(n.) One who is anonymous; also sometimes used for "pseudonym."

(n.) A notion which has no name, or which can not be expressed by a single English word.

(n.) Formerly, a hymn sung in alternate parts, in present usage, a selection from the Psalms, or other parts of the Scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music.

(n.) A song or hymn of praise.

(v. t.) To celebrate with anthems.

(n.) A sort of cupboard, or case, to contain bows and other implements of archery.

(n.) A cavern or cavity, esp. an anatomical cavity or sinus

(n.) Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity.

(adv. & a.) Gleaming; as, faces agleam.

(n.) See Alarm.

(n.) A decoction or infusion.

(n.) A variety of pyroxene; -- called also fassaite.

(n.) Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc.

(n.) The same as Chrisom.

(n.) Quicklime; also, plaster or mortar.

(n.) Armor made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans; used also by Enlish soldiers till the reign of Edward I.

(n.) Same as Dermis.

(n.) The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium.

(n.) See Cilia.

(n.) A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum.

(n.) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.

(n.) One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.

(n.) One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under Nautilus.

(n.) One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.

(v. t.) To form; to shape.

(n.) The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for.

(n.) Excessive love and thought of self; the habit of regarding one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to altruism.

(n.) A cheek stripe of color.

(n.) Same as Fraenum.

(n.) A strait, or arm of the sea.

(n.) A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.

(n.) A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches, which have a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its equation is x3 + y3 = axy.

(n.) A gaseous element found in the atmospheres of the sun and earth and in some rare minerals.

(n.) An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; -- carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry.

(n.) A penthouse or awning.

(n.) The second and largest of the four parts forming the upper surface of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is preceded by the prescutum and followed by the scutellum. See the Illust. under Thorax.

(n.) One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.

(n.) Alt. of Chiasma

(n.) A neck or cervix.

(n.) Same as Collar.

(n.) Affected wisdom; pompous dullness.

(n.) The act of playing on a lyre or harp.

(n.) A drachma.

(n.) Same as Dram.

(v. t.) To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.

(v. t.) To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; as, to disarm a man's wrath.

(v. t.) To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.

(v. t.) To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.

(v. t.) To regain by performing the obligation or condition stated; to discharge the obligation mentioned in, as a promissory note, bond, or other evidence of debt; as, to redeem bank notes with coin.

(v. t.) To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like.

(v. t.) Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.

(v. t.) To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.

(v. t.) To pay the penalty of; to make amends for; to serve as an equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate; as, to redeem an error.

(n.) A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath.

(n. pl.) Alt. of Anaks

(n.) A sanctuary or place of refuge and protection, where criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could not be forcibly taken without sacrilege.

(n.) Any place of retreat and security.

(n.) An institution for the protection or relief of some class of destitute, unfortunate, or afflicted persons; as, an asylum for the aged, for the blind, or for the insane; a lunatic asylum; an orphan asylum.

(n.) A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.

(n.) A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.

(n.) An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.

(n.) The main part of either auricle of the heart as distinct from the auricular appendix. Also, the whole articular portion of the heart.

(n.) A cavity in ascidians into which the intestine and generative ducts open, and which also receives the water from the gills. See Ascidioidea.

(n.) One of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group; a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a very high temperature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic weight, 137. Symbol, Ba. Its oxide called baryta.

(n.) See Algorism.

(n.) One side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambulacra.

(n.) A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc.

(n.) Somebody; one unknown.

(n.) A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise.

(n.) Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is competent by law or constitution to transact business; as, a quorum of the House of Representatives; a constitutional quorum was not present.

(n.) Part or proportion; quota.

(v. t.) To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease.

(v. t.) To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.

(pl. ) of Baal

(n.) The doctrine of a modern religious sect, which originated in Persia in 1843, being a mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish and Parsee elements.

(n.) A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.

(n.) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.

(n.) Any place where uproar and confusion prevail.

