a lion. ing ; pa.t. and pa.p. lent.-ns. Lend'er; Lend'ing, Leonine, lē'o-nin, adj. a kind of Latin verse, generally the act of giving in loan: (Shak.) that which is lent alternate hexameter and pentameter, rhyming at the or supplied. (A.S. lénan--lán, lán, a loan.) middle and end. (From Leoninus, a 12th-cent. canon Length, length, n. quality of being long: extent from in Paris; or from Pope Leo II.) end to end: the longest measure of anything : long | Leopard, lep'ard, K. an animal of the cat kind, with a Page 6
spotted skin, now generally supposed to be identical Lessee, les-së', n. one to whom a lease is granted. with the panther :-fem. Leopardess : (her.) a lion Lessen, les'n, v.t. to make less, in any sense : to passant gardant. 10. Fr.,-L.,-Gr. leopardos- weaken: to degrade.-v.i. to become less, shirink leon, lion, pardos, pard.) Lesser, les'ér, adj. (B.) less : smaller: inferior. (A Lepor, lep'er, n. one affected with leprosy: - adjs. double comp. formed from less.) Lep'erous (Shak.), Lop'rous. (Fr.,--L., -Gr. lepra Lesson, les'n, n. a portion of Scripture appointed to be -lepros, scaly-lepos, a scale-lepein, to peel off] read in divine service: that which a pupil learns at Lopid, lep'id, adj: pleasant, jocose. [L. lepidus.) a time: a precept or doctrine inculcated: instrucLopidodendron, lep-i-do-den'dron, n. a common fossil tion derived from experience: severe lecture.-.. plant of the Cartoniferous strata, the stem covered to give a lesson to. (Fr. leçon--La lectic-irwith ovate leaf.scars arranged spirally. (Gr. lepis, legére, to read.) -idos, a scale, dendron, a tree.) Lessor, les'or, n. one who grants a lease. Lepidoptera, lep-i-dop'tėr-a, 11. pl. an order of insects, Lest, lest, conj. that not: for fear that. {From the with four wings covered with fine scales-butterfly, A.S. phrase y las 8e (for the reason less thai = L. moth, &c. -adis. Lepidop'teral, Lepidopterous. quominus), the first word being dropped, while the (Gr. lepis, •idos, a scale, pteron, a wing.) others coalesced into lest.) Lepidosauria, lep-i-do-sawr'i-a, n. a sub-class or sub- Lest, lest, v.i. (Spens.) to listen. order of Reptilia, with scales and plates - the Let, let, v.t. to slacken or loose restraint upon : to ophidians and lacertilians, not crocodilians and give leave or power 10: to allow, permit, suffer : to chelonians. (Gr. lepis, a scale, sauros, a lizard.) grant to a tenant or hirer : to cause (with infin, Lepidosiren, lep-i-do-si'ren, r. one of the Amazon without to):-pr.p. let'ting ; fa.t. and Aug. let. mud-fishes or Dipnoi. (Gr. lepis, a scale, Eng.sirer.) n. a letting for hire.-95. Let'tor; Let'ting.-Let Lepidosteus, lep-i-dos'teous, n. a genns of fishes with alone, to leave out, not to mention.-adj. passive, rhomboid scales hard like bone. (Gr. lepis, idos, inactive-also ». (Shak.) forbearance.-Lot blood, a scale, osteon, a bone.) to open a vein and let the blood run out; Let down. Loporino, lepo-rīn, adj. pertaining to or resembling to allow to fall : to bring down; Let go, to cease the hare. (L. leporinus-lepus, lepóris, the hare.) holding : to pass by or disregard ; Let in, to allow Lepped, lep'd, pa.t. ($pers.) leaped. to enter : to take in or swindle; Lot into, to admit Loprechaun, Leprechawn, lep'rē-kawn, n. a small- to the knowledge of; Let off, to allow to go free sized brownie who helps Irish housewives, mends without punishment, to excuse from paymeni, &c.; shoes, grinds meal, &c. (Ir. luchorpan, lu, small, Let on, to allow a thing to be believed, to pretead; corpan, corp, a body--L. corpus.) Lot one's self looso, lo let go restraint on words or Leprosy, lep'ro-si, n. a name applied to several different actions, to indulge in extravagant talk or conduct ; cutaneous diseases of contagious character, now con- Let out, to allow to get free, to let some secret fined to lepra cutanea, elephantiasis, Græcorum, or become known; Lot slip, to allow to escape : to Leontiasis. --- n. Lop'ra, leprosy : a scursy, mealy lose sight of; Let well alone, to let things remain substance on the surface of some plants. -- adjs. as they are from fear of making them worse. (A.S. Lep'rose, scale-like or scurf-like ; Leprous, affected látan, to permit, pt.t. lét, leót, pp. later ; Ger. with leprosy.--adv. Lep'rously.-ns. Lep'rousness, lassen, Fr. laisser, to permit.) Lepros ity. (See Leper.) Lot, let, v.t. (6.) to prevent.-. (law) hinderance, Loptocardian, lep-to-kär'di-an, adj. pertaining to the obstruction : delay.--n. Let'ter. (A.S. leitan, to Leptocardii, the lowest group of true vertebrates, binder-læt, slow.) amphioxus. (Gr. leptos, thin, kardia, heart.) Lothal, lē'thal, adj. death-dealing : deadly : mortal. Leptocephalic, lep-to-se-falik, adj. having a narrow -- ». Letho (Shak.), death. adj. Lothif erous, carry skull, as in certain flat-fishes. (Gr. leptos, thin, ing death. [L. lethalis-lethum, ietur, death.) kephalë, the head.) Lethargy, leth'ar-ji, n. heavy unnatural slumber: Leptodactyl, lep-to-dak'til, adj. having small or duliness.-9.6. (Shak.) to make lethargic.-aajs. slender toes. (Gr. leptos, thin, daktylos, a finger.) Lethar'gic, .al, pertaining to lethargy: unnaturally Leptology, lep-tol'o-ji, n. minute description. (Gr. sleepy : dull. --adv. Lothar'gically.--. Lotharleptos, thin, logia-legein, to speak.) gicness, the state of being lethargic: morbid sleepiLepton, lep'ton, n. the smallest of modern Greek ness.-3.7. Leth'argise. [Fr.,--..,-Gr. lethargi, coins, 100 to the drachma. (Gr.,-leptos, small.] drowsy forgetfulness-lethe, forgetfulness.) Leptorrhine, lep'tu-rin, adj. with small nose or slender Lothe, le'thē, l. one of the rivers of hell causing for snout. (Gr. leptos, thin, hris, hrinos, nose.) getfulness of the past to all who drank of it: oblivion. Leptospermum, lep-to-sper'mum, n. a genus of Aus- --adj. Lethē'an, of Lethe : oblivious. (Gr., - étéd, tralian trees and shrubs, evergreens, with leaves like old form of lanthanein, to forget.) those of myrtles-the tea-tree, &c. (Gr. lepios, thin, Letter, let'ér, n. a conventional mark to express a sperma, seed.) sound : a written or printed message : literal mean. Lere, lër, n. (Spens.) learning a lesson.-0.t. to learn : ing: a printing-type : (pl.) learning, literary culture. to teach. (Learn.) -0.t. to stamp letters upon.--»s. Letter-balance, Lesbian, les bi-an, adj. pertaining to the island of a balance for testing the weight of a letter for post. Lesbos in the gean Sea, and the adjoining part of Lett'er-board (print.), a board on which matter in the coast of Asia Minor, together forming Eolis, the type is placed for keeping or convenience in hand home of a famous school of lyric poets, including ling; Létt'or-book, a book in which letters or copies Alcæus and Sappho: amatory, erotic. of letters are kept ; Lett'er-box, a box in a post. Lese-majestie, lēz-maj'es-ti, n. any crime committed office, at the door of a house, &c., for , receiving against the sovereign power in a state, treason. letters; Letter-carrier, a postman: Lett er-case, Also Leze'-maj'esty. (O. Fr.,-Low L. læsa majes. a portable writing-desk.-adj. Lett'ered, marked tas-L. lusa-lædère, to hurt, majestas, majesty.) with letters : educated: versed in literature : belong. Lesion, lē'zhun, n. a hurt : (med.) an injury or wound. ing to learning (Lottered proof and Proof before (Fr.,--L. læsion-em-laděre, lasum, to hurt.). letters; see Proof). Lett'orer; LetterLoss, les, adj. (serves as comp. of little) diminished: found'or, one who founds or casts letters or types: smaller.-adv. not so much : in a lower degree.-n. Lett'ering, the act of impressing letters: the a smaller portion: (B.) the inferior or younger. letters impressed.-adj. Lott'erless, illiterate.**. (A.S. lássa, less, laés (adv.): comparative form from Lett'er-miss'ive, an official letter on matters of a root lasinn, feeble, found also in Goth. lasiws, common interest, sent to members of a church: a weak, Ice. Las, weakness, not conn. with little.) letter from the sovereign addressed to a deaa and Page 7
positions in any language, or on a given subject : Lisse, lés, n. in tapestry, the threads of the warp taken all literary productions except those relating to together. (Fr., also lice -- L. licium.) positive science and art, usually confined, however, Lissencephalous, lis-en-sefa-lus, adj. having a brain to the belles-lettres. - adj. Literatured (Shak.), smooth or slightly convoluted. learned, having literary knowledge. -Light literaLissome, Lissom, lis'um, adj. lithesome, nimble, ture, books which can be read and understood flexible. -n. Liss'omeness. without mental exertion : fiction ; Polite literature, Lissotrichous, li-sot'ri-kus, adj. smooth-haired. belles-lettres. (Fr.,-L. literatura--litera, a letter.) List, list, n. the selvage on woven textile fabrics: a Lith, lith, n. (prov.) a joint, segment, or portion of stripe of any kind : (Skak.) a border.-adj. made anything. (A.S. lið, a member; Ger. glied.) of strips of woollen selvage. (A.S. list; Ger. leiste.) Lithagogue, lith'a-gog, adj. expelling stone from the List, list, n. a catalogue, roll, or enumeration; a bladder or kidneys. ---. a medicine with this quality. book, &c., containing a series of names of persons Lithanthrax, li-than'thraks, 1. stone-coal, mineralcoal. or things.—v.t. to place in a list or catalogue : to Litharge, lith'ärj, n. the semi-vitrified oxide of lead engage for the public service, as soldiers. -v... to separated from silver in refining. (Fr.,-Gr. lithenter the public service by enrolling one's name, to enlist.-Active list, the roll of soldiers on active argyros-lithos, a stone, argyros, silver.) Litho, lith, adj. easily bent, flexible, active.--adv. service; Civil Ilst (see Civil); Free list (see Free). Litholy. - 1. Litho'ness. -adj. Lithe’some. --n. (0. Fr, liste-Mid. High Ger. liste (Ger. Leiste), border; A.S. list, orig. same word as above.) Lithe'someness. (A. S. lide; Ger. lind and gelinde.) List, list, n. a line enclosing a piece of ground, esp. Litho, lith, v.i. (obs.) to listen. [lce. hlycha, to for combat: (pl.) the ground enclosed for a contest. listen--hljodh, hearing.) -0.t. to enclose for a tournament. -Enter the lists, Lithemia, Lithæmia, li-thē'mi-a, n. an excess of uric to engage in contest. (0. Fr. lisse (Fr. lice, It. lissa) acid in the blood.-adj. Litho'mic. -Low L. licia, barrier, perh. from L.licium, athrum.] Lither, lith'ér, adj. (Shak.), soft. yielding : (obs.) bad, List, list, v.i. to have pleasure in : to desire : to like lazy.-adj. Lith'erly, mischievous.-adv. slowly : or please : to choose : (naut.) to incline or heel over lazily. (A.S. lythre, bad.) to one side. -v.t. to cause to careen or heel over. Lithia, lith'i-a, n. an alkali, the oxide of lithium, dis. -n. such an inclination. (A.S. Wystar, impers., covered in 1817 by Arfvedson: a mineral water good please-lust, pleasure.) against the stone. (Low L., -Gr. lithos, stone.) List, list, v.t. and v.i. original form of listen: now Lithiasis, li-thi'a-sis, n, a bodily condition in which poetical.-v.t. Listen (lis'n), to hear or attend to. uric acid is deposited as stone or gravel in the -v.i. to give ear or hearken: to follow advice.-- urinary canals. (Gr. lithos, a stone.) 1. List'enor, one who listens or hearkens. - adjs. Lithic, lith'ik, adj. pertaining to, or obtained from, List'ful, attentive : Listless, having no desire or stone, specially from urinary calculi.--us. Lith'ate, wish: careless : uninterested: weary: indolent. a salt of lithic acid; Lithificā tion, a hardening into adv. Listlessly.--». Listlessness. (A.S. hlystan (Gr. lithikos-lithos, a stone.) -hlyst, hearing; Ice. hlusta.) Lithium, lith'i-um, 11. one of the alkaline metals, of a Listel, lis'tel, n. (archit.) a narrow fillet. silvery appearance, found in several minerals comLister, lis'ter, n. a form of plough for throwing up bined with silica. --adj. Lith'ic. (Gr. lithos, a stone.] ridges.-n. List'ing. Lithocarp, lith'o-karp, . a lossil fruit. Listerism, lis'ter-izm, 4. an antiseptic method of oper. Lithochromatic, lith-o-kro-mat'ik, adj. pertaining to ating introduced by the English surgeon, Lord Lister, painting in oils on slonc.-11.11. Lithochromatics, this art. born 1827.--v.t. Lis'terise, to treat by Listerism. (Gr. lithos, stone, chroma, colour.] Lit, pa.t. and pa.p. of light, lighten, light, to alight. Lithoclast, lith'o-klast, ". an instrument for crushing Litany, lit'a-ni, *. a prayer of supplication, esp. in bladder-stones. (Gr. lithos, stone, klăn, to crush.] processions : an appointed form of responsive prayer Lithodome, lith'o-dom, n. a shellfish living in a hote in public worship in which the same thing is repeated in a rock.-adj. Lithod'omous. several times at no long intervals.--»5. Lit'any. Lithofracteur, lith-o-frak'ter, n, a blasting explosive. desk, -stool, in the English Church, a movable Lithogenous, li-thoj'e-nus, adj. stone-producing. -- 1. desk at which a minister kneels, facing the altar, Lithogen'esy, the science of the origin of minerals. while he recites the litany:-Lesser litany, the Lithoglyph, lith'o-glif, n. any engraving on stone, esp. common formula, 'Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, a precious stone.--adj. Lithoglyph'ic. --ns. LithoKyrie eleison.' [O. Fr.,--Low L. litania-Gr. glyphics, Lithoglyptics, the art of engraving on litaneia-litesthai, to pray.) precious stones ; Lithogʻlyphite, a fossil as if enLiteral, lit'er-al, adj. according to the letter: plain; Lithograph, litho-graf, v.1. to write or engrave on graved by art. (Gr. lithos, stone, glyphein, to carve.) not figurative or metaphorical: following the letter or exact meaning, word for word.-v.t. Lit'eralise. stone and transfer to paper by printing.-». a print -ns. Lit'eraliser; Lit'eralism, strict adherence from stone. – 11. Lithographer. - adjs. Lithoto the letter: interpretation that is merely verbal : graph'ic, al, belonging to lithography, — adv. (art) exact and unimaginative rendering of objects; Lithograph'ically.-1. Lithogʻraphy, the art of Lit'éralist; Literal'ity. - adv. Lit'erally. - 1. writing or engraving on stone and printing thereLit'eralness. (Fr.,-L. literalis-litera, a letter.) from.--Lithographic stono, slate, a yellowish, Literary, lit ér-ar-i, adj. belonging to letters or learn. compact, fine-grained, slaty linestone used in lithoging: skilled in learning.--». Lit'eracy, state of being raphy. (Gr. lithos, a stone, graphein, to write.), literate:-opp. to Illiteracy. - adj. Lit'erāte, ac Lithoid, -al, lith'oid, -al, adj. resembling a stone. quainted with letters of learning : learned. --n. one Litholabe, lith'o-lāb, n. an instrument for grasping a educated, but not having taken a university degree, calculus and holding it while being crushed. esp. candidate for holy orders who has not been Litholatry, li-thola-tri, n. the worship of stones.at a university.-n.pl. Literā'ti, men of letters, adj. Lithol'atrous. the learned (sing. forms, Literā'tus, Literä'to). - Lithology, lith-ol'o-ji, n. the science that treats of Page 8
rocks as mineral masses : that part of medical science capacity, both dry and liquid. It is the volume of a concerned with the calculi found in the human body: cubic decimètre, and contains a kilogramme of water adljs. Lithologic, -al.--n. Lithol'ogist, one skilled at 4° C. in a vacuum, equal to .2200967 British imin lithology. (Gr. lithos, a stone, logos, discourse.) perial gallon, therefore less than a quart-45 litres Litholopaxy, lith'ol-o-pak.si, n. the operation of being roughly equal to a gallon. crushing stone in the bladder, and of at once Litter, lit'er, n. a heap of straw, &c., for animals to removing the fragments by suction. (Gr. lithos, lie upon : materials for a bed : any scattered collecstone, hapar, once only.) tion of objects, esp. of little value: a vehicle conLithomanoy, lith'o-man-si, n. divination by stones. taining a bed for carrying about, a hospital stretcher: (Gr. lithos, a stone, manteia, divination.) a brood of small quadrupeds.--v.t. to cover or supply Lithomarge, lith'o-märj, n. a clay-like mineral sub- with litter : to scatter carelessly about: to give birth stance, sometimes called Mountain marrow, soft, to (said of small animals). -v.i. to produce a litter or greasy to the touch, white, yellow, or red. (Gr. brood.-p.adj: Litt'erod. 10. Fr. litiere-Low L. lithos, stone, L. marga, marl.) lectaria-L lectus, a bed.) Lithophagous, lith-of-a-gus, adj. eating stones: per- Littérateur, lit-ér-a-ter', n. a literary man. (Fr.) forating stones, as certain molluscs. (Gr. lithos, Little, lie'l, adj. (comp. Less ; superl. Least) small in stone, phagein, to eat.) quantity or extent: weak, poor: brief. – 1. that Lithophane, lith'o-fan, n. ornamental porcelain with which is small in quantity or extent: a small space, pictures which show through the transparency. (Gr. -adv. in a small quantity or degree : not much.lithos, stone, phainesthai, to appear.) ns. Litt 10-easo, discomfort, misery: a form of Lithophotography, lith-o-fo-tog ra-fi, n. the art of punishinent, as the stocks ; Little-end'lan, one of printing from lithographic stones photographic pic. the Lilliputian party who opposed the Big-indians, tures developed upon them. maintaining that boiled eggs should be cracked at Lithophyl, lith'o-fil, n. a fossil leaf. the little end; Little-go (see Go): Litt'leness ; Lithophyto, lith'o-fit, n. any one of the polyps whose Little-off'ice, a short service of psalms, hymns, substance is stony or hard, as corals. (Gr. lithos, collects, &c. - adj. Littleworth, worthless. By stone, phyton, plant.] little and little, by degrees; In little, on a small Lithotint, lith'o-tint, n. the process of producing scale; Not a little, considerably. (A. S. lýtel.] coloured pictures from lithographic stones : a pic- Littoral, litor-al, adj. belonging to the sea-shore. ture so produced. (Gr. lithos, stone, and tint.) 5. the strip of land along it.-Littoral zone, the Lithotomy, lith-ot'o-mi, n. cutting for stone in the interval on a sea-coast between high and low water bladder.--n. Lith'otomo, a mineral resembling a cut mark. [L.,-litus, litóris, shore.) gem: a cystotome.-adis. Lithotom'io, -al, pertain. Liturate, litū-rát, adj. (bot.) having spots formed by ing to, or performed by, lithotomy.--n. Lithot'omist, the abrasion of the surface : in entomology, marked one who practises lithotomy. (Gr. lithos, a stone, with spots (Lituræ) growing paler at one end. tomē, a cutting-temnein, to cut.) Liturgy, lit'ur-ji, n. the form of service or regular Lithotrity, lith'o-tri-ti, n. the operation of crushing a ritual of a church--strictly, that used in the celebra stone in the bladder, so that its fragments may be tion of the Eucharist : in ancient Greece, a form of removed through the urethra-also Lith'otripsy- personal service to the state.-n. Liturge', a leader ns. Lithothryp'tist, Lith'othryptor, Lithotrip'tist, in public worship. - adjs. Liturgic, .al. - adv. Lith'otriptor, Lith'otritist, one who practises litho- Litur gically - ns. Liturgics, the doctrine of trity; Lithothrypty ; Lith'otrite, Lith'otritor, an liturgies: Liturgiol'ogist, a student of liturgies; apparatus for crushing a stone in the bladder. -- Liturgiol'ogy, the study of liturgical forms: Lit'uradjs. Lithotrit'io, Lithotrip'tic-also Lithothryp'- gist, a leader in public worship: one who adheres tić. (Gr. lithos, stone, tribein, to rub.) to, or who studies, liturgies. (Fr.,-Gr. leitourgiaLithotypy, lith'o-ii-pi, n. the process of making a kind laos, the people, ergon, work.) of stereotype plates by filling a mould with a com- Lituus, li-tū'us, ... an augur's staff with recurved top: position which, when cooled, becomes hard. --n. a spiral of similar form. ---adjs. Lit'uãte, forked with Lith'otype, a stereotypo plate, produced by litho- the points turned outward ; Lit'uiform. (L.) typy: -- vit. to prepare for printing by lithotypy. Live, liv, v.i. to have, or continue in, life, temporal or (Gr. lithos, stone, typos, type.) spiritual : to last, subsist: to enjoy life: to direct Litigate, lit'i-gāt, v.t. to contest in law.-v.i. to carry one's course of life : to be nourished or supported: on a lawsuit.--adjs. Lit'igable, that may be con- to dwell.-v.t. to spend : to act in conformity to: tested in law: Lit'igant, contending at law: en- pr.p. living; pa.t. and pa.. lived. -adj. Livably, gaged in a lawsuit. - n. a person engaged in a capable of being lived : habitable.---. Liv'er.-Live lawsuit.- ns. Litiga'tion; Lit'igātor, one who liti- down, live so as to cause a slander, a grief, &c. to gates; Litigios'ity, Litigiousness. -adj. Litig'i. be forgotten by one's self or others; Live out, to ous, inclined to engage in lawsuits : subject to continue alive' until the end of anything: (U.S.) contention.-adv. Litigʻiously. [L. litigare, -atum to be from home in domestic service; Livo under, ---lis, litis, a strife, agère, to do.) to be tenant to; Live up to, to rule one's life accordLitmus, lit'mus, n. a dye obtained from certain lichens, ing to some standard. (A.S. lifian; Ger. leben.) originally red, but becoming blue on the addition of Live, liv, adj. having life : alive, not dead : active : alkalies or of lime.-Litmus paper, paper used in containing fire: burning : vivid. ---Lived (livd), used chemical testing, tinged blue by litmus, reddened by in compounds, as long-lived.ns. Live-axle, driv. an acid, made blue again by an alkali. [For lakmose ing-axle; Live'-bait, a living worm or minnow used -Dut. lakmoes-lak, lac, moes, pulp.) in fishing; Livo'-circuit, a circuit through which an Litotes, lit'o-tez, n. (rhet.) an affirmation made in- electric current is flowing. - 1.pl. Live'-feath'ers, directly by the negation of its contrary, as 'a citizen those plucked from the living fowl.--n. Live-lê-ver, of no mean city' = 'of an illustrious city.' (Gr. that one of a pair of brake-levers to which the power litotës, simplicity-litos, plain.) is first applied :-opp. to Dead-lever. ---adj. Live. Litrameter, lie-ram'e-tér, n. an instrument for measur. long, that lives or lasts long. --ns. Livo-oak, an ing the specific gravity of liquids by the height to American oak, with durable wood; Live'-shell, a which they rise in vertical tubes under a definite air- shell loaded and fused for firing, or fired and not pressure. (Gr. litra, a pound, metron, measure.) yet exploded; Live'-stock, domestic animals, esp. Litre, lētér, n. (her.) a hatchment consisting of a black horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs; Live-well, the vel belt, charged with the arms of the deceased. (Fr.; in a fishing-boat where fish are kept alive. prob. orig. listre = liste, border.) Livelihood, liv'li-hood, n. means of living : supportLitro, let, me the unit of the French measures of (obs.) Livelihed. [A. S. 14, life, lod, a way.) Page 9
