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The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants.

A stone. Lapis calaminaris (. Etym: [NL.] (Min.) Calamine. -- Lapis infernalis (. Etym: [L.] Fused nitrate of silver; lunar caustic.

worship, or that paid to God; -- distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to saints.

A group of orders inferior to a class. Legion of honor, an order instituted by the French government in 1802, when Bonaparte was First Consul, as a reward for merit, both civil and military.

Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.

Smaller; not so large or great; not so much; shorter; inferior; as, a less quantity or number; a horse of less size or value; in less time than before.

Less; smaller; inferior. God made . . . the lesser light to rule the night. Gen. i. 15.

According to the rules of logic; as, a logical argument or inference; the reasoning is logical. Prior.

shed. -- To look down on or upon, to treat with indifference or contempt; to regard as an inferior; to despise. -- To look for. (a) To expect; as, to look for news by the arrival of a ship. "Look now for no enchanting voice." Milton. (b) To seek for; to search for; as, to look for lost money, or lost cattle. -- To lo…

Occupying an inferior position or place; not high or elevated; depressed in comparison with something else; as, low ground; a low flight.

a name sometimes given to one of the simple mechanical powers. See under Mechanical. -- Infernal machine. See under Infernal. -- Machine gun.See under Gun. -- Machine screw, a screw or bolt adapted for screwing into metal, in distinction from one which is designed especially to be screwed into wood. -- Machine sho…

herefore, no man in his natural state is qualified for happiness in heaven [conclusion or inference].

A writ issued by a superior court and directed to some inferior tribunal, or to some corporation or person exercising authority, commanding the performance of some specified duty.

The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds.

as a wrapping paper, and as a cheap printing and writing paper. The name is also given to inferior papers, made of other fiber.

The maxillo-turbinal, or inferior turbinate, bone.

The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

A marriage with a person of inferior social position; a misalliance.

A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument. Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua. Ex. xxiv. 13. I chose Camillo for the minister, to poison My friend Polixenes. Shak.

Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.