(n.) The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.

(n.) The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter.

(n.) A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym.

(n.) Something to be done; in the pl., a memorandum book.

(n.) A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.]

(n.) The perpendicular from the center to one of the sides of a regular polygon.

(n.) A deposit formed in a liquid extract of a vegetable substance by exposure to the air.

(n.) A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.

(n.) A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it.

(n.) Devotion to a sect.

(n.) Positivism; the positive philosophy. See Positivism.

(n.) A genus of grasses, including several hundred species, some of which are valuable; panic grass.

(n.) The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.

(n.) Privileges; franchises; immunities.

(n.) Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will.

(n.) Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom.

(n.) Frankness; openness; unreservedness.

(n.) Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license.

(n.) Generosity; liberality.

(n.) Egoism.

(v. t. & i.) To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment; "The field is won!" he exclaimed.

(n.) Outcry; clamor.

(n.) The practice of too frequently using the word I; hence, a speaking or writing overmuch of one's self; self-exaltation; self-praise; the act or practice of magnifying one's self or parading one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of egoism.

(n.) A rare metallic element of uncertain properties and identity, said to have been found in the mineral gadolinite.

(n. pl.) A mysterious part or decoration of the breastplate of the Jewish high priest. See the note under Urim.

(n.) The principles and conduct of a fogy.

(n.) The state of an heir; succession by inheritance.

(n.) The back or upper surface, as of a bird.

(n.) The bag or pouch which contains the testicles; the cod.

(n.) A miraculously given power, as of healing, speaking foreign languages without instruction, etc., attributed to some of the early Christians.

(n.) The force exerted between the atoms of elementary substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical attaction; affinity; -- sometimes used as a general expression for chemical activity or relationship.

(n.) Mellow earth; mold.

(n.) A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine.

(n.) Any scheme or device proposed by a quack.

(n.) The means of nutriment to animals or plants; food; nourishment; hence, that which feeds or sustains, as fuel for a fire; that upon which the mind or soul is nourished; as, intellectual pabulum.

(n.) An ovary. See Ovary.

(n.) Definition; logical direction.

(n.) A genus of plants comprehending the potato (S. tuberosum), the eggplant (S. melongena, and several hundred other species; nightshade.

(n.) The technical name of tin. See Tin.

(n.) The doctrine or mode of reasoning practiced by a sophist; hence, any fallacy designed to deceive.

(n.) The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy.

(n.) A fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers.

(n.) Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.

(v. t.) To anagrammatize.

(n.) Genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another.

(n.) The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form.

(n.) The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two.

(v. i.) The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.

(n.) The disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being.

(n.) Godlessness.

(n.) The doctrine of atoms. See Atomic philosophy, under Atomic.

(n.) The system of bards; the learning and maxims of bards.

(n.) A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.

(n.) See Bertram.

(n.) One of the special zooids, or cells, of Bryozoa, destined to receive and develop ova; an ovicell. See Bryozoa.

(a.) Wing-shaped; winglike.

(n.) An Arabic idiom peculiarly of language.

(n.) The name of another person assumed by the author of a work.

(n.) A work published under the name of some one other than the author.

(n.) Quantity; amount.

(n.) A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary.

(n.) A secret; a mystery; -- generally used in the plural.

(n.) A secret remedy; an elixir.

(n.) Anything forfeited or confiscated.

(n.) A genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet-scented flowers.

(n.) An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc.

(n.) A mixture or compound of different things.

(n.) A native compound of mercury and silver.

(v. t. / i.) To amalgamate.

(n.) Same as Ament.

(n.) See Cinchonism.

(a.) Having been formerly; former; sometime.

(n.) A person dismissed or ejected from a position.

(n.) Any American marsupial of the genera Didelphys and Chironectes. The common species of the United States is Didelphys Virginiana.

(v. i.) To be lustful; to be lascivious.

(a.) Lascivious; also, in heat; -- said of ewes.

(n.) The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.

(n.) A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.

(n.) The color of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; -- otherwise called peach color.

(n.) To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower.

(n.) To flourish and prosper.

(v. t.) To charm; to captivate.

(n.) Worship of Baal; idolatry.

(n.) A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.

(n.) Room in a bed.

(n.) The state of being a baby.

(n.) A babyish manner of acting or speaking.