place from which to observe : one engaged in watch. that which is cut off. (Cf. Dut, lubben, to cut; ing.-Look about, to be on the watch ; Look after, perh. conn. with leaf.) to attend to or take care of : (B.) to expect : Look Lope, lop, v.i. to leap: to run with a long stride. alive (coll.), to bestir one's self; Look down on, Lophobranch, lo'fo-brangk, ailj. having tufted gills. 10 creat with indifference, to despise ; Look for, to - Also Lophobran'chiato. (Gr. lophos, a crest, search for, to expect; Look into, to in pect closely : brachia, gills.) Look on, to regard, view, think; Look out, to Loquacious, lo-kwā'shus, adj. talkative. --ada. Loqua'. watch: to select; Look over, to examine cursorily : ciously.--»s. Loquă ciousnoss, Loquac'ity, ialkto overlook or pass over anything: Look through, ativeness. (L. loquax, -acis-- loqui, to speak.) to penetrate with the eye or the understanding; Loquat, lo'kwat, n. an esteemed Chinese and Japanese Look to, to take care of: to depend on ; Look up, to fruit, yellowish, flavouring tarts. (Chinese.) Search for: (coll.) to call upon, visit.-Have a look Lorate, lor'ät, adj. (bot.) resembling a thong or strap. in (slang), to have a chance. (A.S. lócian, to look.] (L. loratus-lorum, a thong.) Loom, boom, n. a machine in which yarn or thread is Lorcha, lor'cha, n. a light vessel of European build, woven into a fabric, by the crossing of threads called but rigged like a Chinese junk. chain or warp, running lengthwise, with others called Lord, lawrd, n. a master: a superior: a husband : a weft, woof, or filling: the handle of an oar, or the ruler : the proprietor of a manor : a baron: a peer of part within the rowlock.-n, Jac'quard - loom, a the realm : the son of a duke or marquis, or the famous apparatus devised by Joseph Marie Jacquard eldest son of an earl: a bishop, esp. if a member (1752-1834), invaluable in weaving the finer kinds of of parliament: (B.) the Suprenie Being, Jehovah figured silk fabrics. (A.S. geldma, a tool.) (when printed in capitals): a name also applied to Loom, loom, v.i. to appear above the horizon, or larger Christ. ---v.t. to raise to the peerage.--v.i. to act the than the real size : to show large in darkness, &c.: lord : to tyrannise.—ns. Lord'liness; Lordling, a to stand out prominently in the future.--. Loom'ing, little lord : a would-be lord-also Lord'ing. Lord'a mirage. (O. Fr. lumer-L. lumináre.) kin.--adj. Lord'ly, like, becoming, or pertaining to Loon, loon, n. a low fellow: a rascal : (Scot.) a lad. a lord: dignified: haughty: tyrannical-also adv. (Old Dut. loen, a stupid sellow, lome, slow.). --s. Lordolatry, excessive worship of nobility; Loon, loon, n. a genus of web-footed aquatic birds, Lords'-and-lā'dies, a popular name for the common the Divers, with short wings, and legs placed very far arum (q.v.); Lord's'-day, the first day of the week; back-also Loom.-». Loon'ing, the cry of a loon, Lord'ship, state or condition of being a lord : the like the howl of a wolf, ominous of evil. [Ice. lomr, territory belonging to a lord : dominion : authority: prob. influenced by loon, as above, from their Lord's'-sup per, the sacrament of the communion, awkward walk on land.) instituted at our Lori's last supper.-Lord-lieutenLoop, 100p, n. a doubling of a cord, chain, &c., through ant of a county (see Lieutenant); Lord-lieuton. which another may pass: an ornamental doubling in ant of Ireland, a viceroy or deputy of the sovereign fringes,-0.1. to fasten or ornament with loops.- to whom the government of Ireland is nominally 2.pl. Loop'ors, the caterpillars of certain moths, committed ; Lord of misrule (see Misrule); Lords which move by drawing up the hindpart of their of Session, the judges of the Scotch Court of body to the head.-1. Loop'-line, a branch from a Session; Lords Ordinary, the five judges forming main line of railway, returning to it after making a the outer house of the Court of Session: Lords detour. (Prob. Celt. ; Gael. lub, a bend. ) spiritual, the archbishops and bishops in the House Loop, loop, Loophole, loop'hol, n. a small hole in a of Lords-opp. to Lords temporal, the peers proper. kall, &c., through wh small-arms may, fired: -House of Lords, the upper house in he two a means of escape.-adis. Looped (Shak.), full of branches of the British parliament, consisting of the snall openings; Loopholed. --. Loop-light, a lords spiritual and temporal. (M. E. loverd, laverd small narrow window. (0. Fr. loup.) -A.S. hláfont--hláj, a loaf, bread, weard, warder.) Loord, loörd, %. (Spens.) a lout. [Fr. lourd, heavy.) Lordosis, lor-do'sis, n. abnormal curvature of the Loos, lãs, . (Ssens.) praise. (L. laus, praise.) spinal column, the convexity towards the front. Loose, los, adj. slack, free : unbound : not confined: Lore, lor, 1. that which is learned : doctrine: learning. not compact : indefinite : vague: not strict : unre. --n. Loring (Spens.), learning. (A.S. lár.] strained: lax in principle : licentious : inattentive.-- Lore, lor, n. (Spens.) something like a thong : (ornith.) adj. Loose'-bodied, Howing. _». Loose'- kirtlo, a the side of the head between the eye and the base of winion.-adv. Loose'ly.-»s. Loos'ener, a laxative; the upper mandible. Looso'ness, the state of being loose : diarrhea.- Lorel, lor'el, n. (Spens.) an idle fellow. (Losel.) Loose box, a part of a stable where horses are kept Lorette, 10-ret', n. a showy strumpet. (Fr.) untied.-Break loose, to escape from confinement; Lorgnette, lor-nyet', n, an opera-glass.---n. Lor'gnon, Give a loose to, to give free vent to; Let loose, to an eye-glass with a handle. (Fr.) set at liberty. (A.S. Teás, loose ; from the same root Lorica, lo-ri'ka, n. in ancient Rome, a cuirass made as losse (v.c.) and lose, seen also in Goth. laus, Ger. of thongs-also Loric (Browning ).-.t. Lor’icato, iss; more prob. due to Ice. lauss.) to furnish with a coat-of-mail: to plate or coat over. Loose, loos, z.t. to free from any fastening: to release : -adj. covered with defensive armour: imbricated. to relax : (Spens.) to solve.--7.1. (B.) to set sail. -u. Loricā'tion, a coating or crusting over, as with 2.4. Loos'en, to make loose : to relax anything tied plates of mail. (L., --lorum, a thong.) o rigid: to make less dense : to open, as the bowels. Lorikeet, lor-i-kēt, n. a small parrot, a kind of lory. -0.7 to become loose : to become less tight. (A.S. Lorimer, lor'i-mér, 1. a maker of horse-furniture. Issian; Ger. lösen, Goth. lansjan, to loose.) Also Lor'iner. (Fr. lormier-L. lorum, a thong.) Loosestrife, loos'strif, 1. the popular naine for a plant Loriot, lõ'ri-ut, n. the oriole. (Fr. le, the, oriol-L. of the natural order Lythraceæ (q.v.). aureolus, dim. of aureus, golden-aurum, gold.) Loot, ll, " act of plundering, esp. in a conquered Loris, loʻris, n. the slender lemur of Ceylon. city : plunder.-v.t. or v.i. to plunder, ransack. Lorn, lorn, adj. (Spens.) lost, forsaken. (A.S. loren, [Hindi lül---Sans. lotra, loptra, stolen goods.) pa.p. of leósan, to lose.) Lop, lop, v.i. to hang down loosely. -- autis. Lop'. Lorry, lor'i, n, a four-wheeled wagon without sides. eared, having ears which hang downwards : Lop'. (Perh. from prov. Eng. lurry, to pull.) sided, heavier on one side than the other, as a ship. Lory, loʻri, n. a common naine for the members of a Lop, lop, v.d. 10 cut off the top or ends of, esp. of a family of Australian parrots. (Malay.) tree: to curtail by cutting away superfluous parts : Lose, looz, v.t. to be deprived of: to cease to have : pr.p. lopping; pa.t. and pa.p. lopped. ---. twigs of to mislay: to waste, as time : to miss : to bewilder : trees cut off.ns. Lopʻper ; Lop'ping, a cutting off : to cause to perish: to ruin. -v.i. to fail, to be unsuccessful: to suffer waste :-pr.p. los'ing ; pa.t. as a lout.–V.1. to bend. --adj. Lout'ish, clownish: and pa.y. lost. -adj. Los'able. -n. Los'er. --adj. awkward and clumsy.-adv. Lout'ishly.---. Lout. Los'ing, causing loss.--adv. Los'ingly.---. Loss, ishness. (A.S. lútan, to stoop.) the act of losing : injury : destruction : defeat: that Louvre, Louver, 100'ver, n. an opening of a turret which is lost : waste. -adj. Lost, parted with : no shape on roofs, to allow the smoke or foul air to longer possessed: missing : thrown away: squan- escape from halls, kitchens, dered : ruined.---Loso one's self, to lose one's way, &c. -n. Lou'vre-window, to become bewildered; Lost to, insensible to; Lost an open window in a church tribes, the tribes of Israel which never returned from tower, crossod by a series of captivity.-At a loss, in uncertainty. (A.S. Losian sloping boards. (Q. Fr. low-ledsan; cog. with Ger. ver.lieren, to lose.) Page 10
Magi. (L.,-Gr. mazos, oriz, a title given to the Madeira, ra-dé ra, n. a rich wine of the sherry class wise men of Chaldea, asuologers and wizards.) pro uced in Madeira. Magic, majik, n. the pretended art of producing Mademoiselle, inad-mwa-ze”, n. a courteous form of marvellous resuit by the aid of spiriis, or vi address to a young lady: Miss. (Fr., ma, iny, and the secret forces of nature : enchantment: sorcery. demoiselie.) -adjs. Magic, al, pertaining to, used in, in Madge, maj, n. a leaden hammer. done by magic: causing wonderful or starting Madge, maj, 1. the magpie. results. — adv. Magically. — - *5. Magician, ore Madia, ma'di-a, n. a genus of American herbs of the skulied in magic: a wizard : an enchanter; Magicaster family, the larweeds-a Chilian species yielding lan tern (see Lantern).- Magic square, a square a valuable oil. filled with rows of figures so arranged that the Madid, madid, adj. wet, dank. (L. madidus- sums of all the rows will be the same, perpendiculariy madire, to be wetí akin to Gr. madacin.) or horizontally-as 2,7,6; 9, 5, 1; 4, 3, 6, &c ; there Madonna, Madona, ma-don'a, *. a name given to the are also Magic circles, cubes, oylinders, and Virgin, esp. as seen in works of art: (Shak.) my spheres similarly arranged. - Black magic, the lady-adv. Madonn'a-wise, after the fashion of the black art, magic by means of union with evil spirits ; Madonna, esp. in the arrangement of a wornan's Natural magic, the art of working wonders by a hair. (It., lic. *my lady'-L mea domina.) superior knowledge of the powers of nature ; White Madras, ma-dras', n. a large handkerchief of silk and magic, magic without the aid of the devil. 10. Fr. cotton, usually in bright colours, worn on the head magzque-L.,-Gr. See Magi.) by West Indian negrdes. Magilp, ma-galp, n. a vehicle used by oil-painters, Madrepore, madre-por, n. the common coral. (Fr., consisting of linseed oil and mastic varnish-written - 11., from madre, mother-L. mater, and .pora- also Megup. (Prob. from a proper name.) Gr. póros, a soft stone.) Magisterial, maj-is-tēri-al, adj. pertaining or suitable Madrigal, madri-gal, n. (mus.) a piece of music for to a master : in the manner of a master of the rank the voice in five or six parts: a short poem, express of a magistrate : authoritative : proud : digniñeda ing a graceful and tender thought.-adj. Madrigā'. -". Magis ter, master. - adv. Magistérially han - Mad'rigalist. (It., from mandra, a ns. Magisterialness ; Magistérium, an acthoritasheep-fold-L. mandra.) tive statement; Magistery, a term in alchemy i Madroño, ma-dro'nyo, n. a handsome evergreen tree various preparations, esp. a precipitate of bismuth: asy of North California -Also Madro na. sovereign remedy : a mandate. (L magisterinsMæcenas, má-së'nas, n. a koman knight who be. magister, a master--mag, root of L. magnus, great friended the poets Virgil and Horace : any rich Magistrate, maj'is-trät, *. a person entrusted with patron of art or literature. the power of putting the laws in force : a justice of Maelstrom, mālstrom, n. a celebrated whirlpool off the peace.--». Mag istracy, the office or digitali the coast of Norway: any resistless overpowering in. a magistrate : the body of magistrates-adj. Şagis fluence for destruction. (Norw., 'grinding stream.') tral magisterial : specially prescribed or made up Manad, mēnad, n. a female follower of Bacchus, a as a medicine: effectual.-1. Fort.) the guiding woman beside herself with frenzy.--adj. Munadio, determining the other positions: a special prea se bacchanalian: furious. (Gr. mainas, «ados, raving in Spanish cathedrals, &c. -n. Magistrand', aa as -mainesthai, to be mad. ] student ready to proceed to graduation, at Aber Maestoso, mā-es-toʻzo, adj. and adv. (mus.) with deen. - adj. Magistrat'ia 10. Fr., - Lagu dignity or majesty. (It.) tratus, magister.) Maestro, ma-estro, n. a master, esp. an eminent Magma, mag'ma, n. any soft doughy mass : the soice musical composer or conductor. [It. mass within the earth's crust: the residaus der Maffied, mafla, adj. ( trov.) confused in the intellect. expressing the juice from fruits. (Gr.) -n. Maff iing, a simpleton. Magna Charta, mag'na kâr'ta, n. the Great Code Mag, mag, n. a halspenny.-Also Maik, Make. obtained from King John, 1215 A.D. (L) Mag, maz, v.i. (700.) to charter. -v.1. to tease.-n. Magnanerie, man-yan'e-rë, *. a place for rearing so chatter : the magpie : the long-tailed tit mouse. worms. (Fr.) Mag, mag, v.1. (slang) to steal.--. Magsman, a Magnanimity, mag-na-nim'i-ti, %. greatness of se street swindler. elevation of dignity, of mind : that qual y of Magazine, mag-2-zén', *. a storehouse: a place for which raises a person above all that is seu military stores: the gunpowder-room in a ship: a unjust : generosity.--adj. Magnan'imons eers pamphlet or small book published from time to time, in sentiment, noble: brave: unselfish. -i. containing compositions on various subjects. --- ns. nanimously. (L. magnanimitas-R, F Magazine'-gun, or -rifle, a gun or rifle from which arimus, the mind.) many shots can be fired one after another without Magnate, mag'nit, 1. a noble: a mas of reloading. (Fr. migasin - It. magazzino --- Ar. wealth. (Fr. mignat, a title of Huczania makasan, a storehouse.) Polish nobles-L. magnas, magnału, a za Magialen, mag da-len, n. a repertant prostitute.-Also magnus, great.) Magdalene From Mary Magdalene (Luke, viii. Magnes, mag'nēz, r. (Spens.) the magnet La 2), confused with the woman of Luke vii. 39-50.) Magnesium, mag-né'shi-um, or si-um, a = Magdeburg hemispheres, mag'de boorg. hem'i-sférz, a bright, silver-white colour, which he he 2.1. two hemispherical cups from within which, gives a dazzling white light, and forms DLS. when placed toge: her, the air can be removed by *. Magnē'sia, a light white powder, an air-pump to show the pressure of the air on the magnesiuin, used as a medicine.--. Mag outside. [Invented at Magdeburg in Germany.] belonging to, containing, or resemba Mage, māj, n. a magician, enchanter (see Magi). n. Mag‘nosite, native magnesium carboozt Magenta, ma-jen'ta, n. a colour beiween pink and red. Magnet, mag'net, n. the lodestone, as iros From the battle of Magenta in North Italv, 1857) attracts iron, and, when hung so that is Maggoty, full of maggots. W. macciad, akin to which the properties of the lodestose maid, worms, magu, to breed.) imparted. -adjs. Magnet'le, al, perte Vagi, anaji, npl. priests of the ancient Persians: the magnet : having the properties atte Page 11
