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A woman who preserves from loss, injury, etc.

The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.

Payment, by each of several jointly liable, of a share in a loss suffered or an amount paid by one of their number for the common benefit.

table, agreeable, or convenient. And they missed Their wonted convenance, cheerly hid the loss. Emerson.

a coöperative society, where the members make their purchases and share in the profits or losses.

etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer. the associates and copartners of our loss. Milton.

Coral tree (Bot.), a tropical, leguminous plant, of several species, with showy, scarlet blossoms and coral-red seeds. The best known is Erythrina Corallodendron. -- Coral wood, a hard, red cabinet wood. McElrath.

e calyx by the fineness of its texture and the gayness of its colors. See the Note under Blossom.

impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery. It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them. Hallam. They abstained from some of the wo…

on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.

n barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life. A d'amond gone, cost me two thousand ducats. Shak. Though it cost me ten nights' watchings. Shak.

A common flower in England (Primula veris) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the United States.

A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclossed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; - - often called firecracker.

A kind of chintz with a glossy surface.

A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn.

h. We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross, One must be happy by the other's loss. Dryden.

A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach- blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. It is obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon a…

or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the opening of the blossoms.

A name given to several species of Pleuronectes . TheAmerican rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides.

Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief. He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage. Prov. xxvi. 6. Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both…