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The sway of pedants. [R.] J. S. Mill.

The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. "This pedantry of quotation." Cowley. 'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. Sir T. Browne.

An assembly or clique of pedants. [Obs.] Milton.

ndelier or an eardrop; also, an appendix or addition, as to a book. Some hang upon the pendants of her ear. Pope. Many . . . have been pleased with this work and its pendant, the Tales and Popular Fictions. Keightley.

tasteless white crystalline substance, extracted from the roots of the sulphurwort (Peucedanum), masterwort (Imperatoria), and other related plants; -- called also imperatorin.

Preceding; antecedent; previous. [Obs.] Hammond.

A pretender; a claimant.

A confection of quinces, in consistency between a sirup and marmalade.

The ninth Mohammedan month.

The product of a second sifting of meal; the finest part of the bran. [Prov. Eng.]

Remembrance. [Obs.]

A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy.

The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess.

Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food. Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh. Arbuthnot.

In a refundant manner.

Looking behind; looking backward watchfully. [He] turns thither his regardant eye. Southey.

Same as Regardant.

See Ramadan.

A salt of rhodanic acid; a sulphocyanate. [Obsoles.]

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called sulphocyanic acid) which frms a red color with ferric salts. [Obsoles.]