. piétisme.]
 1. The principle or practice of the Pietists.

2. Strict devotion; also, affectation of devotion.

 The Schöne Seele, that ideal of gentle pietism, in "Wilhelm Meister."

W. Pater.
 Pi"e*tist (?), n. [Cf. G. pietist, F. piétiste.
 See Piety.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a class of religious reformers in Germany in the 17th century who sought to revive declining piety in the Protestant churches; -- often applied as a term of reproach to those who make a display of religious feeling. Also used adjectively.

 { Pi'e*tis"tic (?), Pi'e*tis"tic*al (?), } a. Of or pertaining to the Pietists; hence, in contempt, affectedly or demonstratively religious.
 Addison.
 ||Pi*e"tra du"ra (?). [It., hard stone.] (Fine Arts) Hard and fine stones in general, such as are used for inlay and the like, as distinguished from the softer stones used in building; thus, a Florentine mosaic is a familiar instance of work in pietra dura, though the ground may be soft marble.

 Pi"e*ty (?), n. [F. piété; cf. It. pietà; both fr. L. pietas piety, fr. pius pious. See Pious, and cf.
 Pity.] 1. Veneration or reverence of the Supreme Being, and love of his character; loving obedience to the will of God, and earnest devotion to his service.

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man.

Rambler.
2. Duty; dutifulness; filial reverence and devotion; affectionate reverence and service shown toward parents, relatives, benefactors, country, etc.

 Conferred upon me for the piety Which to my country I was judged to have shown.

Milton.
Syn. -- Religion; sanctity; devotion; godliness; holiness. See Religion.

 Pie"wipe' (?), n. [So called from its note.] (Zoöl.)
 The lapwing, or pewit. [Prov. Eng.]

 Pi'e*zom"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. &?; to press + -meter: cf.
 F. piézomètre.] 1. (Physics) An instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.

2. (Physics) A gauge connected with a water main to show the pressure at that point.

 { ||Pif"fe*ro (?), ||Pif"fa*ra (?), } n. [It. piffero.] (Mus.)
 A fife; also, a rude kind of oboe or a bagpipe with an inflated skin for reservoir.

 Pig (?), n. A piggin. [Written also pigg.]

 Pig, n. [Cf. D. big, bigge, LG. bigge, also Dan. pige girl, Sw. piga, Icel. pka.] 1. The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog. "Two pigges in a poke." Chaucer.
2. (Zoöl.) Any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera.

3. [Cf. Sow a channel for melted iron.] An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See Mine pig, under Mine.

4. One who is hoggish; a greedy person. [Low] Masked pig. (Zoöl.) See under Masked. -- Pig bed (Founding), the bed of sand in which the iron from a smelting furnace is cast into pigs. -- Pig iron, cast iron in pigs, or oblong blocks or bars, as it comes from the smelting furnace. See Pig, 4.
 -- Pig yoke (Naut.), a nickname for a quadrant or sextant.
 -- A pig in a poke (that is, bag), a blind bargain; something bought or bargained for, without the quality or the value being known. [Colloq.]

 Pig, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Pigged (?); p. pr.
 & vb. n. Pigging (?).] 1. To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow.

2. To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.

 Pi"geon (?), n. [F., fr. L. pipio a young pipping or chirping bird, fr. pipire to peep, chirp. Cf. Peep to chirp.] 1.
(Zoöl.) Any bird of the order Columbæ, of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world.

 The common domestic pigeon, or dove, was derived from the Old World rock pigeon (Columba livia). It has given rise to numerous very remarkable varieties, such as the carrier, fantail, nun, pouter, tumbler, etc. The common wild pigeons of the Eastern United States are the passenger pigeon, and the Carolina dove. See under Passenger, and Dove.
 See, also, Fruit pigeon, Ground pigeon, Queen pigeon, Stock pigeon, under Fruit, Ground, etc.

2. An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull. [Slang] Blue pigeon (Zoöl.), an Australian passerine bird (Graucalus melanops); -- called also black-faced crow. -- Green pigeon (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons belonging to the family Treronidæ. -- Imperial pigeon (Zoöl.), any one of the large Asiatic fruit pigeons of the genus Carpophada. - - Pigeon berry (Bot.), the purplish black fruit of the pokeweed; also, the plant itself. See Pokeweed.
 -- Pigeon English [perhaps a corruption of business English], an extraordinary and grotesque dialect, employed in the commercial cities of China, as the medium of communication between foreign merchants and the Chinese. Its base is English, with a mixture of Portuguese and Hindoostanee. Johnson's Cyc. -- Pigeon grass (Bot.), a kind of foxtail grass (Setaria glauca), of some value as fodder.
 The seeds are eagerly eaten by pigeons and other birds. - - Pigeon hawk.
 (Zoöl.) (a) A small American falcon (Falco columbarius). The adult male is dark slate-blue above, streaked with black on the back; beneath, whitish or buff, streaked with brown. The tail is banded. (b) The American sharpshinned hawk (Accipiter velox, or fuscus). -- Pigeon hole. (a) A hole for pigeons to enter a pigeon house. (b) See Pigeonhole. (c) pl.
 An old English game, in which balls were rolled through little arches. Halliwell.
 -- Pigeon house, a dovecote. -- Pigeon pea (Bot.), the seed of Cajanus Indicus; a kind of pulse used for food in the East and West Indies; also, the plant itself. -- Pigeon plum (Bot.), the edible drupes of two West African species of Chrysobalanus (C. ellipticus and C. luteus). -- Pigeon tremex. (Zoöl.)
 See under Tremex. -- Pigeon wood (Bot.), a name in the West Indies for the wood of several very different kinds of trees, species of Dipholis, Diospyros, and Coccoloba. -- Pigeon woodpecker (Zoöl.), the flicker. -- Prairie pigeon.
 (Zoöl.) (a) The upland plover. (b) The golden plover. [Local, U.S.]

 Pi"geon (?), v. t. To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in


haruspex.] A diviner of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspice.

 Ha*rus"pi*cy (-p*s), n. The art or practices of haruspices. See Aruspicy.

 Har"vest (här"vst), n. [OE. harvest, hervest, AS. hærfest autumn; akin to LG. harfst, D. herfst, OHG. herbist, G. herbst, and prob. to L. carpere to pluck, Gr. karpo's fruit. Cf. Carpet.] 1. The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.

 Seedtime and harvest... shall not cease.

Gen. viii. 22.
 At harvest, when corn is ripe.

Tyndale.
2. That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathered; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit.

 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.

Joel iii. 13.
 To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.

Shak.
3. The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.

 The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee.

Fuller.
 The harvest of a quiet eye.

Wordsworth.
Harvest fish (Zoöl.), a marine fish of the Southern United States (Stromateus alepidotus); -- called whiting in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar fish. -- Harvest fly (Zoöl.), an hemipterous insect of the genus Cicada, often called locust.
 See Cicada. -- Harvest lord, the head reaper at a harvest. [Obs.]
 Tusser. -- Harvest mite (Zoöl.), a minute European mite (Leptus autumnalis), of a bright crimson color, which is troublesome by penetrating the skin of man and domestic animals; -- called also harvest louse, and harvest bug. -- Harvest moon, the moon near the full at the time of harvest in England, or about the autumnal equinox, when, by reason of the small angle that is made by the moon's orbit with the horizon, it rises nearly at the same hour for several days. -- Harvest mouse (Zoöl.), a very small European field mouse (Mus minutus). It builds a globular nest on the stems of wheat and other plants. -- Harvest queen, an image representing Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of harvest. Milton.
 -- Harvest spider. (Zoöl.) See Daddy longlegs.

 Har"vest, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harvested; p. pr. & vb. n. Harvesting.] To reap or gather, as any crop.

 Har"vest*er (-r), n. 1. One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper.

2. (Zoöl.) A harvesting ant.

 Har"vest-home" (-hm), n. 1. The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest.

 Showed like a stubble land at harvesthome.

Shak.
2. The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself. Dryden.
3. A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the Church of England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.

4. The opportunity of gathering treasure. Shak.
 Har"vest*ing, a. & n., from Harvest, v. t. Harvesting ant (Zoöl.), any species of ant which gathers and stores up seeds for food. Many species are known.

 The species found in Southern Europe and Palestine are Aphenogaster structor and A. barbara; that of Texas, called agricultural ant, is Pogonomyrmex barbatus or Myrmica molifaciens; that of Florida is P. crudelis. See Agricultural ant, under Agricultural.

 Har"vest*less, a. Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren. "Harvestless autumns." Tennyson.
 Har"vest*man (-man), n.; pl. Harvestmen (-men).
 1. A man engaged in harvesting. Shak.
2. (Zoöl.) See Daddy longlegs, 1.

 Har"vest*ry (-r), n. The act of harvesting; also, that which is harvested. Swinburne.
 Har"y (hr"), v. t. [Cf. OF. harier to harass, or E. harry, v. t.] To draw; to drag; to carry off by violence. [Obs.] Chaucer.
 Has (hz), 3d pers. sing. pres. of Have.

 Has"ard (-rd), n. Hazard. [Obs.] Chaucer.
 Hase (hz), v. t. [Obs.] See Haze, v. t. Hash (hsh), n. [Formerly hachey, hachee, F. hachis, fr. hacher to hash; of German origin; cf. G. hippe sickle, OHG. hippa, for happia. Cf. Hatchet.] 1. That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.

2. A new mixture of old matter; a second preparation or exhibition.

 I can not bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session.

Walpole.
 Hash, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hashed (hsht); p. pr. & vb. n. Hashing.] [From Hash, n.: cf. F. hacher to hash.]
 To chop into small pieces; to mince and mix; as, to hash meat. Hudibras.
 { Hash"eesh Hash"ish } (hsh"sh), n. [Ar. hashsh.] A slightly acrid gum resin produced by the common hemp (Cannabis sativa), of the variety Indica, when cultivated in a warm climate; also, the tops of the plant, from which the resinous product is obtained. It is narcotic, and has long been used in the East for its intoxicating effect.
 See Bhang, and Ganja.

 Hask (hsk), n. [See Hassock.] A basket made of rushes or flags, as for carrying fish. [Obs.] Spenser.
 Has"let (hs"lt), n. [F. hâtelettes broil, for hastelettes, fr. F. haste spit; cf. L. hasta spear, and also OHG. harst gridiron.] The edible viscera, as the heart, liver, etc., of a beast, esp.
 of a hog. [Written also harslet.]

 Hasp (hsp), n. [OE. hasp, hesp, AS. hæpse; akin to G. haspe, häspe, Sw. & Dan. haspe, Icel. hespa.]

