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in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellæ.

Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels. Milton.

A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.

A stately Polish dance tune, in 3-4 measure, beginning always on the beat with a quaver followed by a crotchet, and closing on the beat after a strong accent on the second beat; also, a dance adapted to such music; a polacca.

Characterized by polysynthesis; agglutinative. Polysynthetic twinning (Min.), repeated twinning, like that of the triclinic feldspar, producing fine parallel bands in alternately reversed positions.

To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement.

A formative letter at the beginning of a word. M. Stuart.

Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.

The first part; the earliest stage; the beginning or opening, as of the day, the year, etc.; hence, the dawn; the spring. Chaucer. In the very prime of the world. Hooker. Hope waits upon the flowery prime. Waller.

Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church. "Our primitive great sire." Milton.

At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.

First principles; fundamental beginnings; elements; as. Newton's Principia.

Relating to principles or beginnings. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

Beginning; commencement. [Obs.] Doubting sad end of principle unsound. Spenser.

Beginning; predisposing; exciting; initial. [Obs.]

e whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; -- a generic term for writs of the class called judicial. Deacon's process Etym: [from H. Deacon, who introduce…

The prefixing of one or more letters to the beginning of a word, as in beloved.

Pertaining to, or designating, architecture, in which the beginnings of the Doric style are supposed to be found.

eement, contract, grant, or other writing, by which a condition is introduced, usually beginning with the word provided; a conditional stipulation that affects an agreement, contract, law, grant, or the like; as, the contract was impaired by its proviso. He doth deny his prisoners, But with proviso and exception. Shak.…

A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals which from twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite.