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e; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health. We take care to improve in our frugality and diligence. Atterbury.

mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.

as, indecorous conduct. It was useless and indecorous to attempt anything more by mere struggle. Burke.

siduous; not slothful or idle; -- commonly implying devotion to lawful and useful labor. Frugal and industrious men are commonly friendly to the established government. Sir W. Temple.

Not to be overcome by struggling; irresistible; inevitable. Bp. Pearson. The ineluctable conditions of matter. Hamerton.

ess to exposing to the rays of the sun fro the purpose of drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc., or of rendering acid, as vinegar.

Hoping here to end Intestine war in heaven, the arch foe subdued. Milton. An intestine struggle . . . between authority and liberty. Hume.

To poison; to drug. South.

Bound as with iron; rugged; as, an ironbound coast.

A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John. You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby. Shak.

The Java plum; also, a drug obtained from its bark and seeds, used as a remedy for diabetes.

A native garment or rug of skin sewed together in the form of a square. [South Africa]

ed as a term of contempt. Macaulay. Now for our Irish wars; We must supplant those rough, rug-headed kerns. Shak.

The rugged top of a hill. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Drops of some drug put in one's drink to stupefy him for purpose of robbery, etc. [Slang, U. S.]

Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.[R.] Rewe.

Lit., culture war; -- a name, originating with Virchow (1821 -- 1902), given to a struggle between the the Roman Catholic Church and the German government, chiefly over the latter's efforts to control educational and ecclesiastical appointments in the interest of the political policy of centralization. The struggle beg…

To imitate the manner of the Laconians, especially in brief, pithy speech, or in frugality and austerity.

floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting the tiles, plastering, etc. A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes used. Lath brick, a long, slender brick, used in making the floor on which malt is placed in the drying kiln. Lath nail a slender nail for fastening laths.

To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine. [Cant]