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A mouse of the genus Arvicola; the meadow mouse. There are many species.

Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun.

To receive or adopt. The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company. Sir W. Scott.

The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting. The assumption of authority. Whewell.

rms I must invoke by prayer. Dryden. Astral lamp, an Argand lamp so constructed that no shadow is cast upon the table by the flattened ring-shaped reservoir in which the oil is contained. -- Astral spirits, spirits formerly supposed to live in the heavenly bodies or the aërial regions, and represented in the Middle Ag…

A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.

A condition of the system produced by long use of belladonna.

To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments. Finely attired in a robe of white. Shak. With the linen miter shall he be attired. Lev. xvi. 4.

Attire; adornment.

To adorn with trapping; to array. [Obs.] Shall your horse be attrapped . . . more richly Holland.

rule, a rule for religious communities based upon the 109th letter of St. Augustine, and adopted by the Augustinian orders.

Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.

Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity. Partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to the lack of demonstration in her manners. Hawthorne.

See Avocado.

Set or adorned with pearls. [Obs.]

o brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana or Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.

Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal. In the preface to his own bald translation. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to Barbados. -- n.

To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech. The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms. Milton.

Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager. "Uttering bare truth." Shak.