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A line of ancestory; a race or house. [Obs.] Shak.

Full of humor; jocular; exciting laughter; playful; as, a humorous story or author; a humorous aspect.

A treatise upon, or a history and description of, the water of the earth.

trict sense of the Roman law, exists; that is a pledge without possession by the pledgee. Story.

d taken as evidence thereof, but not amounting to a promissory note; a due bill. Wharton. Story.

wegian poet and dramatist, whose best-known plays deal with conventional hypocrisies, the story in each play thus developing a definite moral problem.

The natural history of fishes; that branch of zoölogy which relates to fishes, including their structure, classification, and habits.

to represent either things or thoughts. I. Taylor (The Alphabet). You might even have a history without language written or spoken, by means of ideograms and gesture. J. Peile.

in the day of judgment. Matt. xii. 36. Down their idle weapons dropped. Milton. This idle story became important. Macaulay.

To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance.

l usage or custom." Sir M. Hale. Time immemorial (Eng. Law.), a time antedating (legal) history, and beyond "legal memory" so called; formerly an indefinite time, but in 1276 this time was fixed by statute as the begining of the reign of Richard I. (1189). Proof of unbroken possession or use of any right since that dat…

o be expected under the circumstances or in the usual course of events; as, an improbable story or event. He . . . sent to Elutherius, then bishop of Rome, an improbable letter, as some of the contents discover. Milton. -- Im*prob"a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*prob"a*bly, adv.

Increase; growth; progress; advance. There is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays. Addison. Those vices which more particularly receive improvement by prosperity. South.

of the Basques, North American Indians, etc. ) which run a whole phrase into one word. History demonstrates that incorporative unions are solid and permanent; but that a federal union is weak. W. Belsham.

e, of a negotiable instrument, by which the property therein is assigned and transferred. Story. Byles. Burrill.

Within the territory of a state. Story.

nes of bright gold. Shak. But these things are . . . borrowed by the monks to inlay their story. Milton.

Not separable; incapable of being separated or disjoined. The history of every language is inseparable from that of the people by whom it is spoken. Mure. Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable. D. Webster.

To give an example. [Obs.] This story doth not only instance in kingdoms, but in families too. Jer. Taylor.

tion; exciting, or adapted to excite, interest, curiosity, or emotion; as, an interesting story; interesting news. Cowper.