1. A clasp, especially a metal strap permanently fast at one end to a staple or pin, while the other passes over a staple, and is fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a metallic hook for fastening a door.

2. A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on.

3. An instrument for cutting the surface of grass land; a scarifier.

 Hasp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hasped (hspt); p. pr. & vb. n. Hasping.] [AS. hæpsian.] To shut or fasten with a hasp.

 Has"sock (hs"sk), n. [Scot. hassock, hassik, a besom, anything bushy, a large, round turf used as a seat, OE. hassok sedgy ground, W. hesgog sedgy, hesg sedge, rushes; cf. Ir


outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made.
 See Cutose.

2. A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.

3. A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.

Cork is sometimes used wrongly for calk, calker; calkin, a sharp piece of iron on the shoe of a horse or ox.

Cork jackets, a jacket having thin pieces of cork inclosed within canvas, and used to aid in swimming. -- Cork tree (Bot.), the species of oak (Quercus Suber of Southern Europe) whose bark furnishes the cork of commerce.

 Cork, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Corked (kôrkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Corking.] 1. To stop with a cork, as a bottle.

2. To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.

 Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace. Bp. Hall.
 To cork is sometimes used erroneously for to calk, to furnish the shoe of a horse or ox with sharp points, and also in the meaning of cutting with a calk.

 Cork"age (-j), n. The charge made by innkeepers for drawing the cork and taking care of bottles of wine bought elsewhere by a guest.

 Corked (k?rkt), a. having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked.

 Cork" fos'sil (kôrk" fs'sl). (Min.) A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.

 Cork"i*ness (-*ns), n. The quality of being corky.

 Cork"ing pin' (kôrk"ng pn'). A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold. [Obs.] Swift.
 Cork"screw' (-skr'), n. An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles.

Corkscrew stairs, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.

 Cork"screw', v. t. To press forward in a winding way; as, to corkscrew one's way through a crowd. [Colloq.] Dickens.
 Cork"wing' (-wng'), n. (Zoöl.) A fish; the goldsinny.

 Cork"y (-), a. 1. Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up.

 Bind fast hiss corky arms. Shak.
2. Tasting of cork.

 Corm (kôrm), n. [See Cormus.] 1. (Bot.) A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb.

2. (Biol.) Same as Cormus, 2.

 Cor*mog"e*ny (kôr*mj"*n), n. [Gr. kormo's trunk of a tree + root of gi'gnesqai to be born.] (Biol.) The embryological history of groups or families of individuals.

 Cor'mo*phy*log"e*ny (k?r'm?-f?-l?j"?-n?), n. [Gr. kormo's trunk of a tree + E. phylogeny.] (Biol.) The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals. Haeckel.
 { Cor"mo*phytes (kôr"m*fts), ||Cor*moph"y*ta (kr*mf"*t), } n. pl.
 [NL. cormophyta, fr. Gr. kormo's trunk of a tree + fyto'n plant.]
 (Bot.) A term proposed by Endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage.

 Cor"mo*rant (kôr"m*rant), n. [F. cormoran, fr.
 Armor. mr-vran a sea raven; mr sea + bran raven, with cor, equiv. to L. corvus raven, pleonastically prefixed; or perh. fr. L. corvus marinus sea raven.] 1. (Zoöl.)
 Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese. [Written also corvorant.]

2. A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant. B. Jonson.
 Cor"mo*raut, a. Ravenous; voracious.

Cormorant, devouring time. Shak.
 ||Cor"mus (kôr"ms), n. [NL., fr. Gr. kormo's the trunk of a tree (with the boughs cut off), fr. kei'rein to shear.]

1. (Bot.) See Corm.

2. (Biol.) A vegetable or animal made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached.

 Corn (kôrn), n. [L. cornu horn: cf. F. corne horn, hornlike excrescence. See Horn.] A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.

 Welcome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes Unplagued with corns, will have a bout with you. Shak.
 The substance of a corn usually resembles horn, but where moisture is present, as between the toes, it is white and sodden, and is called a soft corn.

 Corn, n. [AS. corn; akin to OS. korn, D. koren, G., Dan., Sw., & Icel. korn, Goth. kaúrn, L. granum, Russ. zerno. Cf. Grain, Kernel.] 1. A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.

2. The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.

 In Scotland, corn is generally restricted to oats, in the United States, to maize, or Indian corn, of which there are several kinds; as, yellow corn, which grows chiefly in the Northern States, and is yellow when ripe; white or southern corn, which grows to a great height, and has long white kernels; sweet corn, comprising a number of sweet and tender varieties, grown chiefly at the North, some of which have kernels that wrinkle when ripe and dry; pop corn, any small variety, used for popping.

3. The plants which produce corn, when growing in the field; the stalks and ears, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing.

 In one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thrashed the corn. Milton.
4. A small, hard particle; a grain. "Corn of sand." Bp.
 Hall. "A corn of powder." Beau. & Fl.
Corn ball, a ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar. -- Corn bread, bread made of Indian meal.
 -- Corn cake, a kind of corn bread; johnny cake; hoecake. -- Corn cockle (Bot.), a weed (Agrostemma or Lychnis Githago), having bright flowers, common in grain fields. -- Corn flag (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gladiolus; -- called also sword lily.
 -- Corn fly. (Zoöl.) (a) A small fly which, in the larval state, is injurious to grain, living in the stalk, and causing the disease called "gout," on account of the swelled joints. The common European species is Chlorops tæniopus. (


hand, to pledge friendship or faith. -- To give the hand of, to espouse; to bestow in marriage. -- To give the head. See under Head, n. -- To give in. (a) To abate; to deduct. (b) To declare; to make known; to announce; to tender; as, to give in one's adhesion to a party. -- To give the lie to (a person), to tell (him) that he lies. -- To give line. See under Line. -- To give off, to emit, as steam, vapor, odor, etc. -- To give one's self away, to make an inconsiderate surrender of one's cause, an unintentional disclosure of one's purposes, or the like. [Colloq.] -- To give out. (a) To utter publicly; to report; to announce or declare.

 One that gives out himself Prince Florizel.

Shak.
Give out you are of Epidamnum.

Shak.
(b) To send out; to emit; to distribute; as, a substance gives out steam or odors. -- To give over. (a) To yield completely; to quit; to abandon. (b) To despair of. (c) To addict, resign, or apply (one's self).

 The Babylonians had given themselves over to all manner of vice.

Grew.
 -- To give place, to withdraw; to yield one's claim. -- To give points. (a) In games of skill, to equalize chances by conceding a certain advantage; to allow a handicap. (b) To give useful suggestions. [Colloq.] -- To give rein. See under Rein, n.
 -- To give the sack. Same as To give the bag. -- To give and take. (a) To average gains and losses. (b) To exchange freely, as blows, sarcasms, etc. -- To give time (Law), to accord extension or forbearance to a debtor. Abbott. -- To give the time of day, to salute one with the compliment appropriate to the hour, as "good morning." "good evening", etc. -- To give tongue, in hunter's phrase, to bark; -- said of dogs. -- To give up. (a) To abandon; to surrender. "Don't give up the ship."

 He has... given up For certain drops of salt, your city Rome.

Shak.
(b) To make public; to reveal.

 I'll not state them By giving up their characters.

Beau. & Fl.
(c) (Used also reflexively.) -- To give up the ghost. See under Ghost. -- To give one's self up, to abandon hope; to despair; to surrender one's self. -- To give way. (a) To withdraw; to give place. (b) To yield to force or pressure; as, the scaffolding gave way. (c) (Naut.) To begin to row; or to row with increased energy. (d) (Stock Exchange). To depreciate or decline in value; as, railroad securities gave way two per cent. -- To give way together, to row in time; to keep stroke.

Syn. -- To Give, Confer, Grant. To give is the generic word, embracing all the rest. To confer was originally used of persons in power, who gave permanent grants or privileges; as, to confer the order of knighthood; and hence it still denotes the giving of something which might have been withheld; as, to confer a favor. To grant is to give in answer to a petition or request, or to one who is in some way dependent or inferior.

 Give (?), v. i. 1. To give a gift or gifts.

2. To yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.

3. To become soft or moist. [Obs.] Bacon.
4. To move; to recede.

 Now back he gives, then rushes on amain.

Daniel.
5. To shed tears; to weep. [Obs.]

 Whose eyes do never give But through lust and laughter.

Shak.
6. To have a misgiving. [Obs.]

 My mind gives ye're reserved To rob poor market women.

J. Webster.
7. To open; to lead. [A Gallicism] This, yielding, gave into a grassy walk.

Tennyson.
To give back, to recede; to retire; to retreat.

 They gave back and came no farther.

Bunyan.
 -- To give in, to yield; to succumb; to acknowledge one's self beaten; to cease opposition.

 The Scots battalion was enforced to give in.

Hayward.
 This consideration may induce a translator to give in to those general phrases.

Pope.
 -- To give off, to cease; to forbear. [Obs.] Locke. -- To give on or upon. (a) To rush; to fall upon. [Obs.] (b) To have a view of; to be in sight of; to overlook; to look toward; to open upon; to front; to face. [A Gallicism: cf. Fr. donner sur.]

 Rooms which gave upon a pillared porch.

Tennyson.
 The gloomy staircase on which the grating gave.

Dickens.
 -- To give out. (a) To expend all one's strength. Hence: (b) To cease from exertion; to fail; to be exhausted; as, my feet being to give out; the flour has given out. -- To give over, to cease; to discontinue; to desist.

 It would be well for all authors, if they knew when to give over, and to desist from any further pursuits after fame.

Addison.
 -- To give up, to cease from effort; to yield; to despair; as, he would never give up.

 Giv"en (?), p. p. & a. from Give, v.
1. (Math. & Logic) Granted; assumed; supposed to be known; set forth as a known quantity, relation, or premise.

2. Disposed; inclined; -- used with an adv.; as, virtuously given. Shak.
3. Stated; fixed; as, in a given time.

Given name, the Christian name, or name given by one's parents or guardians, as distinguished from the surname, which is inherited. [Colloq.]

 Giv"er (?), n. One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes.

 It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian.

Kollock.
 Gives (?), n. pl. [See Give, n.] Fetters.

 Giv"ing (?), n. 1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.

2. A gift; a benefaction. [R.] Pope.
3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison.
Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving out, anything uttered or asserted; an outgiving.

 His givings out were of an infinite distance From his true meant design.

Shak.
 Giz"zard (?), n. [F. gésier, L. gigeria, pl., the cooked entrails of poultry. Cf. Gigerium.]

1. (Anat.) The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.

2. (Zoöl.) (a) A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate animals. (b) A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks.

Gizzard shad (Zo


ons.] 1. A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a continental (or "Old") Saxon.