Malformation, mal-for-ma'shun, n. bad or wrong ! Malmsey, mäm'ze, n. a sort of grape : a strong and formation : irregular or anomalous structure.--adj. sweet wine, first made in Greece, but now also in Malformed'. the Canary Islands and the Azores. (0. Fr. mil. Malgrado, mal-grä’do, adv. in spite of. (It.) voisie, from Malvasia in the Morea.) Malgre. Saine as Maugre. Malodour, mal-o'dor, n. an offensive odour.--adj. Malic, mä'lik, adj. obtained from the juice of several Malo'dorous. -n. Malo'dorousness. fruits, esp. the apple. (L. malum, an apple.) Malpighian, mal-pig'i-an, adj. applied in anatomy to Malice, mal'is, 1. ill-will: spite : disposition to harm several structures in the kidney and spleen invest. others : deliberate mischief : intention to harm gated by Marcello Malpighi (1628-94). another.-adj. Malic'ious, bearing ill-will or spite : Malposition, mal-po-zish’un, n. a wrong position, mis moved by hatred or ill-will: having mischievous placement. intentions. -adv. Malic'iously.-n. Maliciousness. Malpractice, mal-prak'tis, n. evil practice or conduct: (Fr.,-L. malitia--malus, bad.) practice contrary to established rules.---. Malprac Malign, ma-lin', adj. of an evil disposition towards titioner, a physician guilty of malpractice. others : malicious: unfavourable.-v.t. to speak evil Malpresentation, mal-pré-zen-ta'shun, 5. abnormal of : (obs.) to treat with malice. —- us. Malign'er ; presentation in childbirth. Malignity, state or quality of being malign: great Malstick. See Mahl-stick. hatred, virulence : deadly quality.-adv. Malign'ly. Malt, mawlt, n. barley or other grain steeped in 1. Malign'ment. (Fr. malin, sem. maligne-L. water, allowed to sprout, and dried in a kiln, used malignus for maligenus, of evil disposition-malus, in brewing ale, &c.--v.t. to make into malt.bad, and gen, root of genus.) to become malt : (hum.) to drink malt liguor.Malignant, ma-lig'nant, adj. disposed to do harm or containing or made with malt.-ns. Malt-dust, graz. to cause suttering: malign: acting maliciously: sprouts produced and screened off'in mali-making: actuated by great hatred : tending to cause death.- Malt-floor, a perforated floor in the chamber of a n. a name applied by the Puritan party to one who malt-kiln, through which heat rises ; Malt-borse, a had fought for Charles I. in the Civil War. —- *. heavy horse, such as used by brewers--hence (Sáz<! Malig'nancy, Malig nance, state or quality of being used in reproach for a dull, stupid person ; Malting; malignant.--adv. Malig nantly. (L. malignans, Malt'-kiln; Malt'-mill, a mill for grinding ina ; pr.p. of malignare, to act maliciously.] Malt'ose, a hard, white, crystalline sugar, formed Malines lace. Same as Mechlin lace. See Lace. the action of malt or diasta e on starch ; Malt ster, Malinfiuence, mal-in'f100-ens, n. evil influence. Malt'man, one whose trade or occupation it is? Malinger, ina-ling'gér, v.i. to feign sickness in order make malt (-ster was up to the end of the 13th ( to avoid duty. — ns. Maling'erer; Maling'ery, tury a feminine affix); Malt'worm (Skat.), à lour feigned sickness. (Fr. malingre--mal-L. maius, of malted liquors, a tippler. - adj. Malty.-Mail bad, 0). Fr. heingre, ailing--L. ager, sick.) liquor, a liquor, as beer, ale, or porter, formed fra Malison, mali-zn, n. a curse :-opp. to Benison. malt; Malt tea, the liquid infusion of the mad is (0. Fr.; a doublet of malediction; cf. benison and brewing. (A.S. meali, pa. t. of meirax, to slica; benediction.) cf. Ger. mals.) Malkin, maw'kin, n. (Shak.) a term used in contempt Maltalont, mal'tal-ent, r. (Spens.) bad inclination, for a dirty woman : a mop: (Scot.) a hare. -Also ill-humour. Maw kin. (Dim. of Mal or Moll, Mary.), Maltese, mal-tēz', . a native, or the natives, and Mall, mawl, or mal, n. a large wooden beetle or Malta: the dialect, a corrupt Arabic mixed hamıner.---v.t. to beat with a mall or something Italian.-adj. belonging to Malta, or to its inhas heavy: to bruise. (O. Fr. mail-L. malleus.] ants. -Maltese cross (see Cross); Maltese dos a Mall, mel, or mal, n. a level shaded walk: a.public very small spaniel with long silky hair. walk. (Contr. through 0. Fr. of Old It. Palamaglio | Maltha, mal'tha, n. a thick mineral pitch : any sizin -It. palla, a ball, maglio, a mace.] preparation used by the ancients as a cement, stucw Mallard, malard, h. a drake: the common duck in or mortar. (L.) its wild state. (O. Fr. malard (Fr. malart)---male, Malthusian, mal-thü'zhan, adj. relating to Malte male, and suffix -ard.) or to the principles he taught regarding the necess Malleate, mal'e-āt, v.t. to hammer: to form into a of preventing population from increasing faster to plate or leaf by hammering.--adj. Mall'eable, that the means of living.--. a disciple of Thomas Robert inay be malleated or beaten out by hammering. Malthus (1766-1834). ns. Mall'eableness, Malleability, quality of being Maltreat, mal-trēt", v.t. to abuse: to use rouigble * malleable; Malleā'tion. -adj. Mall'eiform, ham- unkindly.-n. Maltreatment. (Fr. maltrait mer-shaped.-. Mall'eus, one of the small bones of L. male, ill, tractare, to treat. ) the middle ear in mammals. (L. malleus, a hammer.) Malvaceous, mal-vā'shus, adj. (bot.) pertaining ; Mallecho, mal'e-cho, n. (Shak.) villainy-probably a plants of the mallow family. corruption of Spanish malhecho, mischief.- Also Malversation, mal-vėr-sā'shun, n. evil conduct: 977 Mal'icho. behaviour in office : corruption : extortion. F: Mallee, malē, n. two dwarf species of Eucalyptus in L. male, badly, versari, -atus, to occupy one'sses Australia.--. Mall'eo bird, an Australian mound- Malvoisie, mal'vwä.zē, n. Same as Maimsey. bird or megapode. Mambrino, inam-brē'no, n, a medieval ir n hat, é Mallemaroking, malê-ma-ro'king, n. the visiting and its likeness to the barber's basin in Don Osirat! carousing of seamen in the Greenland ships. (Prob. Mameluke, mam'e-150k, n. one of a force of to act like the mallemuck.) horse in Egypt formeror Circassian slaves--di. Mallemuck, mal'e-muk, n. the fulmar petrel. (Ger.] in 1811. (Fr., ---Ar, mamiák, a purchased site Malleolus, ma-leo-lus, n. a bony protuberance on malaka, to possess.) either side of the ankle.-adi. Malleolar. (L.) Mamma, Mama, mam-mä', n. mother--used chi Mallet, mal'et, n. a small wooden hammer : the long- by young children.—n. Mamm'y, mother. handled hammer for driving the balls in croquet. ma, a repetition of ma, the first syllable a con [Fr. maillet, dim. of mail, a mall.) naturally utiers.) Mallow, malo, n. any plant of genus Malva-from its Mammalia, mam-mā’li-a, n.pl. (zool.) the whole emollient properties or its soft downy leaves. (A.S. of animals that suckle their young.--us. Mamel malwe-L. malva; Gr. malache----malassein, to a small hillock with a rounded top: Mam make soft. ] the mammary gland :--Pl. Mam'mæ; Mar Malm, Maum, mäm, n, calcareous loam, earth (zool.), one of the mammalia :-pi. Map specially good for brick. (A.S. mealm, sand. ] (mam'a iz). --- adjs. Mammā’lian; Mammalit sivat Page 12
--n. a mixture of branch. ingredients beaten or stirred together, as of bran, Marsupial, mär-sû'pi-al, adj. carrying young in a meal, &c., or bran and boiled turnips, &c., for feed. pouch.--*. a marsupial animal, as the opossum or ing cattle or horses : in brewing, a mixture of crushed the kangaroo.-^. Marsu'pium, a brood-pouch. [L. malt and hot water. — ns. Mash'ing; Mash'-tub, marsupiien-Gr. marsipion, a pouch.) Mash'ing-tub, a tub in which the mash in breweries Mart, mârt, n. a place of trade. (Contr. of market.) is mixed.-adj. Mash'y, produced by mashing : of Martagon, mār'ta-gon, n. the Turk's-cap lily. the nature of a mash. (The noun is older than the Martel, mär'tel, v.t. (Spens.) to hammer, to strike. verb, and seems to be connected with mix (A.S. [fr. marteler, It martello. See Martello.) miscian); cf. Mish-mask.) Martello, mar-tel'o, n. a circular fort erected to pro- Mashor, mash'ér, n. a fellow who dresses showily to lect a coast. (It. martello, a hammer-L. martuilus, attract the attention of silly young women, a fop.marculus, dim. of marcus, a hammer; or from v.t. Mash, to gain the affections of one of the oppoHorteila Point in Corsica, where a tower of this site sex, to treat as a sweetheart.-Be mashed on kind withstood an English cannonade in 1794.) (slang), to be struck with love for another. Marten, mät'ten, n. a destructive kind of weasel valued Mashie, Mashy, mash'i, n. a kind of golf-club. for its fur. (Fr. martre, also marte-Low L. mar. Masjid, mas'jid, n. a Mohammedan mosque. turis, from a Teut, root seen in Ger, marder, and Mask, Masque, mask, n. anything disguising or con. A.S. meard, a marten.) cealing the face: anything that disguises: a preMar-text, măr-tekst, n. an ignorant preacher. tence : a masquerade : a former kind of dramatic Martial, mär'shal, adj. belonging to Mars, the god of spectacle, in which actors personified mythological war, or to the planet Mars : of or belonging to deities, shepherdesses, &c. : a representation or im. war, or to the army and navy: warlike: brave.- pression of a face in any material, as in marble, rs. Martialism; Martialist. -adv. Martially. plaster, &c. : a fox's head. -- v.t. to cover the face Martial law, law enforced during a state of war for with a mask : to hide. --v.i. to join in a mask or the proper government of armies, and for the punish- masquerade : to be disguised in any way: to revel. ment of those who break the laws of war. [Fr.,-L. ----. Mas'caron (archit.), a grotesque face on doormartialis-Mars, Martis.) knockers, spouts, &c. -- adj. Masked, wearing a Martin, mär'tin, n. a bird of the swallow kind.--Also mask, concealed. --- 115. Masked-ball, a ball in Martinet. (The name Martin; cf. robin, &c.] which the dancers wear masks ; Mask'or, one who Martinet, mărtin-el, n. a strict disciplinarian. - 1. wears a mask. -Masked battery (see Battery). Martinet'ism. (From Martinet, a very strict officer (Fr. masque --Sp. mascara-Ar. maskharat, a in the army of Louis XIV. of France.) jester, man in masquerade.) Martingale, mār’tin-gál, n. a strap passing between Mask, mask, v.t. (Scot.) to steep, infuse.--v.i. to be a horse's forelegs, fastened to the girth and to the infusing. (A form of mash.) bit, to keep his head down: in ships, a short spar Maslin, maslin, ». mixed grain, esp. rye and wheat. under the bowsprit.-Also Martingal. (Fr., from a -Also Mash'lin, Mash'lim, Mash'lum. kind of breeches worn at Martigues in Provence.) Mason, mā'sn, 11. one who cuts, prepares, and lays Martinmas, martin-mas, n. the mass or feast of St stones: a builder in stone: a member of the socieiy Martin: 11th Nov., a term-day in Scotland. of freemasons.-v.t. to build.-adjs. Mason'ic, reMartlet, märt'let, n. the martin, the name of a bird : lating to freemasonry; Mā'sonried, constructed of (ker.) a martin or swallow without feet, used as a masonry.--*. Mā'sonry, the skill or practice of a bearing, a crest, or a mark of cadency to designate the mason: the work of a mason : the art of building in fourth son. (From Fr. martinet, dim. of martin.) stone : freemasonry.--adj. consisting of mason-work. Martyr, mär'tér, n. one who by his death bears wit. --n. Mas'ter-mā'son (see under Mastor). (O. Fr. ness to the truth : one who suffers for his belief: one masson (Fr. maçon) - Low L. macion-em; prob. who suffers greatly from any cause.--v.t. to put to Teut. ; cf. Mid. High Ger. mezzo, a mason, whence death for one's belief. -- n. "Martyrdom, state of steinmetz, a stone-mason, cog. with Old High Ger. being a martyr: the sufferings or death of a martyr: meizan, to hew, whence Ger. meissel, a chisel.) torment generally. -v.t. Martyrise (Browning), to Masoolah-boat, ina-sõo'la-bot, 11. a high many.oared offer as a sacrifice : to cause to suffer martyrdom.- East Indian surf boat.-Also Masula-boat. adj. Martyrologʻical. --ns. Martyrologist; Mar. Masque. See Mask. tyrology, a history of martyrs : a discourse on Masquerade, mask-êr-ad', n. an assembly of persons martyrdom. (A.S.,-L.,--Gr., a witness.) wearing masks, generally at a ball : disguise. -v.1. to Marvel, mär'vel, n. a wonder: anything astonishing wear a mask: to join in a masquerade : to go in or wonderful : astonishment.--v.i, to wonder : to feel disguise. -- n. Masquerad'or, a person wearing a astonishment :-pr.p. mar'velling; pa.t. and pa.p. mask: a person or thing disguised in any manner. mar'velled.-adj. Marvellous, astonishing : almost (Fr. mascarade. See Mask.) or altogether beyond belief: improbable. — adv. Mass, mas, n. a lump of matter : a quantity: a colMarvellously.-n. Marvellousness. (Fr. mer. lected body: the main body: magnitude : the prin. mille-L. mirabilis, wonderful-mirári, to wonder.) cipal part or main body: quantity of matter in any Marybud, ma'ri-bud, n. the marigold. body, weight being proportional to mass : (2.) the Mascle, mas kl, m. (her.) a bearing, lozenge-shaped lower classes of the people. -- v.t. to form into a and perforated; a plate of steel in the form of a mass : to bring together in masses.--v.i. to assemble lozenge, used in making scale-armour. adjs. in masses. --adj. Mass'ive, bulky: weighty: not Mas cled, Mascule, Mas'culy. (Fr. macle --- L. separated into parts or clements : without crystalline macula, the mesh of a net.) form, geologically homogeneous.--adv. Mass'ively. Mascot, maskot, n. a luck-penny or talisman: a person -ns. Massiveness, Mass'iness ; Mass'.meeting, whose presence brings good luck. (Fr. mascotte.) a public meeting of persons of all classes to discuss Masculine, mas'kû-lin, adj. of the male sex: having some matter of general interest. adj. Mass'y, che qualities of a man : resembling a man, or suitable massive, made up of masses. (Fr. masse-L. massa to a man: robust : of a woman, bold, forward, un. -Gr. maza-massein, to squeeze together.) womanly: denoting nouns which are names of males. Mass, mas, n. the celebration of the Lord's Supper or -n. (gram.) the masculine gender.--adv. Mas'cu. Eucharist in R.C. churches, also the office for the linely.-ns. Mas'culineness, Masculin'ity. [Fr., same: a musical setting of certain parts the - masculinus-masculus, male-mas, a male.) R.C. liturgy: a church festival or feast-day, as Mash, mash, v.t. to beat into a mixed mass : to in Candlemas, Christmas, Martinmas, &c.--15. bruise : in brewing, to mix malt and hot water Mass'- bell, or Sacring.bell, a bell rung during the celebration of mass, at the elevation of the host; Master of Arts, &c., the title of the eldest son of Mass'- book, the R.C. missal or service-book; Mass'. a Scotch viscount or baron, the head of some cor. priest, formerly a R.C. secular priest, as distinct porations, as Balliol College, &c., of a lodge of from those living under a rule--later, a priest retained freemasons, &c. : a husband.-adj. the chief, prein chantrics, &c., to say masses for the dead: a R.C. dominant : belonging to a master, chief, principal, as priest generally: --Mass for the dead, a funeral mass in Master-builder, &c.—v.t. to become master of: for the faithful in Christ, to hasten their release from to overcome to become skilful in : to execute with purgatory : Conventual mass, a mass for the general skill.---ns. Mas'ter-build'er, a chief builder, one who community of a religious house : a inass at which directs or employs others; Mas'tordom, power of special remembrance is made of pious founders and control. --adj. Masterful, exercising the authority benefactors; Dry mass, or serviço, a rite in which or power of a master : imperious : having the skill there is neither consecration nor communion ; High of a master.--adv. Mas'terfully, in a masterful or mass, a mass celebrated with music, ritual, cere. imperious manner. - »s. Mas'terfulness ; Mastermonies, and incense ; Low mass, the ordinary mass hand, the hand of a master: a person highly skilled ; celebrated without music and incense: Midnight Mas'torhood ; Mas'ter.joint, the most marked sysmass, that mass which is said at midnight on Christ. tem of joints or divisional planes by which a rock' is mas-eve; Privato mass, any mass where only the intersected : Mas'terkey, a key that opens many priest communicates, esp. in a private oratory; locks : a clue fitted to guide one out of many difficul. Solemn mass, a mass resembling a high mass, but ties.--adj. Mas'terless, without a master or owner: without some of its special ceremonies ; Votive ungoverned : unsubdued : beyond control. - Mas'. mass, a special mass over and above those ordinarily terliness, quality of being masterly : masterly skill. said for the day, for some particular grace or purpose, Page 13
Matutinal, mat-ü-ti'nal, adj. pertaining to the morning : with suffix -ish, from M. E. mawk, mauk, a contr. happening early in the day: --Also Matutine. [L. form of M. E. maðek, a maggot-Ice. maðkr, a malatinalis, matutinus. See Matin.) maggot.) Maud, mawd, *. a Scotch shepherd's woollen plaid. Mawmet, maw'mnet, n. a puppet : an idol-Moham. Maudlin, mawd'lin, adj. silly: sickly-sentimental: med. fuddled, half-drunk: (obs.) iearful.-M. Maud'lin. Max, maks, n. a kind of gin. [L. marimus, greatest.) ism, the tearful stage of drink. (Contr. from Maxillary, maks'il-ar-i, adj. pertaining to the jawM. E. Maudelein, which comes through 0. Fr. bone or jaw.--», a maxillary bone, or maxilla.--». and L. from Gr. Magdalēnē, the orig. sense being Maxill'a, a jawbonc.-adis. Maxillif'erous ; Max"tearful from penitence,' hence with eyes red 1ll'iform.-. Maxill'ipede, in crustacea, one of and swollen with weeping,' like Mary Magdalene, those limbs serving both for mastication and locoerroneously identified with the penitent woman of motion. (L. maxilla, jawbone.) Luke vii. 37.) Maxim, maks'im, n, a general principle, serving as a Maugre, maw'gér, prep. in spite of.-1. (obs.) ill-will: rule or guide : a pithy saying: a proverb.-adjs. spite. (O. Fr. malgré-L. male gratum-male, Max'imal; Max'imed, reduced to a maxim.ns. badly, gratum, agreeable.) Max'imist, Max'im-mong er. (Fr.,--L. maxima Maul, mawl, v.t. to beat with a mall or a heavy stick : (sententia, an opinion), superl. of magnus, great.) to injure greatly by beating.-1. a heavy wooden Maxim, maks'im, n. often put for Max'ım.gun, an hammer: a struggle for the ball in football, when it automatic machine-gun capable of firing as many as has been carried across the goal-line, but has not 620 rounds per minute, and of accurate shooting up yet been touched down. (Mall.) to 3000 yards. Maulstick. See Mahl-stick. Maximum, maks'i.mum, adj. the greatest.-n. the Maumet, Mammet. Same as Mawmot. greatest number, quantity, or degrce: the highest Maund, mawnd, 1. (Shak.) a basket. (A.S. mand.) point reached : (math.) the value of a variable when Maund, mawnd, 4. a measure of weight in India, its it ceases to increase and begins to decrease :-pl. value varying in different places from about 25 to Maxima :-opp. to Minimum.--adj. Max'imal, of about 85 pounds avoirdupois (Hind. man.) the highest or maximum value. --adv. Maximally. Maunder, mawn'dér, v.i; to beg: to whine like a -0.t. Max'imise, to raise to the highest degree. beggar, to grumble : to mutter, to talk foolishly, to (L., superl. of magnus, great. ) drivel. ----s. Maun'derer; Maun'dering, drivelling May, mä, v.i. to be able: to be allowed: to be free to talk. (O. Fr. mendier, to beg-L. mendicäre.) act: to be possible: to be by chance to be comMaundril, mawn'dril, n. a pick with two prongs. petent :-pait might (mit).-adv. Maybe, perhaps, Maundy, mawn'di, n. the religious ceremony of wash. possibly.--. a possibility.--adv. May hop, perhaps. ing the feet of others, esp. of inferiors, in com- (A.S. mag. pr.t. of mugan, to be able, pa.i. mihte; memoration of Christ's washing His disciples' feet at cog. with Goth. magar, Ger. mögen.] the Last Supper-still practised in Austria by the May, mā, n. the fifth month of the year: the early or emperor.--Maundy money, the money given away gay part of life.--v.i. to gather May (prov. Eng. the on Maundy Thursday, the Thursday in Passion blossom of the hawthorn, which blooms in May): week, by the royal almoner, usually a penny for pr.p. May'ing.–15. May-beetle, May-bug, the each year of the sovereign's reign-the small silver cockchafer; May-bloom, the hawthorn flower ; coins specially coined since 1662, (0. Fr. mande May'day, the first day of May: May.dew, the dew (Fr. mandé)- L. mandātum, command, i.e. the of May, esp. that of the morning of the first day of * new Commandment' of John, xiii. 34.) May, which is said to whiten linen, and to enable a Maurist, mawʻrist, n. a member of the reformed face washed with it to keep its beauty : May-duke, Benedictine Congregation of St Maur, settled from a variety of sour cherry; May'-flower, the haw1618 at the abbey of St Maur-sur-Loire, near Saumur, thorn, which blooms in May; Mayfly, a short-lived notable for its great services to learning. fly which appears in May: May-gamo, sport such Mauser, mowʻzér, n. a German magazine rifle, in. as is usual on ist May, frolic generally; Maying, vented by Wilhelm Mauser (1834-82). the observance of Mayday sports and games; May'; Mausoleum, maw-so-lē'um, n. a magnificent tomb lā'dy, the queen of the May; May'-lil'y, the lily of or monument.-adj. Mausolē'an, pertaining to a the valley, so called because it blooms in May: mausoleum: monumental. (L.,--Gr., Mausoleion, May-morn (Shak.), freshness, like that of a morning from 31ausolus, king of Caria, to whom his widow, in May, vigour; May'pole, a pole erected for dancing Artemisia, erected a splendid tomb about 350 B.c.) round on Mayday; May-queen, a young woman Mauthor, mä'thér, n. an Eng. prov. form of mother. crowned with flowers as queen on Mayday; May'. Mauve, mawv, n. a beautiful purple dye extracted timo, May, the season of May. (O. Fr. Mai-L. from coal-tar, so called from its likeness in colour to Maius (mensis, a month), sacred to Maia, the the flowers of the common mallow.-adj. of the colour mother of Mercury.) of mauve. (Fr.,-L. malva, the mallow.) May, mũ, a. a maid. (A.S, tag, a kinswoman.] Maverick, mav'ér-ik, n. (U.S.) an animal found stray. Maya, mä'ya, n. an illusive appearance, esp. of a ing without an owner's brand, esp. a strayed calf : celestial maiden personifying the active will of the anything dishonestly obtained.-vit. to seize without creator of the universe. (Hind.) legal claim. (From Samuel Maverick, a Texas Mayhom, mā'hem, n, the offence of depriving a person cattle-raiser.) by violence of any limb, member, or organ, or causMavis, mă'vis, n. the song.thrush. (Fr. mauvis; ing any mutilation of the body. (Maim.) prob. from Bret. milfid, a mavis.) Mayonnaise, mā-on-āz', n. a sauce composed of the Mavourneen, mavoor'nën, n, and interj. a term of yoke of eggs, salad-oil, and vinegar or lemon juice, endearment = my dear one. (Ir.) seasoned : any cold dish of which the foregoing is Maw, maw, n. the stomach, esp. in the lower animals : an ingredient, as lobster. (Fr.) the craw, in birds.-ns. Maw-good, poppy-seed, so Mayor, mā'ur, n. the chief magistrate of a city or called when used as food for cage birds; Maw. borough :-fem. May'oress.--adj. May'oral.--»s. worm, the thread-worm insesting the stomach. (A.S. May'oralty, May'orship, the office of a mayor. maga; Ger. magen.) (Fr. maire-L. major, comp. of magnus, great.! Mawkin. Same as Malkin (q.v.). Mazard, Mazzard, maz'ard, n. (Shak.) a head or Mawkish, mawk'ish, adj. loathsome, disgusting, as skull: a wild European cherry. (Prob. from mazer, anything beginning to breed mawks or maggots. from the likeness of the skull to a goblet.) -n. Mawk, a maggot.--adv. Mawk'ishly.-n. Mazarinade, maz-a-rin-ād', n. a pamphlet or satire Mawk'ishness. [Explained by Skeat as formed, against the French minister, Cardinal Mazarin (1602-61).--». Mazarine', a rich blue colour : a blue (A.S. máne, wicked, from mån, wickedness; perh. gown.-Mazarin Bible, the first printed Bible, printed conn. with A. S. gemene, Ger. gemein, common. by Gutenberg and Fust about 1450, so called because Mean, mēn, adj. middle: coming between two others Cardinal Mazarin possessed twenty-five copies. Page 14
