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Joy; gladness; delight. We should particularly express our rejoicing by love and charity to our neighbors. R. Nelson.

Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree.

hat life required, and gave no more. Goldsmith. The two last [biographies] require to be particularly noticed. J. A. Symonds.

To have regard to; to have reference to; to relateto; as, the treaty particularly respects our commerce. As respects, as regards; with regard to; as to. Macaulay. -- To respect the person or persons, to favor a person, or persons on corrupt grounds; to show partiality. "Ye shall not respect persons in judgment." Deut.…

As relating to each; particularly; as each belongs to each; as each refers to each in order; as, let each man respectively perform his duty. The impressions from the objects or the senses do mingle respectively every one with its kind. Bacon.

A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.

To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one. Now ringen trompes loud and clarion. Chaucer. Why ring not out the bells Shak.

hand of a king, with the view of restoring to health; -- formerly extensively practiced, particularly for the scrofula, or king's evil.

pearance, sometimes seen in dark, tempestuous nights, at some prominent point on a ship, particularly at the masthead and the yardams. It has also been observed on land, and is due to the discharge of electricity from elevated or pointed objects. A single flame is called a Helena, or a Corposant; a double, or twin, fla…

A popular name, esp. in the United States, for various cutaneous eruptions, particularly for those of eczema. See Eczema.

etrad form seen in the division of a dumb-bell group of micrococci into four; -- applied particularly to bacteria. See micrococcus.

ld Saxon, the saxon of the continent of Europe in the old form of the language, as shown particularly in the "Heliand", a metrical narration of the gospel history preserved in manuscripts of the 9th century.

ially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to diseas…

dry scales or scabs upon the body; especially, thin scales exfoliated from the cuticle, particularly of the scalp; dandruff.

An examination into one's own state, conduct, and motives, particularly in regard to religious feelings and duties.

Particularly concerned for one's own interest or happiness.

Senile maturity of judgment." Boyle. Senile gangrene (Med.), a form of gangrene occuring particularly in old people, and caused usually by insufficient blood supply due to degeneration of the walls of the smaller arteries.

In plastering, a particularly good troweled surface. Knight.

A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities.

A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet; specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from firearms or cannon by the force of an explosive.