2. pl. The Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest.

 It is quite correct to call Æthelstan "King of the Anglo-Saxons," but to call this or that subject of Æthelstan "an Anglo-Saxon" is simply nonsense. E. A. Freeman.
3. The language of the English people before the Conquest (sometimes called Old English). See Saxon.

4. One of the race or people who claim descent from the Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in England; a person of English descent in its broadest sense.

 An"glo-Sax"on, a. Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language.

 An"glo-Sax"on*dom (&?;), n. The AngloSaxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and the United States, etc.); the AngloSaxon race.

 An"glo-Sax"on*ism (&?;), n. 1. A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue. M. Arnold.
2. The quality or sentiment of being Anglo-Saxon, or English in its ethnological sense.

 An*go"la (&?;), n. [A corruption of Angora.] A fabric made from the wool of the Angora goat.

 An*go"la pea' (&?;). (Bot.) A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea.

 ||An"gor ("gr), n. [L. See Anger.] (Med.) Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression.

 An*go"ra (n*g"r), n. A city of Asia Minor (or Anatolia) which has given its name to a goat, a cat, etc.

Angora cat (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic cat with very long and silky hair, generally of the brownish white color. Called also Angola cat. See Cat. -- Angora goat (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic goat, reared for its long silky hair, which is highly prized for manufacture.

 An'gos*tu"ra bark' (ä'gs*t"r bärk'). [From Angostura, in Venezuela.] An aromatic bark used as a tonic, obtained from a South American of the rue family (Galipea cusparia, or officinalis). U. S. Disp.
 ||An'gou'mois" moth" (?; 115). [So named from Angoumois in France.]
 (Zoöl.) A small moth (Gelechia cerealella) which is very destructive to wheat and other grain. The larva eats out the interior of the grain, leaving only the shell.

 An"gri*ly (&?;), adv. In an angry manner; under the influence of anger.

 An"gri*ness, n. The quality of being angry, or of being inclined to anger.

 Such an angriness of humor that we take fire at everything.
Whole Duty of Man.
 An"gry (&?;), a. [Compar. Angrier (&?;); superl.
 Angriest.] [See Anger.] 1. Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. [Obs.]

 God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit. Jer. Taylor.
2. Inflamed and painful, as a sore.

3. Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing.

 Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves. Gen. xlv. 5.
 Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice? Eccles. v. 6.
4. Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves. "An angry countenance." Prov. xxv. 23.
5. Red. [R.]

 Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave. Herbert.
6. Sharp; keen; stimulated. [R.]

 I never ate with angrier appetite. Tennyson.
Syn. -- Passionate; resentful; irritated; irascible; indignant; provoked; enraged; incensed; exasperated; irate; hot; raging; furious; wrathful; wroth; choleric; inflamed; infuriated.

 An"gui*form (&?;), a. [L. angius snake + -form.]
 Snake-shaped.

 An*guil"li*form (&?;), a. [L. anguilla eel (dim. of anguis snake) + -form.] Eelshaped.

 The "Anguillæformes" of Cuvier are fishes related to thee eel.

 An"guine (&?;), a. [L. anguinus, fr. anguis snake.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent. "The anguine or snakelike reptiles." Owen.
 An*guin"e*al (&?;), a. Anguineous.

 An*guin"e*ous (&?;), a. [L. anguineus.] Snakelike.

 An"guish (&?;), n. [OE. anguishe, anguise, angoise, F. angoisse, fr. L. angustia narrowness, difficulty, distress, fr. angustus narrow, difficult, fr. angere to press together. See Anger.] Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

 But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. Ex. vi. 9.
Anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child. Jer.
 iv. 31.
 Rarely used in the plural: - Ye miserable people, you must go to God in anguishes, and make your prayer to him.

 Latimer.
Syn. -- Agony; pang; torture; torment. See Agony.

 An"guish, v. t. [Cf. F. angoisser, fr. L. angustiare.]
 To distress with extreme pain or grief. [R.] Temple.
 An"gu*lar (&?;), a. [L. angularis, fr. angulus angle, corner. See Angle.] 1. Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.

2. Measured by an angle; as, angular distance.

3. Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female.

Angular aperture, Angular distance. See Aperture, Distance.
 -- Angular motion, the motion of a body about a fixed point or fixed axis, as of a planet or pendulum. It is equal to the angle passed over at the point or axis by a line drawn to the body. -- Angular point, the point at which the sides of the angle meet; the vertex. -- Angular velocity, the ratio of anuglar motion to the time employed in describing.

 An"gu*lar, n. (Anat.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.

 An'gu*lar"i*ty (&?;), n. The quality or state of being angular;


as of a liquid in a pipe; -- in distinction from a valve which is operated by the action of the fluid it restrains. -- Stop watch, a watch the hands of which can be stopped in order to tell exactly the time that has passed, as in timing a race. See Independent seconds watch, under Independent, a. Syn. -- Cessation; check; obstruction; obstacle; hindrance; impediment; interruption.

 Stop"cock' (?), n. 1. A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc.

2. The turning plug, stopper, or spigot of a faucet. [R.]

 Stope (?), n. [Cf. Step, n. & v. i.] (Mining) A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.

 Stope, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stoping.] (Mining) (a) To excavate in the form of stopes. (b) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.

 { Stope (?), Sto"pen (?) }, p. p. of Step. Stepped; gone; advanced.
 [Obs.]

 A poor widow, somedeal stope in age.

Chaucer.
 Stop"-gap' (?), n. That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient.

 Moral prejudices are the stop-gaps of virtue.

Hare.
 Stop"ing (?), n. (Mining) The act of excavating in the form of stopes.

 Stop"less (?), a. Not to be stopped. Davenant.
 Stop"-o'ver (?), a. Permitting one to stop over; as, a stop-over check or ticket. See To stop over, under Stop, v. i.
 [Railroad Cant, U.S.]

 Stop"page (?), n. The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.

 Stopped (?), a. (Phonetics) Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.). H. Sweet.
 Stop"per (?), n. 1. One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.

2. (Naut.) A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something. Totten.
3. (Bot.) A name to several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies; as, the red stopper. See Eugenia. C. S. Sargent.
Ring stopper (Naut.), a short rope or chain passing through the anchor ring, to secure the anchor to the cathead. -- Stopper bolt (Naut.), a large ringbolt in a ship's deck, to which the deck stoppers are hooked.

 Stop"per, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoppered (?); p. pr.
 & vb. n. Stoppering.] To close or secure with a stopper.

 Stop"ping (?), n. 1. Material for filling a cavity.

2. (Mining) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.

3. (Far.) A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist. Youatt.
 Stop"ping-out' (?), n. A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently corroded, by applying varnish or other covering matter with a brush, but allowing the acid to act on the other parts.

 Stop"ple (?), n. [Cf. G. stöpfel, stöpsel.
 See Stop, n. & v. t.] That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple.

 Stop"ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoppled (?); p. pr.
 & vb. n. Stoppling.] To close the mouth of anything with a stopple, or as with a stopple. Cowper.
 Stop"ship' (?), n. (Zoöl.) A remora. It was fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them. Sylvester.
 Stor (?), a. See Stoor. [Obs.] Chaucer.
 Stor"age (?), n. 1. The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.

2. Space for the safe keeping of goods.

3. The price changed for keeping goods in a store.

Storage battery. (Physics) See the Note under Battery.

 Sto"rax (?), n. [L. storax, styrax, Gr. &?;. Cf.
 Styrax.] Any one of a number of similar complex resins obtained from the bark of several trees and shrubs of the Styrax family. The most common of these is liquid storax, a brown or gray semifluid substance of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant.

 A yellow aromatic honeylike substance, resembling, and often confounded with, storax, is obtained from the American sweet gum tree (Liquidambar styraciflua), and is much used as a chewing gum, called sweet gum, and liquid storax. Cf. Liquidambar.

 Store (?), n. [OE. stor, stoor, OF. estor, provisions, supplies, fr. estorer to store. See Store, v. t.]
 1. That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.

 The ships are fraught with store of victuals.

Bacon.
 With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and give the prize.

Milton.
2. A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.

3. Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop. [U.S. & British Colonies] 4. pl. Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.

 His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry.

Chaucer.
In store, in a state of accumulation; in keeping; hence, in a state of readiness. "I have better news in store for thee." Shak.
 -- Store clothes, clothing purchased at a shop or store; -- in distinction from that which is home-made. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Store pay, payment for goods or work in articles from a shop or store, instead of money. [U.S.] -- To set store by, to value greatly; to have a high appreciation of. -- To tell no store of, to make no account of; to consider of no importance.

Syn. -- Fund; supply; abundance; plenty; accumulation; provision.
 -- Store, Shop. The English call the place where goods are sold (however large or splendid it may be) a shop, and confine the word store to its original meaning; viz., a warehouse, or place where goods are stored.
 In America the word store is applied to all places, except the smallest, where goods are sold. In some British colonies the word store is used as in the United States.

 In his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes.


(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dichotomizing (?).] [See Dichotomous.] 1.
 To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect. [R.]

 The apostolical benediction dichotomizes all good things into grace and peace.

Bp. Hall.
2. (Astron.) To exhibit as a half disk. See Dichotomy, 3.
 "[The moon] was dichotomized." Whewell.
 Di*chot"o*mize, v. i. To separate into two parts; to branch dichotomously; to become dichotomous.

 Di*chot"o*mous (?), a. [L. dichotomos, Gr. &?;; &?; in two, asunder + diate'mnein to cut.] Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem. -- Di*chot"o*mous*ly, adv.
 Di*chot"o*my (?), n. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?;: cf. F. dichotomie.
 See Dichotomous.] 1. A cutting in two; a division.

 A general breach or dichotomy with their church.

Sir T. Browne.
2. Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.

3. (Astron.) That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.

4. (Biol.) Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation.

5. The place where a stem or vein is forked.

6. (Logic) Division into two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of the term man into white and not white.

 Di*chro"ic (?), a. [See Dichroism.] Having the property of dichroism; as, a dichroic crystal.

 Di*chro"i*scope (?), n. Same as Dichroscope.

 Di"chro*ism (?), n. [Gr. &?; twocolored; di- = di's- twice + &?; color.] (Opt.) The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.

 Di"chro*ite (?), n. [See Dichroism.] (Min.) Iolite; -- so called from its presenting two different colors when viewed in two different directions. See Iolite.

 Di'chro*it"ic (?), a. Dichroic.

 Di*chro"mate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base; -- called also bichromate.

 Di'chro*mat"ic (?), a. [Pref. di- + chromatic: cf.
 Gr. &?;.] 1. Having or exhibiting two colors.