Megalith, meg'a-lith, n. a huge stone. -adj. Mega- or becoming better ; Meliorā'tor, an improver ; lith'ic. (Gr. megas, great, lithos, a stone.) Mē’liorism, the doctrine that the world is capable Megalomania, meg-a-lo-mā'ni-a, n. the delusion that of improvement, as opposed to Optimism and Pessaone is great or powerful. (Gr. megas, great, mania.] mism; Mēʻliorist, one who holds shis doctrine ; Megalosaurus, meg-a-lö-saw'rus, 11. a gigantic extinct Melior'ity, the state of being better : betterness. reptile of carnivorous habits. - adj. Megalosau'. (L. meliorāre, -atum, to make better.) rian. (Gr. megas, megalë, great, sauros, a lizard.) Meliphagous, mel-if'a-gus, adj. feeding upon honey. Megaphone, meg a-fon, n. an appliance for making (Gr. meli, honey, phagein, to eat.) words audible--a form of speaking-trumpet. Mell, mel, v.i. (Spens.) to iningle : to be concerned Mega podidæ, meg-a-pod'i-dé, n. mound-birds (q.v.). with : to meddle. (Meddle.) Megascope, meg'a-skop, n. form of solar microscope Mellay, melā, n. another form of mêlée. for throwing enlarged images on a screen : (phot.) Melliferous, mel-if'er-us, adj. honey-producing.--adj. an enlarging camera. Mellif'ic, honey-making. --- 48. Mellifică'tion, the Megatherium, meg-a-the'ri-um, n. a gigantic extinct production of honey; Mellifluence, a flow of sweet. quadruped of the order Edentata, found in the ness: a smooth sweet flow.--adjs. Mellif'luent, pampas of South America. (Gr. megas, great, Mellifluous, flowing with honey or sweetness : thérion, wild beast.) smooth.--advs. Mellifluently, Mellifluously.Megilp, me-gilp'. See Magilp. alj. Mellig enous, producing honey.--^. Mell'ite, Megobm, megʻom, n. a unit of electrical resistance, honey stone.-adis. Mellit'ic; Melliv'orous, eating equal to one million okms. (Gr. megas, great, and honey. (L. meilifer-mel, honey, ferre, to bear.) ohm.) Mellow, melo, adj. soft and ripe : well matured : soft Megrim, mē'grim, n. a pain affecting only one half to the touch, palate, ear, &c. : genial: half-tipsy. of the head or face : lowness of spirits : a sudden y.t. to soften by ripeness or age : to mature.--v.i. to sickness of a horse at work. (Fr. migraine-Gr. become soft: to be matured. --adv. Mell'owly.--. himicrania-himi, half, kranion, skull.] Mell'owness, softness : maturity.--adj. Meli'owy, Meiny, mēni, " (Shak.) a retinue or company of soft: friable. (A.S. mearu, soft; Dut. murw, servants attending upon a person of high rank. (O. mollig, L. mollis, Gr. malakos.) Fr. mesnie, a company, through Low L. forms, from Melocoton, melo-kot-on, ». (Bacon) a quince: a large L. mansio, a dwelling.) kind of peach. Also Mel’ocotoon. [Late L. melum Meioceno. Same as Miocene. cotoneum (a corr. of Cydonium), a quince, lit. apple Meiosis, mi-o'sis, ". (rhet.) a figure of speech repre. of Cydonia, in Crete.) senting a thing as less than it is. (Gr.) Melodrama, mel-o-dram'a, n. a kind of romantic and Meistersinger, mis'ter-sing'ér, n. one of the burgher sensational drama, formerly largely intermixed with poets and musicians of Germany in the 14th-16th songs-also Melodrame.--adj. Melodramat'ic, of centuries, the successors of the Minnesingers. (Ger.) the nature of melodrama : overstrained : sensational. Melampode, mel-am'pöd, n. (Spens.) the black helle- -». Melodram'atist, a writer of melodramas. (Gr. bore. (Gr.) melos, a song, drama, a play.) Melanæmia, mel-a-nē'mi-a, n. a morbid condition of Molody, melo-di, n. an air or tune : music: an agree the blood in which the vessels contain an unusual able succession of single musical sounds, as distinquantity of dark colouring matter. guished from harmony or the concord of a succession Melancholy, melan-kol-i, n. continued depression of of simultaneous sounds.-n. Melodeon, a small recd spirits : dejection : a gloomy state of mind causing organ: an improved variety of the accordeon. --adj. groundless fears: (Milt.) pensiveness. -adj. gloomy: Melod'ic. - 1.pl. Melod'ics, the branch of music producing grief. -n. Melancholia, a form of in- concerned with ly.<a Melodious, full of sanity, in which there is continued depression or pain melody: agreeable to the ear.--adv. Melo'diously. of mind. - adjs. Melancholio, Melanchoʻlious, -n. Melodiousness. --v.t. Melodise, to make affected with, or caused by, melancholy : dejected : melodious: to reduce to the form of a melody.-2.2, moumful. [Through Fr.,-L.,-Gr. melancholia-- to compose or sing melodies.-n. Melodist. (Fr., melan, black, cholë, bile. ) - Late L.-Gr. melodia-melos, a song, odi, a lay.j Melange, mā-longzh', n. a mixture: a medley: (Fr.) Melon, melun, n. a kind of cucumber and its fruit, Melanic, me-lan'ik, adj. black.--n. Melanism, an which in shape resembles an apple. [Fr.,-L. melo, undue development of colouring matter in the skin .onis-Gr, melon, an apple.) and its appendages.-adj. Melanis'tic.--». Mel'an. Melpomene, mel-pom'e-ne, ". the Muse of tragedy. ito, a deep-black variety of garnet.-adjs. Melano- (Gr. melpoměnē, songstress.) chro'ic, Melanoch'rõous, dark-coloured : Mel'anoid, Melrose, melroz, n. honey of roses. dark-looking.--1. Melano'sis, an abnormal deposi- Molt, melt, v.t. to make liquid, to dissolve: to soften: tion of pigmentary matter in such organs as the to waste away.--v.i. to become liquid : to dissolve: spleen, liver, &c. the condition of the system to become tender or mild : to lose distinct form: associated with such, black degeneration. -- adjs. to be discouraged :-pa.p. melted, or molten.- n. Melanotic; Mel'anous, dark-complexioned. – n. Melt'ing, the act of making liquid or of dissolving : Melanū'ria, the presence of a dark pigment in the the act of softening or rendering tender. - adv. urine.--adj. Melanü'ric. -ns. Mel'aphyre, a pre- Melt'ingly. -n. Melt'ing-pot, a crucible. (A.S. Tertiary basalt, usually altered : Melas' ma, a skin meltan; Ice, melta, Gr. meldein.) disease showing dark discolouration in spots. Melton, mel'ton, n. a strong cloth for men's wear, the Mêléo, mā-la', n. a fight in which the combatants are surface without nap, neither pressed nor finished. mingled together, a confused conflict : an affray. Member, mem'bér, n. an integral part of a whole, esp. (Fr.,--méler, to mix.) a limb of an animal: a clause : one of a society: Melibean, Mélibman, mel-i-bē'an, adj. in poetry, a representative in a legislative body.-adj. Mem'. alternately responsive--from the name of a shepherd bered, having limbs. —». Mem'bership, the state of in Virgil's first eclogue. being a member or one of a society: the members of a Melic, mel’ik, adj. pertaining to song. body regarded as a whole. -adj. Mem'bral, pertainHelilot, mel'i-lot, 1. a genus of clover-like plants with ing to the limbs rather than the trunk.-Member of white or yellow flowers and a peculiar sweet odour. Parliament, a member of the House of Commons, (Gr. melilotos-meli, honey, lòtos, lotus. ) M.P. (Fr. membre--L. membrum.] Melinito, ma'lin-it, n. an explosive of great force Membrane, mem' brān, n. (anat.) one of the thin tex. obtained from picric acid. (Fr.) tures which cover the organs or line the cavities or Meliorato, me'lyo-rāt, v.t. to make better.-V.1. to canals of the body: the film containing the seeds grow better.-ns. Meliorā'tion, the act of making of a plant.--adjs. Membran'eous, Mom'branous, Mombranā'ceous, relating to, consisting of, or like -ns. Mon'dicancy, Mendic'ity, the state of being a membrane; Membranit'erous; Mem'braniform. a mendicant or beggar: the life of a beggar.- Mucous membrane, the membrane lining the Mendicant orders, religious bodies who depended various channels of the body which communicate on begging for their support. (L. mendicans, -antis, with the outside. (Fr.,-L. membrana---membrum.] pr.p. of mendicăre, to beg-mendicus, a beggar.] Memento, me-men'to, n. something to awaken memory: Mends, mendz, for amends. Page 15
Motaphor, meťa-fur, n. a transference of meaning, the the atmosphere, as clouds, rain : (fig.) anything putting of one thing for another which it only re- that for a time dazzles or strikes with wonder.-adj. sembles, as when words are said to be bitter : an Meteor'io, pertaining to, or consisting of, meteors: implicit simile. -adjs. Metaphoric, .al, pertaining proceeding from a meteor : flashing like a meteor: to, or containing, inctaphor: figurative. -- adv. Meta- influenced by the weather.--s. Mo'teorograph, an phorically:---rs. Metaphoricalness ; Metaphor. instrument by which several meteorological elements ist.-Mixed metaphor, an expression in which two are recorded in combination : Meteorolite, Mē'te or more metaphors are confused, where one only is orite, a meteoric stone.-adjs. Meteorologic, al. capable of being intelligibly evolved or conceived --5. Meteorol'ogist, one skilled in meteorology; objectively, as Cromwell's 'God has kindled a seed Meteorol'ogy, that department of physics which in this nation.' (Fr.,--Gr. metaphora-metapherein treats of the phenomena of the atmosphere as re-meta, over, pherein, to carry.) gards weatherand climate. -adj. Mē'tēorous (Milt.) Motaphrase, meta-frāz, n. a translation from one having the nature of a meteor.---Meteoric iron, iron language into another word for word-opp. to as found in meteoric stones ; Meteorio showers, Paraphrase: a repartee - also Metaph'rasis. - N. showers of meteors or shooting stars; Meteoric Metaphrast, one who translates word for word. stones, aerolites. (Gr. meteoron-meta, beyond, -adj. Metaphras'tic, literal in translation. (Gr. cora, anything suspended-acirein, to lift.] metaphrasis-meta, over, phrasis, a speaking.), Meter, a form of metre. Metaphysios, met-a-fiz'iks, 1.sing. the science which Moter, mēstèr, n. one who, or that which, measures, investigates the first principles of nature and thought: esp. an apparatus for recording automatically the ontology or the science of being.-adj. Metaphys'. quantity of a fluid passing through it, as in gasical, pertaining to metaphysics : abstract. -- adv. meter, water-meter, &c. -v.t. to measure by a Motaphys'ically.-n. Metaphysicʻlan, one versed ineter. --. Mē'torage. -- Dry motor, a gas-meter in metaphysics. (From certain works of Aristotle to with bellows-like apparatus and no liquid. (Metre.) be studied after his physics-Gr. meta, after, physika, Methano, meth'ān, 1. marsh.gas, the simplest hydrophysics-physis, nature.) carbon, found wherever the decomposition of vege Mötaphyta, met-a-fi'ta, n.ph many-celled plants, in table matter is taking place under water, also in contrast to the single-celled Protophytes. coal-mines, forming when mixed with air the deadly Metaplasia, met-a-pla'si-a, n. the direct conversion of fire-damp.-n. Methanom'eter. one form of an adult tissue into another-also Metap. Metheglin, meth-egʻlin, n. mead, a fermented liquor lasis.-n. Met'aplasm, a grammatical change in a made from honey.--. Mother (-th-), a vessel for word by adding or dropping a letter. (Gr. meta, mead. (W. meddyglyn--medd, mead, llyn, liquor.] over, plasis-plassein, to form.) Methinks, me-thingks', (B.) Mothink'eth, wimpers. Metapophysis, met-a-pofi-sis, n. (anat.) a dorso. it seems to me: I think :-pa.t. methought (me lateral apophysis on the anterior articular process of thawi'). (A. S. mé thyncth, it seems to me. þyrcan, a vertebra. (Gr. meta, after, apophysis, a process.) Metastasis, me-tas'ta-zis, n. a change in nature, forın, to seem, is often confused with pencan, to think. Cf. Ger. dünken, to scem, denken, to think.) or quality: a change from one part to another, as a disease: (bot.) metabolism.--adj. Metastat'io. (Gr., Method, meth'ud, n. the mode or rule of accomplishing -methistêmi, I change place.) an end : orderly procedure: manner : orderly arrangeMetatarsal, met-a-tär'sal, adj. belonging to the front ment: system, rule, classification: manner of performpart of the foot, behind the toes, nearly the same as ance : an instruction-book systematically arranged the instep in man.---n. Metatar'sus. (Gr. meta, -adis. Method'io, al, arranged with method : dis. beyond, tarsos, the flat of the foot.) posed in a just and natural manner: formal.-Metathesis, me-lath'es-is, n. (gram.) a change of adv. Method’ically.--v.t. Moth'odise, to reduce to place of the letters or syllables of a word.-adjs. method : to dispose in due order.-ns. Meth'odism, Metathet'io, al. (Gr., - metalithenai, to trans- the principles and practice of the Methodists : Methi pose-meta, over, tithenai, to place.) a sect of Metathorax, met-a-thoʻraks. n. the third segment of Christians founded by John Wesley(1703-91), noted for the strictness of its discipline : one who is very strict an insect's thorax.-adj. Metathoracio. Metatome, meta-tom, n. (archit.) the space between in religion. -- adjs. Methodist'io, -al, resembing two dentils. the Methodists: strict in religious matters. -- adz. Metayor, me-tā'yér, n. a farmer who pays, instead Methodistically.---. Methodol'ogy, the science of method in scientific procedure. (Fr.,-L. methods of money rent, a fixed proportion of the crops. -Gr. methodos-meta, after, hodos, a way.] n. Mota yage, this system. (Fr.,-Low L. medietarius-L. medietas, the half-medius, middle.) Methomania, meth-o-mā'ni-a, n, morbid craving for Metazoa, met-a-zo'a, n.pl. many-celled animals pos. alcohol. (Gr. methy, drink, mania, madness.) sessing cellular differentiation - opp. to single-celled Methought. See Methinks. Protosoa. – adjs. Metazo'an, Metazo'ic. — n.sing. Methuselah, me-thu'ze-la, n. a patriarch said to have Met'azoon. (Gr. meta, aster, zoon, animal.) lived 969 years (Gen. v. 27): any very aged person. Mete, mēt, v.1. to measure.-ns. Meto'wand, a measur. Methyl, meth'il, %. (chem.) the name given to the ing-stick; Meto'yard (B.), a yard or rod for meting hypothetical radical of methylic alcohol or wood or measuring. (A.S. metan; Ger. messen.) spirit. -- 1. Meth'ylene, a highly inflammable and Metempiric, .al, met-em-pir'ik, -al, adj. beyond or volatile liquid, obtained by the destructive distilla. outside of experience :--opp. to Empirical or Ex tion of wood. -ailj. Methyl'ic, denoting alcobol periential.-»s. Motempiricism; Motempir'icist. obtained by the destructive distillation of wood. Motompsychosis, me-temp-si-ko'sis, n. the passing of Methylated spirit, a mixture of nine parts of alcohol the soul after death into some other body, whether with one of pyroxylic or wood spirit (to prevent that of a human being or of an animal :pl. Me people drinking it), used for spirit-lamps, varnishes, tompsycho’seg. (Gr., --meta, expressing change, &c. (Gr. meta, after, with, hyu, wood. ) empsychosis, an animating-en, in, psychi, soul.] Methysis, meth'i-sis, n. (path.) drunkenness. -adji Metensomatosis, met-en-so-ma-to'sis, n. transference Methys'tic, intoxicating. (Gr.] of the elements of one body into another. Metic, met'ik, ". an immigrant, a resident alien. (Gr. Meteor, mé'te-or, n. one of numberless small bodies meta, over, oikos, a house.) travelling through space, continually being encoun. Meticulous. mē-tik'ü-lus, adj. (arch.) timid, over tered by the carth on its orbital path, and then careful. -adr. Metic'ulously. (L. metus, fear. I revealed to our observation as acrolites, fire-balls, or Métier, met'yār, n, one's calling or business. (Fr.) shooting-stars : formerly used of any appearance in Motif, mē'tif, n. the offspring of a white and a quad roon.-n. Mē'tis, a half-breed of French and Indian a metropolis : pertaining to the mother-church.--th parentage in Canada. (Cf. Mastiff) Page 16
