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Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern. Chaucer.

th century. It has a book alphabet nearly the same as Devanagari and a cursive script translation between the Devanagari and the Gujarati.

grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron.

lar, adjacent to the joints. -- Margin of a course (Arch.), that part of a course, as of slates or shingles, which is not covered by the course immediately above it. See 2d Gauge.

awk or harrier (Circus cyaneus), native of both America and Europe. The adults are bluish slate above, with a white rump. Called also hen harrier, and mouse hawk. (b) The marsh harrier. -- Marsh hen (Zoöl.), a rail; esp., Rallus elegans of fresh-water marshes, and R. longirostris of salt-water marshes. -- Marsh mallo…

A slattern; a mawks. [Prov. Eng.]

Slatternly. [Obs.]

A slattern; a mawk. [Prov. Eng.]

hen begins to decrease; the highest point or degree; -- opposed to Ant: minimum. Good legislation is the art of conducting a nation to the maximum of happiness, and the minimum of misery. P. Colquhoun. Maximum thermometer, a thermometer that registers the highest degree of temperature attained in a given time, or since…

o address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature. T. Hook.

A verbal translation; a version or translation from one language into another, word for word; -- opposed to paraphrase. Dryden.

Translated literally.

A literal translator.

To translate or transfer, as the soul, from one body to another. [R.] Peacham.

To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. Boyle.

love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. 1 Tim vi. 10 (Rev. Ver. ). Money bill (Legislation), a bill for raising revenue. -- Money broker, a broker who deals in different kinds of money; one who buys and sells bills of exchange; -- called also money changer. -- Money cowrie (Zoöl.), any one of several species o…

A slatternly, untidy woman. Halliwell.

recommends anything for consideration or adoption; as, the mover of a resolution in a legislative body.

Mutton monger, a pimp [Low & Obs.] Chapman. -- To return to one's muttons. Etym: [A translation of a phrase from a farce by De Brueys, revenons à nos moutons let us return to our sheep.] To return to one's topic, subject of discussion, etc. [Humorous] I willingly return to my muttons. H. R. Haweis.

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