2. (Zoöl.) Having two color varieties, or two phases differing in color, independently of age or sex, as in certain birds and insects.

 Di*chro"ma*tism (?), n. The state of being dichromatic.

 Di*chro"mic (?), a. [Gr. &?; twocolored; di- = di's- twice + &?; color.] Furnishing or giving two colors; -- said of defective vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instead of three. Sir J. Herschel.
 Di"chro*ous (?), a. Dichroic.

 Di"chro*scope (?), n. [Gr. di- = di's- twice + &?; color + &?; to view.] An instrument for examining the dichroism of crystals.

 Di'chro*scop"ic (?), a. Pertaining to the dichroscope, or to observations with it.

 Di"cing (?), n. 1. An ornamenting in squares or cubes.

2. Gambling with dice. J. R. Green.
 Dick*cis"sel (?), n. (Zoöl.) The American black-throated bunting (Spiza Americana).

 Dick"ens (?), n. or interj. [Perh. a contr. of the dim. devilkins.]
 The devil. [A vulgar euphemism.]

 I can not tell what the dickens his name is.

Shak.
 Dick"er (?), n. [Also daker, dakir; akin to Icel. dekr, Dan. deger, G. decher; all prob. from LL. dacra, dacrum, the number ten, akin to L. decuria a division consisting of ten, fr. decem ten. See Ten.] 1. The number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves.
 [Obs.]

 A dicker of cowhides.

Heywood.
2. A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker. [U.S.]

 For peddling dicker, not for honest sales.

Whittier.
 Dick"er, v. i. & t. To negotiate a dicker; to barter. [U.S.]
 "Ready to dicker. and to swap." Cooper.
 { Dick"ey, Dick"y } (?), n. 1. A seat behind a carriage, for a servant.

2. A false shirt front or bosom.

3. A gentleman's shirt collar. [Local, U. S.]

 Di*clin"ic (?), a. [Gr. di- = di's- twice + &?; to incline.] (Crystallog.)
 Having two of the intersections between the three axes oblique. See Crystallization.

 Dic"li*nous (?), a. [Gr. &?; = &?; bed.] Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers. Gray.
 Di*coc"cous (?), a. [Gr. di- = di's- twice + &?; grain, seed.]
 (Bot.) Composed of two coherent, one-seeded carpels; as, a dicoccous capsule.

 Di*cot'y*le"don (d*kt'*l"dn), n. [Pref. di- + cotyledon.]
 (Bot.) A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.

 Di*cot'y*le"don*ous (-ld"n*s), a. (Bot.) Having two cotyledons or seed lobes; as, a dicotyledonous plant.

 { Di"cro*tal (?), Di"cro*tous (?), } a. [Gr. &?; a double beating.] Dicrotic.

 Di*crot"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; = &?; to knock, beat.] (Physiol.)
(a) Of or pertaining to dicrotism; as, a dicrotic pulse. (b) Of or pertaining to the second expansion of the artery in the dicrotic pulse; as, the dicrotic wave.

 Di"cro*tism (?), n. (Physiol.) A condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart.

 ||Dic"ta (?), n. pl. [L.] See Dictum.

 ||Dic*ta"men (?), n. [LL., fr. dictare to dictate.] A dictation or dictate. [R.] Falkland.
 ||Dic*tam"nus (?), n. [L. See Dittany.] (Bot.) A suffrutescent, D. Fraxinella (the only species), with strong perfume and showy flowers. The volatile oil of the leaves is highly inflamm


; cheerfulness; gayety; hilarity; merriment; jollity.

 Ex*hort" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exhorted; p. pr.
 & vb. n. Exhorting.] [L. exhortari; ex out + hortari to incite, encourage; cf. F. exhorter. See Hortative.] To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution.

 Examples gross as earth exhort me.

Shak.
 Let me exhort you to take care of yourself.

J. D. Forbes.
 Ex*hort", v. i. To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.

 With many other words did he testify and exhort.

Acts ii. 40.
 Ex*hort", n. Exhortation. [Obs.] Pope.
 Ex'hor*ta"tion (?), n. [L. exhortatio: cf. F. exhortation.]
 1. The act of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable.

2. Language intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition.

 I'll end my exhortation after dinner.

Shak.
 Ex*hor"ta*tive (?), a. [L. exhortativus: cf. F. exhortatif.]
 Serving to exhort; exhortatory; hortative. Barrow.
 Ex*hor"ta*to*ry (?) a. [L. exhortatorius: cf. F. exhortatoire.]
 Of or pertaining to exhortation; hortatory. Holinshed.
 Ex*hort"er (?), n. One who exhorts or incites.

 Ex*hu"ma*ted (?), a. Disinterred. [Obs.]

 Ex'hu*ma"tion (?), n. [Cf. LL. exhumatio, F. exhumation.]
 The act of exhuming that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a body.

 Ex*hume" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exhumed (?) p. pr.
 & vb. n.. Exhuming.] [LL. exhumare; L. ex out + humus ground, soil: cf. F. exhumer. See Humble.] To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter. Mantell.
 Ex"ic*cate (?), v. t. See Exsiccate. [Obs.] Holland.
 Ex'ic*ca"tion (?), n. See Exsiccation. [Obs.]

 Ex"i*gence (?), n. [F.] Exigency. Hooker.
 Ex"i*gen*cy (?), n.; pl. Exigencies (#). [LL. exigentia: cf. F. exigence.] The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency. "The present exigency of his affairs." Ludlow.
Syn. -- Demand; urgency; distress; pressure; emergency; necessity; crisis.

 Ex'i*gen"da*ry (?), n. See Exigenter.

 Ex'i*gent, a. [L. exigens, - entis, p. pr. of exigere to drive out or forth, require, exact. See Exact.] Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical. "At this exigent moment." Burke.
 Ex"i*gent, n. 1. Exigency; pressing necessity; decisive moment. [Obs.]

 Why do you cross me in this exigent?

Shak.
2. (o. Eng. Law) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry. Abbott.
 Ex"i*gent*er (?), n. (O. Eng. Law) An officer in the Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was to make out exigents.
 The office is now abolished. Cowell.
 Ex"i*gi*ble (?), a. [Cf. F. exigible. See Exigent.] That may be exacted; repairable. [R.] A. Smith.
 Ex'i*gu"i*ty (?), n. [L. exiguitas, fr. exiguus small: cf. F. exiguité.] Scantiness; smallness; thinness.
 [R.] Boyle.
 Ex*ig"u*ous (?), a. [L. exiguus.] Scanty; small; slender; diminutive. [R.] "Exiguous resources." Carlyle. -- Ex*ig"uous*ness, n. [R.]

 Ex"ile (?), n. [OE. exil, fr. L. exilium, exsilium, fr. exsuil one who quits, or is banished from, his native soil; ex out + solum ground, land, soil, or perh. fr.the root of salire to leap, spring; cf. F. exil. Cf. Sole of the foot, Saltation.] 1.
 Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country.

 Let them be recalled from their exile.

Shak.
2. The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home.

 Thou art in exile, and thou must not stay.

Shak.
Syn. -- Banishment; proscription; expulsion.

 Ex"ile (?) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exiled (?); p. pr.
 & vb. n. Exiling.] To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away. "Exiled from eternal God." Tennyson.
 Calling home our exiled friends abroad.

Shak.
Syn. -- See Banish.

 Ex*ile" (?), a. [L. exilis.] Small; slender; thin; fine.
 [Obs.] "An exile sound." Bacon.
 Ex"ile*ment (?), n. [Cf. OF. exilement.] Banishment. [R.] Sir.
 H. Wotton.
 Ex*il"ic (?), a. Pertaining to exile or banishment, esp. to that of the Jews in Babylon. Encyc. Dict.
 Ex'i*li"tion (?), n. [L. exsilire to spring from; ex out + salire to spring, leap.] A sudden springing or leaping out.
 [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
 Ex*il"ity (?), n. [L. exilitas: cf. F. exilité.
 See Exile, a.] Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness. [R.] Paley.
 Ex*im"ious (?) a. [L. eximius taken out, i. e. select, fr. eximere to take out. See Exempt.] Select; choice; hence, extraordinary, excellent. [Obs.]

 The eximious and arcane science of physic.

Fuller.
 Ex*in"a*nite (?), v. t. [L. exinanitus, p. p. of exinanire; ex out (intens.) + inanire to make empty, inanis, empty.] To make empty; to render of no effect; to humble. [Obs.] Bp.
 Pearson.
 Ex*in'a*ni"tion (?) n. [L. exinanitio.] An emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation. [Obs.]

 Fastings to the exinanition of spirits.

Jer. Taylor.
 Ex*ist" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.


Shak.
7. Straightway; next in order; without delay; immediately. "Will she go now to bed?' &?;Directly.'" Shak.
8. Immediately after; as soon as.

Directly he stopped, the coffin was removed.

Dickens.
 This use of the word is common in England, especially in colloquial speech, but it can hardly be regarded as a well-sanctioned or desirable use.

Directly proportional (Math.), proportional in the order of the terms; increasing or decreasing together, and with a constant ratio; -- opposed to inversely proportional.

Syn. -- Immediately; forthwith; straightway; instantly; instantaneously; soon; promptly; openly; expressly. -- Directly, Immediately, Instantly, Instantaneously. Directly denotes, without any delay or diversion of attention; immediately implies, without any interposition of other occupation; instantly implies, without any intervention of time. Hence, "I will do it directly," means, "I will go straightway about it." "I will do it immediately," means, "I will do it as the very next thing." "I will do it instantly," allows not a particle of delay. Instantaneously, like instantly, marks an interval too small to be appreciable, but commonly relates to physical causes; as, the powder touched by fire instantaneously exploded.

 Di*rect"ness (?), n. The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.

 Di*rect"or (?), n. [Cf. F. directeur.] 1. One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.

 In all affairs thou sole director.

Swift.
2. One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company.

 What made directors cheat in South-Sea year?

Pope.
3. (Mech.) A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action.

4. (Surg.) A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath.

 Di*rect"o*rate (?), n. [Cf. F. directorat.] The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.

 Di*rec*to"ri*al (?), a. [Cf. F. directorial.] 1.
 Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive.

2. Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3.

 Whoever goes to the directorial presence under this passport.

Burke.
 Di*rect"or*ship (?), n. The condition or office of a director; directorate.

 Di*rect"o*ry (?), a. [L. directorius.] Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.

 Di*rect"o*ry, n.; pl. Directories (&?;). 1.
 A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book.

2. A book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory.

3. [Cf. F. directoire.] A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.

