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Subject to contention; disputable; controvertible; debatable; doubtful; precarious. Shak. No fences, parted fields, nor marks, nor bounds, Distinguished acres of litigious grounds. Dryden.

To drive to shelter; to track to covert. The deer is lodged; I have tracked her to her covert. Addison.

aspect; as, the house has a gloomy look; the affair has a bad look. Pain, disgrace, and poverty have frighted looks. Locke. There was something that reminded me of Dante's Hell in the look of this. Carlyle.

In subjection, poverty, or disgrace; as, to be brought low by oppression, by want, or by vice. Spenser.

ze of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre pheasant and lyre-tail.

ially, a discontented subject of a government; one who express his discontent by words or overt acts. Spenser. Berkeley.

Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain. [Obs.] When he saw them so piteous and so maat. Chaucer.

eral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts. Median line. (a) (Anat.) Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which the mesial plane meets the surface of the body. (b) (Geom.) The line drawn from an angle of a triangle to the middle of the oppos…

; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact by following and overtaking.

; to dig in the earth for minerals; to dig a passage or cavity under anything in order to overthrow it by explosives or otherwise.

respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge. Mistake me not so much, To think my poverty is treacherous. Shak.

tion and compound stops; -- called also furniture stop. It consists of high harmonics, or overtones, of the ground tone.

y of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty. "A monk out of his cloister." Chaucer. Monks in some respects agree with regulars, as in the substantial vows of religion; but in other respects monks and regulars differ; for that regulars, vows excepted, are not tied up…

One of the embryonic muscular segments arising from the protovertebræ; also, one of the protovertebræ themselves.

Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty. Necessitous heirs and penurious parents. Arbuthnot.

pressing need; indigence; want. Urge the necessity and state of times. Shak. The extreme poverty and necessity his majesty was in. Clarendon.

Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. Chaucer. Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes. Shak.

The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.

Overtaken by night; belated. Beau. & Fl.

A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. They holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration. Wordsworth.