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erroneously, it is said) taken to be the favorite flower of the Conservative statesman Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield.

portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood. "The purlieus of St. James." brokers had been incessantly plying for custom in the purlieus of the court. Macaulay.

nst the state. Shak. I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living. Macaulay.

To procure; to get. I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin. Sir W. Scot.

A quire; a book. [Obs.] " The king's quhair." James I. (of Scotland).

n drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor. [Obs.] "His jambeux were of quyrboilly." Chaucer.

prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. [Written also ravin, and ravine.] Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. Gen. xlix. 27.

one of a series of arches constructed one within another so as to correspond with splayed jambs of a doorway, or the like.

A specter having long teeth, popularly supposed to haunt old castles in Scotland. [Scot.] Jamieson.

An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith. James justly regarded these renegades as the most serviceable tools that he could employ. Macaulay.

press or exhibit displeasure or indignation at, as by words or acts. The good prince King James . . . bore dishonorably what he might have resented safely. Bolingbroke.

The receiving of stolen goods, or harboring an outlaw. Jamieson.

eract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose. God resisteth the proud. James iv. 6. Contrary to his high will Whom we resist. Milton.

, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. [Written also revel.]

ck, a lock that may be applied to a door opening in either direction, or hinged to either jamb. -- Reversible process. See under Process.

e (Bot.) See Corn poppy, under Corn. -- Infantile rose (Med.), a variety of roseola. -- Jamaica rose. (Bot.) See under Jamaica. -- Rose acacia (Bot.), a low American leguminous shrub (Robinia hispida) with handsome clusters of rose-colored blossoms. -- Rose aniline. (Chem.) Same as Rosaniline. -- Rose apple (Bot.)…

ergia nigra. African rosewood, the wood of the leguminous tree Pterocarpus erinaceus. -- Jamaica rosewood, the wood of two West Indian trees (Amyris balsamifera, and Linocieria ligustrina). -- New South Wales rosewood, the wood of Trichilia glandulosa, a tree related to the margosa.

To cry or shout; hence, to sell by auction. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel. [Written also rost, and roost.] Jamieson.

To draw out into falkes; to card, as wool. Jamieson.