4. Direction; guide. [R.] Whitlock.
 Di*rect"ress, n. A woman who directs. Bp. Hurd.
 Di*rect"rix (?), n.; pl. E. Directrixes (&?;), L. Directrices (&?;). 1. A directress. [R.] Jer. Taylor.
2. (Geom.) (a) A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating a surface. (b) A straight line so situated with respect to a conic section that the distance of any point of the curve from it has a constant ratio to the distance of the same point from the focus.

 Dire"ful (?), a. [Dire + - ful.] Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day. -- Dire"ful*ly, adv. -- Dire"ful*ness, n. Dire"ly, adv. In a dire manner. Drayton.
 Di*rempt" (?; 215), a. [L. diremptus, p. p. of dirimere to take apart, separate; di- = dis- + emere to buy, orig., to take.] Divided; separated. [Obs.] Stow.
 Di*rempt", v. t. To separate by force; to tear apart. [Obs.] Holinshed.
 Di*remp"tion (?), n. [L. diremptio.] A tearing apart; violent separation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
 Dire"ness (?), n. [Dire- + - ness.] Terribleness; horror; woefulness. Shak.
 Di*rep"tion (?), n. [L. direptio, fr. diripere to tear asunder, plunder; di- = dis- + rapere to seize and carry off.] The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away. [R.] Speed.
 Di*rep*ti"tious (?), a. Characterized by direption. [R.] Encyc.
 Dict.
 Di*rep*ti"tious*ly, adv. With plundering violence; by violent injustice. [R.] Strype.
 Dirge (?), n. [Contraction of Lat. dirige, direct thou (imperative of dirigere), the first word of a funeral hymn (Lat.
 transl. of Psalm v. 8) beginning, "Dirige, Domine, in conspectu tuo vitam meam." See Direct, a., and cf. Dirige.] A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.

 The raven croaked, and hollow shrieks of owls Sung dirges at her funeral.

Ford.
 Dirge"ful (?), a. Funereal; moaning.

 Soothed sadly by the dirgeful wind.

Coleridge.
 Dir"i*ge (?), n. [L. See Dirge.] A service for the dead, in the Roman Catholic Church, being the first antiphon of Matins for the dead, of which Dirige is the first word; a dirge.

 Evensongs and placebo and dirige.

Wyclif.
 Resort, I pray you, unto my sepulture To sing my dirige with great devotion.

Lamentation of Mary Magdalene.
 Dir"i*gent (?), a. [L. dirigens, p. pr. of dirigere.
 See Direct, a.] Directing. Baxter.
 Dir"i*gent, n. (Geom.) The line of motion along which a describent line or surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure; a directrix. Hutton.
 Dir"i*gi*ble (?), a. Capable of being directed; steerable; as, a dirigible balloon.

 Dir"i*ment (?), a. [L. dirimens, p. pr. of dirimere.
 See Dirempt.] (Law) Absolute.

Diriment impediment (R. C. Ch.), an impediment that nullifies marriage.

 Dirk (?), n. [Ir. duirc.] A kind of dagger or poniard; -- formerly


from it; -- called also evolvent.
 See Evolute.

 In'vo*lu"tion (?), n. [L. involutio: cf. F. involution.
 See Involve.]

1. The act of involving or infolding.

2. The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement.

 All things are mixed, and causes blended, by mutual involutions.

Glanvill.
3. That in which anything is involved, folded, or wrapped; envelope. Sir T. Browne.
4. (Gram.) The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction.

5. (Math.) The act or process of raising a quantity to any power assigned; the multiplication of a quantity into itself a given number of times; -- the reverse of evolution.

6. (Geom.) The relation which exists between three or more sets of points, a.a′, b.b′, c.c′, so related to a point O on the line, that the product Oa.Oa′ = Ob.Ob′ = Oc.Oc′ is constant. Sets of lines or surfaces possessing corresponding properties may be in involution.

7. (Med.) The return of an enlarged part or organ to its normal size, as of the uterus after pregnancy.

 In*volve" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Involved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Involving.] [L. involvere, involutum, to roll about, wrap up; pref. inin + volvere to roll: cf.
 OF. involver. See Voluble, and cf. Involute.]

1. To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

 Some of serpent kind... involved Their snaky folds.

Milton.
2. To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.

 And leave a singèd bottom all involved With stench and smoke.

Milton.
3. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure. "Involved discourses." Locke.
4. To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.

 He knows His end with mine involved.

Milton.
 The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.

Tillotson.
5. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge. [R.]

 The gathering number, as it moves along, Involves a vast involuntary throng.

Pope.
 Earth with hell To mingle and involve.

Milton.
6. To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.

7. To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb. "Involved in a deep study." Sir W. Scott.
8. (Math.) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.

Syn. -- To imply; include; implicate; complicate; entangle; embarrass; overwhelm. -- To Involve, Imply. Imply is opposed to express, or set forth; thus, an implied engagement is one fairly to be understood from the words used or the circumstances of the case, though not set forth in form. Involve goes beyond the mere interpretation of things into their necessary relations; and hence, if one thing involves another, it so contains it that the two must go together by an indissoluble connection. War, for example, involves wide spread misery and death; the premises of a syllogism involve the conclusion.

 In*volved" (?), a. (Zoöl.) Same as Involute.

 In*volv"ed*ness (?), n. The state of being involved.

 In*volve"ment (?), n. The act of involving, or the state of being involved. Lew Wallace.
 In*vul"gar (?), v. t. [Pref. inin + vulgar.] To cause to become or appear vulgar. [Obs.] Daniel.
 In*vul"gar, a. [Pref. innot + vulgar.] Not vulgar; refined; elegant. [Obs.] Drayton.
 In*vul"ner*a*bil'i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. invulnérabilité.]
 Quality or state of being invulnerable.

 In*vul"ner*a*ble (?), a. [L. invulnerabilis: cf. F. invulnérable.
 See Innot, and Vulnerable.]

1. Incapable of being wounded, or of receiving injury.

 Neither vainly hope To be invulnerable in those bright arms.

Milton.
2. Unanswerable; irrefutable; that can not be refuted or convinced; as, an invulnerable argument.

 In*vul"ner*a*ble*ness, n. Invulnerability.

 In*vul"ner*ate (?), a. [L. invulneratus unwounded.]
 Invulnerable.

 In*wall" (n*wl"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inwalled (-wld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Inwalling.] To inclose or fortify as with a wall. Spenser.
 In"wall' (n"wl'), n. An inner wall; specifically (Metal.), the inner wall, or lining, of a blast furnace.

 In"ward (n*wrd), a. [AS. inweard, inneweard, innanweard, fr. innan, inne, within (fr. in in; see In) + the suffix -weard, E. -ward.]

1. Being or placed within; inner; interior; - - opposed to outward.
 Milton.
2. Seated in the mind, heart, spirit, or soul. "Inward beauty." Shak.
3. Intimate; domestic; private. [Obs.]

 All my inward friends abhorred me.

Job xix. 19.
 He had had occasion, by one very inward with him, to know in part the discourse of his life.

Sir P. Sidney.
 In"ward, n. 1. That which is inward or within; especially, in the plural, the inner parts or organs of the body; the viscera. Jer.
 Taylor.
 Then sacrificing, laid the inwards and their fat.

Milton.
2. The mental faculties; -- usually pl. [Obs.]

3. An intimate or familiar friend or acquaintance. [Obs.] "I was an inward of his." Shak.
 { In"ward (?), In"wards (?), } adv. [AS. inweard. The ending -s is prop. a genitive ending. See Inward, a., -wards.]

1. Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward.

2. Into, or toward, the mind or thoughts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward.

 So much the rather, thou Celestial Light, Shine inward.

Milton.
 In"ward*ly (?), adv. [AS. inweardlice.]

1. In the inner parts; internally.

 Let Benedick, like covered fire, Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly.

Shak.
2. Toward the center; inward; as, to curve inwardly.

3. In the heart or mind; mentally; privately; secretly; as, he inwardly repines.

4. Intimately; thoroughly. [Obs.]

 I shall desire to know him more inwardly.

Beau. & Fl.
 In"ward*ness, n. 1. Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the inwardness of conduct.

 Sense can not arrive to the inwardness Of things.

Dr. H. More.
2. Intimacy; familiarity. [Obs


BALLADS OF PEACE IN WAR By Michael Earls CONTENTS HIS LIGHT THE COUNTERSIGN THE COUNTERSIGN A HILL O' LIGHTS OFF TO THE WAR THE TOWERS OF HOLY CROSS ALWAYS MAYTIME THE STORYTELLER MY FATHER'S TUNES A SONG A BALLAD OF FRANCE TO ONE IN SUCCESS THE LIFELONG WAR LINDEN LANE THE BOUNDARIES OF A HOUSE ATTAINMENT THE PHILOSOPHERS THE PHILOSOPHERS PREPAREDNESS I. THE DRUMMER BOY II. THE SAILOR WAR IN THE NORTH THE HAPPY TIME THE TIME OF TRUCE BETHLEHEM A VOW-DAY FLOWER THE TREE IN THE TENEMENT YARD OLD HUDSON ROVERS A WINTER MINSTER THE DARK LITTLE ROSE THE MONK MAELANFAID THE YOUNG ADVENTURERS THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH THE BONNIE PRINCE O' SPRING ON A TRAIN THE COLUMBINE TWO SEANICHIES THE GREEN BRIGADE ALLELUIA HEIGHT HIS LIGHT THE COUNTERSIGN THE COUNTERSIGN A HILL O' LIGHTS OFF TO THE WAR THE TOWERS OF HOLY CROSS ALWAYS MAYTIME THE STORYTELLER MY FATHER'S TUNES A SONG A BALLAD OF FRANCE TO ONE IN SUCCESS THE LIFELONG WAR LINDEN LANE THE BOUNDARIES OF A HOUSE ATTAINMENT THE PHILOSOPHERS THE PHILOSOPHERS PREPAREDNESS I. THE DRUMMER BOY II. THE SAILOR WAR IN THE NORTH THE HAPPY TIME THE TIME OF TRUCE BETHLEHEM A VOW-DAY FLOWER THE TREE IN THE TENEMENT YARD OLD HUDSON ROVERS A WINTER MINSTER THE DARK LITTLE ROSE THE MONK MAELANFAID THE YOUNG ADVENTURERS THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH THE BONNIE PRINCE O' SPRING ON A TRAIN THE COLUMBINE TWO SEANICHIES THE GREEN BRIGADE ALLELUIA HEIGHT


; qualification; requisite; article; provision; arrangement. See State.

 Con*di"tion (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Conditioned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Conditioning.] 1. To make terms; to stipulate.

 Pay me back my credit, And I'll condition with ye. Beau.
 & Fl.
2. (Metaph.) To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.

