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body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery. Titian's coloring and contours. A. Drummond.

embling the flame of a candle, sometimes seen in churchyards and other damp places, superstitiously regarded as portending death. -- Corpse gate, the gate of a burial place through which the dead are carried, often having a covered porch; -- called also lich gate.

The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease. Stomach cough, Ear cough, cough due to irritation in the stomach or ear.

One of many laths used in preparing one side of a partition or framed wall, when the other side has been covered in and finished.

himself with glory. The powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland. Brougham.

A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium.

A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory.

Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living. And teach customs which are not lawful. Acts xvi. 21. Moved beyong his custom, Gama said. Tennyson. A custom More honored in the breach than the observance. Shak.

The quantities or relations which are assumed to be given in any problem. Datum line (Surv.), the horizontal or base line, from which the heights of points are reckoned or measured, as in the plan of a railway, etc.

To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.

eard to ring. Mickle. -- Death candle, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the superstitious as presaging death. -- Death damp, a cold sweat at the coming on of death. -- Death fire, a kind of ignis fatuus supposed to forebode death. And round about in reel and rout, The death fires danced at night. Coleridge. -…

Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.

ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.

One against whom a fictitious action of fine was brought. [Obs.] Burrill.

Serving for, or aiding in, deglutition.

by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax4 + bx2 = c, and mx2y2 + nyx = p, are both equations of the fourth degree.

A treatise on demons; a supposititious science which treats of demons and their manifestations. Sir W. Scott.

Dentition.

nding, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclined to superstition. Burke.

Entreaty for pardon; petitioning.