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The quality of being jealous; earnest concern or solicitude; painful apprehension of rivalship in cases nearly affecting one's happiness; painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover. I was jealous for jealousy. Zech. viii. 2. Jealousy is the . . . apprehension of superiority. Shenstone. Whoever had…

To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret. Great are thy virtues . . . though kept from man. Milton.

bligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates.

wdness; one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit commerce with women.

A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.

the powers; especially, a spiritual existence; happiness in the favor of God; heavenly felicity.

Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity. The duke yet would have dark deeds darkly answered; he would never bring them to light. Shak.

To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes.[U.S.] Bartlett.

A member of the lobby; a person who solicits members of a legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation. [U.S.]

Courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage. Demetrius . . . Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena, And won her soul. Shak.

ing to Machiavel, or to his supposed principles; politically cunning; characterized by duplicity or bad faith; crafty.

luble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity. Washington.

Multiplicity. Sherwood.

Perhaps; possibly; peradventure. Maybe the amorous count solicits her. Shak. In a liberal and, maybe, somewhat reckless way. Tylor.

ar, isomeric with sucrose, extracted from the manna of the larch (Larix). [Written also melicitose.]

A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night. [Cant, U.S.]

Illicit distilling. [Slang or Colloq., U. S.]

t, sometimes used in medicine. -- Mountain dew, Scotch whisky, so called because often illicitly distilled among the mountains. [Humorous] -- Mountain ebony (Bot.), a small leguminous tree (Bauhinia variegata) of the East and West Indies; -- so called because of its dark wood. The bark is used medicinally and in tanni…

Vile, in a moral sense; sordid. [Obs.] Spenser. Mucky money and false felicity. Latimer.

Multiplicity. [R.] Coleridge.