 To think of a thing is to condition. Sir W. Hamilton.
 Con*di"tion, v. t. [Cf. LL. conditionare. See Condition, n.]
 1. To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.

 Seas, that daily gain upon the shore, Have ebb and flow conditioning their march. Tennyson.
2. To contract; to stipulate; to agree.

 It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children. Sir W. Raleigh.
3. (U. S. Colleges) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study.

4. To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains). McElrath.
 Con*di"tion*al (?), a. [L. conditionalis.] 1.
 Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise.

 Every covenant of God with man... may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared.
Bp. Warburton.
2. (Gram. & Logic) Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense.

 A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately.
 The words hypothetical and conditional may be... used synonymously. J. S. Mill.
 Con*di"tion*al, n. 1. A limitation. [Obs.] Bacon.
2. A conditional word, mode, or proposition.

 Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals. L. H. Atwater.
 Con*di'tion*al"i*ty (?), n. The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.

 Con*di"tion*al*ly (?), adv. In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively. Shak.
 Con*di"tion*ate (?), a. [LL. conditionatus, p. p. See Condition, v. t.] Conditional. [Obs.]

 Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp.
 Hall.
 Con*di"tion*ate (?), v. t. 1. To qualify by conditions; to regulate. [Obs.]

2. To put under conditions; to render conditional.

 Con*di"tioned (?), a. 1. Surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man.

 The best conditioned and unwearied spirit. Shak.
2. Having, or known under or by, conditions or relations; not independent; not absolute.

 Under these, thought is possible only in the conditioned interval. Sir W. Hamilton.
 Con*di"tion*ly, adv. Conditionally. [Obs.]

 Con"di*to*ry (?), n.; pl. Conditories (#). [L. conditorium, fr. condere to hide. See Recondite.] A repository for holding things; a hinding place.

 Con*dog" (?; 115), v. i. [A punning corruption of concur.]
 To concur; to agree. [Burlesque] This word appears in early dictionaries as a synonym for the word agree; thus. "Agree; concurre, cohere, condog, condescend." Cockeram.
 Con*do"la*to*ry (?), a. Expressing condolence. Smart.
 Con*dole" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Condoled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Condoling.] [L. condolere; con- + dolere to feel pain, grieve. See Doleful.] To express sympathetic sorrow; to grieve in sympathy; -- followed by with.

 Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you. Sir W. Temple.
 Con*dole", v. t. To lament or grieve over. [R.]

 I come not, Samson, to condole thy chance. Milton.
 Con*dole"ment (?), n. 1. Condolence. "A pitiful condolement."
 Milton.
2. Sorrow; mourning; lamentation. Shak.
 Con*do"lence (?), n. [Cf. F. condoléance.] Expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief.

 Their congratulations and their condolences. Steele.
 A special mission of condolence. Macaulay.
 Con*dol"er (?), n. One who condoles.

 Con'do*na"tion (?), n. [L. condonatio a giving away.] 1.
 The act of condoning or pardoning.

2. (Law) Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated. Bouvier. Wharton.
 Con*done" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Condoned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Condoning.] [L. condonare, - donatum, to give up, remit, forgive; con- + donare to give. See Donate.] 1. To pardon; to forgive.

 A fraud which he had either concocted or condoned. W. Black.
 It would have been magnanimous in the men then in power to have overlooked all these things, and, condoning the politics, to have rewarded the poetry of Burns. J. C. Shairp.
2. (Law) To pardon; to overlook the offense of; esp., to forgive for a violation of the marriage law; -- said of either the husband or the wife.

 Con"dor (?), n. [Sp. condor, fr. Peruvian cuntur.] (Zoöl.)
 A very large bird of the Vulture family (Sarcorhamphus gryphus), found in the most elevated parts of the Andes.

 ||Con'dot*tie"re (?), n.; pl. Condottieri (#). [It., captain.] A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.

 Con*duce" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Conduced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Conducing.] [L. conducere to bring together, conduce, hire; con- + ducere to lead. See Duke and cf.
 Conduct, n., Cond.] To lead or tend, esp. with reference to a favorable or desirable result; to contribute; -- usually followed by to or toward.

 He was sensible how much such a union would conduce to the happiness of both. Macaulay.
 The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of distemper'd blood. Shak.
Syn. -- To contribute; aid; assist; tend; subserve.

 Con*duce", v. t. To conduct; to lead; to guide. [Obs.]

 He was sent to conduce hither


. [Obs.] Chapman.
Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find.

Chaucer.
2. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish or flavor of (anything) by taking a small quantity into a mouth. Also used figuratively.

 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine.

John ii. 9.
 When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse.

Gibbon.
3. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.

 I tasted a little of this honey.

1 Sam. xiv. 29.
4. To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience; to undergo.

 He... should taste death for every man.

Heb. ii. 9.
5. To partake of; to participate in; — usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure.

 Thou... wilt taste No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary.

Milton.
 Taste, v. i. 1. To try food with the mouth; to eat or drink a little only; to try the flavor of anything; as, to taste of each kind of wine.

2. To have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by which the specific quality or flavor is distinguished; to have a particular quality or character; as, this water tastes brackish; the milk tastes of garlic.

 Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason Shall to the king taste of this action.

Shak.
3. To take sparingly.

 For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.

Dryden.
4. To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty. Waller.
 The valiant never taste of death but once.

Shak.
 Taste, n. 1. The act of tasting; gustation.

2. A particular sensation excited by the application of a substance to the tongue; the quality or savor of any substance as perceived by means of the tongue; flavor; as, the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste.

3. (Physiol.) The one of the five senses by which certain properties of bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor) are ascertained by contact with the organs of taste.

 Taste depends mainly on the contact of soluble matter with the terminal organs (connected with branches of the glossopharyngeal and other nerves) in the papillæ on the surface of the tongue. The base of the tongue is considered most sensitive to bitter substances, the point to sweet and acid substances.

4. Intellectual relish; liking; fondness; — formerly with of, now with for; as, he had no taste for study.

 I have no taste Of popular applause.

Dryden.
5. The power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence, particularly in the fine arts and belles-letters; critical judgment; discernment.

6. Manner, with respect to what is pleasing, refined, or in accordance with good usage; style; as, music composed in good taste; an epitaph in bad taste.

7. Essay; trial; experience; experiment. Shak.
8. A small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tasted or eaten; a bit. Bacon.
9. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

Syn. — Savor; relish; flavor; sensibility; gout. — Taste, Sensibility, Judgment. Some consider taste as a mere sensibility, and others as a simple exercise of judgment; but a union of both is requisite to the existence of anything which deserves the name. An original sense of the beautiful is just as necessary to æsthetic judgments, as a sense of right and wrong to the formation of any just conclusions on moral subjects. But this "sense of the beautiful" is not an arbitrary principle. It is under the guidance of reason; it grows in delicacy and correctness with the progress of the individual and of society at large; it has its laws, which are seated in the nature of man; and it is in the development of these laws that we find the true "standard of taste."

 What, then, is taste, but those internal powers, Active and strong, and feelingly alive To each fine impulse? a discerning sense Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust From things deformed, or disarranged, or gross In species? This, nor gems, nor stores of gold, Nor purple state, nor culture, can bestow, But God alone, when first his active hand Imprints the secret bias of the soul.

Akenside.
Taste of buds, or Taste of goblets (Anat.), the flask-shaped end organs of taste in the epithelium of the tongue. They are made up of modified epithelial cells arranged somewhat like leaves in a bud.

 Taste"ful (?), a. 1. Having a high relish; savory. "Tasteful herbs." Pope.
2. Having or exhibiting good taste; in accordance with good taste; tasty; as, a tasteful drapery.

 — Taste"ful*ly, adv. — Taste"ful*ness, n. Taste"less, a. 1. Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit.

2. Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age. Orrery.
3. Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery.

 — Taste"less*ly, adv. — Taste"less*ness, n. Tast"er (?), n. 1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality.

 Thy tutor be thy taster, ere thou eat.

Dryden.
2. That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.

3. (Zoöl.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora.

 Tast"i*ly (?), adv. In a tasty manner.

 Tast"ing, n. The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors.

 ||Tas"to (?), n. [It.] (Mus.) A key or thing touched to produce a tone.

||Tasto solo, single touch; — in old music, a direction denoting that the notes in the bass over or under which it is written should be performed alone, or with no other chords than unisons and octaves.

 Tast"y (?), a. [Compar. Tastier (?); superl. Tastiest.]
 1. Having a good taste; — applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5.

2. Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.

 Tat (?), n. [Hind. tt.] Gunny cloth made from the fiber of the Corchorus olitorius, or jute. [India] Tat, n. [Hind. tatt&?;.] (Zoöl.) A pony.
 [India] Ta*tau"pa (?), n. [From the native name.] (Zoöl.) A South American tinamou (Crypturus tataupa).

 Tatch (?), n. [F. tache spot. See Techy.] A spot or stain; also, a trick. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.
 Tath (?), obs.


), n. [L., from stridere to make any harsh, grating, or creaking sound.] A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise. Dryden.
 Strid"u*late (?), v. t. [See Stridulous.] To make a shrill, creaking noise; specifically (Zoöl.), to make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects.

 Strid'u*la"tion (?), n. The act of stridulating. Specifically: (Zoöl.)
(a) The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. (b) The noise itself.

 The crickets stridulate by rubbing together the strong nervures of the fore wings. Many grasshoppers stridulate by rubbing the hind legs across strong nervures on the fore wings. The green grasshoppers and katydids stridulate by means of special organs at the base of the fore wings.

 Strid"u*la'tor (?), n. [NL.] That which stridulates. Darwin.
 Strid"u*la*to*ry (?), a. Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation. Darwin.
 Strid"u*lous (?), a. [L. stridulus. See Strident.] Making a shrill, creaking sound. Sir T. Browne.
 The Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart.

Longfellow.
Stridulous laryngitis (Med.), a form of croup, or laryngitis, in children, associated with dyspnœa, occurring usually at night, and marked by crowing or stridulous breathing.

 Strife (?), n. [OF. estrif. See Strive.] 1. The act of striving; earnest endeavor. [Archaic] Shak.
2. Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts.

 Doting about questions and strifes of words.

1 Tim. vi. 4.
 Thus gods contended -- noble strife - Who most should ease the wants of life.

Congreve.
3. Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle.

 Twenty of them fought in this black strife.

Shak.
 These vows, thus granted, raised a strife above Betwixt the god of war and queen of love.

Dryden.
4. That which is contended against; occasion of contest. [Obs.]
 "Lamenting her unlucky strife." Spenser.
Syn. -- Contest; struggle; quarrel. See Contention.