(a.) Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse.

(n.) Alt. of Beldame

(n.) The name of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days after the fast.

(n.) A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking.

(v. t.) To force back against the current; as, to restem their backward course.

(v. t.) To stem, or move against; as, to restem a current.

(n.) A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or duct.

(n.) The blind part of the large intestine beyond the entrance of the small intestine; -- called also the blind gut.

(v. t.) To trim again.

(n.) A chief of a tribe of the American Indians; a sagamore.

(n.) That part of the vertebral column which is directly connected with, or forms a part of, the pelvis.

(n.) State of citizenship.

(n.) A resin containing more or less of an essential or volatile oil.

(n.) A species of tree (Abies balsamea).

(n.) An annual garden plant (Impatiens balsamina) with beautiful flowers; balsamine.

(n.) Anything that heals, soothes, or restores.

(v. t.) To treat or anoint with balsam; to relieve, as with balsam; to render balsamic.

(v. t.) Literally: To appear or seem (well, ill, best, etc.) for (one) to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit.

(v. i.) To seem; to appear; to be fitting.

(a.) To give ; to bestow; to grant; to accord; to consent.

(a.) To allow; to permit; to suffer.

(v. t.) To set in order; to adorn; to deck, to embellish; to trim.

(n.) Boyhood.

(n.) The nature of a boy; childishness.

(a.) Having two forms, bodies, or shapes.

(n.) The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.

(n.) The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.

(n.) That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.

(n.) The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.

(n.) The fundament; the buttocks.

(n.) An abyss.

(n.) Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.

(n.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.

(n.) Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.

(n.) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.

(v. t.) To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.

(v. t.) To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.

(v. t.) To reach or get to the bottom of.

(v. i.) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.

(v. i.) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.

(n.) A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

(v. t.) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.

(n.) Force; violence.

(n.) A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard.

(n.) Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball.

(n.) The direction of a rake-vein.

(a.) Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess.

(n.) The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom.

(n.) The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit.

(n.) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.

(n.) To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.

(n.) To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.

(n.) In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like.

(n.) Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent.

(n.) A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables.

(n.) The harmonious flow of vocal sounds.

(n.) An ovule.

(n.) Division or separation; specifically (Eccl.), permanent division or separation in the Christian church; breach of unity among people of the same religious faith; the offense of seeking to produce division in a church without justifiable cause.

(n.) A rare metallic element, occurring in the minerals cerite, allanite, monazite, etc. Symbol Ce. Atomic weight 141.5. It resembles iron in color and luster, but is soft, and both malleable and ductile. It tarnishes readily in the air.

(v. i.) To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech.

(n.) A sharp, shrill cry, uttered suddenly, as in terror or in pain; a shriek; a screech.

(n.) Speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show.

(n.) See Buncombe.

(n.) Alt. of Simoon

(n.) The aggregate value of the different stocks in which a loan to government is now usually funded.

(a.) Wholesome.

(n.) The cutting edge of the bill of a bird.

(n.) A rare metallic element, discovered in certain ores of zinc, by means of its characteristic spectrum of two indigo blue lines; hence, its name. In appearance it resembles zinc, being white or lead gray, soft, malleable and easily fusible, but in its chemical relation it resembles aluminium or gallium. Symbol In. Atomic weight, 113.4.

(v. t.) To award; to adjudge.

(adv. & a.) One after another; -- said especially of horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of abreast.

(n.) A team of horses harnessed one before the other.

(n.) One of the popular religions of China, sanctioned by the state.

(n.) A translation or paraphrase of some portion of the Old Testament Scriptures in the Chaldee or Aramaic language or dialect.

(n.) A very large marine fish (Megapolis Atlanticus) of the Southern United States and the West Indies. It often becomes six or more feet in length, and has large silvery scales. The scales are a staple article of trade, and are used in fancywork. Called also tarpon, sabalo, savanilla, silverfish, and jewfish.

