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The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. C. Knight.

One who personifies.

To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield.

To personify. [R.] Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.

The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.

The albuminous material composing the body of a cytode.

Low, wooded grounds or swamps in Eastern Maryland and Virginia. [Written also poquoson.] Washington.

ble of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases.

Any fabaceous shrub of the genus Gastrolobium, the herbage of which is poisonous to stock; also, any species of several related genera, as Oxylobium, Gompholobium, etc.

A cup containing poison.

Capable of poisoning; poisonous. [Obs.] "Poisonable heresies." Tooker.

One who poisons. Shak.

Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful; corrupting; noxious. Shak. -- Poi"son*ous*ly, adv. -- Poi"son*ous*ness, n.

Poisonous.[Obs.] Holland.

ed from the points or dots with which it is noted down. [Obs.] He fights as you sing pricksong. Shak.

A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name. Ps. cxlii. 7. The tyrant Æolus, . . . With power imperial, curbs the struggling winds, And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds. Dryden.

One who is confined in a prison. Piers Plowman.

Imprisonment. [Obs.] Shak.

Arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a catalogue raisonné. See under Catalogue.

A broad-leaved species of garlic (Allium ursinum), common in European gardens; -- called also buckram.