 Strife"ful (?), a. Contentious; discordant.

 The ape was strifeful and ambitious.

Spenser.
 Stri"gate (?), a. (Zoöl.) Having transverse bands of color.

 ||Stri"ges (?), n. pl. [L., pl. of strix a streech owl; cf.
 Gr. &?; a screaming night bird.] (Zoöl.) The tribe of birds which comprises the owls.

 Strig"il (?), n. [L. strigilis, from stringere to graze, scrape.] (Gr. & Rom. Antiq.) An instrument of metal, ivory, etc., used for scraping the skin at the bath.

 Strig"il*lose' (?), a. [Dim. fr. strigose.] (Bot.)
 Set with stiff, slender bristles.

 Stri"gine (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to owls; owl-like.

 Strig"ment (?), n. [L. strigmentum.] Scraping; that which is scraped off. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
 Stri*gose" (?), a. [Cf. F. strigueux. See Strigil.] (Bot.)
 Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf.

 Stri"gous (?), a. (Bot.) Strigose. [R.]

 Strike (?), v. t. [imp. Struck (?); p. p. Struck, Stricken (&?;) (Stroock (&?;), Strucken (&?;), Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Striking. Struck is more commonly used in the p. p. than stricken.] [OE. striken to strike, proceed, flow, AS. strcan to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. strhhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off (but perhaps not to L. stringere in sense to draw tight), striga a row, a furrow. Cf. Streak, Stroke.] 1. To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile.

 He at Philippi kept His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck The lean and wrinkled Cassius.

Shak.
2. To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef.

3. To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.

 They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two sideposts.

Ex. xii. 7.
 Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.

Byron.
4. To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.

5. To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep.

6. To punish; to afflict; to smite.

 To punish the just is not good, nor strike princes for equity.

Prov. xvii. 26.
7. To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.

8. To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.

9. To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror.

 Nice works of art strike and surprise us most on the first view.

Atterbury.
 They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

Pope.
10. To affect in some particular manner by a sudden impression or impulse; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind.

 How often has stricken you dumb with his irony!

Landor.
11. To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke; as, to strike a light.

 Waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.

Milton.
12. To cause to ignite; as, to strike a match.

13. To make and ratify; as, to strike a bargain.

 Probably borrowed from the L. fœdus ferrire, to strike a compact, so called because an animal was struck and killed as a sacrifice on such occasions.

14. To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money.
 [Old Slang] 15. To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top.

16. (Masonry) To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.

17. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as,


[226b] No doubt the original word in these places was sack, as in Chappell's copy—but what would a peasant understand by sack? Dryden's receipt for a sack posset is as follows:— 'From fair Barbadoes, on the western main, Fetch sugar half-a-pound: fetch sack, from Spain, A pint: then fetch, from India's fertile coast, Nutmeg, the glory of the British toast.' Miscellany Poems, v. 138.
[234] Corrupted in modern copies into 'we'll range and we'll rove.' The reading in the text is the old reading. The phrase occurs in several old songs.
[237] We should, probably, read 'he.' [243] Peer—equal.
[247] The road or street.
[249] This is the only instance of this peculiar form in the present version. The miners in the Marienberg invariably said 'for to' wherever the preposition 'to' occurred before a verb.
[250] Three is a favourite number in the nursery rhymes. The following is one of numerous examples:— There was an old woman had three sons, Jerry and James and John: Jerry was hung, James was drowned, John was lost and never was found; And there was an end of her three sons, Jerry, and James, and John!
***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ANCIENT POEMS, BALLADS AND SONGS OF THE PEASANTRY OF ENGLAND***


correct date and time at boot if it realizes that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights!
Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
Node:microLenat, Next:microReid, Previous:microfortnight, Up:= M = microLenat /mi:'-kroh-len'-*t/ n. The unit of bogosity. consensus is that this is the largest unit practical for everyday use. The microLenat, originally invented by David Jefferson, was promulgated as an attack against noted computer scientist Doug Lenat by a tenured graduate student at CMU. Doug had failed the student on an important exam because the student gave only "AI is bogus" as his answer to the questions. The slur is generally considered unmerited, but it has become a running gag nevertheless. Some of Doug's friends argue that of course a microLenat is bogus, since it is only one millionth of a Lenat. Others have suggested that the unit should be redesignated after the grad student, as the microReid.
Node:microReid, Next:microserf, Previous:microLenat, Up:= M = microReid /mi:'kroh-reed/ n. See microLenat.
Node:microserf, Next:Microsloth Windows, Previous:microReid, Up:= M = microserf /mi:'kro-s*rf/ [popularized, though not originated, by Douglas Copeland's book "Microserfs"] A programmer at Microsoft, especially a low-level coder with little chance of fame or fortune. Compare MicroDroid.
Node:Microsloth Windows, Next:Microsoft, Previous:microserf, Up:= M = Microsloth Windows /mi:'kroh-sloth' win'dohz/ n.
(Variants combine {Microshift, Macroshaft, Microsuck} with {Windoze, WinDOS}. Hackerism(s) for 'Microsoft Windows'. A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition. Also just called 'Windoze', with the implication that you can fall asleep waiting for it to do anything; the latter term is extremely common on Usenet. See Black Screen of Death and Blue Screen of Death; compare X, sun-stools.
Node:Microsoft, Next:micros~1, Previous:Microsloth Windows, Up:= M = Microsoft The new Evil Empire (the old one was IBM). The basic complaints are, as formerly with IBM, that (a) their system designs are horrible botches, (b) we can't get source to fix them, and (c) they throw their weight around a lot. See also Halloween Documents.
Node:micros~1, Next:middle-endian, Previous:Microsoft, Up:= M = micros~1 An abbreviation of the full name Microsoft resembling the rather bogus way Windows 9x's VFAT filesystem truncates long file names to fit in the MS-DOS 8+3 scheme (the real filename is stored elsewhere). If other files start with the same prefix, they'll be called micros~2 and so on, causing lots of problems with backups and other routine system-administration problems. During the US Antitrust trial against Microsoft the names Micros~1 ans Micros~2 were suggested for the two companies that would exist after a break-up.
Node:middle-endian, Next:middle-out implementation, Previous:micros~1, Up:= M = middle-endian adj.
Not big-endian or little-endian. Used of perverse byte orders such as 3-4-1-2 or 2-1-4-3, occasionally found in the packed-decimal formats of minicomputer manufacturers who shall remain nameless. See NUXI problem. Non-US hackers use this term to describe the American mm/dd/yy style of writing dates (Europeans write little-endian dd/mm/yy, and Japanese use big-endian yy/mm/dd for Western dates).
Node:middle-out implementation, Next:milliLampson, Previous:middle-endian, Up:= M = middle-out implementation See bottom-up implementation.
Node:milliLampson, Next:minifloppies, Previous:middle-out implementation, Up:= M = milliLampson /mil'*-lamp'sn/ n. A unit of talking speed, abbreviated mL. Most people run about 200 milliLampsons. The eponymous Butler Lampson (a CS theorist and systems implementor highly regarded among hackers) goes at 1000. A few people speak faster. This unit is sometimes used to compare the (sometimes widely disparate) rates at which people can generate ideas and actually emit them in speech. For example, noted computer architect C. Gordon Bell (designer of the PDP-11) is said, with some awe, to think at about 1200 mL but only talk at about 300; he is frequently reduced to fragments of sentences as his mouth tries to keep up with his speeding brain.
Node:minifloppies, Next:MIPS, Previous:milliLampson, Up:= M = minifloppies n.,obs.
5.25-inch floppy disks, as opposed to 3.5-inch or microfloppies and the long-obsolescent 8-inch variety (if there is ever a smaller size, they will undoubtedly be tagged 'nanofloppies'). At one time, this term was a trademark of Shugart Associates for their SA-400 minifloppy drive. Nobody paid any attention. See stiffy.
Node:MIPS, Next:misbug, Previous:minifloppies, Up:= M = MIPS /mips/ n.
[abbreviation] 1. A measure of computing speed; formally, 'Million Instructions Per Second' (that's 10^6 per second, not 2^(20)!); often rendered by hackers as 'Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed' or in other unflattering ways, such as 'Meaningless Information Provided by Salesmen'. This joke expresses an attitude nearly universal among hackers about the value of most benchmark claims, said attitude being one of the great cultural divides between hackers and marketroids (see also BogoMIPS). The singular is sometimes '1 MIP' even though this is clearly etymologically wrong. See also KIPS and GIPS. 2. Computers, especially large computers, considered abstractly as sources of computrons. "This is just a workstation; the heavy MIPS are hidden in the basement." 3. The corporate name of a particular RISC-chip company; among other things, they designed the processor chips used in DEC's 3100 workstation series. 4. Acronym for 'Meaningless Information per Second' (a joke, prob. from sense 1).
Node:misbug, Next:misfeature, Previous:MIPS, Up:= M = misbug /mis-buhg/ n.
[MIT; rare (like its referent)] An unintended property of a program that turns out to be useful; something that should have been a bug but turns out to be a feature. Compare green lightning. See miswart.
Node:misfeature, Next:Missed'em-five, Previous:misbug, Up:= M = misfeature /mis-fee'chr/ or /mis'fee'chr/ n.
[common] A feature that eventually causes lossage, possibly because it is not adequate for a new situation that has evolved.
Since it results from a deliberate and properly implemented feature, a misfeature is not a bug. Nor is it a simple unforeseen side effect; the term implies that the feature in question was carefully planned, but its long-term consequences were not accurately or adequately predicted (which is quite different from not having thought ahead at all). A misfeature can be a particularly stubborn problem to resolve, because fixing it usually involves a substantial philosophical change to the structure of the system involved.
Many misfeatures (especially in user-interface design) arise because the designers/implementors mistake their personal tastes for laws of nature. Often a former feature becomes a misfeature because trade-offs were made whose parameters subsequently change (possibly only in the judgment of the implementors). "Well, yeah, it is kind of a misfeature that file names are limited to six