(n.) A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.

(n.) A beam or ray of light.

(n.) Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.

(n.) A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.

(n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.

(v. i.) To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes.

(v. i.) To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.

(v. i.) To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.

(v. i.) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.

(v. t.) To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.

(v. t.) To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.

(v. t.) To unfurl.

(n.) Alt. of Eponyme

(n.) A rare metallic element associated with several other rare elements in the mineral gadolinite from Ytterby in Sweden. Symbol Er. Atomic weight 165.9. Its salts are rose-colored and give characteristic spectra. Its sesquioxide is called erbia.

(a.) Rare; infrequent.

(n.) A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit ("seeds") and decompound leaves.

(n.) The common hemlock (Conium maculatum, poison hemlock, spotted hemlock, poison parsley), a roadside weed of Europe, Asia, and America, cultivated in the United States for medicinal purpose. It is an active poison. The leaves and fruit are used in medicine.

(n.) A common metallic element of the alkali group, in nature always occuring combined, as in common salt, in albite, etc. It is isolated as a soft, waxy, white, unstable metal, so readily oxidized that it combines violently with water, and to be preserved must be kept under petroleum or some similar liquid. Sodium is used combined in many salts, in the free state as a reducer, and as a means of obtaining other metals (as magnesium and aluminium) is an important commercial product. Symbol Na (Natrium). Atomic weight 23. Specific gravity 0.97.

(adv.) In or into bloom; in a blooming state.

(n.) Alt. of Abraum salts

(n.) The framework of some pods, as the cress, which remains after the valves drop off.

(n.) The terminal part of the large intestine; -- so named because supposed by the old anatomists to be straight. See Illust. under Digestive.

(n.) A genus of minute fungi which form a floccose mass of filaments on decaying fruit, etc. Many forms once referred to this genus are now believed to be temporary conditions of fungi of other genera, among them the vine mildew (Oidium Tuckeri), which has caused much injury to grapes.

(n.) The character or manners of an ogre.

(n.) Same as Salam.

(v. i.) To make or perform a salam.

(n.) See Carom.

(n.) Same as Casein.

(n.) The third division of the stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies, and Illust. under Ruminant.

(n.) That which is expectorated; a salival discharge; spittle; saliva.

(n.) Act or business of spying.

(n.) A rare metallic element found in platinum ore. It is a white malleable substance. Symbol Da. Atomic weight 154.

(n.) A genus of bulbous plants, of the order Amaryllidace/, cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty.

(v. t.) To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals.

(v. i.) To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.

(n.) Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.

(n.) Copper.

(v. i.) To twist about briskly with contor/ions like an eel or a worm; to wriggle; to writhe.

(n.) One or a breed of short-horned cattle, originating in the county of Durham, England. The Durham cattle are noted for their beef-producing quality.

(v. t.) To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon.

(v. t.) To set a high value on; to prize; to regard with reverence, respect, or friendship.

(v. i.) To form an estimate; to have regard to the value; to consider.

(v. t.) Estimation; opinion of merit or value; hence, valuation; reckoning; price.

(v. t.) High estimation or value; great regard; favorable opinion, founded on supposed worth.

(v. t.) To adjudge.

(n.) A mineral consisting of the hydrous sulphate of lime (calcium). When calcined, it forms plaster of Paris. Selenite is a transparent, crystalline variety; alabaster, a fine, white, massive variety.

(n.) Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness.

(v. t.) To cover with a film; to coat thinly; as, to infilm one metal with another in the process of gilding; to infilm the glass of a mirror.

(a.) Not firm or sound; weak; feeble; as, an infirm body; an infirm constitution.

(a.) Weak of mind or will; irresolute; vacillating.

(a.) Not solid or stable; insecure; precarious.

(v. t.) To weaken; to enfeeble.

(a.) Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

(v. t.) To give form or share to; to give vital ororganizing power to; to give life to; to imbue and actuate with vitality; to animate; to mold; to figure; to fashion.

