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m, he will discredit our mystery. Shak. And that which is the noblest mystery Brings to reproach and common infamy. Spenser.

erson, place, or thing. -- To call names, to apply opprobrious epithets to; to call by reproachful appellations. -- To take a name in vain, to use a name lightly or profanely; to use a name in making flippant or dishonest oaths. Ex. xx. 7.

To approach; to come nearer; as, the ship neared the land.

To draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near. [Obs.] Wyclif (Matt. iii. 2).

Approaching toward night.

Growing black; changing to a black color; approaching to blackness. Johnson.

our present north star, being distant from the pole about 1º 25', and from year to year approaching slowly nearer to it. It is called also Cynosura, polestar, and by astronomers, Polaris.

Stigma; brand; reproach. [Obs.] Shak. Note of hand, a promissory note.

n of that nuptial, which We two have sworn shall come. Shak. Preparations . . . for the approaching nuptials. Prescott.

To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason. He gave to him to object his heinous crime. Spencer. Others object the poverty of the nation. Addison. The book ... giveth liberty to object any crime against such as are to be ordered. Whitgift…

Containing obloquy; reproachful [R.] Naunton.

Cause of reproach; disgrace. [Obs.] Shak.

mental vigor or other qualities belonging to youth; -- used disparagingly as a term of reproach.

Approaching the color of the olive; of a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.

cts; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead. Through the gate, Wide open and unquarded, Satan passed. Milton

he condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.

Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison.

Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language. Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium. De Quincey.

A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, approaching also to red.

d or small body of troops at a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy; hence, anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defended.