Misconceive, mis-kon-sēv', v.t. to conceive wrongly: | Misemploy, mis-em-ploi', v.t. to cinploy wrongly or to mistake. -v.i. to have a wrong conception of amiss: to misuse. -n. Misemployment, ill-employ. anything.-n. Misconception. ment: improper application : misuse. Misconduct, mis-kon'duki, n. bad conduct: wrong Misentry, mis-en'tri, n. a wrong entry, as in an management.-v.t. Misconduct', to conduct badly. account. -v.t. Mison'tor, to make such. Misconjecture, mis-kon-jek'tūr, n. a wrong conjecture Miser, mizer, n. a miserable person : an extremely or guess.-v.t. or v.i. to guess or conjecture wrongly. covetous person : a niggard : one whose chief pleaMisconstruct, mis-kon-strukt', vit. construct sure is in hoarding wealth.-adj. like a miser.-adj. wrongly: to construe or interpret erroneously.--n. Mi'serly, excessively covetous : sordid : niggardly. Misconstruction, a mistaking of the true meaning. (L. miser, wretched.] Misconstrue, mis-kon'stroo, v.t. to construe or to in. Miser, mizér, n. a tubular well boring-bit, with salved terpret wrongly. opening for the earth passing up. Miscontent, mis-kon-tent', adj. not content - also Miserable, miz'èr-a-bl, adj. wretched, exceedingly Miscontent'éd.-n. Miscontent'mont. unhappy: causing misery: very poor or mean: Miscopy, mis-kop'i, y.t. to copy wrongly or imper. worthless : despicable : barren.-n. Mis'erableness. fectly.-n. an error in copying. - adv. Mis'erably. (Fr.,-L. miserabilis-miser.! Miscounsel, mis-kown'sel, v.t. (Spens.) to counsel or Misereatur, miz-er-e-a'tur, n. the first part of the advise wrongly. absolution service in the R.C. liturgy, beginning Miscount, mis-kownt', v.t. to count wrongly: to Misereatur vestri omnipotens Deus.' misjudge.-n, a wrong counting. Miserere, miz-e-rē're, n. the name by which in CathoMiscreant, mis krē-ant, n. a vile wretch, a detestable lic usage the penitencial goth Psalm of the Vulgate scoundrel: a misbeliever, an infidel. - adj. un. (51st in A.V.) is commonly believing.-n. Mis'creance (Spens.), unbelief, belief known, from its com. in a false religion. (O. Fr. mescreant-mes, L. mencement, Miserere credens, -entis, prip. of credere, to believe.) mei, Domine :' a musical Miscreate, -d, mis-kré-at', -ed, adj. wrongly created : composition adapted to deformed: (Shak.) illegitimate.-n. Miscreā'tion.- this psalm: a hinged foldadj. Miscreā'tive, inclining towards wrong creation. ing-seat in a church stall, Miscredit, mis-kred'it, v.t. to disbelieve. which, when turned up, Miscreed, mis-krēd', n. a false creed. shows a bracket on which Miscue, mis-ku', n. at billiards, a stroke spoiled by a person who is standing the slipping off of the cue. can lean. (L., ad pers. Misdato, mis-dāť, n, a wrong date. — v. t. to date sing. imperf. of misereri, wrongly or erroneously. to have mercy, to pityMisdeal, mis-dēl, n. a wrong deal, as at cards. -v.t. miser, wretched.) to deal wrongly: to divide improperly.-v.i. to make Misericorde, miz-e-ri-kord, a wrong distribution. n. mercy, forgiveness, Misdecision, mis-de-sizh'un, n. act of deciding pity : a folding-seat: a Miserere. wrongly : a wrong decision. narrow-bladed dagger for Misdeed, mis-ded', n. a bad deed: fault: crime. putting a wounded foe out of pain by the counda Misdoom, mis-dēm', v.t. to deem or think wrongly: to grace. (Fr.-L.,-misericors, -dis, tender-hearted. make a mistake in judging. Misery, miz'ér-i, n. wretchedness : great unhappr Misdemean, mis-de-mēn', v.t. to behave ill (with one's ness: extreme pain of body or of mind: a cause self).-v.i. to misbehave.-ns. Misdemean'ant, one of pain or sorrow : (Shak.) avarice. (O. Fr.,-L who commits a misdemeanour or petty crime: Mis- miseria.) demean'our, bad conduct : a legal offence of less Misesteem, mis-es-tēm', n, want of esteem : disregard : gravity than a felony. disrespect.-v.t. Mises'timāte, to estimate wrongly. Misdescribe, mis-des-krib', v.t. to describe falsely.- Misexpression, mis-eks-presh'un, n. a wrong er n. Misdescription. pression. Misdesort, mis-de-zėrt', n. (Spens.) ill-desert. Misfaith, mis'fāth, n. (Tenn.) distrust. Misdovotion, mis-de-vó'shun, n. ill-directed devotion. Misfall, mis-fawl, v. t. (obs.) to befall unluckily. Misdiot, mis-di'et, n. (Spens.) improper diet or food. Misfare, mis-fār', n. (Spens.) ill fare : misfortune.-s.i Misdight, mis-dit, adj. (Spens.) badly dressed. to fare or succeed ill. Misdirect, mis-di-rekt', v.t. to direct wrongly. - Misfeasance, mis-fēz'ans, 1. (law) a wrong done. Misdirection, act of directing wrongly, or state of as distinguished from Nonfeasance, which means being wrongly directed. a mere omission: the doing of a lawful act in a Migdistinguish, mis-dis-ting'gwish, v.t. to make wrongful manner, as distinguished from Malfiar wrong distinctions concerning. ance, which means the doing of an act which is Misdivide, mis-di-vid', v.t. to divide wrongly. - positively unlawful.-ns. Misfeas'ant, Misfess'or, Misdivision, wrong or unfair division. one who commits a misfeasance. (O. Fr., Misdo, mis-doo', v.t. to do wrongly.-».i. to act amiss, wrong, faisance-faire-L. facere, to da ] err. — 16. Misdo'er; Misdo'ing. Misfeign, mis-fän', v.i. to feign with bad design. Misdoubt, mis-dowe', v.t. to have a doubt or suspicion Misfit, mis-fit', n. a bad fit, of clothes, &c. - e.t. to regarding: to suspect.-n. suspicion : hesitation. - make of a wrong size : to supply with something adj. Misdoubt'ful (Spens.), misgiving, that does not fit. Misdraw, mis-draw, v.t. to draw or draft badly.-v.i. Misform, mis-form', v.t. to form or shape badly or to fall apart.-n. Misdrawing. improperly.-n. Misformā'tion Misdread, mis-dred', n. (Shak.) dread of evil to come. Misfortune, mis-fortūn, n. ill-fortune : an evil acci -v. t. to regard with dread. dent: calamity :(coll.) a cuphemism for a lapse from Mise, miz, n. expenditure, outlay: a gift of money virtue resulting in the birth of a natural child-adf to a superior, prince, &c. : in a writ of right, a Misfor'tuned (Milt.), unfortunate. traverse by which both parties put the cause directly Misget, mis.get, v.t. (Spens.) to procure unlawfulls, upon the question as to which had the better right: -adj. Misgot'ten, wrongly obtained. the adjustment of a dispute by arbitration and com- Misgive, mis-giv, v.t. to fill with doubt: to destroy promise, as the 'Mise of Lewes' in 1264. (Fr.,-L. confidence. -v... to fail, as the heart: to give way mittére, missum.) to doubt.-n. Misgiv'ing, mistrust. Miseducation, mis-ed-ū-kā'shun, n, improper or im- Misgo, mis-go', v.i. to go astray or amiss. perfect education. Misgovern, mis-guv'èrn, v.t. to govern badly: to se Page 17
power unjustly.-ns. Misgovernance (Spens.), ill Mismoasure, mis-mezh'ür, v.t. to measure wrongly.government : irregularity: Misgov'ernment. n. Mismoas'urement. Misgraff , mis-graf, Misgraft, mis-grast', v.t. (Shak.) Misname, mis näm', v.t. to call by the wrong name. to graft wrongly or on a wrong stock. Misnomer, misno'mer, n. a misnaming: a wrong Misgrowth, mis-groch', n. an irregular growth, an name. (O. Fr., from Fr. mese and nommer-L. nominare, to name.) Misguide, mis-gid, v.t. to guide wrongly: to lead Misobserve, mis-ob-zerv', v.t. and v.š. to observe into error.ns. Misguid'anco, Misguido (obs.), incorrectly. Mishallowed, mis-hallod, adj. devoted to evil ends. Misocapnio, mis-o-kap'nik, adj. hating smoke, esp. Mishandlo, mis-han'dl, v.t. to maltreat. that of tobacco. Mishanter, Mischanter, mi-shan'tér, n. (Scot.) an Misoclere, mis'o-klēr, adj. (Fuller) hating the clergy. unlucky chance, misfortune. (Gr. misein, to hate, klēros, clergy.) Mishap, mis-hap', n. ill chance : accident: misfortune. Misogamist, mis-og'a-mist, n. a hater of marriage.-... Mishappen (Spens.), to happen ill. n. Misog'amy. Gr. misein, to hate; gamos, mar. Mishear, mis-her, v.š. to hear incorrectly.-v... to riage.) mistake in hearing. Misogynist, mis-oji-nist, n. a woman-hater.-adjs. Mishmash, mish'mash, n. a hotch-potch, medley. Misogynist’ical, Misogynous. - n. Misogyny. Yishmee, mish'mē, n. the bitter tonic root of a (Gr. misein, to hate, gynë, a woman.) Chinese species of gold-thread. Misology, mi-sol'o-ji, n. hatred of reason.-n. Misol'oMishnah, Mishna, mish'na, n. a great collection of gist. (Gr., misein, to hate, logos, reason.) halachoth, comprising the body of the Oral Law, Misotheism, mis'o-the-izm, n. hatred of God. (Gr. or the juridico-political, civil, and religious code of misein, to hate, theos, God.) the Jews; it forms one of the divisions of the Mispaint, mis-pánt', v.t. to paint in false colours. Talmud – the Gemara,' or commentary on the Mispersuasion, mis-per-swā’zhun, n. a wrong pero Mishna, being the other; and it was finally redacted suasion or notion : a false opinion. at Tiberias in 220 A.D. :-pl. Mish'noth.- adjs. Misplace, mis-plas', v.t. to put in a wrong place : to Mishnā'ic, Mish'nio. (Heb.,-shånäh, to repeat.) set on an improper object. --n. Misplacoʻmont. Misimprove, mis-im-proov, v.t. to apply to a bad Misplay, mis plā', n. a wrong play. purpose: to misuse. -n. Misimprovement. Misplead, mis-pled', y... to plead wrongly.—n. MisMosincline, mis-in-klin', v.t. to cause to incline plead'ing, an error in pleading: wrongly. Misplease, mis.plēz', v.t. to displease. Misinfar, mis-in-fèr', v.t. to infer wrongly.-v.i. to Mispoint, mis point', v.t. to punctuate wrongly. draw a wrong inference. Mispolicy, mis-pol'i-si, n, bad policy, Misinform, mis-in-form', v.t. to tell incorrectly.-ns. Mispractice, mis-prak'tis, n. misconduct. Misinform'ant; Misinformātion; Misinform'er. Mispraise, mis-práz, v.t. to praise falsely. Misinstruct, mis-in-strukt, v.t. to instruct improperly. Misprint, mis-print', 'v.t. to print wrong.--n. a mistake -n. Misinstruction, wrong instruction. in printing; Misintelligence, mis-in-tel'e-jens, n. wrong or false Misprise, mis-prīz', v.t. to slight, undervalue. (O. Fr. . information. mespriser-pfx. mes., amiss, Low L. pretiäre-L. Misintend, mis-in-tend', v.t. to misdirect. pretium, price.) Mistatorpret, mis-in-tér pret, v.t. to interpret wrongly: Misprislon, mis-prizh'un, n, mistake : (law) criminal to explain wrongly. 1:-ns. Misinterpretā'tion; Mis- oversight or neglect in respect to the crime of an. interpreter. other; any serious offence, failure of duty-positive Misjoin, mis-join', v. t. to join improperly or unfitly.- or negative, according as it is maladministration or 2. Misjoin'der (law), an incorrect union of parties or inere neglect.--Misprision of heresy, treason, &c., of causes of actions in a suit. knowledge of and failure to give information about Misjudge, mis-juj', v.t. and v.i. to judge wrongly.- heresy, treason, &c. (0. Fr., mes., ill, Low L. Misjudgʻment. prension-em-L. prehenděre, to take.), Misken, mis-ken', v.t. (Scot.) to be, or to appear, Misprize, mis-prīz', v.t. (Shak.) to mistake. ignorant of. Mispronounce, mis-pro-nowns', v.t. to pronounce inMišknow, mis-no', v.t. to misapprehend. correctly. - Mispronunciation, wrong or imknowl'odge. proper pronunciation. Mislabel, mis-la'bel, v.t. to mark with a wrong de- Misproud, mis-proud', adj. unduly proud. scriptive label, &c. Mispunctuate, mis-pungk'tū-āt, vit. and v.i to puncMislay, mis-lä', v.t. to lay in a wrong place or in one tuate wrongly.-n. Mispunctuā'tion. Dot remembered : to lose :-pa.p. mislaid'. Mispursuit, mis pur-süť, n. a mistaken pursuit. Misle, mis l. See Mizzle. Misqualify, mis-kwol'i-fí, v.t. to characterise erroneMislead, mis-lēd', v.t. to guide into error: to cause ously. to mistake :-pa.p. misled'.-. Mislead'er.-adj. Misquote, mis-kwot', v.t. to quote wrongly.— Mislead'ing, deceptive.-adv. Mislead'ingly. quotation, a wrong quotation. Misleared, mis-lērd', adj. (Scot.) mistaught : wrongly Misread, mis-rēd', v.t. to read wrongly: to misinterinformed, imposed upon. pret.-n. Misroad'ing, an erroneous reading. Misletoe. "See Mistletoe. Misreckon, mis-rek'n, v.t. to reckon or compute Mislight, mis-lit, vit. to lead astray by a light. wrongly: -n. Misrock'oning. Dislike, mis-lik, v.t. to dislike : to disapprove of.--- Misregard, mis-re-gärd', n. (Špens.) misconstruction. #. dislike : disapprobation. -n. Mislike’ness, a mis. Misrelate, mis-re-lāt', v.t. to relate incorrectly.— leading resemblance. n. Misrelā'tion dislippen, mis-lip'n, v.t. (Scot.) to disappoint, de- Misremember, mis-re-mem'ber, v.t. to mistake in receive : to neglect to pay attention to anything. membering.-v.i. to fail to remember correctly. Lislive, mis-liv, v.i. to live a bad life. Misreport, mis-re-port', v.t. to give an incorrect report Usluck, mis-luk', v.i. to meet with bad luck, to fail. or account of.-n. a false report. -*. ill-luck. Misrepresent, mis-rep-re-zent', v.t, to represent incordismanage, mnis.man'āj, v.t. to conduct badly: to rectly: to act unfaithfully on behalf of. -v.i. to give conduct carelessly.--». Misman'agement. a false impression.-R. Misrepresentā'tion. istanners, mis-man'érz, n.pl. bad manners, Misresemblanco, mis-re-zem'blans, n. an imperfect ismatch, mis-mach', v.t. to match unsuitably.--n. resemblance. Mismatch'ment. Misrule, mis-rool, n. wrong or unjust rule: disorder: Dlamatod, mis-märed, adj. (Tenn.) ill-matched. tumult. -v.t. and v... to govern badly.-Abbot, or Page 18
lines end with the same rhyme. Monometallic, mon-o-me-tal'ik, adj. consisting of but Monosomic, mon-0-sē’mik, adj. (pros.) consisting in, one metal.-ns. Monomet allism, the use of but one or equal to, a single semeion (mora or unit of time)." metal as a standard of value ; Monometallist, one Monosepalous, mon-v-sep'a-lus, adj. (bot.) having the who upholds this theory. sepals all united : having a calyx of one piece. Monometer, mö-nom'e-iér, adj. and n. (pros.) con: Monospermous, mon-6-sperm'us, adj. (bot.) having sisting of one measure.-adis. Monomet'ric, -al. one sced only.--. Mon'osperm. (Gr. monos, alone, Monomial, mon-oʻmi-al, n, an algebraic expression of sperma, sced.) one term only: a series of factors of single terms- Monosporous, mon’8-spor-us, adj. of a single spore. also Mon'ome.-adj. Mono'mial (Gr. monos, alone, Monostich, mon'o-stik, n. a poem complete in one L. nomen, name.) verse. -adj. Monos'tichous. (Gr. monos, alone, Monomorphio, mon-3-mor'fik, adj. of the same type stichos, verse.) of structure, or morphological character. - adj. Monostrophic, mon-0-strof'ik, adj. having but one Monomor phous. (Gr. monos, single, morphe, form.) strophe : not varied in measure. ---. Monos'trophe. Monomyariān, mon-o-mi-ā'ri-an, adj. having but one (Gr. monos, alone, strophe, a strophe.) adductor muscle, as an oyster. (Gr. monos, single, Monostyle, mon'o-stil, adj. (archit.) consisting of a mys, muscle.) single shaft. (Gr. monos, alone, stylos, a pillar.) Mononym, mon'o-nim, n. a name consisting of a single Monosy, mon'o-si, n. (bot.) an abnormal condition in term.-adj. Mononym'io. which organs usually entire or united are found Monoöusious, mon-o-bo'si-us, adj. having the same disunited. (Gr. monosis-monos, single.) substance. (Gr. monos, single, ousia, essence.) Monosyllable, mon-o-silla-bl, n. a word of one syllable. Monopathy, mô-nop a-thi, v. ( Pathol.) a disease -adj. Monosyllab'ic, consisting of one syllable, or affecting only one organ or function.-adj. Mono- of words of one syllable.-n. Monosyllabism, an path'ic. (Gre monos, single, pathos, suffering.) exclusive use of monosyllables, as in Chinese.· Monopetalous, mon-7-pet'a-lus, adj. (bot.) having only Monosymmetric, mon-6-sim-et'rik, adj. having only one petal, or denoting a corolla, the petals of which one plane of symmetry in crystallisation. --adj. so cohere as to form a tube. Monosymmetrical (bot.), of flowers capable of Monophobia, mon-8-fo’bi-a, n. morbid dread of being being bisected into similar halves in only one plane. left alone. (Gr. monos, single, phobia, fear.) Monotessaron, mon-0-tes'a-ron, n. a harmony of the Monophonous, mon-of'o-nus, adj. producing one sound four gospels. at one time. (Gr. monos, single, phone, voice.) Monothalamous, mon--thal’a-mus, adj. (bot.) singleMonophoto, mon'o-fot, n. an electric arc-lamp regu• chambered: with but one cavity. (Gr. monos, single, lator working in single series. (Gr. monos, single, thalamos, a chamber.) phos, photos, light.) Monotheism, mon'o-the-izm, n. the belief in only one Monophthong, mon'of-thong, n. a simple vowel-sound. God.-n. Mon'otheist, one who believes that there -adj. Mon'ophthongal. is but one God.-adj. Monotheist'ic. (Gr. monos, Monophyletic, mon-o-ti-let’ik, adj. pertaining to a alone, theos, God. ) single phylum :-opp. to Polyphyletic. Monothelite, mon-oth'e-lit, n. one who holds that Monophyllous, mon-6-filus, adj. having a leaf of but Christ had but one will and one operation or energy, one piece. (Gr. monos, alone, phyllon, a leaf.] as He had but one nature. - Ks. Monoth'elism, Monophyodont, mon-3-fi'o-dont, adj. having only one Monothelit'ism. (Gr. monos, alone, thelētës, one set of teeth.-n. such an animal. who wills--thelein, to will.) Monophysite, mö-nof'i-sit, n. one who holds that Monothetic, mon-o-thet'ik, adj. assuming a single Christ had but one composite nature, instead of the essential element. (Gr. monos, single, thetos, verbal orthodox doctrine that He united two complete adj. of tithenai, to put.) natures without confusion or mutation in one person. Monotint, mon'ó-tini, n. drawing or painting in a -adj. Monophysit'ical.--n. Monophysit'ism. (Gr. single tint. monos, alone, physis, nature.] Monotocous, mo-not’o-kus, adj. having one only at a Monoplast, mon'o-plast, n. an organism consisting of birih. (Gr. monos, single, tiktein, to bear.) a single cell. (Gr. monos, single, plastos, formed- Monotono, mon'ō-ton, n. a single, unvaried tone or plassein, to form.) sound : a succession of sounds having the same Monoplegia, mon-5-plē'ji-a, n. paralysis limited to a pitch : a piece of writing in one strain throughout. single part. (Gr. monos, single, piége, stroke.] v.t. and v.i. to intone, chant.-adjs. Monoton'ic, Monopnoa, mo-nop'nő-a, n.pl. a class of reptiles Monot'onous, uttered in one unvaried tone: marked breathing in one way only. (Gr. monos, single, by dul uniformity. -- adv. Monot'onously. - ". proos, breathing-pnein, to breathe.) Monotony, dull uniformity of tone or sound : want Monopode, mon'6-pod, adj. and », having but one of modulation in speaking or reading : (fig.) irkfoot. --adj. Monopod'ic. --n. Mon'opody. some sameness or want of variety. (Gr. monos, Monopoliso, mon-op'o-liz, v. t. to obtain possession of alone, tonos, a tone.) anything so as to be the only seller or sharer of it: Monotremata, mon-o-trem'a-ta, n.pl. the lowest order to engross the whole of.--ns. Monop'oliser, Monop'- of Mammalia, having a single opening for the genital olist. --adj. Monopolis'tic. -n. Monopoly, the sole and digestive organs. --adj. Monotrem'atous-also power of dealing in anything: exclusive command Mon'otreme.-1. Mon'otreme, a member of the or possession: (law) a grant from the crown to an Monotremata. (Gr. monos, alone, trëma, a hole.) individual for the sole right to deal in anything. (L. Monotype, mon'o-tīp, n. and adj. having only one monopolium--Gr, monos, alone, polein, to sell.) type or representative : a print transferred from a Monopteron, mo-nop'te-ron, n. a kind of temple or painting on a metal plate.-adj. Monotypic. portico of columns grouped in a circle, and support- Monoxide, mo-nok'sid, n. an oxide containing a single ing a cupola. (Gr. monos, single, pteron, a wing.) oxygen atom in combination with two univalent atoms Monoptoto, mon'op-tól, n. a noun, &c., having but one or one bivalent atom. case-form. (Gr. monos, alone, ptosis, case.) Monoxylon, mon-oks'i-lon, n. a canoe made from one Monorchid, mo-nork'id, adj. having only one testicle. log.-adj. Monox'ylous, formed of a single piece of ---. Monorch'ism. wood. (Gr. monos, single, xylon, wood. ) Monorganic, mon-organ'ik, adj. of one organ. Monrooism, mon-ro'izm, n. more generally Monroe Monoraine, mon’o-rin, adj. having but one nasal Doctrine, the principle of the non-intervention of passage.--Also Mon'orhinal. (Gr. monos, single, Europe in matters relating to the American continent Aris, hrinos, the nose.) - from President Monroe's Message in Dec. 1823. Page 19
