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Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a luminous mind. " Luminous eloquence." Macaulay. " A luminous statement." Brougham. Luminous paint, a paint made up with some phosphorescent substance, as sulphide of calcium, which after exposure to a strong light is luminous in the dark for a time.…

Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, an insane person; evincing lunacy; as, lunatic gibberish; a lunatic asylum.

t. Having served three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant.

urke. The invisible powers of heaven seemed to militate on the side of the pious emperor. Gibbon.

nd proposition, the parts of which are united modally ... by the particles "as" and "so." Gibbs.

ent sect who held that Christ had but one will as he had but one nature. Cf. Monophysite. Gibbon.

To talk imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly; to chatter unintelligibly.

nd when struck; -- said of a metal. Mute swan (Zoöl.), a European wild white swan (Cygnus gibbus), which produces no loud notes.

The basket suspended from a balloon; hence, the framework forming the body of a dirigible balloon, and containing the machinery, passengers, etc.

nople had negotiated in the isles of the Archipelago ... the most indispensable supplies. Gibbon.

se, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.

ll or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body,…

r which may be regarded as put, in the way of some of the senses; something visible or tangible; as, he observed an object in the distance; all the objects in sight; he touched a strange object in the dark.

Not easily understood; not clear or legible; abstruse or blind; as, an obscure passage or inscription.

The quality or state of being obscure; darkness; privacy; inconspicuousness; unintelligibleness; uncertainty. Yuo are not for obscurity designed. Dryden. They were now brought forth from obscurity, to be contemplated by artists with admiration and despair. Macaulay.

Obscure; not clear; unintelligible. [Colloq.]

A gibe; a contemptuous remark.

l over to England; to hand over the money; to go over to the enemy. "We will pass over to Gibeah." Judges xix. 12. Also, with verbs of being: At, or on, the opposite side; as, the boat is over.

f things gone by. "The past, at least, is secure." D. Webster. The present is only intelligible in the light of the past, often a very remote past indeed. Trench.

One of a class eligible to the office of senator, but not yet chosen, who could sit and speak in the senate, but could not vote; -- so called because he might indicate his opinion by walking over to the side of the party he favored when a vote was taken.