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Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse; companionable; sociable; as, a social person.

Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful. "Solicitous of my reputation." Dryden. "He was solicitous for his advice." Calerendon. Enjoy the present, whatsoever it be, and be not solicitous about the future. Jer. Taylor. The colonel had been intent u…

Disposed to sing; full of song.

pirit would deprive." Spenser. The mild air, with season moderate, Gently attempered, and disposed eo well, That still it breathed foorth sweet spirit. Spenser.

A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave. Cowley found out that no kind of staff is proper for an heroic poem, as being all too lyrical. Dryden.

A trailing branch which is disposed to take root at the end or at the joints; a stole.

Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation. All human things are subject to decay. Dryden.

Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling. Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in one kind or other. Bp. Fell. These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another. Ray. Their temporal ambition was wh…

Disposed to toy; trifling; wanton. [R.] Ford.

Capable of being disposed of in traffic; marketable. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable. -

Disposed to insubordination and disorder; restless; unquiet; refractory; as, turbulent spirits. Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. Dryden.

Alternately disposed on exactly opposite sides of the stem so as to from two ranks; distichous.

inting, spoken of collectively; any number or mass of such letters or characters, however disposed.

Feeling jealousy or umbrage; taking, or disposed to take, umbrage; suspicious. [Obs.] Bp. Warburton. -- Um*bra"geous*ly, adv. -- Um*bra"geous*ness, n.

Suspicious; captious; disposed to take umbrage. [Obs. & R.] Sir H. Wotton.

Not accustomed and not likely; not disposed. I am a soldier and unapt to weep. Shak. -- Un*apt"ly, adv. -- Un*apt"ness, n.

Not merciful; indisposed to mercy or grace; cruel; inhuman; merciless; unkind. -- Un*mer"ci*ful*ly, adv. -- Un*mer"ci*ful*ness, n.

Not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct. But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. James iii. 8.

Not well; indisposed; not in good health; somewhat ill; ailing.