Mortmain, mort'män, n. the transfer of property to a Mot, mo, n. a pithy or witty saying.-Mot d'ordre, corporation, which is said to be a dead hand, or one word of command. (Fr.) that can never part with it again. - Statutes of Mot, mot, n. a note on the bugle, &c., or its mark in mortmain, acts of parliament restricting or torbid- musical notation. (Fr.,--L. muttum, a murmur.] ding the giving of property to religious houses. [Fr. Motatorious, mo-la-to'ri-us, adj. vibratory, excesmort, dead, main-L. manus, the hand.) sively mobile-of long-legged spiders and CraneMortuary, mort'ü-ar-i, n. adj. belonging to the burial flies, &c. (L. motāre, -ātum, to keep moving, freq. of the dead.-n, a burial-place, place for the tempo- of movēre, to move.) rary, reception of the dead : a gift claimed by the Mote, mot, n. an archaism for might or must. minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. Mote, mõt, n. a particle of dust : a speck: a stain (Low L.,-L. mortuus, dead, mori, to die.) or blemish: anything very small. -adjs. Mõt'ed, Morula, mor'ü-la, n. condition of an 'ovum after com- Mot'ty, containing motes. "[A.S. mot; Dut. met.) plete segmentation : button-scurvy. Motet, mo-tet', n. a sacred cantata of several unconMorus, mo'rus, n. a genus of trees or shrubs of the nected movements, as a solo, trio, chorus, fugue, nettle family-the mulberries. (L.) &c: a choral composition having a biblical or Mosaio, mo-zā'ik, n. a kind of work in which designs similar prose text.-n. Motot'tist, a composer of are formed by small pieces of coloured marble, such. (Fr.,-It. mottetto-motto, saying.) glass, &c. cemented on a ground of stucco, 'or in. Moth, moth, n. a family of insects like butterflies, laid upon metal. - adj. relating to, or composed seen mostly at night : the larva of this insect which of, mosaic.--adv. Mosā'ically. -n. Mosā'icist. – gnaws cloth: that which eats away gradually and Mosaic gold, an alloy of copper and zinc --- also silently.--v.t. Moth-eat, to prey upon, as a moth Ormolu. (Fr.,-L. musæum or musivum (opus), eats a garment.-adj. Moth'-eat'en, eaten or cut by mosaic (work)-Gr. mouseios-Mousa, a muse.] moths. -n. Moth-hunt'or, a little kind of swallow Mosaic, mo-zā'ik, adj. pertaining to Moses, the great which hunts moths, &c., called also the Goatsucker. Jewish lawgiver.-n. Mõ'saism.-Mosaic Law, the -adj. Moth'y, full of moths. — Death's-head moth law of the Jews given by Moses at Mount Sinai. (see Death). (A.S. mobþe, mohbe; Ger. moiti.) Mosausaurus, mo-sa-saw'rus, n. the typical genus of Mother, muth'ér, n. a female parent, esp. one of the a group of huge fossil marine reptiles, found in the human race: a woman in relation to her child: a Cretaceous strata of Europe and America. (L. Mosa, the river Meuse, Gr. sauros, a lizard.) matron: that which has produced anything: the female head of a religious house: a familiar term of Moschatol, mos’ka-tel, n. a plant with pale.green address to an old woman.-adj. received by birth, as flowers and a musky smell. [Fr. moscatelline - Low it were from one's mother: natural : acting the part L. moschatellina-muscus, musk.) of a mother : originating. -v.t. to adopt as a son or Moschiferous, mos-kif'e-rus, adj. producing musk. daughter.--s. Moth'er-church, the church from Mose, moz, n. (Shak.) a disease of horses.--v., to which others have sprung; Moth'er-coun’try, •land, have this. (Prob. Old High Ger. māsā, a spot.) the country of one's birth : the country from which Moselle, mo-zel', n. light wines from the district of the a colony has gone out; Moth'orhood, state of being river Moselle, with an aromatic flavour. a mother; Moth'ering, a rural English custom of Mosoy, mo'zi, v.i. (Amer, slang) to go off quickly: visiting one's parents on Mid-Lent Sunday; Moth'erto hurry up: in-law, the mother of one's husband or wife.-adj. Moslem, moz'lem, n. a Mussulman or Mohammedan. Moth'erless, without a mother.-n. Moth'erliness. -adj. of or belonging to the Mohammedans.-n. adj. Moth'erly, pertaining to, or becoming, a mother: Mos'lemism. (Ar. muslim, pl. muslimin-salama, like a mother: parental : tender. - ns. Moth'er-ofubmit (to God). Doublet Mussulman.) pearl', the nacreous internal layer of the shells of seve Moslings, moz'lingz, r.pl. the thin shavings taken off ral molluscs, esp. of the pearl-oyster, so called because by the currier in dressing skins. (Morsel.) producing the pearl; Moth'er's-mark, a birth-mark: Mosque, mosk, n. a Mohammedan place of worship. (Fr., - Sp. mezquita - Ar. masjid - sajada, to Moth'er-tongue, a person's native language : a lan guage from which another has its origin ; Moth'erpray.) wa'ter, the residual liquid remaining after the chemiMosquito, mos-kē'to, n. a biting gnat, common in cal substances it contained have been crystallised tropical countries : - pl. Mosqui'toos. — Mosquito or precipitated; Moth'er-wit, native wit : commoncanopy, curtain, net, an arrangement of netting sense ; Moth'er-wort, a labiate plant growing in set over a bed, in a window, &c., to keep out mos waste places; Queen'-moth'er, the mother of a quitoes. (Sp., dim. of mosca, a fly-L. musca.) Moss, mos, n. a family of flowerless plants with branch reigning sovereign.-Mother Carey's chicken, the ing stems and narrow, simple leaves : popularly any stormy petrel, or other bird of the same family: Mothér-Hubbard, a woman's loose flowing gown, small cryptogamic plant, esp. a lichen: a piece like that proper to the nursery heroine. -Every of ground covered with moss : a bog. -v.l. to mother's son, all, without exception. (A.S. moder; cover with moss. — ns. Moss'-back, an old fish : a person of antiquated views; Moss' -cheep'er Dut. moeder, Ice. modir, Ger. mutter, Ir. and Gael. (Scot.), the titlark. adj. Moss'-grown, covered mathair, L. mater, Gr. mētër, Sans. mátá, mátra.) with moss. ---s. Moss'-bag (Scot.), a pit or slough Yother, muth'ér, n. dregs or sediments, as of vinegar. in a bog: Moss'iness ; Moss'-land, land abounding -v.i. to become concreted.-adj. Moth'ery. [MK] in peat-bogs; Moss'-rose, a variety of rose having Motif, mô-têf, n. an old form of motive : a theme or a moss-like growth on and below the calyx; Moss". ground for intellectual action, or a leading subject troop'er, one of the robbers that used to infest the in a dramatic work : in a musical composition the mosses of the Border.-adj. Moss'y, overgrown or principal subject on which the movement is conabounding with moss.-Iceland moss (see Iceland). structed. (Fr.,-L. motus, moved.) (A.S. meos; Dut. mos, Ger. moos.) Motion, mo'shun, n. the act or state of moving : 2 Moss-bunker, mos'-bung-kér, n. the menhaden. (Dut. single movement : change of posture : gait; power mars-banker, the scad or horse-mackerel.) of moving or of being moved : angular velocityMost, most, adj. (superl. of More), greatest in age, direct when from west to east; retrograde when position or rank, number, degree, &c.-adv. in the from east to west : excitement of the mind : any highest degree. -n. the greatest number or quantity. natural impulse, instigation : proposal made, esp. in -advs Mostly; Most'what (Spens.), for the most an assembly: an application to a court, during a part, mostly.-At (the) most, to the utmost extent ; case before it, for an order or rule that something be For the most part, chiefly: Make the most of (see done, esp. something incidental to the progress of Mako). (A.S. mást; cog. with Ger. meist.] the cause rather than its issue : evacuation of the intestine : (pl., B.) impulses.-».i. to make a signifi (mot'oz). ---adj. Mott'ood. (Low L. muttumcant movement, to offer a proposal.--v.t. to guide by stuttire, to mutter.) a gesture, &c. : to move. -ailj. Mõtile, capable of Moucharaby, mov-shar'a-bi, n. a balcony enclosed spontaneous motion. ---. Motility.-adj. Mõ'tional, with lattice-work : an embattled balcony with para. characterised by motions.-n. Mo'tionist, one who pet and machicolations. (Fr.) makes a mation. --adj. Mōʻtionless, without motion. Mouchard, möö-shär', n. a police spy in France. Page 20
attached to a mosque, whose duty it is to announce softness.- adj. Mullerõse, fond of women. The the hours of prayer.-Also Mued'din. (Ar.) Mulieros'ity. (L.,-mulier, a woman.) winter, usually of fur or dressed skins. -". Muff pieces : to confuse, muddle. ettes', a small muff worn over the wrist. (Prob. Mull, mul, n. a promontory: a horn snuff-box. (Prob. from Dut. mof; cf. Ger. muff, a muff.) Gael, maol.) awkwardly, spoil : to act clumsily, esp. in letting a Mull, mul, v.t. to warm, spice, and sweeten (wine, ball slip out of the hands. (Prob. related to Dut. ale, &c.). -v.i. to toil on, moil: to bustle about.- muffen, to dote; Ger. muffen, to sulk.) adj. Múllod.-n. Mull'er. (M. E. molde-ale, a Muin, muf'in, *. a soft, light, spongy cake, eaten funeral banquet, molde, grave earth, and ale = feast.] hot with butter : a small plate: one who dangles Mullen, Mullein, mul'en, n. any plant of genus after a young woman: a poor ball-player.--us. Verbascum. – Also Hag-taper, Adam's flannel, Muffin-cap, a round flat cap for men; Muffineer, Aaron's rod, Shepherd's club. a dish for keeping muffins hot: a metal cruet for Muller, mul’er, n. a glass pestle for mixing paints: a sprinkling salt or sugar on muffins. mechanical pulveriser. Mutile, mufl, n. the thick naked upper lip and nose, Mullet, mulei, n. a genus of fishes nearly cylindrical as of a ruminant. (Ger.) in form, highly esteemed for the table.' (fr. mulet Muffle, mufl, v.t. to wrap up as with a muff: to blind- -L. mullus, the red mullet.) fold: to cover up so as to render sound dull, as a bell Mullet, mul'et, n. the rowel of a spur: (her.) a fiveor a drum : to cover from the weather. -1. something pointed star-a mark of cadency, indicating the used for smothering sound : a boxing:glove: a clay third son. [O. Fr, molette-L. mola, a mill.) oven, as for firing pottery.-adj. Muffled, wrapped Mulligatawny, mul-i-ga-taw'ni, n. an East Indian up closely: dulled or deadened - of sound. - n. curry-soup. (Tamil milagu-tannir, pepper-water.) Muff'ler, a cover that muffles the face. (Muff.] Mulligrubs, mul’i-grubz, n. (coll.) colic: sulkiness. Muffle, mufl, v.i. to mumble. Mullion, mul'yun, n. an upright division between Mufti, mufti, n. a doctor or official expounder of the lights of windows, between panels, &c.-6.6. Mohammedan law in Turkey : the dress of an officer to shape into divisions by off duty. (Ar.) mullions.-adj. Mull'ioned. Mug, mug, n. a kind of earthen or metal cup for (Same as munnion, from Fr. liquor, its contents.-ns. Mug ger (Scot.), a tramp- moignon, a stump-L. man. games merely for the prizes. (Ir. mugan, a mug, esp. mining refuse. mucog, a cup.) Mulge, muls, sweetened Mug, mug, n. the human face, the mouth. wine. (L. mulsum-mulcère, Muggins, mug’inz, n. a children's card-game played to soothe. with a full pack divided equally, each in turn laying Mulsh, mulsh, n. loose material, down a card face up, the first one who calls strawy dung, &c., laid down Muggins' when one matches another adding his to protect the roots of plants card to the other's pile, the aim being to get out as -also Mulch.-v.t. to cover soon as possible. (Ety. dub.) with mulsh.-adj. soft. Muggletonian, mug-l-to'ni-an, n. a member of a Mult. See Multure. sect founded in England by John Reeve and Lodo. Multangular, mult-ang'gul-ar, adj. having various faculties a, a, Mullions. Muggy, mug'i, adj. soggy: close and damp, as weather: and powers of mind, many-sided. wet or mouldy, as straw. - Also Mug gish. (Ice. Multarticulate, mul-tar-tik'ü-lät, adj. many-jointed. mugga, mist; cf. Gael. mugach, cloudy.) -Also Multiarticulate. Mugwort, mug'wurt, n. a common British species of Multeity, mul-tē'i-ti, ". manifoldness, very great wormwood. numerousness. Mugwump, mug'wump, n. an Indian chief: a person Multiaxial, mul-ti-ak’si-al, adj. having many axes or of great importance, or who thinks himself so: a lines of growth. humorous political use of the above. [Algonkin Multicamerate, mul-ti-kam'e-rāt, adj. having many mugquomp, a great man.) chambers or cells. Mulatto, mû-lato, n. the offspring of black and white Multicapitate, mul-ti-kap'i-tāt, adj. having many parents :-fem. Mulatt'ross. (Šp. mulato.) heads. Also Multicip'ital. Mulberry, mul'ber-i, n. the tree the leaves of which Multicapsular, mul-ti-kap'sū-lar, adj. having many form the food of the silkworm: the berry of this capsules. tree. (Mul, is A.S. mór. (as in A.S. mórbeám, a Multicarinate, mul-ti-kar'i-nāt, adj. having many keel: mulberry)L. morus ; Gr. möron.) like ridges, as the shells of certain molluscs. Mulch, the same as Mulsh (q.v.). Multicauline, mul-ti-kaw'lin, adj. having many stems Mulct, mulkt, n. a fine: a penalty.-v.t, to fine. - Multicavous, mul-tik'a.vus, adj. having many holes adjs. Mulo'tary, Mulc'tuary, imposing a fine: paid or cavities. as a fine. (L. mulcta, a fine. ! Multicellular, mul-ti-selu-lar, adj. having many cells Mule, mūl, n. the offspring of the horse and ass: an Multicentral, mul-ti-sen'tral, adj. having many instrument for cotton-spinning : an obstinate person. centres, esp. of organic development. -ns. Müle'-deer, the black-tail of North America; Multicharge, multi-charj, adj. having, or capable of Mületeer, one who drives mules.-adj. Mül'ish, containing, several charges. like a mule: obstinate.-adu. Mūl'ishly.-n. Mül'- Multicipital, mul-ti-sip'i-tal, adj. having many heads, ishness. (A.S. mul-L. mulus, mule.) multicapitate. Muloy, mū'li, adj. hornless. — n. any cow.-Also Multicolour, multi-kul-ur, adj. having many colours Mool'y, Mulley. -also Multicoloured. -adj. Multicol'ourous, of Muliebrity, mů-li-eb'ri-ti, n. womanhood: effeminacy, many colours, parti-coloured. Page 21
per colours, upon the wall of a building. (Fr.,-L Musoadel, mus'ka-del, n. a rich, spicy wine : also the muralis, from murus, a wall.) grape producing it: a fragrant and delicious pear Muratorlan, mū-ra-to'ri-an, adj. pertaining to the also Mus'cadine, Muscat, Mus'catel – n.pl. Italian scholar Lodovico Antonio Muratori (1672- Mus'catels, sun-dried raisins. 10. Fr.,-lt. mosca1750).-Muratorian fragment or canon, a list of dello, dim. of muscato-L. muscus, musk.) the New Testament writings, apparently drawn up Muscadin, müs-ka-dang', n. a fop or dandy. (Fr.) by a contemporary of Irenæus, about 170 A. D., edited Muscardine, mus'kar-din, n. a fungus destructive to by Muratori. It counts four Gospels, Acts, thirteen silkworms, also the disease caused by it. (Fr.) Pauline epistles (excluding Hebrews), 1 John, then Muscardino, mus'kar-din, n. a dormouse. (Fr.) Jude; 2 and 3 John are reckoned among catholic Muschelkalk, mush'el-kalk, n. the middle member of epistles. The Apocalypse is included. the Triassic system as developed in Germany, conMurder, mur'der, n. the act of putting a person to sisting chiefly of limestone - wanting in Britain. death, intentionally and from malice.-9.7. to commit (Ger. muschel, shell, kalk, lime.) murder : to destroy: to put an end to.--n. Mur'. Muschetor, mus'che-tor, n. (her.) a black spot like an derer, one who murders, or is guilty of murder :- ermine spot, but without its three specks, -- Also fem. Mur'deress. — adj. Murderous, guilty of Mus'chetour. (O. Fr.,-L. musca, a fly.) murder : consisting in, or fond of, murder: bloody: Muscle, mus'l, n. an animal tissue consisting of bundles cruel.-adv. Murderously.--n. Murdress, a battle- of fibres through whose contractility bodily move. ment with interstices for firing through.-Murder in ment is effected, the fibres of the voluntary muscles the first degree, murder with deliberation and pre- being striped, those of the involuntary (of intestinal meditation, or that committed in the furtherance of canal, blood-vessels, and of skin) unstriped. --adj. any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary-in the second Mus'cled, supplied with muscles. -- ns. Mus'clodegree, murder of all other kinds; Murder will read'ing, the interpretation of slight involuntary out, murder cannot remain hidden. (A.S. morthor muscular movements; Mus'cling, the delineation of -morth, death; Ger. mord, Goth. maurthr; cf. L. muscles, as in a picture; Musoulā'tion, the ar. mors, mortis, death.) rangement of muscles of a body; Musculos’ity. Kure, mûr, n. (Shak.) a wall.-0.t. to enclose in walls : -adj. Mus'culous, pertaining to muscle: full of to immure. (Fr. mur-L, murus, a wall.] muscles, strong. (Fr.,-L. musculus, dim. of mus, Murex, mū'reks, n. a shellfish from which the Tyrian a mouse, a muscle.) purple dye was obtained :-pl. Mü'rexes, Mū'rices. Muscoid, mus'koid, adj. (bot.) moss-like.-n, a moss(L) like, flowerless plant.--ns. Muscologist, one skilled Murgeon, mur'jon, n. (Scot.) a grimace. (Cf. Fr. in muscology; Muscology, the part of botany morgue, a wry face.) which treats of mosses; Muscos'ity, mossiness. Muriatic, mū-ri-at'ik, adj. pertaining to, or obtained (L. muscus, moss, Gr. eidos, form.) írom, sea-salt. - ". Mūriate, a salt composed of Muscovado, mus-kó-vā'do, n. the moist, dark-coloured muriatic acid and a base. - adj. Muriatif'erous. impure sugar left after evaporating the juice from (L. muriaticus-muria, brine.] the sugar-cane and draining off the molasses, unMuricate, .d, mū'ri-kāt, -ed, adj. (bot.) armed with refined sugar. (Sp. moscabado.) sharp points or prickles. (L. muricatus, from murex, Muscovite, mus'co-vit, n. a native or an inhabitant of maricis, a pointed stone.) Moscow, or of Russia : the desman or Muscovitic Muriform, mū'riform, adj. (bot.) resembling the bricks rat: (min.) potash mica, a silicate of alumina and in a wall. (L. murus, a wall, forma, shape.] potash, yellowish, brownish, or greenish, with pearly Marky, murk'i, adj. dark : obscure : gloomy.-adv. or almost metallic lustre, its thin transparent plates Murkily. .-. Murk'iness-(Skak.) Murk. -adjs. still used as glass-also Muscovy glass.-adj. of or Murk'some, Mirk'some (Spens.), darksome. (A.S. pertaining to Moscow or to Russia - also Muscomure; Ice, myrkr, Dan. and Sw. mörk.) vit'ic.-^. Mus'covy-duck (see Musk). Murmur, murmur, n. a low, indistinct sound, like Muscular, mus'kū-lar, adj. pertaining to a muscle: that of running water: a complaint in a low, mutter- consisting of muscles : having strong muscles : ing voice.-v.i. to utter a murmur: to grumble :- brawny : strong : vigorous.-». Muscularity, state prof. mur'muring; pa.t. and pa.p. murmured. - of being muscular.-adv. Mus'cularly.-adjs. Musm. Mur'murer. --adj. Mur'muring, making a low culocutā'neous, muscular and cutaneous--of certain continuous poise. --adv. Murmuringly, with a low nerves; Mus'culous, sinewy.- Muscular Christi. murmuring sound : in a murmuring manner.-adj. anity, a phrase humorously applied to that vigorous Murmurous, attended with murmurs: exciting mur- combination of Christian living with devotion to mur.-adv. Murmurously. (Fr.,-L ; imit.) athletic enjoyments associated with Charles Kings. Murphy, mur'fi, n. (coll.) a potato :-Pl. Murphies ley and his admirers (the name was, however, re (-fiz) (From the common Irish name Murphy.) pudiated by him); Muscular excitability, the conMurta, mur'a, n. an ornamental stone for vases, &c., tracting property of a muscle : Muscular pile, a described by Pliny, most probably fluor-spar; it was voltaic battery employed in biological experiments ; first brought to Rome by Pompey, 61 B.C. --adjs. Muscular system, the whole of the muscular tissue Murrhine, Murr'ine, Mýrr'hine. of a body. Murrain, murrän, or o'rin, n. an infectious and fatal Muse, múz, v.i. to study in silence : to be absent. disease among cattle, esp. foot-and-mouth disease.- minded : to meditate.-n. deep thought: contempla 2. Murren (Mill.). (O. Fr. morine, a carcass- tion: absence of mind : the inspiring power, as of L. mori, to die. See Mortal.) a poet.-adj. Mused, bemused, muzzy, fuddled.Murrey, muri, adj. dark red or reddish brown, of n. Mus'er. -adv. Mus'ingly. (Fr. muser, to loiter mulberry colour. (It. musare); acc. to Diez and Skeat, from 0. Fr. Murry, same as Moray (9.v.), muse (Fr, museau), the snout of an animal. Others Murther, Murtherer = Murder, Murderer. explain Fr. muser as from Low L. mussāre-L. Musaceous, mū-za'shus, adj. relating to an order of mussare, to murmur.) plants, of which the genus Mū'sa is the type, the Muse, mūz, n. one of the nine goddesses of poetry, banana or plantain family. music, and the other liberal arts--daughters of Zeus Musang, mū-sang', n. a paradoxure, or a related civet, and Mnemosyne : an inspiring poetic inspiration : esp. the East Indian coffee-rat. (Malay.) (Milt.) an inspired poet.-Names of the Muses :Musca, mus'kä, n. a genus insects, including the Calliope, epic poetry : Clio, of history: Brato, house-fly, &c. -n. Muscatōʻrium, a Aabellum. - of amatory poetry; Buterpe, of lyric poetry : Mel. Muscæ volitantes, ocular spectra like floating pomone, of tragedy: Polyhymnia, of lyric poetry back spots before the eyes. (L. musca.) and eloquence ; Torpslobore, of dancing ; Thalla, of comedy ; Urania, of astronomy. (Fr.,-L. musa door, a hornless deer, native of Central Asia, which --Gr. mousa.) Page 22
