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Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude; hence, predominant. [R.]

To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead. As when his beams at noon Culminate from the equator. Milton.

The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.

g copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its highest proportion.

A cuplet or little cup, as the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants ot which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.

The language of the Czechs (often called Bohemian), the harshest and richest of the Slavic languages.

ind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare. Dunglison.

vernment which is either unable or unwilling to redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest duties. J. Buchanan.

The muscular and tendinous partition separating the cavity of the chest from that of the abdomen; the midriff.

disobey their parents; men disobey their Maker and the laws. Not to disobey her lord's behest. Tennyson.

he part of a picture which contains the representation of those objects which are the farthest away, esp. in a landscape.

Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir J. Davies. "The divine Desdemona." Shak. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. Prov. xvi. 10. But not to one in this benighted a…

se the title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers. Chesterfield.

versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.…

One who gains at examinations the highest honor both in the classics and the mathematics. Beaconsfield.

Gentleness and sweetness of manner; agreeableness. Chesterfield.

An under-garment worn on the lower limbs. Chest of drawers. See under Chest.

common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band. The drums cry bud-a-dub. Gascoigne.

In England, one of the highest order of nobility after princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four archbishops of England and Ireland.