(n.) One of several lepidopterous insects which construct, in the larval state, a baglike case which they carry about for protection. One species (Platoeceticus Gloveri) feeds on the orange tree. See Basket worm.

(n.) See Cerberus.

(n.) See Bailey.

(v. t. & i.) To give a new form to; to form anew; to take form again, or to take a new form; as, to re-form the line after a charge.

(n.) A private room or apartment.

(n.) A comparatively rare element related to zinc, and occurring in some zinc ores. It is a white metal, both ductile and malleable. Symbol Cd. Atomic weight 111.8. It was discovered by Stromeyer in 1817, who named it from its association with zinc or zinc ore.

(n.) A rare alkaline metal found in mineral water; -- so called from the two characteristic blue lines in its spectrum. It was the first element discovered by spectrum analysis, and is the most strongly basic and electro-positive substance known. Symbol Cs. Atomic weight 132.6.

(n.) An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is a member of the alkaline earth group of elements. Atomic weight 40. Symbol Ca.

(n.) See Sabianism.

(n.) A series of formative cells lying outside of the wood proper and inside of the inner bark. The growth of new wood takes place in the cambium, which is very soft.

(n.) A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to originate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase.

(n.) A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass (see Johnson grass), and S. vulgare, the Indian millet (see Indian millet, under Indian).

(n.) A variety of Sorghum vulgare, grown for its saccharine juice; the Chinese sugar cane.

(n.) Pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum).

(v. t.) To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.

(v. i. & t.) To storm.

(n.) Same as Peonage.

(n.) The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.

(n.) The realm of bores; bores, collectively.

(n.) The rule or practices of bosses, esp. political bosses.

(n.) One of numerous minute rodlike structures formed of two or more cells situated behind the retinulae in the compound eyes of insects, etc. See Illust. under Ommatidium.

(n.) A rare element of the light platinum group. It is found in platinum ores, and obtained free as a white inert metal which it is very difficult to fuse. Symbol Rh. Atomic weight 104.1. Specific gravity 12.

(n.) Ranterism.

(v. t.) To discharge; to fulfill; to act up to; as, to perform a duty; to perform a promise or a vow.

(v. t.) To represent; to act; to play; as in drama.

(v. i.) To do, execute, or accomplish something; to acquit one's self in any business; esp., to represent sometimes by action; to act a part; to play on a musical instrument; as, the players perform poorly; the musician performs on the organ.

(v. t.) To foredoom.

(n.) A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness.

(n.) Hundredth.

(n.) The body, or axis, of a vertebra. See Vertebra.

(n.) The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.

(n.) A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.

(n.) A plant. See Ramson.

(a.) Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit.

(a.) Stiff; precise.

(v. t.) To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.

(n.) A vacation between two terms of a court.

(n.) Self-pollution; masturbation.

(n.) The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoon in impregnation.

(n.) See Halidom.

(n.) A rare element said to be contained in gadolinite.

(n.) See Tam-tam.

(n.) A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear.

(n.) Alt. of Grogran

(n.) A glance of the eye.

(n.) A kind of drum used in the East Indies and other Oriental countries; -- called also tom-tom.

(n.) A gong. See Gong, n., 1.

(n.) A Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces, as shown in the cut, these pieces being capable of combination in various ways, so as to form a great number of different figures. It is now often used in primary schools as a means of instruction.

(n.) A whim, or burst of ill-humor; an affected air.

(n.) An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid.

(n.) A hunter's name for the grizzly bear.

(n.) The epidermis.

(n.) See Perigee.

(n.) A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character.

(n.) An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose.

(n.) The style of the epigram.

(n.) A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively.

(n.) A bed or layer artificially made; a course.

(n.) Any external topical application to the body, except ointments and plasters, as a poultice, lotion, etc.

(n.) State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction

(n.) A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit.

(n.) A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil.

(n.) The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate.

(n.) The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other.

(n.) An error or mistake in writing or printing.

(n.) The territory of a duke.

(n.) The title or dignity of a duke.

(n.) Concentration of one's interests on one's self; self-love; selfishness.

(v. t.) To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

(v. t.) To strengthen in judgment or purpose.

(v. t.) To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.

(v. t.) To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty.

(v. t.) To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.

(a.) Of the same form; similar in import; conformable.