ment of balloons in motion ; Inland navigation, the Neats-foot oil, an oil obtained from the feet of passing of boats, &c., along rivers and canals. '(L. oxen; Neat's leather, leather made of the hides navigare, -átum-navis, a ship, agere, to drive.) of neat.cattle. (A. S. neát, cattle, a beast-reotan, Navvy, nav'i, *. a labourer-originally a labourer on niótan, to use; cf. Scot. nowi, black.cattle.) a navigation or canal: a machine for digging out Neat, nét, adj. trim : tidy: clean: well-shaped : with earth, &c. --called also French navvy:-Pl. Navv'ies. out mixture or adulteration : finished, adroit, clever, (A contr. of navigator.) skilful. — adj. Neat'-hand'ed, dexterous. — adv. Navy, nā'vi, 1h a fleet of ships : the whole of the ships. Neatly.--n. Neat'ness. (Fr. net - L. nitidus, of-war of a nation : the officers and men belonging shining-nitère, to shine.) to the warships of a nation.-ns. Nå'vy-list, a list Neb, neb, n. the beak of a bird : the nose: the sharp of the officers and ships of a navy, published from point of anything. — adj. Nebb'y (Scot.), saucy. time to time; Na'vy-yard, a government dockyard. (A.S. nebb, the face; cog: with Dut. neb, beak.) (0. Fr. navie-L. navis, a ship.) Nebbuk, neb’uk, n. a shrub, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, Nawab, na-wab', n. a nabob. one of the thorns of Christ's crown. Nay, nă, adv. no: not only so, but: yet more: in Nebel, neb'el, n. a Hebrew stringed instrument. point of fact.-». a denial : a vote against.--». Nay'. Neb-neb, neb'-neb, 1. the dried pods of a species of ward (Shak.), tendency to denial: the negative side. acacia found in Africa, which are much used in (M. E. nay, nai-Ice. nei, Dan. nei; cog. with no.) Egypt for tanning-called also Bablah. Nàyword, nã' wurd, n. (Shak.) a proverbial reproach, Nebris, neb'ris, n. a fawn-skin worn in imitation of a byword, a watchword. Bacchus by his priests and votaries. Nazarene, naz'ar-ēn, n. an inhabitant of Nazareth, in Nebula, nebū-la, n. a little cloud : a faint, misty ap Galilee: a follower of Jesus of Nazareth, originally pearance in the heavens produced either by a group used of Christians in contempt: one belonging to of stars too distant to be scen singly, or by diffused the early Christian sect of the Nazarenes, which gaseous matter : - pl. Neb'ulæ. - adjs. Neb'ular, existed from the ist to the 4th cent. A.D. — Also pertaining to nebulæ : like nebulæ: Nebuló (neb Nazarē'an. (From Nasareth, the town.) ū-la'), curved in and out (her.); Neb'ulose, Neb'u. Nazarito, naz'ar-it, n. a Jew who vowed to abstain lous, misty, hazy, vague : relating to, or having the from strong drink, &c.-also Naz'irite.-». Naz'arit appearance of, a nebula.--ns. Nebulos'ity, Neb’u. ism, the vow and practice of a Nazarite. (Heb. lousness. - Nebular hypothesis, the theory of nazar, to consecrate.) Laplace and Sir W. Herschel that nebulæ form the Naze, naz, n. a headland or cape. (Scand., as in Dan. earliest stage in the formation of stars and planets. næs; a doublet of ness.) (L. ; Gr. ne phele, cloud, mist.) Nazir, na-zēr', n. a native official in an Anglo-Indian Necessary, nes’es-sar-i, adj. that must be : that cannot court who serves summonses, &c. (Ar.) be otherwise : unavoidable: indispensable : under Ne, ne, adv. not : never. (A.S. ne ; cf. Nay.) compulsion : not free.-». that which cannot be left Neaf, nēs, n. the fist-(Scor.) Neive. (M. E. nefe- out or done without (food, &c.)-used chiefly in pl.: Ice, hnef, nefi ; cf. Sw. näfve, the fisi.) a privy.-ns. Necessā'rian, one who holds the docNeal, nēl, v.t. to temper by heat.-v.i, to be tempered trine of necessity; Necessāʻrianism, the doctrine by heat. (Cf. Anneal.) that the will is not free, but subject to causes with Nealogy, ne-aľo-ji, n. the description of the morpho. out, which determine its action.-adv. Nec'essarily. logical correlations of the early adolescent stages of -n. Necessariness, the state or quality of being an animal.-adj. Nealogʻic. (Gr. neos, young, logia necessary.-Necessary truths, such as cannot but -legein, to speak.) be true. (Fr.,-L. necessarius.] Neanderthaloid, né-an'dér-tal-oid, adj. like the low Necessity, ne-ses'i-ti , ". state or quality of being type of skull found in 1857 in a cave in the Neander. necessary: that which is necessary or unavoidable : thal, a valley between Düsseldorf and Elberfeld. compulsion : great need: poverty.-ns. NecessiNeap, nép, adj. low, applied to the lowest tides. - tā'rian; Necessita'rianism, necessarianism.-v.t. h. a neap-tide : the lowest point of the tide.-adj. Necess'itāte, to make necessary: to render un. Neaped, left aground from one high tide to another. avoidable: 10 compel. - *. Necessitā'tion. - adjs. (A.S. nép, orig. hnép; Dan. knap, Ice. neppr, scanty.) Necess'itied (Shak.), in a state of want : Nocess'i. Neapolitan, nē-a-pol'i-tan, adj. pertaining to the city tous, in necessity: very poor: destitute. - adv. of Naples or its inhabitants.-n. a native or inhabí. Necess'itously. -n. Necess’itousness. - Natural tant of Naples.- Neapolitan ice, a combination of necessity, the condition of being necessary accord. two different ices. (L. Neapolitanus-Gr. Neapolis, ing to the laws of nature; Logical or Mathematical, Naples--neos, new, polis, city.) according to those of human intelligence; Moral, Near, nér, adj. nigh: not far away in place or time: according to those of moral law; Works of ne close in kin or friendship: dear : following or imitat- cessity, work so necessary as to be allowable on ing anything closely: close, narrow, so as barely to the Sabbath. (L. necessitas.) escape: short, as a road: greedy, stingy: on the Neck, nek, n. the part of an animal's body between left in riding or driving.-adv. at a little distance : the head and trunk: anything that resembles the almost: closely. - prep. close to. — v.t. and v.i. to neck: a long narrow part or corner : (fig.) life: the approach: to come nearer.-adjs. Near-by, adjacent; flesh of the neck and adjoining parts.--v.t. to break Near-band (Scot.), near--also adv. nearly.-adv. the neck or cut off the head. -- ns. Neck'atee, a Nearly, at no great distance: closely: intimately: neckerchief; Neck’-band, the part of a shirt enpressingly: almost : stingily.-n. Near'ness, the circling the neck; Neck bear'ing, that part of a state of being near: closeness : intimacy: close shaft which rotates in the bearing proper, a journal; alliance : stinginess. -adj. Near-sight'ed, seeing Neck'beef, the coarse flesh of the neck of cattle ; distinctly only when near, myopic, short-sighted. - Neck'cloth, a piece of folded cloth worn round the . Near-sightedness.-Near point, the nearest neck by men as a band or cravat, the ends hanging point the eye can focus. (A.S. neár, comp. of nesh, down often of lace.-adj. Nocked, having a neck of nigh; Ice. nær; Ger. näher.) a certain kind.-ns. Neck'erchief, a kerchief for the Nearctic, nē-ark'tik, adj. of or pertaining to the neck; Necklace, a lace or string of beads or pre northern part of the New World---embracing tem- cious stones worn on the neck by women; Neck'let, perate and arctic North America. a simple form of necklace; Néck'-mould, a small Neat, nēt, adj. belonging to the bovine genus. - moulding surrounding a column at the junction of n. black-cattle: an ox or cow.--»s. Neat'-herd, one the shaft and capital ; Neck-piece, the part of a suit who herds, or has the care of, neat or cattle ; Neat'. of armour that protects the neck : an ornamental house, a building for the shelter of neat-cattle.- frill round the neck of a gown; Nock’tio, a tic or cloth for the neck; Neck'verse, the verse (usually and pointed, like a pinnacle of rock, &c. : an acilorm Ps. li. 1) in early times placed before a prisoner crystal : a temporary support used by builders to claiming benefit-of-clergy, in order to test his ability sustain while repairing, being a strong beam resting to read, which, it he could do, he was burned in the on props : the long, narrow, needle-like leaf of a hand and set free (see Benefit). -n. Stiff'nock (see pine-tree.-v.t. 10 form into a shape like a needle, as Stiff). - Neck and crop, completely; Neck and crystals : to work with a needle. -v... to become of neck, exactly equal : side by side : Neck or nothing, the shape of needles, as crystals. --ns. Need'le-book, risking everything. – Harden the neck, to grow a number of pieces of cloth, leather, &c. arranged more obstinate ; Tread on the neck of, to oppress or like a book, for holding needles; Need'le-case, a case tyrannise over. (A.S. hnecca; Ger. nacker.j Page 23
ism inspired by the ancient : the devotion to ancient occurring in various volcanic rocks, as in certain Greek ideals in literature and art, esp. in the Italian basalts. [Gr. nepheli, a cloud.) Renaissance. Nepheloid, nef'c-loid, adj. cloudy, turbid. – S. Neo-Kantian, nē-6-kan'ti-an, adj. pertaining to the Nephelom'eter, a supposititious instrument for philosophy of Kant as taught by his successors. mcasuring cloudiness ; Neph'eloscope, an apparatus Neo-Latin, ne-7-lat'in, n. Latin as written by modern for illustrating the formation of cloud: Neph'elo writers: new Latin, as in the Romance languages sphere, an atmosphere of cloud surrounding a planet, sprung from the Latin. &c. (Gr. nepheli, cloud.) Neolite, ně’o-lit, n. a dark-green silicate of aluminium Nephew, nevū, or nef'ū, ... the son of a brother or and magnesium. (Gr. neos, new, lithos, a stone.) sister : (orig.) a grandson (so in New Test.):-fem. Noolithic, ne-o-lith'ik, adj. applied to the more recent Niece. (O. Fr. neveu-L nepos, nepotis, grandson, implements of the stone age-opp. to Palæolithic. nephew; A. S. nefa, Ger. neffe, nephew.) (Gr. neor, new, lithos, a stone.) Nephralgia, ne-fralji-a, n. pain or disease of the Neology, nē-ol'o-ji, n. the introduction of new words, or kidneys-also Nephral'gy.-ns. Neph'rite, a mineral new senses of old words, into a language : (theol.) new usually called fade, an old charm against kidney doctrines, esp. German rationalism.-n. Neolo'gian. disease ; Nephritic, a medicine for the cure of -adjs. Neologʻic, .al, pertaining to neology: using diseases of the kidneys.-adjs. Nephrit'ic, -al, pernew words.--adu. Neologʻically.-v.i. Neologiso, taining to the kidneys : affected with a disease of to introduce new words or doctrines.-ns. Neol'o- the kidneys : relieving diseases of the kidneys -15. gism, a new word, phrase, or doctrine : the use of Nephri'tis, inflammation of the kidneys; Neph'old words ip a new sense ; Neol'ogist, one who rocele, hernia of the kidney: Nephrography, a introduces new words or senses : one who introduces description of the kidneys.-adj. Neph'roid, kidney. new doctrines in theology.-adjs. Neologis'tic, -al. shaped.-ns. Nephrology, scientific knowledge of (Gr. neos, new, logos, word.). the kidneys; Nephrot'omy, the operation of excising Neonomianism, ne-o-no'mi-an-izm, n. the doctrine the kidneys. (Gr. nephros, a kidney, algos, pain.). that the gospel is a new law, and that faith has Nepotism, nep'o-tizm, n. undue favouritism to one's abrogated the old moral obedience.-n. Neonomian. relations, as in the bestowal of patronage. - adjs. (Gr. neos, new, nomos, law.) Nepot'ic, Nepõ'tious.--n. Nep'otist, one who prac Noonomous, nē-on'o-mus, adj. having a greatly modi- tises nepotism. (L, nepos, nepotis, a grandson.) fied biological structure, specialised according to Neptune, nep'tūn, n. (Rom. myth.) the god of the sea, recent conditions of environment. (Gr. neos, new, identified with the Greek Poseidon, represented with nomos, law.) a trident in his hand : (astron.) the outermost plaset Neontology, nē-on-tol'o-ji, n. the science and descrip- of the solar system, discovered in 1846. -adj. Nep tion of extant, as apart from extinct, animals.--. tū'nian, pertaining to the sea : (geol.) formed by Neontol'ogist. (Gr. neos, new, on, ontos, being, water: applied to stratified rocks or to those due logia-legein, to speak.) mainly to the agency of water, as opposed to Piuterk Noo-paganism, nē-o-pā'gan-izm, n. a revival of pagan. or Igneous.--1. Nep'tünist, one who holds the Nep ism, or its spirit--a euphemism for mere animalism. tunian theory in geology-also adj. [L. Neptukus. -v.t. Neo-pā'ganise, to imbue with this spirit. Nereid, në'rē-id, n. (Gr. myth.) a sea-nymph, one of Neophobia, nē--fo’bi-a, ". dread of novelty. (Gr. the daughters of the sea-god Nereus, who attended neos, new, phobia-phebesthai, to fear.) Neptune riding on sea-horses: (2001.) a genus of Neophron, nē'o-fron, n. a genus of vultures, having marine worms like long myriapods.-ns. Nē reis, horizontal nostrils. (Gr.,-neos, new, phren, mind.] a nereid ; Nē'rēite, a fossil annelid related to the Neophyte, nē'o-fit, ni. a new convert, one newly nereids. [L.,-Gr.] baptised or admitted to the priesthood, or to a Nerine, nē-rī nē, st. a genus of ornamental South monastery, a novice: a tyro or beginner. – adj. African plants of the Amaryllis family, with scarlet newly admitted or entered on office. --n. Nē'ophyt. or rose-coloured flowers.—The Guernsey Lily is the ism." (L. neophytus--Gr. neos, new, phytos, grown Nerine Sarniensis. - phyein, to produce.) Norite, nē'rīt, n. a gasteropod of the genus Nerita or Neoplasm, nē'o-plazm, n. a morbid new growth or the family Neritida.-adj. Neritā'cean. formation of tissue.-adj. Neoplas'tic. Nerium, nē'ri-um, n. a genus of Mediterranean shrubs Neoplatonism, nē-8-plā'to-nizm, n, a system of phil- with fragrant and showy pink, white, or yellowish osophy combining Platonic and Oriental elements, flowers, the oleander. originating with Ammonius Saccas at Alexandria in Nero, nē'ro, n. the last emperor of the family of the the 3d century, developed by Plotinus, Porphyry, Cæsars, at Rome (54-68 A.D.): any cruel and wicked Proclus, &c.-adj. Neoplaton'ic.-n. Neoplā'tonist. tyrant.-adj. Neronian. Neoteric, .al, nē-ő-ter'ik, •al, adj. of recent origin, Nero-antico, nā-rð-an-tē’ko, n. a deep-black marble modern. -v.i. Neot'erise.-. Neot'erism, the in- found in Roman ruins. (It.) troduction of new things, esp. new words. (Gr., Nerve, nėrv, n. bodily strength, firmness, courage: -neoteros, comp. of neos, new.) (anat.) one of the fibres which convey sensation from Neotio, ne-otsik, adj. addressed to the understanding. all parts of the body to the brain : (bot.) one of the Nootropical, né-o-irop'i-kal, adj. applied to the part fibres or ribs in the leaves of plants: a trade term of the New World including tropical and South for a non-porous quality of cork, slightly charred: America and the adjacent islands. (Pl.) hysterical nervousness. -v.t. to give strength Neozoic, nē-O-zo'ik, adj. denoting all rocks from the or vigour to: to arm with force.-ad). Nervial Trias down to the most recent formations, as opposed ns. Nervā'tion, the arrangement or distribution of to Palaozoic. (Gr. neos, new, 20ê, life.) nerves, esp. those of leaves; Nerve'-cell, any celi Nep, nep, 11. (prov.) a knot in a fibre of cotton. forming part of the nervous system, esp. one of those Neponthes, ne-pen'thēz, n. (med.) a drug that relieves by means of which nerve-fibres are connected with pain-also Nepen'the: a genus of plants having a each other; Nerve'-cen'tre, a collection of nerve cup or pitcher attached to the leaf, often filled with cells from which nerves branch out.- adj. Nerved, a sweetish liquid, the pitcher-plant. (Gr., -në, neg., furnished with nerves, or with nerves of a special penthos, grief.) character, as 'strong.nerved.' — . Nerve'-bre, Nephalism, nef'a-lizm, n, total abstinence from alco. one of the essential thread-like units of which a nerve holic drinks.-n. Neph'alist, a bigoted teetotaler. is composed.-adj. Nerveless, without strength (Gr. nephalios, sober; nëphein, to be sober.) n. Nervoʻlessness.-adj. Nerv'ine, acting on the Nopheline, nef'e-lin, n. a rock-forming mineral, colour. nerves : quieting nervous excitement.--. a medicine less, usually crystallising in hexagonal prisms, that soothes nervous excitement.-adjs. Nervous, having nerve: sinewy: strong, vigorous, showing forming network : a piece of network : any network strength and vigour: pertaining to the nerves : of ropes or wire, esp. for use on shipboard; Net'ting. having the nerves easily excited or weak; Nervous, need'le, a kind of shuttle used in netting. - adjs. Nervose', Nerved (bot.), having parallel fibres or Net'ty, like a net; Net'-veined, in entomology, veins.-adv. Nerv'ously: -n. Nervousness.-adj; having a great number of veins or nervures like Nerv ülar. - ns. Nerv üle, a small nerve, a small a network on the surface, as in the wings of many vein of an insect's wing-also Nervulet,' Veinlet, Orthoptera; Net-winged, having net-veined wings. Venule; Nervure, one of the nerves or veins of -- 1. Net'work, any work showing cross lines or leaves : one of the horny tubes or divisions which open spaces like the meshes of a net. (A.S. net, expand the wings of insects: one of the ribs in a nett; Dut. net, Ger. netz.) groined vault: a projecting moulding.-adj. Nerv'y, Not, Nett, net, adj. clear of all charges or deductions strong, vigorous. - Nervous system (anat.), the ---opp. to Gross: lowest, subject to no further debrain, spinal cord, and nerves collectively : the ductions.—v.t. to produce as clear profit :-pr.p. whole of the nerves and nerve-centres of the body net'ting ; pa.t. and pa.g. net'ted. (Neat.) considered as related to each other, and fitted to act Nethelesse, neth'les, adv. = Nathless. together. (Fr.-L. nervus ; Gr. neuron, a sinew.) Nether, neth'èr, adj. beneath another, lower : inferNescienco, nesh'ens, n. want of knowledge. -- adj. nal.-n. Neth'erlander, an inhabitant of Holland. Page 24
