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uties chiefly relate to instruments used in commercial transactions, such as protests of negotiable paper, ship's papers in cases of loss, damage, etc. He is generally called a notary public.

er acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note.

induced by the crowding together of many persons, esp. sick persons, under one roof. G. Gregory.

Away; begone; -- a command to depart.

the olive, and having a bitter-sweet taste and acid proporties. [Written also olivile.] Gregory.

Singly; without more; as, only-begotten.

rtain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. In ferns the oöphore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant.…

-- opposed to heterodoxy or to heresy. Basil himself bears full and clear testimony to Gregory's orthodoxy. Waterland.

The small, blueblack, drupelike fruit of the Nuttallia cerasiformis, a shrub of Oregon and California, belonging to the Cherry tribe of Rosaceæ.

pressing impatience, anger, a desire to be rid of; -- with the force of command; go out; begone; away; off. Out, idle words, servants to shallow fools ! Shak. Out upon or on! equivalent to "shame upon!" "away with!" as, out upon you!

of superior physique and powers capable of dominating others; one fitted to survive in an egoistic struggle for the mastery.

o highly or arrogantly; to regard one's own thinking or conclusions too highly; hence, to egotistic, arrogant, or rash, in opinion; to think conceitedly; to presume. They that overween, And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen. Milton.

Same as Pallium. About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, -- the one for London, the other for York. Fuller.

Negotiable evidences of indebtedness; notes; bills of exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large amount of his paper.

Of the nature of a parable; expressed by a parable or figure; allegorical; as, parabolical instruction.

A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.

allied to the armadillos. The shell is attached only along the back. [Written also pichyciego.]

Same as Archegonium.

tc.; -- distinguished also from designing and fitting garments. -- Plain song. (a) The Gregorian chant, or canto fermo; the prescribed melody of the Roman Catholic service, sung in unison, in tones of equal length, and rarely extending beyond the compass of an octave. (b) A simple melody. -- Plain speaking, plainness…

any business; especially, an ambassador or envoy to a foreign court, with full power to negotiate a treaty, or to transact other business.