(v. t.) To shape in accordance with; to make like; to bring into harmony or agreement with; -- usually with to or unto.

(v. i.) To be in accord or harmony; to comply; to be obedient; to submit; -- with to or with.

(v. i.) To comply with the usages of the Established Church; to be a conformist.

(n.) The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull.

(n.) Same as Sensualism, 2 & 3.

(n.) As opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle).

(n.) As opposed to idealism, the doctrine that in sense perception there is an immediate cognition of the external object, and our knowledge of it is not mediate and representative.

(n.) Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact.

(v. i.) To bloom again.

(n.) The beak or head of a ship.

(n.) The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators.

(n.) Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.

(n.) Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.

(n.) The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.

(n.) The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.

(n.) The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.

(n.) Same as Rostellum.

(n.) The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.

(n.) A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.

(n.) A mass said or sung for the repose of a departed soul.

(n.) Any grand musical composition, performed in honor of a deceased person.

(n.) Rest; quiet; peace.

(n.) Alt. of Ogrism

(n.) The worship of Siva.

(n.) A sacred place; hence, a place of retreat; a room reserved for personal use; as, an editor's sanctum.

(n.) See Clinanthium.

(n.) A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest.

(n.) A free fold of the peritoneum, or one serving to connect viscera, support blood vessels, etc.; an epiploon.

(n.) The state or condition of a serf.

(n.) Serfage.

(n.) A Cretan practice; lying; a falsehood.

(n.) That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts.

(v. t.) To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.

(v. t.) To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.

(v. t.) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.

(v. t.) To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under discipline; -- said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also of other animals.

(v. t.) Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc.

(v. t.) To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.

(v. t.) To correct; to reform; -- said of things.

(v. t.) To exclaim against; to gainsay.

(v. i.) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.

(v. i.) To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.

(v. i.) To draw back; to give way.

(n.) The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.

(v. t.) To free from a charm; to disenchant.

(v. i.) To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week.

(v. i.) To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.

(v. t.) To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner.

(v. t.) To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly.

(n.) Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable.

(v. t.) To applaud.

(v. t.) To declare by acclamations.

(v. t.) To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.

(v. i.) To shout applause.

(n.) Acclamation.

(n.) Removed scum; refuse; dross.

(n.) A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. It was equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces, or to 606 feet 9 inches English. This was also called the Olympic stadium, as being the exact length of the foot-race course at Olympia.

(n.) Hence, a race course; especially, the Olympic course for foot races.

(n.) A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends; especially (Surveying), a graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope; -- also called stadia, and stadia rod.

(n.) The pronunciation of the Greek / (eta) like the Italian e long, that is like a in the English word ate. See Itacism.

(n.) The tympanum. See Illust. of Ear.

(n.) A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow.

(n.) The principles of the Tories.

(n.) See Muscle curve, under Muscle.

(n.) The millionth part of an ohm.

(n.) Any intestinal worm found in the stomach, esp. the common round worm (Ascaris lumbricoides), and allied species.

(n.) One of the larvae of botflies of horses; a bot.

(n.) The greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case; or, the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to decrease; the highest point or degree; -- opposed to minimum.

(a.) Greatest in quantity or highest in degree attainable or attained; as, a maximum consumption of fuel; maximum pressure; maximum heat.

(n.) The ventral and posterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; seat bone; the huckle bone.

(n.) One of the pleurae of insects.

(n.) Pronunciation of / (eta) as the modern Greeks pronounce it, that is, like e in the English word be. This was the pronunciation advocated by Reu/hlin and his followers, in opposition to the etacism of Erasmus. See Etacism.

(n.) The heterodox Hindoo religion, of which the most striking features are the exaltation of saints or holy mortals, called jins, above the ordinary Hindoo gods, and the denial of the divine origin and infallibility of the Vedas. It is intermediate between Brahmanism and Buddhism, having some things in common with each.

(v. i. & i.) To rise, or cause to rise, in a swarm or swarms.

(n.) An element of the chromium group, found in certain rare minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard, nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting. Symbol U. Atomic weight 239.

(n.) The middle division of the small intestine, between the duodenum and ileum; -- so called because usually found empty after death.

(n.) That which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; -- opposed to truism.