ism, the doctrine that general terms have no corre. Noggin, nog'in, n. a small mug or wooden cup, or sponding reality either in or out of the mind, being its contents, a dram suitable for one person. (Ir. mere words : Nom'inalist, one of a sect of philos. noigin, Gael. noigean.) ophers who held the doctrine of nominalism.--adj. Nogging, nogʻging, n. a partition of wooden posts Nominalist'io, pertaining to nominalism. with the spaces between filled up with bricks : brick- Nom'inally. (L. nominalis-nomen, •inis, a name.) building filling up the spaces between the wooden Nominate, nom'in-āt, v.t. to name: to mention by posts of a partition, name: to appoint: to propose by name, as for an Nobow, no how, adv. not in any way, not at all: office or for an appointment.--adv. Nom'inätely, (coll) out of one's ordinary way, out of sorts. by name.--»s. Nom'inātion, the act or power of Notance, noi'ans, n. (Shak.). Same as Annoyance. nominating : state of being nominated ; Nominā. Noils, noilz, n.pl. short pieces of wool separated from tion-game, in billiards, a game in which the player the longer fibres by combing. has to name beforehand what stroke he is lead. Noint, noint, v.t. (Shak.). Same as Anoint. ing.-adjs. Nominati'val; Nom'inātive, naming : Noise, noiz, n. sound of any kind : any over-loud (gram.) applied to the case of the subject.-». the or excessive sound, din : frequent or public talk : naming case, the case in which the subject is ex. (Shak.) report : a musical band.--v.t. io spread by pressed. -- adv. Nom'inātively. -N. Nom'inätor, rumour.--0.1. to sound loud.-adjs. Noise'ful, noisy : one who nominates. -Nominative absolute, a Noiseless, without noise : silent. — adv. Noise'. grammatical construction in which we have a sublessly.--. Noise'lessness.- Make a noise in the ject (noun or pronoun) combined with a participle, world, to attract great notoriety. [Fr. noise, but not connected with a finite verb or governed by quarrel; prob. from L. nausea, disgust; but possibly any other words, as 'All being well, I will come.' from L. noxa, hurt--nocēre, to hurt.) (L. nomináre, -atum, to namo-nomen.) Noisette, nwo-zeť, n. a variety of rose. (Fr.) Nominee, nom-in-ē', n. one who is nominated by Noisome, noi'sum, adj. injurious to health : disgusting another : one on whose life an annuity or lease to sight or smell.-adv. Noi'somely.--». Noi'some- depends : one to whom the holder of a opyhold 1088. (M. E. noy, annoyance. Cf. Annoy.) estate surrenders his interest. Nolsy, noiz'i, adj. making a loud noise or sound : Nomistic, no-mis'tik, adj. pertaining to laws founded attended with noise : clamorous : turbulent.-adv. on a sacred book. (Gr. nomos, a law.) Nois'lly.-». Nois'iness. Nomocracy, no-mok'ra-si, n. a government according Nokes, noks, n. a simpleton. to a code of laws. (Gr. nomos, law, kratia--kratein, Nolens volens, nö'lens volens, unwilling (or) willing : to rule.) willy-nilly.--. Noli-me-tangere (noʻli-me-tan'je-re), Nomogeny, nð-moj'e-ni, n. the origination of life the wild cucumber: lupus of the nose : a picture according to natural law, not miracle-opp. to showing Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalene, as Tkaumatogeny. (Gr. nonos, law, geneia-genes, in John xx.–Nollo prosequi (nol'e pros'e-kwi), a producing.) term used in English law to indicate that the Nomography, no-mog'ra-fi, n. the art of drawing up plaintiff does not intend to go on with his action. laws in proper form.-n. Nomogʻrapher, one versed (L. nolle, to be unwilling, velle, to be willing, in this art. (Gr. nomos, law, graphein, to write.) fangire, to touch, prosequi, to prosecute.) Nomology, no-molo-ji, n. the science of the laws of Noll, nol, n. the head. the mind.— adj. Nomologʻical. -n. Nomologist. Nom, nong, n. name.—Nom do plume, 'pen-name :' (Gr. nomos, law, logia, discourse-legein, to speak.) the signature assumed by an author instead of his Nomos, nom'os, n. in modern Greece, a nome. own name-not a Fr. phrase, but one of Eng. manu- Nomothetic, nom-o-thetik, adj. legislative : founded facture from Fr. nom, a name, de, of, plume, a pen. on a system of laws, or by a lawgiver. (Gr. nomo. Nomad, Nomade, nom'ad, n.' one of a tribe that thetës, a lawgiver, one of a body of heliasts or jurors wanders about in quest of game, or of pasture for in ancient Athens, charged with the decision as to their flocks. -adj. Nomad'ic, of or for the feeding of any proposed change in legislation. ) cattle : pastoral : pertaining to the life of nomads : Non, non, adv. not, a Latin word used as a prefix, as in wandering: unsettled : rude.-adv. Nomad'ically. ns. Non-ability, want of ability: Non-acceptance, --V... Nom'adise, to lead a nomadic or vagabond want of acceptance : refusal to accept ; Non-ac'cess life.--». Nom'adism, the state of being nomadic: (law), absence of opportunity for marital commerce ; habits of nomads. (Gr. nomas, nomados-nomos, Non-acquaintance, want of acquaintance; Non. pasture-nemein, to drive to pasture.] acquiescence, refusal of acquiescence; Non. Nomancy, no'man-si, n. divination from the letters in admiss'ion, refusal of admission : failure to be admitted ; Non-alionā'tion, State of not being No-man's-land, no-manz-land, r. a region to which alienated : failure to alienate; Non-appearance, no one possesses a recognised claim. failure or neglect to appear, esp. in a court of law; Nomarch, nom'ärk, n. the ruler of a Nome, or division Non-arrival, failure to arrive: Non-attend'anco, of a province, as in modern Greece. -n. Nom'archy, a failure to attend : absence ; Non-atten'tion, inat: the district governed by a nomarch. (Gr. nomos, tention ; Non'-claim, a failure to make claim within the time limited by law; Non-combatant, any Nombril, nom'bril, n. (her.) the navel-point. one connected with an army who is there for some See Nomarch. other purpose than that of fighting, as a surgeon, Nomen, no'men, n. a name, esp. of the gens or clan, &c. : à civilian in time of war.-adjs. Non-com. as Caius Julius Cæsar. (L.) miss'ioned, not having a commission, as an officer Nomenclator, no'men-klā-tor, n. one who gives names in the army below the rank of commissioned officer 10 things :-fem. Nomenclatress.-adis. Nomen. -abbrev. Non-com'. ; Non-commit'tal, unwilling to Satorial, No'monclātory, Nomenclătūral.- n. commit one's self to any particular opinion or course Nomenclature, a system of naming: a list of of conduct, free from any declared preference or names: a calling by name: the peculiar terms of a pledge.---ns. Non-commũ'nicant, one who abstains science. (L.,-nomen, a name, caláre, to call.] Nomial, no'mi-al, n. (alg.) a single name or term. from joining in holy communion, or who has not yet communicated; Non-commun'ion; Non.com. pli'ance, neglect or failure of compliance. - adj. mode of spelling-opp. to Glossic and Phonetic. Non-complying.--. Non-concurrence, refusal to Nominal, nom'in-al, adj. pertaining to a name: exist. concur.-adj. Non-conduct'ing, not conducting or transmitting : not allowing a Auid or a force to pass Page 25
words noverint universi = let all men know. [3d a nucleus within a nucleus-also Nuclė'olus :-ph pers. pl. perf. subj. of noscere, to know.) Nuclē'oli. (L.,-nux, nucis, a nut.] Novico, nov'is, n. one new in anything: a beginner : Nucule, nük'ül, n. a little nut : in Characeæ the female one newly received into the church : an inmate of a sexual organ. (L. nucula, dim. of nux, nucis, a nut.) convent or nunnery who has not yet taken the vow. Nude, nūd, adj. naked : bare: without drapery, as a -ns. Nov'iceship; Novi'ciate, Novitiate, the state statue : void, as a contract.-n. Nüdā'tion, act of of being a novice : the period of being a novice : making bare. - adv. Nūdely.- .- ns. Nüde'ness, a novice. (Fr.-L. novitius--novus, new.) Nü'dity, nakedness: want of covering: anything Novum, no'vum, n. (Shak.) a certain game at dice, in laid bare.-adjs. Nudiflorous, having the flowers which the chief throws were nine and five. destitute of hairs, glands, &c.; Nudifo lious, having Novus homo, nov'us hom'o, *. a new man: one who bare or smooth leaves: Nüdiros'trato, having the has risen from a low position to a high dignity. rostrum naked. - n.pl. Nü'dities, naked parts: Now, now, adv. at the present time : at this time or a figures divested of drapery.-The nude, the undraped little before.--conj. but: after this: things being so. human figure as a branch of art. (L. nudus, naked) --n. the present time.--advs. Nowadays, in days Nudge, nuj, n. a gentle push.--v... to push gentis. now present.-Now-now, at one time-at another (Cř. Knock, Knuckie; Dan. knuge.) time. (A.S. nú ; Ger. nun, L. nunc, Gr. nun.) Nudibranch, nū'di-brangk, n. one of an order of gas. Nowel, Noël, no'el, n. Christmas: a joyous shout or teropods having no shell, and with the gills exposed song at Christmas: a Christmas carol. (O. Fr. on the surface of the body :-Pl. Nudibranchiata. nowel, noel (mod. Fr. noël; cf. Sp. natal, It. natale) (L. nudus, naked, branchiæ, gills.) --L. natalis, belonging to one's birthday.) Nugatory, nū'ga-tor-i, adj. trifling: vain : insignifiNowhero, noʻhwār, adv. in no where or place : at no cant: of no power: ineffectual. (L. nugatori, time.-adv. Nõ'whither, not any whither : to no nuge, jokes, trifles. ) place : in no direction : nowhere. Nuggot, nug'et, n. a lump or mass, as of a metal Nowl, nowl, n. (Shak.). Same as Noul. (Prob. ingot, with the n of the article.) Nowt, nowe, n. (Scot.) cattle.--Also Nout. (Neat.) Nuisance, nū'sans, n. that which annoys or hurts : Nowy, now'i, adj. (her.) having a convex curvature that which troubles: that which is offensive.th near the middle.-Also Nowed. (O. Fr. noue-L. Nü'isancer. (Fr.,-L. nocere, to hurt.) nudatus, knotted. ) Null, nul, adj. of no legal force : void : invalid: of no Noxious, nok'shus, adj. hurtful : unwholesome : injuri- importance. ---R. something of no value or meaning, ous: destructive : poisonous.-adj. Nox'al, relating a cipher: a bead-like raised work.-v.t. to annul, to wrongful injury.-adv. Nox'iously.-n. Nox'ious- nullify.--v.i. to kink: to form nulls, or into nulls, ness. (L. norius-noxa, hurt-nocēre, to hurt.) as in a lathe.-Nulled work, woodwork turned by Noy, noi, v.t. (Spens.). Same as Annoy. means of a lathe so as to form a series of connected Noyade, nwa-yad', n. an infamous mode of drowning by knobs—for rounds of chairs, &c. (L. nullus, not means of a boat with movable bottom, practised by any, from ne, not, ullus, any.) Carrier at Nantes, 1793-94. (Fr.,-noyer, to drown.) Nullah, nul'a, n. a dry water-course. Noyanco, noi'ans, 11. Same as Annoyance. Nulla-nulla, nul’a-nuľa, n. an Australian's hard-wood Noyau, nwo-yo', n. a liqueur flavoured with kernels of club. bitter almonds or of peach-stones. (Fr., the stone of Nullifidian, nul-i-fid'i-an, adj. having no faith.-11 . a a fruit-L. nucalis, like a nut-nux, nucis, a nut.) person in such a condition. (L. nullus, none, fides, Noyous, noi'us, adj. (Spens.) serving to annoy: faith.] troublesome: hurtful. (Annoy.) Nullify, nul'i-fi, v.t. to make null: to annul: to render Noysome, noi'sum, adj. (Spens.) noisome (q.v.). void or of no force :-pr.p. null'ifying; pat, and Nozzlo, noz'l, n. a little nose : the snout : the extremity pa.p. null'ified. —ns. Nullifica'tion, a rendering void of anything : the open end of a pipe or tube, as of a or of none effect, esp. (U.S.) of a contract by one of bellows, &c. (Dim. of nose.) the parties, or of a law by one legislature which has Nuance, nū-ans”, n. a delicate degree or shade of been passed by another; Null'ifer; Null'ity, the difference perceived by any of the senses, or by the state of being null or void : nothingness : want of intellect. (Fr.,--L. nubes, a cloud.) existence, force, or efficacy. Nub, nub, v.t. (prov.) to push : beckon: hang. Nullipara, nul-lip'aóra, n. a woman who has never Nub, nub, n. a knob, knot: point, gist.-adjs. Nub'bly, given birth to a child, esp. if not a virgin. adj. full of knots; Nub'by, lumpy, dirty. Nullip'arous. Nubble, nub'l, v.t. to beat with the fist. Nullpennato, nul-i-pen'āt, adj. having no flightNubecula, nū-bek'ü-la, n. a light film on the eye: a feathers, as a penguin. cloudy appearance in urine:-pl. Nubec'ula. Nullipore, nul'i-por, n. a small coral-like seaweed. Nubiferous, nü-bif'e-rus, adj. bringing clouds.-adjs. adj. Null'iporous. Nübig'enous, produced by clouds; Nü'bllous, Numb, num, adj. deprived of sensation or motion : cloudy, overcast--(obs.) Nü'bllose. powerless to feel or act: stupefied : motionless : Nubile, nū bil, adj. marriageable.-n. Nubil'ity. [L. (Shak.) causing numbness. -v.t. to make numb: nubilis-nuběre, to veil one's self, hence to marry.) to deaden: to render motionless :-pr.p. numbing Nucellus, nū-sel'us, n. the nucleus of the ovule. (num'ing); pa.. numbed (numd). --adj. Numb. Nuchal, nūʻkal, adj. pertaining to the Nü'cha or cold (Shak.), numbed with cold : causing numbness. na pe. --n. Numb'ness, state of being numb: condition of Nuciform, nūs'i-form, adj. nut-shaped.--adj. Nucif'er- living body in which it has lost the power of feeling: ous, nut-bearing. (L. nux, nucis, nut, forma, form.) torpor. (A.S. numen, pa p. of niman, to take ; so Nuotfraga, nū-sif'ra-ga, n. a genus of corvine birds, Ice. numinn, bereft. ) between crows and jays, the nutcrackers. Number, num'bêr, n. that by which things are counted Nucleus, nū’klē-us, n. the central mass round which or computed: a collection of things: more than matter gathers : (astron.) the head of a comet :-pl. one : a unit in counting: a numerical figure: the Nuclei (nūʻkle-i).-adjs. Nü'cleal, Nü'clear, per- measure of multiplicity: sounds distributed into taining to a nucleus.-v.t. Nü'cléāte, to gather into harmonies : metre, verse, esp. in pl.: (gram.) the or around a nucleus.-adjs. Nü'clēate, d, having a difference in words to express singular or plural: nucleus; Nü'clõiform.-Ns. Nü'clõin, a colourless (pl.) the fourth book of the Old Testament.--v.t. amorphous proteid, a constituent of cell-nuclei ; Nū’. to count: to reckon as one of a multitude : to mark cleobranch, one of an order of molluscs which have with a number : amount to.-n. Num'berer.the gills packed in the shell along with the heart :- adj. Num'berless, without number: more than can be Ph. Nucleobranchiā’ta ; Nū'cléole, a little nucleus : counted. —ns. Numerabil'ity, Nü'merableness.adj. Nūʻmerable, that may be numbered or counted. Nuphar, nūsfär, n. a genus of yellow water-lilies, the -adv. Nü'merably.-adj. Nü'moral, pertaining to, Nymphaa. consisting of, or expressing number. -n. a figure or Nuptial, nup'shal, adj. pertaining to marriage : conmark used to express a number, as 1, 2, 3, &c.: (gram.) stituting marriage. — n.pl. Nup'tials, marriage : a word used to denote a number.-adv. Nü'mer. wedding ceremony. (Fr.,-L. nuptialis-nuptiæ, ally, according to number.-adj. Nú'merary, be- marriage-nuběre, nuptum, to marry.] longing to a certain number : contained within or Page 26
ns. Ob'servátor, one who (with to, 'unto). (L. obtemperare.) observes : a remarker; Observatory, a place for Obtend, ob-tend', v. t. (obs.) to oppose : to allege. (L. making astronomical and physical observations, obtenděre, to stretch before. ) usually placed in some high and stable place; Obtest, ob-test', v.t. to call upon, as a witness : to beg Observ'er. - adj. Observ'ing, habitually taking for.-V.1. to protest.--1. Obtestā'tion, act of calling notice: attentive. -adv. Observingly. (Fr.,-L. to witness: a supplication. (L. obtestari, to call as observäre, -atum-ob, before, serväre, to keep.) a witness--ob, belore, testis, a witness.) Obsession, ob-sesh'un, n. persistent attack, esp. of Obtrude, ob-trood', v.t. to thrust in upon when not an evil spirit upon a person : the state of being wanted: to urge upon against the will of.-.i. to. so molested from without-opp: to Possession, or thrust one's sell or be thrust upon.-- ns. Obtrud'er; control by an evil spirit from within. (L. obsession. Obtrud'ing, Obtru'sion, a thrusting in or upon em-obsidère, to besiege.) against the will of.-adj. Obtrus'ivo, disposed to Obsidian, ob-sid'i-an, h. a natural glass-the vitreous thrust one's self among others. --adv. Obtrus'ively. condition of an acid lava. (From Obsidius, who, -n. Obtrus’iveness. (L. obtrudère --ob, before, according to Pliny, discovered it in Ethiopia.) trudére, trusum, to thrust.) Obsidional, ob-sid'í-0-nal, adj. pertaining to a siege. Obtruncato, ob-trung'kāt, v. t. to cut or lop off. (L. Also Obsid'ionary. obtruncăre, -ātum-ob, before, truncare, cut off.] Obsignate, ob-sig'nāt, v.t, to seal, confirm.-». Ob- Obtund, ob-tund', v.t. to dull or blunt, to deaden. signā'tion. adj. Obtund'ent, dulling.--». an oily mucilage for Obsolescent, ob-so-les'ent, adj. going out of use. ---n. sores: an application to deaden the nerve of a cooth. Obsolescence.-adj. Ob'soleto, gone out of use : (L. obtundére, to strike upon.) antiquated : (2001.) obscure : not clearly marked or Obturate, ob'tū-rāt, v.t. to close or stop up.-ns. developed : rudimental. --adv. Ob'soletely.-ns. Ob': Obturā'tion, the act of stopping up, esp. in gunnery, soleteness ; Obsolè'tion (rare); Ob'soletism. (L. of a hole to prevent the escape of gas: Ob’tūrātor, ebsolescens, -entis, pr.p. of obsolescăre, obsoletum- that which stops or closes up, as a device of this. có, before, solère, to be wont.] kind in gunnery, &c. : in surgery, an artificial plate Obstaclo, ob'sta-kl, n. anything that stands in the way for closing an abnormal aperture or fissure, as with of or hinders progress : obstruction.-Obstacle race, cleft palate, &c., or for distending an opening, as in a race in which obstacles have to be surmounted lithotomy: any structure that shuts off a cavity or or circumvented. (Fr.,-L. obstaculum-ob, in the passage, esp. in anatomy, the membrane vessels, &c., way of, stāre, to stand.) closing the obturator foramen, or thyroid foramen, Obstétric, .al, ob-stet'rik, al, adj. pertaining to a large opening or fenestra in the anterior part of the midwifery.-ns. Obstetrician, one skilled in obstet. hip-bone. [L. obturare, -ätum, to stop up.) rics ; Obstetrics, the science of midwifery, or the Obturbinate, ob-tur'bi-nāt, adj. inversely top-shaped. delivery of women in childbed : Obstetrix, a mid- Obtuse, ob-tüs', adj. blunt : not pointed: (bot.) blunt wife. (L. obstetricius-oöstetrix, -icis, a midwife- or rounded at the point, as a leaf: stupid : not shrill: có, before, stāre, to stand.) (geom.) greater than a right angle.-adjs. Obtuse'Obstinate, ob'sti-nāt, adj. blindly or excessively firm: angled, obtuse'.ang'ular, having an angle greater unyielding: stubborn: not easily subdued or reme. than a right angle.-adv. Obtuso’ly.-ns. Obtuse'. died. - ns. Obʼstinacy, Ob'stinateness, the con. ness, Obtus’ity. (Fr.,-L. obtusus-obtunděre, to dition of being obstinate : of firmness : blunt-ob, against, tundire, to beat.) stubbornness : fixedness that yields with difficulty, Obumbrato, ob-um'brāt, v.t. to overshadow, to darken. as a disease.-adv. Obstinately. (L. obstinare, -adj. lying under some projecting part, as the abdtum-ob, in the way of, stäre, to stand.) domen of certain spiders. -adj. Obum'brant, overObstipation, ob-sti.pa'shun, n. extreme costiveness. hanging. (L. obumbrare, -atum, to overshadow.) Obstroperous, ob-strep'er-us, adj. making a loud Obvallate, ob-val'át, adj. walled up. (L. obvallare, noise : clamorous : noisy. -v.i. Obstrep'erāto -ātum, to wall round.) (Sterne).-adv. Obstrop'orously.--n. Obstrop'er- Obvelation, ob-vê-la'shun, n. concealment. OUSNOBS. (L. obstreperus-ob, before, strepăre, to Obvention, ob-ven'shun, n. (obs.) any incidental make a noise.) occurrence, or advantage, esp. an offering. Obstriction, ob-strik'shun, . *. obligation. [L. 06- Obverse, ob-vers', adj. turned towards one : bearing stringére, obstrictum, to bind up.) the head, as one face of a coin-opp. to Reverse : a Obstropulous, ob-strop'u-lus, adj. a vulgar form of second or complemental aspect of the same fact, a ebstreperous. correlative proposition identically, implying another : Obstruct, ob-strukt, v.t. to block up, to hinder from (bot.) having the base narrower than the top.-n. passing, to retard. --ns. Obstruc'ter, Obstructor, Ob'verse, the side of a coin containing the head, or one who obstructs; Obstruc'tion, act of obstructing: principal symbol.-adv. Obverse'ly.-- ». Obversion, that which hinders progress or action: opposition, the act of turning toward the front of anything : in esp: in a legislative assembly; Obstruc'tionist.- logic, a species of immediate inference-viz. the adj. Obstruot'ive, tending to obstruct: hindering. predicating of the original subject, the contradictory M. one who opposes progress.-adv. Obstruct'. of the original predicate, and changing the quality Ively.-adj. Obʻstruent, obstructing: blocking up. of the proposition--e.g. to infer from all A is B that . (med.) anything that obstructs, esp. in the no A is not B-also called Permutation and Equipassages of the body. (L. obstruere, obstructum- pollence.-v.t. Obvert', to turn towards the front. ob, in the way of, struěre, structum, to pile up.) (L. obversus-ob, towards, vertěre, to turn.) Obtala, ob-tān', v.t. to lay hold of: to hold: to pro- Obviate, ob'vi-āt, v. t. to meet on the way, hence to cure by effort: to gain : to keep possession of.-v.i. remove, as difficulties. (L. obviäre, ätum-ob, in to be established: to continue in use : to become the way of, viäre, viätum, to go-via, a way.) customary or prevalent: to hold good : (rare) to Obvious, ob'vi-us, adj. meeting one in the way: easily succeed.-adj. 'Obtain'able, that may be obtained, discovered or understood : evident. - adv. Ob'vi. procured, or acquired. -ns. Obtain'er ; Obtain: ously.-n. Ob'viousness. (L. obvius.) ment; Obten'tion, procurement. Obtain to Obvolute, -d, ob'vo-lūt, •ed, adj. rolled or turned in, as (Bacon), to attain to. (Fr.,-L. obtinere-ob, upon, two leaves in a bud, one edge of each out and the tenire, to hold.) other in, in the poppy.-adj. Obvol'vent, curved Obtected, ob-tek'ted, adj. covered, protected by a downward or inward. (L. obvolutus-ob,' before, chitonous case, as the pupæ of most flies. (L. volvěre, volutum, to roll.] obtegore, obtectum, to cover over.) Ocarina, ok-a-rē'na, n. a kind of musical instrument |
