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To render vile. [Obs.] Daniel.

Deficient in manhood; unmanly; effeminate. Lowell.

To prevent from being reconciled; to alienate or disaffect. [Obs.]

The state or quality of being unreconciled; disagreement.

Not retractile.

The keeper of a jail or prison. [Written also jailor, gaoler.]

reverted to their former owners. [In this sense spelled also, in some English Bibles, jubile.] Lev. xxv. 8-17.

Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance. "A juvenile exercitation." Glanvill.

The state or quality of being juvenile; juvenility.

A unit of work equal to one thousand ergs.

Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize. [Obs.] Cheyne.

. A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.

Leanness.[Obs.] Sandys.

Lean; thin. [Obs.] Bailey.

Of or pertaining to Madrid in Spain, or to its inhabitants. -- n.

Protected by an external coat, or covering, of scales or plates.

The intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time).

A leaf-cutting bee of the genus Megachilus. See Leaf cutter, under Leaf.

and selling of commodities; commercial. The expedition of the Argonauts was partly mercantile, partly military. Arbuthnot. Mercantile agency, an agency for procuring information of the standing and credit of merchants in different parts of the country, for the use of dealers who sell to them. -- Mercantile marine, the…

cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves. The foe is merciless, and will not pity. Shak.