() An instrument consisting of a thin metal frame, through which passed a number of metal rods, and furnished with a handle by which it was shaken and made to rattle. It was peculiarly Egyptian, and used especially in the worship of Isis. It is still used in Nubia.

(n.) See Earthworm.

(n.) A scoundrel.

(n.) A complete course or vibration; time of vibration, as of a pendulum.

(n.) A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan.

(n.) Any simple drawing made for mathematical or scientific purposes, or to assist a verbal explanation which refers to it; a mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one.

(v. t.) To put into the form of a diagram.

(n.) Powdered aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together.

(n.) Intervening space; interval.

(n.) An interval.

(n.) The common feeling and interest of the Slavonic race.

(a.) Irregular in form; -- opposed to uniform; anomalous; hence, unlike; dissimilar; as, to difform corolla, the parts of which do not correspond in size or proportion; difform leaves.

(n) Self-importance; loftiness of carriage.

(v. t.) To make gloomy.

(n.) A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion.

(n.) One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; -- called also transsummer.

(n.) The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.

(n.) The vane of a cross-staff.

(n.) One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.

(n.) Same as Phantasm.

(v. t.) To deprive of the helmet.

(n.) A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.

(n.) The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.

(n.) The technical name of antimony.

(n.) Stibnite.

(adv.) Sparsely; scatteredly; here and there.

(v. i.) To contract a rheum.

(n.) A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvae of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.

(n.) A genus of marine univalve shells; the gondola.

(a.) Godlike, or of a godlike form.

(a.) Conformable to the will of God.

(n.) The edible fruit of a West Indian plant (Sechium edule) of the Gourd family. It is soft, pear-shaped, and about four inches long, and contains a single large seed. The root of the plant resembles a yam, and is used for food.

(n.) Alt. of Shittim wood

(n.) A later name of columbium. See Columbium.

(v. t.) To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom.

(v. t.) To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter.

(n.) Alt. of Elogy

(n.) The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each other.

(n.) One of the drums of the shaft of a column.

(n.) A dwelling place assigned to happy souls after death; the seat of future happiness; Paradise.

(n.) Hence, any delightful place.

(n.) One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair.

(n.) One of the shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids. See Chaetopoda.

(n.) A prop or support.

(n.) That by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns in lifting or moving a body.

(n.) An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like.

(n.) The horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain insects.

(n.) One of the small, spiniform scales found on the front edge of the dorsal and caudal fins of many ganoid fishes.

(n.) The connective tissue supporting the framework of the retina of the eye.

(v. t.) To emblossom.

(v. t.) To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster.

(v. t.) To inclose or surround; to shelter closely; to place in the midst of something.

(a.) Shaped like a needle.

(n.) A rare metallic element, found in certain zinc ores. It is white, hard, and malleable, resembling aluminium, and remarcable for its low melting point (86/ F., 30/C). Symbol Ga. Atomic weight 69.9.

(n.) A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints.

(n.) A little; a small quantity; a measured simply.

(n.) See Wigwam.

(n.) The jurisdiction of an earl; the territorial possessions of an earl.

(n.) The status, title, or dignity of an earl.

(n.) Alt. of Frenum

(a.) Having a triple form or character.

(n.) Same as Trigraph.

(n.) Stupration.

(n.) A hypothetical component of a chemical atom, on the theory that the elements themselves are complex substances; -- called also atomicule.

(n.) The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence.

(n.) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.

(n.) Selfishness; egoism.

(n.) The formation of a figure, representation, or semblance; a delineation or description.

(n.) The worship of idols.

(a.) Having always the same form, manner, or degree; not varying or variable; unchanging; consistent; equable; homogenous; as, the dress of the Asiatics has been uniform from early ages; the temperature is uniform; a stratum of uniform clay.

(a.) Of the same form with others; agreeing with each other; conforming to one rule or mode; consonant.

(a.) A dress of a particular style or fashion worn by persons in the same service or order by means of which they have a distinctive appearance; as, the uniform of the artillery, of the police, of the Freemasons, etc.

(v. t.) To clothe with a uniform; as, to uniform a company of soldiers.

(v. t.) To make conformable.

(n.) Irishism.

(n.) A rare metallic element, of the same group as platinum, which it much resembles, being silver-white, but harder, and brittle, and indifferent to most corrosive agents. With the exception of osmium, it is the heaviest substance known, its specific gravity being 22.4. Symbol Ir. Atomic weight 192.5.