(v. t.) To communicate knowledge to; to make known to; to acquaint; to advise; to instruct; to tell; to notify; to enlighten; -- usually followed by of.

(v. t.) To communicate a knowledge of facts to,by way of accusation; to warn against anybody.

(v. t.) To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.

(v. t.) To give intelligence or information; to tell.

(n.) The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his members which are necessary for defense or protection. See Maim.

(n.) A fine kind of parchment, usually made from calfskin, and rendered clear and white, -- used as for writing upon, and for binding books.

(v. t.) To open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut; to cut open.

(v. t.) To unyoke a team from.

(v. t.) To lose warmth; to grow cold.

(n.) A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been exhausted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum.

(n.) The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.; as, a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch.

(n.) Pledge; security; bail. See Mortgage.

(v. t.) To form; to fashion.

(n.) Harm; detriment, either to character or property.

(n.) Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general.

(n.) Regal power; sovereignty; empire; -- considered as symbolized by the crown.

(n.) An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its center.

(v. t.) To adorn with a diadem; to crown.

(n.) One of the Diatomaceae, a family of minute unicellular Algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called Bacillariae, but this word is not in general use.

(n.) A particle or atom endowed with the vital principle.

(n.) An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm.

(n.) A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.

(n.) The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.

(n.) An arbitrament or award.

(n.) A genus of large univalve mollusks, including the partridge shell and tun shells.

(n.) A Doric phrase or idiom.

(n.) A digraph.

(n.) The ridge of a hill.

(n.) The back or dorsal region of an animal; the upper side of an appendage or part; as, the dorsum of the tongue.

(n.) See Phantom.

(v. t.) To sew up; to inclose by a seam; hence, to include; to contain.

(v. t.) To cover with grease; to defile; to pollute.

(n.) Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.

(n.) Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.

(n.) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.

(n.) Familiar aquaintance; familiarity.

(v. t.) To make familiar; to accustom.

(v. t.) To supply with customers.

(v. i.) To have a custom.

(n.) The customary toll, tax, or tribute.

(n.) Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.

(v. t.) To pay the customs of.

(v. t.) To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.

(v. t.) To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor.

(a.) Deformed; misshapen; shapeless; horrid.

(n.) That doctrine which refers all phenomena to a single ultimate constituent or agent; -- the opposite of dualism.

(n.) See Monogenesis, 1.

(n.) A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings.

(n.) The measure or extant of one's capacity; depth, as of intellect; profundity; reach; penetration.

(v. t.) To encompass with the arms extended or encircling; to measure by throwing the arms about; to span.

(v. t.) The measure by a sounding line; especially, to sound the depth of; to penetrate, measure, and comprehend; to get to the bottom of.

(n.) One of the principal names by which God is designated in the Hebrew Scriptures.

(v. t.) To anoint all over with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction.

(v. t.) To fill or imbue with sweet odor; to perfume.

(v. t.) To preserve from decay or oblivion as if with balm; to perpetuate in remembrance.

(n.) A false die.

(v. t.) To make brilliant with beams.

(n.) A false die. See Fulham.

(n.) Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.

(n.) A visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural aptness or by association; a figurative representation; a typical designation; a symbol; as, a balance is an emblem of justice; a scepter, the emblem of sovereignty or power; a circle, the emblem of eternity.

(n.) A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation.

(v. t.) To represent by an emblem; to symbolize.

(n.) A perfumed powder sprinkled upon the body to mask the odor of sweat.

(n.) A man's own act and deed

(n.) Anything stated and made certain.

(n.) The due execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity.

(n.) The product. See Facient, 2.

(v. i.) To wander about idly and vacantly.

(v. i.) To take long strides in walking.

(n.) A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.

(n.) An Indian cabin or hut, usually of a conical form, and made of a framework of poles covered with hides, bark, or mats; -- called also tepee.