Transcribed from the 1907 William Heinemann edition by David Price, email _EMAIL_ The Plays of W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson Deacon Brodie Beau Austin Admiral Guinea Robert Macaire Decorative graphic London William Heinemann 1907 Copyright All rights reserved CONTENTS PAGE DEACON BRODIE 1 BEAU AUSTIN 111 ADMIRAL GUINEA 177 ROBERT MACAIRE 251 p. 1DEACON BRODIE OR THE DOUBLE LIFE A MELODRAMA IN FIVE ACTS AND EIGHT TABLEAUX PERSONS REPRESENTED William Brodie, Deacon of the Wrights, Housebreaker and Master Carpenter.
Old Brodie, the Deacon's Father.
William Lawson, Procurator-Fiscal, the Deacon's Uncle.
Andrew Ainslie, Humphrey Moore, George Smith, Robbers in the Deacon's gang.
Captain Rivers, an English Highwayman.
Hunt, a Bow Street Runner.
A Doctor.
Walter Leslie.
Mary Brodie, the Deacon's Sister.
Jean Watt, the Deacon's Mistress.
Vagabonds, Officers of the Watch, Men-servants.
The Scene is laid in Edinburgh. The Time is towards the close of the Eighteenth Century. The Action, some fifty hours long, begins at eight p.m. on Saturday and ends before midnight on Monday.
Note.—Passages suggested for omission in representation are enclosed in square brackets, thus [ ].
SYNOPSIS OF ACTS AND TABLEAUX ACT I. TABLEAU I. The Double Life.
TABLEAU II.
Hunt the Runner.
TABLEAU III.
Mother Clarke's.
ACT II.
TABLEAU IV.
Evil and Good.
ACT III.
TABLEAU V. King's Evidence.
TABLEAU VI.
Unmasked.
ACT IV.
TABLEAU VII.
The Robbery.
ACT V. TABLEAU VIII.
The Open Door.
LONDON: PRINCE'S THEATRE 2d July 1884 Deacon Brodie, Mr. E. J. Henley.
Walter Leslie, Mr. Charles Cartwright.
William Lawson, Mr. John Maclean.
Andrew Ainslie, Mr. Fred Desmond.
Humphrey Moore, Mr. Edmund Grace.
George Smith, Mr. Julian Cross.
Hunt, Mr. Hubert Akhurst.
Old Brodie, Mr. A. Knight.
Captain Rivers, Mr. Brandon Thomas.
Mary Brodie, Miss Lizzie Williams.
Jean Watt, Miss Minnie Bell.
MONTREAL 26th September 1887 Deacon Brodie, Mr. E. J. Henley.
Walter Leslie, Mr. Graham Stewart.
William Lawson, Mr. Edmund Lyons.
Andrew Ainslie, Mr. Fred Desmond.
Humphrey Moore, Mr. Edmund Grace.
George smith, Mr. Horatio Saker.
Hunt, Mr. Henry Vernon.
Captain Rivers, Mr. Bruce Philips.
Mary Brodie, Miss Annie Robe.
Jean Watt, Miss Carrie Coote.
ACT I. TABLEAU I. The Double Life.
The Stage represents a room in the Deacon's house, furnished partly as a sitting-, partly as a bed-room, in the style of an easy burgess of about 1780. C., a door; L. C., a second and smaller door; R. C., practicable window; L., alcove, supposed to contain bed; at the back, a clothes-press and a corner cupboard containing bottles, etc. Mary Brodie at needlework; Old Brodie, a paralytic, in wheeled chair, at the fireside, L. SCENE I To these Leslie, C. Leslie. May I come in, Mary?
Mary. Why not?
Leslie. I scarce knew where to find you.
Mary. The dad and I must have a corner, must we not? So when my brother's friends are in the parlour he allows us to sit in his room.
'Tis a great favour, I can tell you; the place is sacred.
Leslie. Are you sure that 'sacred' is strong enough?
Mary. You are satirical!
Leslie. I? And with regard to the Deacon? Believe me, I am not so ill-advised. You have trained me well, and I feel by him as solemnly as a true-born Brodie.
Mary. And now you are impertinent! Do you mean to go any further? We are a fighting race, we Brodies. Oh, you may laugh, sir!
But 'tis no child's play to jest us on our Deacon, or, for that matter, on our Deacon's chamber either.
It was his father's before him: he works in it by day and sleeps in it by night; and scarce anything it contains but is the labour of his hands. Do you see this table, Walter?
He made it while he was yet a 'prentice. I remember how I used to sit and watch him at his work. It would be grand, I thought, to be able to do as he did, and handle edge-tools without cutting my fingers, and getting my ears pulled for a meddlesome minx! He used to give me his mallet to keep and his nails to hold; and didn't I fly when he called for them! and wasn't I proud to be ordered about with them! And then, you know, there is the tall cabinet yonder; that it was that proved him the first of Edinburgh joiners, and worthy to be their Deacon and their head. And the father's chair, and the sister's workbox, and the dear dead mother's footstool—what are they all but proofs of the Deacon's skill, and tokens of the Deacon's care for those about him?
Leslie. I am all penitence. Forgive me this last time, and I promise you I never will again.
Mary. Candidly, now, do you think you deserve forgiveness?
Leslie. Candidly, I do not.
Mary. Then I suppose you must have it. What have you done with Willie and my uncle?
Leslie. I left them talking deeply. The dear old Procurator has not much thought just now for anything but those mysterious burglaries— Mary. I know!— Leslie. Still, all of him that is not magistrate and official is politician and citizen; and he has been striving his hardest to undermine the Deacon's principles, and win the Deacon's vote and interest.
Mary. They are worth having, are they not?
Leslie. The Procurator seems to think that having them makes the difference between winning and losing.
Mary. Did he say so?
You may rely upon it that he knows. There are not many in Edinburgh who can match with our Will.
Leslie. There shall be as many as you please, and not one more.
Mary. How I should like to have heard you! What did uncle say? Did he speak of the Town Council again? Did he tell Will what a wonderful Bailie he would make? O why did you come away?
Leslie. I could not pretend to listen any longer. The election is months off yet; and if it were not—if it were tramping upstairs this moment—drums, flags, cockades, guineas, candidates, and all!—how should I care for it? What are Whig and Tory to me?
Mary. O fie on you! It is for every man to concern himself in the common weal. Mr.
Leslie—Leslie of the Craig!—should know that much at least.
Leslie. And be a politician like the Deacon? All in good time, but not now. I hearkened while I could, and when I could no more I slipped out and followed my heart. I hoped I should be welcome.
Mary. I suppose you mean to be unkind.
Leslie. Tit for tat.
Did you not ask me why I came away? And is it usual for a young lady to say 'Mr.' to the


nearly allied to the boas. Called also rock snake.

 The pythons have small pelvic bones, or anal spurs, two rows of subcaudal scales, and pitted labials. They are found in Africa, Asia, and the East Indies.

2. A diviner by spirits. "[Manasses] observed omens, and appointed pythons." 4 Kings xxi. 6 (Douay version).
 Pyth"o*ness (?), n. [L. pythonissa: cf. F. pythonisse.
 See Pythian.] 1. (Gr. Antiq.) The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.

2. Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch. Bp. Hall.
 Py*thon"ic (?), a. [L. pythonicus, Gr. &?;. See Pythian.]
 Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.

 Pyth"o*nism (?), n. The art of predicting events after the manner of the priestess of Apollo at Delphi; equivocal prophesying.

 Pyth"o*nist (?), n. A conjurer; a diviner.

 ||Pyth'o*no*mor"pha (?), n. pl. [NL. See Python, and -morphous.] (Paleon.)
 Same as Mosasauria.

 ||Py*u"ri*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; pus + &?; urine.] (Med.)
 A morbid condition in which pus is discharged in the urine.

 Pyx (?), n. [L. pyxis a box, Gr. pyxi's a box, especially of boxwood, fr. py'xos the box tree or boxwood. See Box a receptacle.]
 [Written also pix.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved.

2. A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint. Mushet.
3. (Naut.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle. Weale.
4. (Anat.) Same as Pyxis.

Pyx cloth (R. C. Ch.), a veil of silk or lace covering the pyx. -- Trial of the pyx, the annual testing, in the English mint, of the standard of gold and silver coins. Encyc. Brit.
 Pyx, v. t. To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx. [Eng.] Mushet.
 Pyx"i*date (?), a. Having a pyxidium.

 ||Pyx*id"i*um (?), n.; pl. Pyxidia (#). [NL., fr. Gr.
 &?;, dim. a &?; a box. See Pyx.] (Bot.) (a) A pod which divides circularly into an upper and lower half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as in the pimpernel and purslane. (b) The theca of mosses.

 Pyx"ie (pks"), n. (Bot.) Same as Pixy.

 ||Pyx*is (?), n. [L.] 1. A box; a pyx.

2. (Bot.) A pyxidium.

3. (Anat.) The acetabulum. See Acetabulum, 2.

 Q. Q (k), the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, has but one sound (that of k), and is always followed by u, the two letters together being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; cwen, queen. The name (k) is from the French ku, which is from the Latin name of the same letter; its form is from the Latin, which derived it, through a Greek alphabet, from the Phœnician, the ultimate origin being Egyptian.

 Etymologically, q or qu is most nearly related to a (ch, tch), p, q, and wh; as in cud, quid, L. equus, ecus, horse, Gr. &?;, whence E. equine, hippic; L. quod which, E. what; L. aquila, E. eaqle; E. kitchen, OE. kichene, AS. cycene, L. coquina.

 Qua (?), conj. [L., abl. of qui who.] In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as.

 It is with Shelley's biographers qua biographers that we have to deal.

London Spectator.
 Quab (?), n. [Cf. D. kwab eelpout, Dan. quabbe, G. quabbe, quappe, LG. quabbe a fat lump of flesh, and L. capito a kind of fish with a large head, fr. caput the head, also E. squab.]
 An unfledged bird; hence, something immature or unfinished. Ford.
 Quab, v. i. See Quob, v. i. Qua"-bird' (?), n. (Zoöl.) The American night heron.
 See under Night.

 Qua"cha (?), n. (Zoöl.) The quagga.

 Quack (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Qvacked (?); p. pr.
 & vb. n. Quacking.] [Of imitative origin; cf. D. kwaken, G. quacken, quaken, Icel. kvaka to twitter.]

1. To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.

2. To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast. " To quack of universal cures." Hudibras.
3. To act the part of a quack, or pretender.

 Quack, n. 1. The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise. Chaucer.
2. [Cf. Quacksalver.] A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.

3. Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.

Quacks political; quacks scientific, academical.

Carlyle.
 Quack, a. Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.

 Quack"er*y (?), n.; pl. Quackeries (&?;). The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism. Carlyle.
 Quack" grass' (?). (Bot.) See Quitch grass.

 Quack"ish, a. Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery. Burke.
 Quack"ism (?), n. Quackery. Carlyle.
 Quac"kle (?), v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Quackled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Quackling (?).] [Cf.Querken.] To suffocate; to choke. [Prov. Eng.]

 Quack"sal*ver (?), n. [D. kwakzalver; cf. kwakzalven to quack or boast of one's salves. See Quack, Salve, n.] One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. [Obs.] Burton.
 { Quad (?), Quade (?) }, a. [Akin to AS. cwd, cwead, dung, evil, G. kot,