(v. t.) To hold in the bosom; to cherish in the heart or affection; to embosom.

(v. t.) To inclose or place in the midst of; to surround or shelter; as, a house imbosomed in a grove.

(a.) Having the form or figure of an egg; egg-shaped; as, an oviform leaf.

(n.) The religious doctrines and rites of the Jews as enjoined in the laws of Moses.

(n.) Conformity to the Jewish rites and ceremonies.

(v. t.) To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need.

(n.) That part of the arm or fore limb between the elbow and wrist; the antibrachium.

(n.) The qualities characteristic of a hero, as courage, bravery, fortitude, unselfishness, etc.; the display of such qualities.

(n.) A room where liquors are kept on tap; a barroom.

(n.) Holiness; sanctity; sacred oath; sacred things; sanctuary; -- used chiefly in oaths.

(n.) Holy doom; the Last Day.

(n.) See Unciform.

(n.) A rare metallic element, of uncertain identification, supposed to exist in certain minerals, as gadolinite and samarskite, with other rare ytterbium earth. Symbol Tr or Tb. Atomic weight 150.

(n.) The philosophical system of Thomas Hobbes, an English materialist (1588-1679); esp., his political theory that the most perfect form of civil government is an absolute monarchy with despotic control over everything relating to law, morals, and religion.

(n.) A rare metallic element of the boron-aluminium group, found in gadolinite and other rare minerals, and extracted as a dark gray powder. Symbol Y. Atomic weight, 89.

(n.) Alt. of Zabism

(n.) State or character of a zany; buffoonery.

(n.) Resemblance to Zoilus in style or manner; carping criticism; detraction.

(n.) One who, or that which, feeds on or destroys wit.

(n.) Same as Wolframite.

(n.) A point.

(n.) A perfumed unguent or composition, chiefly used in dressing the hair; pomade.

(v. t.) To dress with pomatum.

(n.) The principle or practice of the Pietists.

(n.) Strict devotion; also, affectation of devotion.

(n.) A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.

(n.) One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages.

(v. i.) To journey; to wander; to ramble.

(n.) The place, office, or dignity of the pope; papal dignity.

(n.) The jurisdiction of the pope.

(n.) A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a question involving doubt.

(n.) Anything which is required to be done; as, in geometry, to bisect a line, to draw a perpendicular; or, in algebra, to find an unknown quantity.

(n.) The European blue titmouse.

(n.) A plantation of pine trees; esp., a collection of living pine trees made for ornamental or scientific purposes.

(n.) A beam or ray of the sun.

(n.) A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain quite soft in a wooden mortar.

(n.) A mode of speech peculiar to the Turks; a Turkish idiom or expression; also, in general, a Turkish mode or custom.

(n.) Same as Turcism.

(n.) An old woman; specifically, a grandmother.

(n.) A grandam.

(n.) Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms exhibited.

(n.) A sign or token; that which indicates the existence of something else; as, corruption in elections is a symptom of the decay of public virtue.

(n.) One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be used interchangeably. See under Synonymous.

(n.) A Syrian idiom; a Syrianism; a Syriacism.

(n.) An idiom of the Greek language; a Hellenism.

(a.) Monotonous; dull; commonplace.

(n.) A dull fellow; a bore.

(n.) Monotonous and tedious routine.

(n.) A low cart with three wheels, drawn by one horse.

(v. t.) To disclose freely; to reveal in confidence, as secrets; to confess; -- often used reflexively; as, to unbosom one's self.

(a.) Disobedient.

(n.) The meantime; time intervening; interval between events, etc.

(n.) A name given to each of three compromises made by the emperor Charles V. of Germany for the sake of harmonizing the connecting opinions of Protestants and Catholics.

(v. t.) To release from a charm, fascination, or secret power; to disenchant.

(n.) A small nematoid worm (Oxyurus vermicularis), which is parasitic chiefly in the rectum of man. It is most common in children and aged persons.

(n.) A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.

(n.) Nerve force. See Vital force, under Vital.

(n.) A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.

(n.) The lugworm.

(n.) A large marine annelid (Arenicola marina) having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back. It is found burrowing in sandy beaches, both in America and Europe, and is used for bait by European fishermen. Called also lobworm, and baitworm.