(n.) Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.

(n.) A medicine made by mixing oils with sirups.

(n.) A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the fraenum of the tongue.

(v. t.) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.

(v. t.) To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true; -- opposed to deny.

(v. t.) To declare, as a fact, solemnly, under judicial sanction. See Affirmation, 4.

(v. i.) To declare or assert positively.

(v. i.) To make a solemn declaration, before an authorized magistrate or tribunal, under the penalties of perjury; to testify by affirmation.

(n.) A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.

(n.) A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition.

(n.) A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident.

(n.) Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull.

(n.) A refined mysticism among certain classes of Mohammedans, particularly in Persia, who hold to a kind of pantheism and practice extreme asceticism in their lives.

(n.) An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism.

(n.) That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean.

(n.) See Mean.

(n.) The mean or middle term of a syllogism; that by which the extremes are brought into connection.

(n.) A substance through which an effect is transmitted from one thing to another; as, air is the common medium of sound. Hence: The condition upon which any event or action occurs; necessary means of motion or action; that through or by which anything is accomplished, conveyed, or carried on; specifically, in animal magnetism, spiritualism, etc., a person through whom the action of another being is said to be manifested and transmitted.

(n.) An average.

(n.) A trade name for printing and writing paper of certain sizes. See Paper.

(n.) The liquid vehicle with which dry colors are ground and prepared for application.

(a.) Having a middle position or degree; mean; intermediate; medial; as, a horse of medium size; a decoction of medium strength.

(adv.) In the same place; -- abbreviated ibid. or ib.

(a.) Infirm.

(v. t.) To decompose, or resolve into parts; to destroy the form of; to unmake.

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

(n.) A morbid state produced by the use of iodine and its compounds, and characterized by palpitation, depression, and general emaciation, with a pustular eruption upon the skin.

(v. t.) See Embalm.

(v. t.) To grasp with or hold in the hand.

(n.) A large wine bottle.

(n.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the third metacarpal bone.

(n.) See Maim, and Mayhem.

(n.) One of the larger measures of electrical resistance, amounting to one million ohms.

(n.) A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head.

(n.) A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits.

(n.) A sudden vertigo in a horse, succeeded sometimes by unconsciousness, produced by an excess of blood in the brain; a mild form of apoplexy.

(n.) The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).

(n.) A kind of amulet or magical charm.

(n.) A juggler's trick; conjuring.

(n.) The back of an animal.

(n.) The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate animal.

(n.) One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.

() Alt. of Hansom cab

(n.) The belief or acknowledgment of the existence of a God, as opposed to atheism, pantheism, or polytheism.

(n.) See Sabianism.

(a.) The quality of being wise; knowledge, and the capacity to make due use of it; knowledge of the best ends and the best means; discernment and judgment; discretion; sagacity; skill; dexterity.

(a.) The results of wise judgments; scientific or practical truth; acquired knowledge; erudition.

(n.) A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.

(n.) A genus of grasses, including the timothy (Phleum pratense), which is highly valued for hay; cat's-tail grass.

(n.) That portion of fibrovascular bundles which corresponds to the inner bark; the liber tissue; -- distinguished from xylem.

(n.) One of the larger divisions of the animal kingdom; a branch; a grand division.

(n.) A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions.

(n.) A corollary.

(n.) An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects related by some common law, principle, or end; a complete exhibition of essential principles or facts, arranged in a rational dependence or connection; a regular union of principles or parts forming one entire thing; as, a system of philosophy; a system of government; a system of divinity; a system of botany or chemistry; a military system; the solar system.

(n.) Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan of whole; the universe.

(n.) Regular method or order; formal arrangement; plan; as, to have a system in one's business.

(n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n.

(n.) An assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal or plant, essential to the performance of some particular function or functions which as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a single organ; as, the capillary system, the muscular system, the digestive system, etc.; hence, the whole body as a functional unity.