(n.) Same as Programme.

(n.) A lustration or purification, especially the purification of the whole Roman people, which was made by the censors once in five years. Hence: A period of five years.

(n.) Peerage; also, a lordship.

(n.) That which is considered and established as a principle; hence, sometimes, a rule.

(n.) A statement of a principle to be demonstrated.

(v. t.) To formulate into a theorem.

(n.) Alt. of Thomaism

(n.) A metallic element found in certain rare minerals, as thorite, pyrochlore, monazite, etc., and isolated as an infusible gray metallic powder which burns in the air and forms thoria; -- formerly called also thorinum. Symbol Th. Atomic weight 232.0.

(n.) An apartment on the after end of the lower gun deck of a ship of war, usually occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers, except the captain; -- called wardroom in the United States navy.

(n.) Alt. of Flotson

(n.) The technical name for sodium.

(n.) An organ or instrument; hence, a method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted; -- a term adopted from the Aristotelian writers by Lord Bacon, as the title ("Novum Organon") of part of his treatise on philosophical method.

(a.) The portion of movable estate to which the children are entitled upon the death of the father.

(n.) A mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity, by gymnastics; -- proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See Kinesiatrics.

(n.) An attracting of attention, as a lion; also, the treating or regarding as a lion.

(n.) A metallic element of the alkaline group, occurring in several minerals, as petalite, spodumene, lepidolite, triphylite, etc., and otherwise widely disseminated, though in small quantities.

(n.) A kind of linen cloth anciently used in England, originally imported from Brittany.

(n.) Same as Oscule.

(n.) An extinct genus of huge vertebrates, probably dinosaurs, known only from four-toed tracks in Triassic sandstones.

(n.) External appearance.

(n.) A sum or quantity over; surplus.

(n.) Manstealing; kidnaping.

(n.) A modified form of Buddhism which prevails in Thibet, Mongolia, and some adjacent parts of Asia; -- so called from the name of its priests. See 2d Lama.

(n.) A gum resin gathered from certain Oriental species of Cistus. It has a pungent odor and is chiefly used in making plasters, and for fumigation.

(n.) The standard adopted by the Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of the first two letters (CHR) of the name of Christ in its Greek form. Later, the name was given to various modifications of this standard.

(n.) Attachment to the system or doctrines of Moses; that which is peculiar to the Mosaic system or doctrines.

(n.) The least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible, in a given case; hence, a thing of small consequence; -- opposed to maximum.

(n.) The lower throat, or that part of the neck just above the breast.

(v. t.) To misjudge.

(v. t.) To make in an ill form.

(v. i.) To make a false appearance.

(v. i.) To misbecome; to be misbecoming.

(v. t.) To call by a wrong name; to miscall.

(n.) A paronymous word.

(n.) A Persian idiom.

(n.) The technical name of lead. See Lead.

(v. t.) To form beforehand, or for special ends.

(n.) A reward or recompense; a prize to be won by being before another, or others, in a competition; reward or prize to be adjudged; a bounty; as, a premium for good behavior or scholarship, for discoveries, etc.

(n.) Something offered or given for the loan of money; bonus; -- sometimes synonymous with interest, but generally signifying a sum in addition to the capital.

(n.) A sum of money paid to underwriters for insurance, or for undertaking to indemnify for losses of any kind.

(n.) A sum in advance of, or in addition to, the nominal or par value of anything; as, gold was at a premium; he sold his stock at a premium.

(n.) The doctrine or theory of Kant; the Kantian philosophy.

(n.) Doctrines of the Karaites.

(n.) That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image.

(n.) The rank, quality, state, or attributes of a king; royal authority; sovereign power; rule; dominion; monarchy.

(n.) The territory or country subject to a king or queen; the dominion of a monarch; the sphere in which one is king or has control.

(n.) An extensive scientific division distinguished by leading or ruling characteristics; a principal division; a department; as, the mineral kingdom.

(n.) Either half of a square-rigged vessel's yard, from the center or mast to the end.

(n.) A large, square, woolen cloak which enveloped the whole person, worn by the Greeks and by certain Romans. It is the Roman name of a Greek garment.

(n.) A band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a pall.

(n.) The mantle of a bivalve. See Mantle.

(n.) The mantle of a bird.