(n.) One of the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound ascidians.

(n.) A sweating bath or place for sweating.

(n.) The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum.

(v. t.) To impress or mark with a seam or cicatrix.

(n.) A theory which regards matter as the original principle of evil.

(v. t.) To disturb; to disquiet.

(n.) The largest genus of true mosses; feather moss.

(n.) An opossum.

(n.) Popery; -- an offensive term.

(n.) See Moslem.

(n.) A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.

(v. t.) To forearm.

(n.) A place of exercise with covered walks, in the suburbs of Athens, where Aristotle taught philosophy.

(n.) A house or apartment appropriated to instruction by lectures or disquisitions.

(n.) A higher school, in Europe, which prepares youths for the university.

(n.) An association for debate and literary improvement.

(n.) A coarse grass found on sandy beaches (Ammophila arundinacea). See Beach grass, under Beach.

(n.) The front median plate of the labium in insects. See Labium.

(n.) Alt. of Jetson

(n.) A variety of iolite, of a smoky blue color; pelioma.

(n.) The condition, state, or habit of being mute, or without speech.

(n.) Eager or immoderate excitement or action; the state of turgescence of any organ; erethism; esp., the height of venereal excitement in sexual intercourse.

(v. t.) Alt. of Obfirmate

(n.) Formerly; once; of old; erewhile; at times.

(n.) A genus of parasitic shrubs, including the mistletoe of Europe.

(n.) Birdlime, which is often made from the berries of the European mistletoe.

(n.) The phallic symbol under which Siva is principally worshiped in his character of the creative and reproductive power.

(a.) Alt. of Lissome

(n.) A rare metallic element of the platinum group, found native as an alloy in platinum ore, and in iridosmine. It is a hard, infusible, bluish or grayish white metal, and the heaviest substance known. Its tetroxide is used in histological experiments to stain tissues. Symbol Os. Atomic weight 191.1. Specific gravity 22.477.

(n.) An opening; a passage.

(n. & a.) See Painim.

(n.) One of a series of anhydrides of an amido type, analogous to the lactones, as oxindol.

(n.) One of a series of anhydrides resembling the lactams, but of an imido type; as, isatine is a lactim. Cf. Lactam.

(n.) A lip or edge, as of a basin.

(n.) An organ in insects and crustaceans covering the upper part of the mouth, and serving as an upper lip. See Illust. of Hymenoptera.

(n.) The external margin of the aperture of a shell. See Univalve.

(n.) A lip, or liplike organ.

(n.) The lip of an organ pipe.

(n.) The folds of integument at the opening of the vulva.

(n.) The organ of insects which covers the mouth beneath, and serves as an under lip. It consists of the second pair of maxillae, usually closely united in the middle line, but bearing a pair of palpi in most insects. It often consists of a thin anterior part (ligula or palpiger) and a firmer posterior plate (mentum).

(n.) Inner margin of the aperture of a shell.

(n.) That state in which every part of space is supposed to be full of matter; -- opposed to vacuum.

(n.) See Zythum.

(n.) A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

(pl. ) of Moslem

(n.) A Mussulman; an orthodox Mohammedan. [Written also muslim.]

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Mohammedans; Mohammedan; as, Moslem lands; the Moslem faith.

(n.) A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, Pb3O4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. Called also red lead.

(n.) A present given to a guest or stranger, or to a foreign ambassador.

(n.) An extract of quassia licorice, fraudulently used by brewers in order to economize malt and hops.

(n.) A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall.

(n.) The dwarf wall surrounding the arena of an amphitheater, from the top of which the seats began.

(n.) The masonry under the stylobate of a temple, sometimes a mere foundation, sometimes containing chambers.

(n.) The foot.

(adv.) Here and there; everywhere; as, this word occurs passim in the poem.

(n.) Potassium; -- so called by the German chemists.

(a.) One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.

(a.) Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.

(a.) A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor.

(a.) Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness.